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I will throw one other option out there for you. being the motor is locked in to full open speed. It may be of value for you to purchase an inexpensive speed controller to match the amps and voltage of the saw. It can not hurt. I always preach you never want to use an external speed controller such as a sewing machine pedal on a tool that has speed control capabilities that work well. In this case they are not working at all. That is an option to explore. I am sure you already know this because like I said you talk the talk and seem to be adapt to this stuff, you would need a VFD controller because that is an AC motor. This is not a DC motor(brushes).

It certainly looks like a clone. never heard of that company. They are selling on Amazon so must be reachable. price is higher than a Dewalt even with that cutter head. It does not say anything about a chips blower. It does come with dust bag so I assume it does eject chips. Dewalts is powerful. They only deal through Amazon. No direct store contact. I see they sell a bench top drill press, belt/ disc sander, and a scrollsaw that looks like the old dremel saws. I would stay far away from this company. better options out there. You wonder how these companys can clone tools like this. I am sure there are little differences that allow it. Those rollers instead of tables is not something I would want. Anyway another option on the market.

Hello Chris. I am sorry but I will be of no help to you. I had a hegner years ago but never dove into the workings of the motor and or controller because I never had a problem. i do not know how the speed is regulated with that saw. What I suggest you do is contact Advance Machiery and talk to their tech. They will be able to answer your question and possible sell you the part if that be the case that it is bad. Being you can obviously speak the lingo it should be easy for you to hold that conversation. I will tell you this with all certainty that motor is indistructable and you do not need to buy a new motor. That is an industrial motor. Maybe at some time the capacitor may go but again I doubt it. I believe this is a coil but does it collect data or does it produce data. That I do not know. I do know this is tied into that circuit board and you may have a different problem on the circuit board. replacing that coil may not be the answer. The speed is magnetically controlled. As I said the techs at Hegner are really good and very helpful. Great customer service. They can help. https://www.advmachinery.com/collections/hegner-scroll-saw-parts

It has been awhile since you checked in. This site has become very quiet. Not many people coming here and doing projects any more. Good to see you are still at it and the new projects look good. Good luck in your sales.

Now your first part of the question is key. YES AND YES AND YES you do need some sort of dust mask when doing any woodworking in an enclosed shop. You would be wise to adhere to that rule. Safety in the shop is paramount. Many safety rules to follow. Now everyone is different because dust will effect every single person differently so what one person uses can be bad for you. You need to find something that is comfortable and great fit to be effective so it becomes second nature to wearing. As you will see I mention my use of standard N95 that are better quality because I use them just about every day on the construction job site so they are comfortable to me. Other forms of dust control have been talked about here as well. I have a full work shop so my dust control maybe different than many because of dust collection and air cleaners used. But scrolling is what I mention below and has worked well for me. I will tell you this and many people do not adhere to it but just because you use a dust mask while scrolling does not mean the shop is dust free. From the minute you step in it you should put a dust mask on because dust gathers everywhere especially on the floor and you kick it up as you walk in. As I said I have a dust air cleaner that runs from time I enter to time I leave and even 15 minutes after. On a timer. Also different species of wood can have a large effect on your sensitivety to dust so not one mask works with all dust situations. Good luck. I have used the simple N95 masks my entire 40 years of scrolling and most times when woodworking. I will change to a better quality one if doing alot of sanding or turning. But all my years in both construction fileld and woodworking in shop I have had success with the N95 masks. Not combersome and do control dust from breathing in. I never used a shop vac when scrolling. I let the dust fall on the floor and after each day would shop vac it up. Now this was me and what I chose. I have had many lung xrays due to job and also blood clots. So It worked out for me. I do not have a beard or mustache. https://www.jendcosafety.com/products/3m-8210-n95-particulate-dust-mask-20-masks?hsa_acc=2084712777&hsa_ad=&hsa_cam=928790531&hsa_grp=1345803407087454&hsa_kw=jendcosafety&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_src=o&hsa_tgt=dat-2335912453321115%3Aloc-190&hsa_ver=3&msclkid=c8b50b9b8de715345dd16181eeffaaa3&utm_campaign=Search+-+Dynamic+Retargeting&utm_content=Dynamic+Search+Retargeting&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=bing&utm_term=jendcosafety

