So here I am over the weekend finishing up a new bed for
Claire (age 10) and I'm needing a laminate trimmer. Best I
can do is to either pull the big gray one out of the router
table or use the almost equally big blue plunge-o-matic. To
make a long story short it got done but it was something of
a pain in the ass with three horses teetering along the edge
of a 3/4" panel.

By the way, Claire (age 10) loves her new bed.

This of course got me to dreaming of a trim router I could
call my own. Granted I don't *need* a trim router as much
as most tools/machines so I was willing to settle on
something minimal, like a Porter-Cable 7310. Hell, I was
even contemplating a, gulp, Ree-Oh-Bee given the fact that
I'd not use it a whole lot, at least not as much as most
tools/machines.

So, off to Amazon I go.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...421160-6316838

$115 is not a bad price but I didn't really want to be
spending that much on a trim router.

So, off to eBay I go. After a short search I find a new in
box that was ending today.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=4351810993

At the time the bidding was at a reasonable amount but I
stopped short of loading a snipe.

Maybe I'd wait until the woodworking show in February.

sigh... Toolus interuptus.

So, tonight Claire (age 10) is over at a friend's for a
sleep over. St. Soozan and I use these occasions for
restauranting those places where Claire (age 10) doesn't
like to frequent and after a pleasing dinner of grinders,
tato chips and a cola we begin the begets/the, as long as
we're outs.

To the grocery store for a couple/few things, then to Kohl's
for a new toaster (the piece of crap we have finally
died!!!) and after that St. Soozan remembers that she wants
new cranks for the casements so, "would it be OK if we go to
Home Depot?"

No really, that's what she said.

So, while St. Soozan is looking at cranks I go to see what
they have for trimmers.

There were two Porter-Cable 7310's, normally $90, marked
down to $70.

Blink! Blink, blink!! Blink, blink, blink!!!





There is one left. It's at the Menomonee Falls (Da False)
store on Q.

UA100, who would have been kicking himself right about
now...

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:08:12 GMT, Unisaw A100
wrote:

So here I am over the weekend finishing up a new bed for
Claire (age 10) and I'm needing a laminate trimmer. Best I
can do is to either pull the big gray one out of the router
table or use the almost equally big blue plunge-o-matic. To
make a long story short it got done but it was something of
a pain in the ass with three horses teetering along the edge
of a 3/4" panel.

By the way, Claire (age 10) loves her new bed.

This of course got me to dreaming of a trim router I could
call my own. Granted I don't *need* a trim router as much
as most tools/machines so I was willing to settle on
something minimal, like a Porter-Cable 7310. Hell, I was
even contemplating a, gulp, Ree-Oh-Bee given the fact that
I'd not use it a whole lot, at least not as much as most
tools/machines.

So, off to Amazon I go.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...421160-6316838

$115 is not a bad price but I didn't really want to be
spending that much on a trim router.

So, off to eBay I go. After a short search I find a new in
box that was ending today.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=4351810993

At the time the bidding was at a reasonable amount but I
stopped short of loading a snipe.

Maybe I'd wait until the woodworking show in February.

sigh... Toolus interuptus.

So, tonight Claire (age 10) is over at a friend's for a
sleep over. St. Soozan and I use these occasions for
restauranting those places where Claire (age 10) doesn't
like to frequent and after a pleasing dinner of grinders,
tato chips and a cola we begin the begets/the, as long as
we're outs.

To the grocery store for a couple/few things, then to Kohl's
for a new toaster (the piece of crap we have finally
died!!!) and after that St. Soozan remembers that she wants
new cranks for the casements so, "would it be OK if we go to
Home Depot?"

No really, that's what she said.

So, while St. Soozan is looking at cranks I go to see what
they have for trimmers.

There were two Porter-Cable 7310's, normally $90, marked
down to $70.

Blink! Blink, blink!! Blink, blink, blink!!!





There is one left. It's at the Menomonee Falls (Da False)
store on Q.

UA100, who would have been kicking himself right about
now...

you sure kmow how to make a short story long ! lol.. nice catch BTW.
or was that a drive buy? yeh you may sucketh just a tad...if i was to
buy another router right now i would prolly be in devorce court
forfittin all my hard earnt doe.

skeez

Unisaw A100 wrote in
news
snip of a totally unbelievable story of SWMBO suggesting a visit to the
tool pushers...

Nice catch! It's not a bad little rascal for the dough, particularly that
dough.

Cruise on by Pat Warner's site, and see if he has a picture of the offset
plexi base for the 7310. Makes me _much_ more comfortable using the
trimmer, since I can keep my not-easily-replaced fingers further away from
the spinning parts. And also see more easily what's going on at 30k rpm.

Dirt cheap, too, relatively speaking.

LRod posted on another thread about the tap-the-bit-with-the-wrench trick.
It comes in handy.

Patriarch

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:47:50 -0600, Patriarch
wrote:


LRod posted on another thread about the tap-the-bit-with-the-wrench trick.
It comes in handy.

tap-the-NUT-with-the-wrench.


