Saw needed a new belt. I procured 2. Attempted an install to find that the belts were in fact too long. Got shorter belts. They seem to fit. Tires came in, they got installed. Tires didnt stay on. Also new ceramics for the cool blocks were ordered. 9 installed fine, 1 broke. Decided that roller bearing guides would be an easier attempt and hold up better to our space the aluminum that held the ceramics was in dismal condition. Glued urethane wheels to tire, installed new guides.
All in all, could it have been done faster, sure. Did it happen that way? Nope. Further, your offer of help was nice. I wont say any more about the tone of it though
…Saw got some maintenance, nothing about it was minor.
Remember we are a contractor grade shop. If you want something nice, that’s on your dime and your time.
I apologize my offer to help wasn’t the proper tone, post my offer word for word, and there’s not a single instance of it that was even the slightest bit negative or critical, in fact I feel it made me look like the fool via the story I shared so if you feel that you have to impose some disingenuous tone over a genuine offer that’s your issue and Paul you seem to be the one always making this about me, I’m not saying I want it, I know how to use a dado, I’m not in the slightest worried about me getting injured but with having someone been injured on the router table within the last year, I’d feel the same could happen with a dado on a saw with no saftey device, but continue bringing the conversation back to me, when I’m not even concerned about me I’m concerned someone’s gonna remove a 3/4” section of their limb and then the woodshop gets shut down cause we didn’t want to use the saw stop
If you would like to bring it into the court of public opinion feel free. I think you will find most people wouldn’t have taken kindly to the insinuations made.
Any insinuates you may have mistakenly perceived are non existent on my end, and what I feel is more how little you think of me that I’m so far beneath a person of similar caliber that I’m incapable of any genuine or actual offer of assistance, but regardless of what you may have already been predisposed to assume it was genuine
I keep a RAT tourniquet in my DMS backpack as an ultimate insurance policy. Between training classes and my personal experiences in the wood, metal and machine shops I recognize things can go fatally wrong in an instant.
In all seriousness that’s a good idea I’m actually going to do cause you never know, and lucky Dms has those med packs if there’s ever a need for it to be opened they could very well be the thing that saves a life in a situation like that
I keep both in my box that I roll in with me when I’m dealing with any kind of woodworking / machine tools. One of those “I’d rather have them and not need them than need them and not have them.” situations. I also keep it in case someone else has an accident and needs it.