Dewalt is probably the best on the market. The one thing to caution you though is what platform do you have and stay within that if you have other battery tools. If not then Dewalt has a total line of battery tools that are top rated. They have a few different drills that may interest you. I suggest go to Home Depot and try them out. Buy the brushless series. Again not knowing what you are using for is hard to recommend. But they have small versions that fit the hands of smaller people. Battery design is changing all the time. Dewalt is trying to stay within those designs so that the battery fits their tools along the entire line. Also word of caution stay away from off brand batteries for all tools no matter what brand tool it is. Not designed for tool. Companies design batterys and tools to work best together. This is not just hype but truth. Also remember these are lithium batteries and the stories of fires is also true so stay with reputable company. I had switched to the dewalt line a few years ago and well satisfied. I did my homework and this platform is well constructed. No problems. If you are buying large batteries for things like lawn mowers and others, be very careful charging these. Again heat is the problem with battery operated tools. 60 volt batteries create alot of heat when charging and especially if fully drained. My two cents worth for an older thread.

When I was selling my shelves I would use key holes to support them. I found that helped the shelf sit flat on the wall as opposed to on a slight angle when using hooks. Tended to have things slide off easier. Last photo is all the jigs I made to make it easier to cut the key holes with the routers for the shape of the shelves. I use to make alot of corner shelves too. Those were tricky.

I do that with a few of my items as well. Here is an example. They have hangers in the back as well as they get the easel. I use to make my own easles but stopped that. Too time consuming and not really getting paid for it because I would have to jack prices up. The plastic easels are cheap when bought in bulk.

Amazon has brass washers of any size.

I too have used the methods that have been mentioned. I do not use that E6000. I do not trust it. I used on a project once but was gluing brass to wood. Over time the brass fell off as the glue dried out. Anytime I need to glue anything I use epoxy. Now The best epoxy that I have found that stands the test of time is System3 T88 epoxy but is a 24 hour cure time. I have found over the years the longer the cure time the stronger the hold. I do use 15 minute epoxy on occassions if I know there will be no stress put on that piece. With a hook and weight of piece hanging from it I would not trust it. You adding the screws does add protection.

Not sure what insurance company has to do with your hourly wage. Even when you calculate price for the item you are calculating the time and materials to somewhat give you an idea. You will never get what time you put into anything you make unless you jack the prices way beyond selling points. Because you are not calculating time to get materials, research materials prep materials and so on. Keep it simple as possible. Unless you are doing it for a income career then you are wasting time. In my opinion. What happens your accountant starts the business end of your taxes. You now start a material bought list and each year you now must supply a material used list. You are not using all materials bought in a year. Impossible. But the accountant now does % of bought to % of used and this goes for just about all other things. Example you bought $1000 worth of materials (wood). You used 50% of that material to make 100 items. You sold 50 items so now those left over percentages go toward next year and if you buy more material they keep adding onto what was left over. It is alot more complicated than this but that is the jist of it. You do this with expendables as well such as sandpaper and finishes and so on. All other things as postage and all are seperate. I just made up basic sheets when I first started and after that it was very easy to fill in the blanks. Nowhere did I put any mention of salary and unless you have workers working for you then you opened a whole big other areana. And I mean big. Because now you have to collect taxes, pay insurance and many other things and boy that is alot of work. Keeping some gauge on milage is good but % is not much. I wish you luck if you are just starting out. If you are looking to include a shop within the house or stand alone shed and want to take insurance on it then talk to your agent. They all handle them differently and each state is probably different rules too. Lots of safety rules you need to follow if have a shop in or on the property so need to ask about that too. Now one thing these days if doing shows, show insurance has become a thing. So you need to look into that as well. Some shows require it and some not so much. Again a state thing.

