On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:18:37 -0500, Greg wrote:

Great, but there are two things:

Blade Wrenches. Usual stuff. Cheap steel flat stock wrenches,
probably die cut, and soft. One thing I can't quite figure out is why
they bothered to put a bend in the arbor wrench. It really makes it
useless, as the cleanest approach is from directly above. Go figure.
Could be something different about the left-tilt vs. right-tilt model,
could be because I'm a southpaw, _could be_ they bought a box of them
on eBay. I'll hammer it out flat later - or add it to the collection
of _other_ useless wrenches and drivers.

As my good friend, Dave Arbuckle (several WW forums) says, they're not
wrenches--they're patterns. You take it with you to your Snap-On
dealer, or equivalent, and buy a real wrench of that size (I like
combination wrenches).

So, rinse, repeat. Then wipe the top down with kerosene, rust buster
spray, whatever you've got that isn't too flammable and cuts this
stuff. Don't dribble it into the mech. Prepare for a mess on the
rag, your pants, your shirt....

Nobody ever mentions this, although maybe I'm the only stupid person
in the world to have done it, but as you're wiping all the kero (the
ONLY solvent to use on cosmolene, in my opinion) off the table and
from the miter track, be SURE and either use SEVERAL layers of cloth
material, or a push stick and a single layer to clean out the track.
They didn't bevel those edges. My finger still hurts 14 months later.



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