Don't Do That!

Ryan Mooney

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Sigh.. I left a piece of wet walnut offcut on the bandsaw table overnight. Went out there this afternoon and HUGE rust spot :doh:
Polish, wax, polish.. wax.. wax.. doesn't look to bad now.

What was your latest DOH! moment?
 
Sigh.. I left a piece of wet walnut offcut on the bandsaw table overnight. Went out there this afternoon and HUGE rust spot :doh:
Polish, wax, polish.. wax.. wax.. doesn't look to bad now.

What was your latest DOH! moment?

Left a big chunk of cherry on the tablesaw. Did not get back for a week. No matter how much i try you can still see it very well. Feel your pain.
 
Repeat after me; a tablesaw is not a table. A tablesaw is not a table. We've all done something like that somewhere. I aim to use my tools as tools and use work surfaces for setting "stuff" on; sometimes my aim is good, sometimes not so good. :rolleyes:
 
Well, I can tell you one thing, "Be very careful if you use a power buffer on the table." Myrna had a spot on the Corian kitchen counter. She was working very hard on it. I said, "Let me help." and being a power tool person, I got out a lambs wool padded power buffer.

Everything was fine. The spot was taken care of---UNTIL I looked up---there was a horizontal line clear around the kitchen and her desk (adjacent to the place I polished, but in a different room), her kitchen TV, the kitchen faucet, the microwave, the oven, (do I really need to continue this?). Yep, it was polish. We found spots of it in unusual places for a month or two afterward.

Enjoy,

JimB

I wish some real expensive piece of equipment, from the printing place where Larry worked, had been in the line of fire.
 
]Everything was fine. The spot was taken care of---UNTIL I looked up---there was a horizontal line clear around the kitchen and her desk (adjacent to the place I polished, but in a different room), her kitchen TV, the kitchen faucet, the microwave, the oven, (do I really need to continue this?). Yep, it was polish. We found spots of it in unusual places for a month or two afterward.
JimB

:rofl: :rofl: :eek: :rofl: And I thought the racing stripe of wet wood spray on the wall behind the lathe was bad!!
 
Ryan, I think we've all done something similar along the way. My 'doh' is usually dripping sweat on my table saw. I perspire easily and freely, so it's not unusual to leave some at the saw. On Tuesday, I was doing some cove cuts on the table saw, so there was sawdust everywhere. I was sweating like crazy and saw a drop land on the saw - right in some sawdust. There was plenty of other sawdust around, so it was a simple matter of swishing it around a bit and brush it onto the floor. If the saw had been clear, I probably wouldn't have seen the drop!

By the way, when I have some rust to clear, I'll grab the ROS with some 320 and polish it out, then apply some paste wax.
 
We had a temperature snap last spring, went from cold to really warm. I opened all the doors, and all of the equipment had condensation and rust. I spent at least eight hours with a Milwaukee buffer getting things polished back up. Completely un-cool.

Biggest mistake? Sticking my thumb in a bandsaw blade, tablesaw was no treat either. Most painful mistake? Getting the back side of my hand caught in a pneumatic door clamp, that was god-awful.
 
Well, I can tell you one thing, "Be very careful if you use a power buffer on the table." Myrna had a spot on the Corian kitchen counter. She was working very hard on it. I said, "Let me help." and being a power tool person, I got out a lambs wool padded power buffer.

Everything was fine. The spot was taken care of---UNTIL I looked up---there was a horizontal line clear around the kitchen and her desk (adjacent to the place I polished, but in a different room), her kitchen TV, the kitchen faucet, the microwave, the oven, (do I really need to continue this?). Yep, it was polish. We found spots of it in unusual places for a month or two afterward.

Enjoy,

JimB

I wish some real expensive piece of equipment, from the printing place where Larry worked, had been in the line of fire.

I'll bet you were camouflaged the same way & would have blended right in.
 
Everything was fine. The spot was taken care of---UNTIL I looked up---there was a horizontal line clear around the kitchen and her desk (adjacent to the place I polished, but in a different room), her kitchen TV, the kitchen faucet, the microwave, the oven, (do I really need to continue this?). Yep, it was polish. We found spots of it in unusual places for a month or two afterward.

Enjoy,

JimB

Reminds me of the time the food processor broke while I was making carrot soup... :eek:
 
Too late, done that, got the spots to prove it. I cut the corners off a block of green claro walnut on the band saw to use for bottle stoppers, and placed them on the table saw for a week. I scrubbed and scrubbed, but I still look at my table saw with distain.
 
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