{"id":555,"date":"2008-04-22T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2008-04-23T20:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T03:41:47","slug":"a69-radial-saw-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"#a69 :: Radial saw grip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ENLARGE\"<\/a>This handsome 31-year-old chunk of machined aluminum once belonged to a 1977 Sears 10-inch radial arm saw<\/a> – the most fearsome power tool I have ever owned.<\/p>\n

It rips, viagra dosage<\/a> crosscuts, web<\/a> bevels, miters – does just about everything you could want – destroying wood in a way that weakens the knees and liquifies the bowels of anyone who’s ever injured themselves with a power tool. I fear and respect it, in equal measure.<\/p>\n

I bought the saw for $45 on eBay from an old pastor, who no longer needed it.<\/p>\n

He had it built into a bench, so I was readying to build a bench for the same purpose (and worrying about whether I could build it perfectly square so the saw would always work accurately when I learned a bit more about it: The saw had undergone a safety recall<\/a> at one point, and you could order a safety kit online – for free …
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\nI ordered it, and it arrived in a huge box that contained an elaborate finger guard, a new pistol grip to replace this one, and – surprise – a brand-new table.<\/p>\n

Once I rebuilt it with the kit, set up the table, gingerly tried out a few cuts (and set aside this handle as a keepsake), I got down to business.<\/p>\n

The saw helped me renovate our basement into an art studio, savagely ripping two-by-fours and chipboard flooring panels with gusto, and spitting out an unholy amount of dust.<\/p>\n

Late last night, as I sawed through a stack of five quarter-inch flooring panels, it started groaning and kicking out smoke as well as sawdust. The blade was getting duller by the second, I realized.<\/p>\n

I needed to rip just … two … more … boards to finish surfacing my new workbench (I’ll post an elaborate build log on that<\/i> little journey to obsession later) when the saw quit.<\/p>\n

The blade froze. The motor wouldn’t reset start.<\/p>\n

Punching the red reset switch had no effect. I couldn’t reset the saw by simply yanking and replugging the cord.<\/p>\n

It’s dead. Guess I’ll have to unmount the motor and get it repaired.<\/p>\n

But damn, the basement looks good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This handsome 31-year-old chunk of machined aluminum once belonged to a 1977 Sears 10-inch radial arm saw – the most fearsome power tool I have ever owned. It rips, viagra dosage crosscuts, web bevels, miters – does just about everything you could want – destroying wood in a way that weakens the knees and liquifies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetsam","category-part"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}