Over the years as I was selling my items and tracking my income and deductions, I would basically just save receipts and at the end of the year do some homework and tally things up. I never did the shop in a house thing because as kevin said the insurance is more than I made and the payoff is a hassle if you get anything. Unless you have a huge business that takes in large income then it may be best to hire an accountant to do the paperwork. At first start up I deducted my tools and you get to depreciate them over so many years. After that buying small tools I would list under mis. tools and those numbers were never earth shattering. I kept tract of sales with recepts copies and again yes it is extra work but that is what you signed onto when starting a business. There are many aps out there that can help but I never used any. I did just fine with pad and paper sort of speak. I will say this, I was audited the very first year I started my business and that is no fun. But it was something different to my name so I guess they needed to check. Thankfully I did have all receipts and paperwork to prove my business and yes I had to pay an additional $2000 for some dumb things I did not know I needed to not deduct or something like that. I forgot what it was. I chalked it up to the agent had to get some $$ from me to make her worthwhile. For over 40 years after that not a word from them.

Just an update. I got the box I ordered from Amazon today $6. have to say I was very surprised to see the light is actually very very bright. You can look them up. It is the red burgandy acrylic octagonal ring box with a gold trim ring around it. Again have to say very well done and looks beautiful. Inside is a beautiful white soft felt linning and soft pillow for the ring. Nice size. The light workings is in the lid. I can feel the flat battery when pressed on the felt. It will take some cutting to get to the works because felt is glued into place. There is no way to change the battery when it dies. It does come on when lid is opened so it has to be a reed switch of some kind. It is not photo sensitive. When I do get it cut open I will take a photo. The paint on outside has a velvet feel to it. Love to know what that paint is. Not one China sticker I believe these are American made. The box it came in is a matching red paper box. probably the cheapest looking part of the whole thing. I am going to have to investigate that paint. It is not an expensive box but not a bad looking one either. Have to thank Kevin for my extra work load and to add to my To Do List, as if I don't have enough on it.

Charley I was going by the reviews on see on Amazon and other sites when I mentioned the light output. Just like my story about the fiber optic cable the more you round over the end of the fiber the more light it puts out and that is how they amplify the signals too. I use to just melt the end with a match to round it over. It was amazing how much more light you got. But if wanted a pin spot then do not melt. I do miss Radio Shack.

OK I misread your post. Yes those hinges I bought off Amazon along with the mgnets. That was easy as it turned out. These LED lights used in these boxes look like the light bulbs they use if these LED flashlights. As I said I will take one apart and see what it is all about. Being an electrician I have some knowledge that I am sure I can incorporate. I did not even know they made these boxes untill you posted. Like I said I bought a bunch of the plain ones and the woods used and fit and finish is really good for China made and that is where they are from. Have to take those little stickers off if you buy them and use them. I make pens as you know and have a lighthouse pen that has a led light in the cap that is made to look like the beacon signal lamp. It can change colors and all. Now that wiring system is small as well as the batteries used. So today they can make anything.

I ordered a box from Amazon for $6 and actually is a nice box for a ring. I will look it over and reverse engineer it. These use small watch batteries. They from what I understand work on either a photo eye of sorts or a magnetic switch. But I also hear or read the led is not very bright. That is why you see all the photos with dark backgrounds. I am sure the photos are AI too. Supposibly the life time of battery is about 12 hours continuous use. Can not be replaced. I am sure there are ways around this. Could always use 2 lights if a larger box. Could be a nice addition. Kevin, you said you ordered the lights. Where did you get them? I want to play with some myself. Yes a LED is a light emitting diode so polarity is important. To take it another step. Many many years ago when fiber optic wire first came out, I worked in a plant that produced it and was able to get some to play around with. I thought back then that was the coolest thing invented. Now look what it can do. But I use to make models of all kinds and made a bunch of Ertel semi truck models. This was back when CB's first hit the market and all truckers were using them. Heck I even built my own power mike for my CB with parts from Radio Shack. But the fiber strands I was able to custom make my truck models with working headlights and tail lights and even lights on the dash. Lit the running lights and put lights in the sleeper part of the cab. I hid a 9V battery and light source under the bed with a small switch in the sleeper cab. It turned out pretty cool. Brings back memories.

I just did a quick search and you can get those boxes in all shapes just about anywhere. Saw them on Amazon, Etsy, Ebay Walmart. Alibaba you can get for $1 and even cheaper in bulk. I have to get a few to reverse engineer it.

