Today I did some serious cutting with the table saw of the shop smith. I need to build a step for Sue's cottage, as she has decided to call it, another step for the people door, and a ramp up to the garage type door of my shop. I bought the materials and had them delivered and today I started cutting boards for the step on Sue's cottage. I'm making it out of decking boards which are 5 and one half by 1 inch. The step will be basically a box that is 6 inches high, 11 inches wide and 6 feet long, and will sit on the ground under the door. Her door is 6 feet wide. I think it would be unsafe to have a step narrower than the door opening. The people door for my shop is 3 feet wide so I ordered 10 foot boards to be cut down to length. I made an extension for the miter gauge for cross cutting a long board. I let the extension, made of oak, hang a little past the blade and then ran it through the saw to give me a marker as to where the cut is. I set the rip fence 6 feet from the blade. Yes, you can do that on a shop smith by using the extension table, support tubes and a floating table. I clamped a block to the fence at the start of the cut so it would no longer be in contact with the board when the wood got into the saw blade. On my first cut the miter gauge slipped because I didn't have the locking screw tight enough. One board messed up. Well, I did order one extra in case that happened. Next I found the factory end on the boards wasn't quite square. So I had to cut off about a half inch to square it up. The next board I cut came out 5 feet 11 and seven eights inches. I thought that I had accounted for the curfe but I guess I messed up somewhere. OK, the steps are going to be 5 feet 11 and 7 eights inches instead of 6 feet. I moved all the boards I would need from the storage shed to the shop and started squaring up the ends. After cutting the third board when I turned off the saw the blade kept spinning, spinning, and spinning. I made sure I had actually turned off the switch and stood back and weighted for it to stop. I thought it never would. The big nut that holds the blade on the hub which in turn mounts on the motor spindle had come loose. The hub is so designed that the blade can't come flying off, it's just free wheeling. I suppose it had not been properly tightened at the factory. I used two end wrenches and tightened that sucker up good. Then Sue gave me the supper call. To be continued.
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