J. Phil Thien's Projects

You certainly have an impressive collection and I can appreciate your attention to detail.  I am hoping to totally restore the W-T at some point but I've been using it so much.  I also have a Milwaukee Crescent 8 inch joiner that one day will be gone through as well.

I've noticed that your quite the craftsman with sheet metal, any suggestions on dust collection shrouds for the W-T.

Old arn, ain't it sweet.  I have added a 6 inch adapter and flex to vent outside since that picture was taken, but in all honesty the amount of fines that are exhausted are  negligible, I suppose someday i will fit it with some nice filters but every time I start to order them I find another piece of arn or tool that I just have to have!

The best solution that I found for connecting 6 inch PSI flex to SRD was to set up my dado blade with my miter bar and fence and using a piece of scrap pipe raise the blade height and slide the fence forward  until the pipe touches the blade, ease the pipe into the blade and rotate the pipe.  Test this until you find the sweet spot that takes off just enough to be able to work the hose on and once you get that then clamp a board to the table top so so that it will hold the pipe at the front and the miter fence at the back.

I tried setting up my router with a straight bit but it chattered to much and got a little hairy trying to control it.

Just wanted to share my version and say thanks to Phil for all his help