Smitty
JAN/FEB
2004
Volume 47/Issue 1
IN
THIS ISSUE
Project
Articles
•
A New Kitchen
• Wooden Utensil Rack & Knife
Block/Cutting Board
• Gallery Rail Paper Towel Holder
DEPARTMENTS
•
Ask Smitty
• Owner’s Gallery
• Letters from Owners
•
New Baby Workshop Calendar
Academy Notes
Clean
Cuts - Pt. 4- Using Oriental Waterstones
Service Pointers
Keeping
Your MARK V Running Smoothly
Safety Tips
Router Safety
What's
New
Bandsaw
Cover and 6" Drum Sander Sleeves
EDUCATION
• Find
A Shopsmith Woodworking Academy Near You
•
National
Woodworking Academy in Dayton, OH
ONLINE
CATALOGS
• Online Accessory Catalog
•
Request
Printed Accessory Catalog
• Online
Replacement Parts Catalog
MARK
V INFORMATION
•
Find
A Shopsmith
MARK V Demo Near You
•
Request
MARK V Information Package
LINKS
•
Links Worth Visiting
•
Free Woodworking
Tips
FEEDBACK
Contacting
Shopsmith
Copyright
2003.
Shopsmith, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
ASK
SMITTY!
Here
are the questions . . .
and SMITTY’S answers for this issue!
Table
Insert his sawblade when making bevel cuts
From Maynard B., Reisterstown, MD:
I have a recently purchased used MARK V and am wondering about using
a saw table insert when having the table tilted. The regular insert hits
the blade after tilting table just a few degrees off horizontal. Is a
special insert available? Should one be used...or can I just make the
cuts without using an insert?
NEVER, NEVER make cuts without a Table Insert! Small wood scraps could fall into the blade and be thrown at you!
Whenever you tilt the table, just loosen the quill and advance the blade until it's centered in the insert, then lock the quill back down. It's that simple.
Repairing
an entry door lockset
From Steve Wallace, via email:
While I am a MARK V owner, I now live and work in Holland. My question
concerns the repair of a wooden door in my house. The door to our living
room has a decorative handle that is secured by short (approx. 10-12 mm)
screws of about 2 mm dia. The handle is rather unique, and my wife doesn't
want to change it. The problem is that pulling the door closed, pulls
on the handle, and the screw holes have had the screws pulled out so many
times that the holes are “stripped”.
I can tell that the previous owner also had this problem because he tried to re-orient the handle to position the screws in new locations. Due to the design of the handle, this is not possible and so his efforts only resulted in making the holes larger and ovoid.
I have tried filling the holes with small soft wood pegs and, another time, filling them with wood filler. Each of these was successful for a period, but then the screws pull out again. I have looked for longer screws, but can not find any of the same diameter. Larger diameter screws are not feasible without drilling a larger opening in the base of the handle, something I don't feel sure enough of my abilities to do, given the ornamental nature of the handle.
So, that brings us to my question. What can I do to fill these holes so that they will retain the screws? Even something that is permanent, or non-reversible, would be appreciated. As would any suggestion.
Actually, there are a few options.
#1: Drill out the screw holes and glue HARD wood dowels (such as birch, beech, etc)into position. Allow to dry thoroughly, then, if possible, replace your short screws with longer ones screwed into the CENTERS of these glued-in dowels. Pre-drill pilot holes for the screws and fill them with epoxy before driving the screws in.
#2: Replace the screws with small bolts. Drill a counterbore on the opposite side of the door to accept a conventional nut (and maybe a small washer)...or a T-Nut. Put everything into position, then glue a short piece of dowel (that's the same outside diameter as your counterbore, of course) over the captive nut. Sand flush and finish.
#3: As with #2, replace the screws with small bolts...in this case, that screw into a threaded insert that you EPOXY into the holes.
#4: Try expanding plastic “molys” (like those used to hold stuff in drywall). Epoxy these into position and add more epoxy before driving-in your screws.
