Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

I picked up a 10" saw blade at the Home Depot, for my table saw. It's a Diablo brand, 24 teeth and primarily used for ripping.

I figured since there will be a bunch of ripping going on during the rest of this rebuild, it might be a good thing.

Wahoo! We've got electric back! Had a storm blow through here yesterday around noon, and we had no electric for the rest of the day and part of the night.

Probably took a tree down somewhere.

Then I spent the next while, planing those 2 pieces, to get them close to the thickness I wanted.

Since these are about 12" wide and hard wood, I could really only take about 1/64 of an inch off per pass. Trying to take off 1/32", just pulled the motor down too much.

As the guy who wanted to buy the green hatchback said .... "It's a thing of beauty"! Lol....







YeeHaw! Only one more plank to split! Well, for now that is.

There we go. With both pieces side by side, we've got just a touch over 24" wide, and identically mirrored.

I didn't have as much time I wanted to work today, but I did indeed, finish getting the plank I was working on yesterday, split! Wahoo!

Looking good!

What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do, what ya gonna do, when yer saw overheats?

Redneck answer, 101.. Lol.

Insert fan in back window, open co pilots window, insert said overheated tool, and turn on fan. Also keeps the rig cool!

The area inside the red circle was getting warmer than I would have liked, so I figured, it's time to cool it off a little bit.

diplomatdon wrote:
A little tip on how to plane thin material. Buy a piece of white shelving about 4 ft long. Place in thickness planer then run thin material thru on top of shelving. Works great.

Thanks for the tip. I did something similar today, which worked well.

I took a thicker piece of wood and laid the thin piece of oak on top of it, and started running that through the planer.

The thicker piece went about 1/2 way through, and then stopped, but the thin piece, slid right on through, on top of the thicker piece. I was able to reduce the thickness of the piece of oak down to about 1/16 of an inch.

Below is a pic of the 2 pieces from last night. I only planed the one, and you can see how much thinner it is compared to the other one.

I do think the piece of melamine laying on the bed would work better, but I didn't have any, and I just wanted to try this out. I am satisfied that thinner stock can be planed with this planer. Wahoo!!

That means if I wanted to, I could make my own plywood! Small pieces only, though...

Continued today, splitting the next piece of black walnut. Cut the sides, and then used the reciprocating saw down the middle.

I got half of the first one split, then started on the other end. I got about 8 - 10 inches in from the other end, and decided to stop. The reciprocating saw was starting to get warmer than I would like, so rather than killing it, I figured I could finish tomorrow.

Here is a pic of the top portion, and where I stopped.

A little tip on how to plane thin material. Buy a piece of white shelving about 4 ft long. Place in thickness planer then run thin material thru on top of shelving. Works great.

Here is a view from the side, of both of these pieces, so you can see, they are not very thick. Like I said, they are just a touch over 1/8" thick

Overall, I am pleased with the way they came out. The planer did a nice job on such thin stock. Wahoo!!