Kicking myself over a Powermatic 66 table saw

Good news is….hopefully you are ready to make dust now. Better late than never, but a small kick could still be in order.

Sad, sad story.

-- "Of all the things I have lost in life, I miss my mind the most."

Yes, kick your buddy but don’t forget to kick yourself! I mean, I mean you’ve had a Powermatic table saw sittin’ in your workshop for 15 years and yet you just sat there and admired it ???

-- "I dream of a world where a chicken can cross the road and no one questions its motive"' - Anne Nonny Mouse

Is your buddy dyslexic? 3hp v 3ph? So sad. But now you have a PM66 that’s ready to go.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

remember the golden proverb regarding humans: “never trust anybody”.

-- there's a solution to every problem.......you just have to be willing to find it.

Don’t fret; it could have been worse. You could have gone and bought a 3ph converter and discover you didn’t need it.

All is well that ends well but anyways (tongue in cheek)..........here’s your sign?

I love my PM 1968 “66” I bought that was in a high school shop all it’s life, hardly saw a full day of work in it’s life. When I got it home I took it apart to make it light enough to get it off the truck and found the motor to be only a 1.5 HP. It still cuts just fine and the motor is a Baldor nothing finer. She is grey and made in the USA, same as me!

-- $tudie

Holy …. I kind of wish i could gave seen your face during tgat “a-hah” moment. Congrats!

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

I think the applicable quote here is “Trust, but verify.”

-- "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." -Mark Twain

You know….the plug should have tipped you off.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

Wow! I guess it pays to keep the Y in DIY….

Look at the bright side, at least you didn’t buy a phase convertor for it.

If the HS shop your saw came out of was anything like the Jr. High shop clase I took, they instructor didn’t let anybody use the TS or BS other than himself. That saw is probably good as new.

-- Matt, Pine is fine, but Oak's no joke!

Wow!!! Think of all the projects you could have done over the past 15 years.

You have a lot of catching up to do. That PM deserves your undivided attention and tlc for a while.

-- The more I work with wood the more I recognize only God can make something as beautiful as a tree. I hope my humble attempts at this craft do justice by His masterpiece. -- Tim

Thats too bad. We all live and learn.

-- Wayne - Plymouth MN

Well, at least you still have it and don’t have to buy a motor. It will probably make you a good saw once you get it all set up.

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-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau