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This should cover it. RJF Buffing_Compounds_And_Wheels_Selection_Guide.pdf
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For those with few tools and are scrolling in an apartment or kitchen here is a very simple scrollsaw table, cut to fit. RJF
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When you watch videos with drill presses and decide it can't be done since you don't own one. Pick up a mobile stand. Since we are living in an apartment right now, I have used one constantly with no problem. RJF https://www.amazon.com/s?k=portable+drill+press&ascsubtag=1ba00-01000-org00-win10-dsk00-nomod-us000-gatwy-feature-SEARC&tag=amz-mkt-fox-us-20
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Woodsmith did this and I have seen similar variations. Have a portable vac and the attachments, don't have a cart or cyclone. A grocery store went out of business and we got a grocery cart that I load and unload to take the vac out to the car. 'live in apartment'. Been looking at this hose and the orange one in the comparison below. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000AV78B/ref=psdc_13397451_t3_B00FX34QEU RJF
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Maybe done with a sprayer and plastic backing. RJ
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Paint needs something to grip. Rough your project a bit with sandpaper. Use a primer rated for outdoors and check the paint is good for exterior. Pretty much the same steps as painting a house which lasts for years. RJF
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2000 lb patterns. RJF
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Need a white recommendation - not paint?
teachnlearn replied to new2woodwrk's topic in General Scroll Sawing
An odd choice but would be multiple colors, countertop veneer. RJF -
https://www.westernsporting.com/c/FEC.html One of many suppliers. I put them on my wife to keep her nails from going in my back. NAWW! If my wife sees this I'm dead. RJF
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Works. RJF
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May have been a SDGood Video, or another. Mounted the pedal to a wooden box. RJF
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teachnlearn replied to Iguanadon's topic in General Scroll Sawing
College use to be cheap. 1975 a semester was $500 and textbooks RENTED for $7.00. Then gov and college decided it should be based on the business model. College cost rises every year when no one else has any cost of living. It's out of site. Then we are exporting jobs. Ever call software support and try to understand the tech? I'm a full believer in full-time learning and free education. Shop classes should be given in high school. Businesses and medicine have 'Slooooowwwwly' learned that having a cross of fields at a meet is a major improvement. Ever been on a factory line with an engineer that was never at the factory. Did it. Learned from it. Won't state the company, I was the only engineer that would go to the factory line and talk with every worker on every shift on my own time. Suddenly the young engineer knew more than the old ones and the factory production skyrocketed. It was the feedback of the hands-on people that did it. Constant free learning is going to put this country ahead of the rest. RJF -
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teachnlearn replied to Iguanadon's topic in General Scroll Sawing
Hope your comment was in jest. I wrote entire paragraphs on college myself. I Spent years myself designing and consulting. When I ended up in a wheelchair they saw the chair and not my work. Will he demand major changes to the building? Actually had one from a personal look at me and said, I hope you can walk out of that chair cause you would hurt the image of our company. Worked my way through college and one was a nursing home. The lead nurse got a hold of my employment record and wanted me fired. Said she was suspicious of anyone with college education working as a CNA, must want to sexually abuse the patients. Was let go to satisfy the nurse, because they couldn't find nurses, but could hire off the street. Can't win either way. RJF -
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teachnlearn replied to Iguanadon's topic in General Scroll Sawing
Myself and the few friends I had worked our tails off in college and outside jobs to put ourselves through. There are many jobs that went overseas. So there is a shock when qualified college people get out and there are few jobs. It's like jokes of marriage, high divorce rate, but there are those that have 50 years plus. MDs, Engineers, Lawyers are all required to go to college. The computers are designed by college grads, the bridges designed by college grads. I worked on electronics but was still required to study 4 years of math, physics, statics, dynamics, thermodynamics. Since I specialized in automation I had to cross-study computer programing AND Mechanical Engineering. When my class of engineers graduated, got jobs or grad school I had 2 more years of cross study. Most cars have a cross of electrical, mechanical and computer engineers to run it. When you turn your key and it starts there are a lot of engineers that took years of study to get that sucker to start. Have a heart attack? All the life-saving equipment, diagnostic equipment, medical monitoring, and heart monitoring is from electronic engineers going to college. All the equipment just doesn't appear but is from someone working their tail off going to college and studying monthly updates and seminars. Been turned down from jobs cause someone said a college grad doesn't know Sh*t. Last job application I was hired over the phone after looking at my resume, showed up in my wheelchair day one and informed someone else was hired and they didn't know. Had a very embarrassed engineering team apologizing as I left. Even though I haven't worked I still spend hours a day reading engineering mags and researching. RJF -
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teachnlearn replied to Iguanadon's topic in General Scroll Sawing
https://www.myvaporclean.com/commercial-use/ Close to ours RJF https://www.myvaporclean.com/pro6-solo-315-single-boiler-75-psi-5-bar-stainless-steel-made-in-italy/ -
The entire apartment. RJF
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teachnlearn replied to Iguanadon's topic in General Scroll Sawing
My wife's family are ALL teachers and she followed. All the way to M.S. when she tried for a teaching job they were taken by people that aren't teachers. All states have teaching certifications, BUT at the end of summer, the admin can claim they didn't find any certified teacher and grab anyone for lower pay. This teacher must be degreed and certified in five years. The military had a program for enlisted to go straight to teaching with the same requirements. There are loads of moms and ex-military that barely got out of high school teaching cause they could be hired cheap, not that they know what they are doing. If people demanded all the educational backgrounds of the school teachers they would be shocked and explains why many are graduating knowing nothing. A very sore subject for my wife. 'I''ve mentioned 'ex-engineer' myself, with my disabilities I can't work a full day or close to it. RJF -
Its a 'professional' steamer for commercial and home. Started with a home model and used it up then got a heavier duty on wheels. Has attachments for, floor with mop head, squeegee for mirror/ glass, brush tips, nylon, steel, brass for scrubbing 'most used' bathroom toilet, bathtub, kitchen cabinets, sink counter, 'walls at times ', inside the car, car engine, The attachments can take regular cloth steam goes through melts any grease, grime, dust, and the cloth picks it up. The routine of hit steam button, release, go back over to let cloth pick up. Also uses a microfiber cloth. For heavy grease, I just leave it over the spot and steam the dickens out of it. Its a cost up front, but the chemicals are gone. RJF
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Must be Saturday cleaning. I can't breathe and my wife can't take chemicals. It's warm and I fired up the steam cleaner, works fantastic but it takes 45 min to heat up so I can play for that time. AHHHHH! RJF
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Jazz it up. V8 engine, turbo, dual headers, chrome wheels. Really give it some cutting power! Should be able to go to town while your scrolling! RJF
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teachnlearn replied to Iguanadon's topic in General Scroll Sawing
All of the lectures in college give everyone the idea there are jobs that need a college degree. Its turned into a business. When my wife and I went to state college it was 5,000 a semester. It's now 25,000 a semester. Now everyone is coming out with such debt they can't afford to live even if they have a job, they are paying hundreds of thousands plus interest, plus, plus, their on the line for 30 years. I would guess there are people on this board with kids living with them cause they can't afford to live on their own.Next debt crisis is college loan default cause they can't make the much to pay the high loan and interest. RJF -
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teachnlearn replied to Iguanadon's topic in General Scroll Sawing
I have multiple higher degrees. Now I get told I'm overqualified. My grandparents came over from Europe and worked with little schooling and worked the trades. We were told to get an education to get ahead, which doesn't mean you get a job when anyone gets out. I worked before college and worked during college, anything from restaurants to a janitor, to wiping peoples backside in nursing homes. Learned a bit from any job and I can't say anything I learned on the job was taught in college. RJF -
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teachnlearn replied to Iguanadon's topic in General Scroll Sawing
In Illinois, I use to go to Ace for expertise. When I went to Lowes or HD there were kids that had no idea where or what anything was. Had them leading me around aisles looking for who knows what going to departments that couldn't have the part then telling me there are none. Then I would go to the right aisle and pick up the part. We lived in an apartment and my wife wanted to garden so we joined the community garden. The only garden I found on the internet that had one faucet in the middle of the field and they cut the threads so no hose could connect. They told us to haul water with 5-gallon buckets which total 40 lbs a bucket and hundreds of gallons for a 24 x 24 plot. I set up a 55-gallon barrel and bought a gas water pump that had a 4-inch hose. We started with a cart and eventually to haul bucket to dump to the barrel and pump from there. Eventually, we would go late at night clamp a hose on the faucet and fill the barrel to use the next day. I took the 4-inch fitting into Ace and the guy walked nonstop from the garden dep. to plumping grabbing fittings to go from 4 inches to a garden hose. The pump pulled from the barrel with a 4-inch suction hose to the garden hose. I can do a bit of plumbing but would have been there for an hour trying to go from standard metal fittings to garden fittings. Plenty of pressure and we didn't have to walk and dump all day. Being disabled it was the only way, we couldn't lift the load or walk the distance repeatedly. I know if I went to Lowes or HD I would have the kids asking what the pipe was. RJF