- -
LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net

Dang Keeter. Now what the hay are you going to shop for at the Really Big
Shew? I would have paid money to see you explaining to the product reps how
the thing wasn't really as precise as they thought it was. Personally, I'll
be looking for 2 or 3 of those new fangled powdered metal turning
tools...drool!!!
--
Jeff P.

"A ship carrying blue paint collided with a ship carrying red paint. The
crew are believed to be marooned."

Check out my woodshop at: www.sawdustcentral.com


"Unisaw A100" wrote in message
news
So here I am over the weekend finishing up a new bed for
Claire (age 10) and I'm needing a laminate trimmer. Best I
can do is to either pull the big gray one out of the router
table or use the almost equally big blue plunge-o-matic. To
make a long story short it got done but it was something of
a pain in the ass with three horses teetering along the edge
of a 3/4" panel.

By the way, Claire (age 10) loves her new bed.

This of course got me to dreaming of a trim router I could
call my own. Granted I don't *need* a trim router as much
as most tools/machines so I was willing to settle on
something minimal, like a Porter-Cable 7310. Hell, I was
even contemplating a, gulp, Ree-Oh-Bee given the fact that
I'd not use it a whole lot, at least not as much as most
tools/machines.

So, off to Amazon I go.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...421160-6316838

$115 is not a bad price but I didn't really want to be
spending that much on a trim router.

So, off to eBay I go. After a short search I find a new in
box that was ending today.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=4351810993

At the time the bidding was at a reasonable amount but I
stopped short of loading a snipe.

Maybe I'd wait until the woodworking show in February.

sigh... Toolus interuptus.

So, tonight Claire (age 10) is over at a friend's for a
sleep over. St. Soozan and I use these occasions for
restauranting those places where Claire (age 10) doesn't
like to frequent and after a pleasing dinner of grinders,
tato chips and a cola we begin the begets/the, as long as
we're outs.

To the grocery store for a couple/few things, then to Kohl's
for a new toaster (the piece of crap we have finally
died!!!) and after that St. Soozan remembers that she wants
new cranks for the casements so, "would it be OK if we go to
Home Depot?"

No really, that's what she said.

So, while St. Soozan is looking at cranks I go to see what
they have for trimmers.

There were two Porter-Cable 7310's, normally $90, marked
down to $70.

Blink! Blink, blink!! Blink, blink, blink!!!





There is one left. It's at the Menomonee Falls (Da False)
store on Q.

UA100, who would have been kicking himself right about
now...

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:25:34 GMT, skeezics wrote:

buy another router right now i would prolly be in devorce court
forfittin all my hard earnt doe.


hey, tell her, that ain't a router, it's a laminate trimmer!

-Dan V.

LRod wrote in
:

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:47:50 -0600, Patriarch
wrote:


LRod posted on another thread about the tap-the-bit-with-the-wrench
trick. It comes in handy.

tap-the-NUT-with-the-wrench.

That occurred to me as I was putting tools away this evening. Thanks for
the catch.

Patriarch

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:08:12 GMT, Unisaw A100 wrote:

So here I am over the weekend finishing up a new bed for
Claire (age 10) and I'm needing a laminate trimmer. Best I
can do is to either pull the big gray one out of the router
table or use the almost equally big blue plunge-o-matic. To
make a long story short it got done but it was something of
a pain in the ass with three horses teetering along the edge
of a 3/4" panel.

.... snip
died!!!) and after that St. Soozan remembers that she wants
new cranks for the casements so, "would it be OK if we go to
Home Depot?"

No really, that's what she said.

So, while St. Soozan is looking at cranks I go to see what
they have for trimmers.

There were two Porter-Cable 7310's, normally $90, marked
down to $70.

Blink! Blink, blink!! Blink, blink, blink!!!



Sometimes things just fall into place, don't they? Congrats.


+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The absence of accidents does not mean the presence of safety

Army General Richard Cody

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Patriarch wrote:
snip of a totally unbelievable story of SWMBO suggesting a visit to the
tool pushers...

God as my witness. (right hand up in the air)

We did spend an overly long time at Kohl's (sWisconsin's
answer to Target/only smaller with more crowded aisles) and
I was a good boy at the grocery store so St. Soozan may have
noticed I needed to destimulate/depressurize. One of the up
sides to staying with the same wife for a number of years I
suppose?

Nice catch! It's not a bad little rascal for the dough, particularly that
dough.

Cruise on by Pat Warner's site, and see if he has a picture of the offset
plexi base for the 7310. Makes me _much_ more comfortable using the
trimmer, since I can keep my not-easily-replaced fingers further away from
the spinning parts. And also see more easily what's going on at 30k rpm.

See now, I'd done that just yesterday at work (of course)
and that's what really tipped the scales. Pat mentions this
little guy is somewhat a pain to set up/use but he mentions
something along the lines of "you'll die before this trimmer
does" so in reality, I blame Pat Warner.

No really.

Dirt cheap, too, relatively speaking.

LRod posted on another thread about the tap-the-bit-with-the-wrench trick.
It comes in handy.

unbattens hatch, looks around, blinks...