I have a bunch of those boxes that I bought from one of those cheap sites. Can not remember right now. I have many different shapes. The reason I bought them was to use as ideas for my box making adventure I was suppose to start this past winter. ( will be making many many different type boxes for all occassions and I have been watching a woodworker on FB who makes fancy small little trinket boxes like this that got me excited about the prospect.) I sort of got sidelined when I went into reorganizing mode and man did I ever. It took me through the winter and seemed like every day I would find something new to either hang or make shelve for or something like that. I am just now putting the finishing touches on things. In fact just yesterday I decided to put a shelf under each of my RBI scrollsaws. That is actually alot of wasted space. I use to store things on the floor under them but this way it looks neater. So now I will store all my woodworking jigs I make and or buy. keep them all in one place. Out of the way and off the floor so I do not have to bend down so far to pick up. You think of things like that when you get old (LOL) If you are a woodworker of any kind you know jigs are a part of life. Sometimes I have more fun making them than the project but you find ways to make certain cuts or gluing parts easier and a need for them. There are alot of jigs that you can purchase but I like making many of my own. Getting back to the boxes, mine do not have the light but I like that idea. Where did you get them.?? I would like to incorporate that too. The boxes I have were dirt cheap and like you said probably about $5 bucks each. Have to say they are really well done. Come with felt linnings. If you want a ring box it comes with that type of felt to hold ring as shown in your example. yes the lid cutouts are plastic acrylic but look great. I could have gotten with sayings burned into them or you could order custom ones. These had to be cut on a CNC. Way too perfect. The tiny barrel hinges were not easy to find and the small magnets but they are out there. I believe got mine from Amazon.

I like it alot. Nice job. I know now this is a worthy project. Thanks for showing.

Hang in there, there are a few people here that know those type saws inside and out and they will be able to help you. Once they see the questions. There also have been past threads on this so if you want you can do a search feature here to check them out in the mean time.

Well have to say that https://www.wood-database.com/yellowheart/ Pau Amerello is also known as Portugese yellowheart and thus the yellow tinge. I am not use to yellowheart being that whitish. The red palm matched with the black palm will make a nice combo. I can see some nice boxes made with that. I may at some time down the road get some of that. Sort of like the combo I will be using with Wenge and white wenge. lots of similarities. Enjoy the fruits of Mother Nature. look forward to seeing some cool projects.

No problem we will all find out when you get home. It is always so hard to tell species of wood by looking at a photo. Lighting can be off or have an effect and as I said there are so many different species of wood. I bought some woods from a vendor last couple months and some of the species I did not know existed. Luckly their photos of their woods was pretty accurate because when I got them I loved them because of the grains and colors. I never knew there was a White Wenge. I always used Wenge as an accent piece. Now I will pair that with the white wengie and it should make a nice combo. My vendor did not label the woods. But my last few times I asked him to. It is always nice when you can see in person the boards and pick them. I told the UPS driver yesterday that probably was the last order for quite awhile. he was getting a workout everytime he made a delivery which was from this wood vendor. I spent well over $2000 with them for woods. Will be doing some projects but looks like will have to wait till this winter because now is house projects that have to get done. I did get the shop all reorganized and cleaned up which took me much longer than expected this winter but I am happy about this because it makes working down there more easy and enjoyable. Plus got a few new toys too. Have a nice time on vacation and safe travels back.

Yes but none of the woods she listed are that white in color. Aspen and Sycamore are considered Domestics yes. I could have said Holly but that too is domestic and you rarely get any that wide of size. But it is white. That is all I am going by. I am sure she will tell us all whn she gets home. Hope they labeled it for her. I hate companies that do not put labels on their woods. There is thousands of species of woods and very tough to tell difference many times.

If I were to guess it looks like Aspen from how white it looks and hard to detect grain lines. not sure if you purchased any Aspen. It could be Sycamore but hard to see.

I have heard of all of them. I just placed an order with a vendor I have been dealing with too for some exotics and also some domestics. Planning on making a bunch of boxes and other projects. My ambition was to start this winter but I wound up doing a complete reorganizing of my shop which it really need it. Also bought a few new toys so set those up and built some cabinets and things for them. Hopefully next year around winter time i can then just dive right in because shop is about done and now the home projects come in play. Have fun on vacation and when you get back home to enjoy the many projects that are burried within those boards. Just a note of safety, wear dust protection on all of them and if you are allergic, rubber gloves too. The Sumac and bubinga are killers with the oils in them.