shop maintenance
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Keeping Router Collets Clean
Keeping your router bits and collets clean is an important bit of shop maintenance. This reader found a tool for another hobby that is a perfect helper for the task.
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Bolt Makes Blade Cleaning More Efficient
This reader’s tip features a way to make your saw blades easier to handle during cleaning and as a bonus helps you clean multiple blades at once.
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Air Compressor Water Woes
A.J. Hamler discusses the ins and outs of managing moisture in compressed air.
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How to Control a Vacuum Hose
Shop vacuum hoses can be a little unwieldy after being stretched all over the shop, but this reader has a quick tip to keep it under control and in one spot.
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Tuning Up a Bench Grinder
The calm surface of the wine in this glass, placed on the tool-rest of a running grinder, demonstrates how a properly tuned grinder should operate.
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VIDEO: How to Maintain Your Benchtop Sander Abrasives
Chris Marshall presents his four best tips for utilizing your benchtop sanders’ abrasives.
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Mortiser Chisel Spacer
This user found a perfect spacer for his mortiser chisel, and unlike his typical solution, it was one that he could keep handy between applications.
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Silica Packs Keep Biscuits Dry
Left unattended in a humid environment, wood biscuits will get swollen. This reader’s tip will keep them dry with the silica packets you have probably been throwing away.
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Bucket Lid Cleaning Pan
Looking for a place to soak your saw blades while you clean them? This reader found a solid substitute cleaning pan lying around his workshop.
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Saving Screws with Electrical Tape
You have to be careful when removing the soft brass screw that attaches the handle to the plane, because it will scratch and deform easily.