Which thread?

UA100

Mark & Juanita wrote:
Sometimes things just fall into place, don't they? Congrats.


It's scary leading a charmed existence. Makes you wonder
when/were the slats will be kicked out from under you.

UA100, watchful/waiting...

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:29:14 -0600, Unisaw A100
wrote:


Dirt cheap, too, relatively speaking.

LRod posted on another thread about the tap-the-bit-with-the-wrench trick.
It comes in handy.

unbattens hatch, looks around, blinks...

Which thread?

LRod wrote in
:

I have the P-C 310. I love it. For a long time I was unhappy with the
collet (¼" only) as it is not a self ejecter like the superb collets
in full sized P-C routers. In fact I used to keep a small roundover
bit in it all of the time to avoid having to change (not a bad bit to
keep in there; I rarely felt the need to change).

However, several people have told of the trick of tapping the collet
nut with the wrench after loosening and the bit slides right out. Once
I tried it and found that it worked great, I elevated the '310 to the
category of "Perfect."

You can't go wrong with it.

The 7310 is not the same machine, by the way, despite the similar
model numbers.


- -
LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net

Unisaw A100 wrote:

new cranks for the casements so, "would it be OK if we go to
Home Depot?"

....

There were two Porter-Cable 7310's, normally $90, marked
down to $70.

Blink! Blink, blink!! Blink, blink, blink!!!

And then when you got back to the house she said "Would it be OK if we have
sex?"

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Don't get carried away now.

--
Jeff P.

"A ship carrying blue paint collided with a ship carrying red paint. The
crew are believed to be marooned."

Check out my woodshop at: www.sawdustcentral.com


"Silvan" wrote in message
...
Unisaw A100 wrote:

new cranks for the casements so, "would it be OK if we go to
Home Depot?"

...

There were two Porter-Cable 7310's, normally $90, marked
down to $70.

Blink! Blink, blink!! Blink, blink, blink!!!

And then when you got back to the house she said "Would it be OK if we
have
sex?"

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Unisaw A100 wrote in
:

Mark & Juanita wrote:
Sometimes things just fall into place, don't they? Congrats.


It's scary leading a charmed existence. Makes you wonder
when/were the slats will be kicked out from under you.

UA100, watchful/waiting...


I worked for a really wonderful boss, 5 or 6 years ago. We were in a
booming industry, making obscene (really) amounts of money, but working our
a$$e$ off. He had two catch phrases, which kept us grounded.

"Fat cows. Skinny cows."

"It's a two week rolling contract."

Shoes drop. Sometimes, there's not much you can do about it, other than
pick them up again.

Patriarch,
blessed in so many ways...

Unisaw A100 wrote in
:

Patriarch wrote:
snip of a totally unbelievable story of SWMBO suggesting a visit to
the tool pushers...

God as my witness. (right hand up in the air)

We did spend an overly long time at Kohl's (sWisconsin's
answer to Target/only smaller with more crowded aisles) and
I was a good boy at the grocery store so St. Soozan may have
noticed I needed to destimulate/depressurize. One of the up
sides to staying with the same wife for a number of years I
suppose?

That's one of them.

I got my trimmer in late November, a year ago. Convinced myself that I
needed it, in order to complete the quilting worktable I was making for
LOML. And it did the job, quite well. I bought it when HD was having a
20% or so discount on power tools, which didn't come along every day.

So about mid-December, working in the shop, our eldest son drops in, as
I'm doing some mini-routing. Takes him about 30 seconds to figure out
that I've gone and purchased for myself the same present that he and
LOML have purchased for me. She was on slow boil for several days. Son
asked what I would like to have as a second choice? KBodies!

She doesn't try to purchase handplanes for me, since that unfortunate
incident regarding the timing of the arrival of a heavy package from one
P. Leach, of Ashby, MA.

I guess that I've built up a few credits over 32 years. I know she has.

Patriarch

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:14:55 -0500, Dan Valleskey valleskey at
comcast dot net wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:25:34 GMT, skeezics wrote:

buy another router right now i would prolly be in devorce court
forfittin all my hard earnt doe.


hey, tell her, that ain't a router, it's a laminate trimmer!

-Dan V.

tried that while stepping in front of the 3 laminate trimmers on the
bench ! it did not work. lol... she thinks a dozen or so routers is
enough so we aggree to disagree.

skeez

LOL, figures. I'd just be thankful that the little lady knows enough about
your hobby to know what you want. That's a rare quality in a hobby like
ours.

--
Jeff P.

"A ship carrying blue paint collided with a ship carrying red paint. The
crew are believed to be marooned."

Check out my woodshop at: www.sawdustcentral.com


"Patriarch" wrote in message
. 97.136...
Unisaw A100 wrote in
:

Patriarch wrote:
snip of a totally unbelievable story of SWMBO suggesting a visit to
the tool pushers...

God as my witness. (right hand up in the air)

We did spend an overly long time at Kohl's (sWisconsin's
answer to Target/only smaller with more crowded aisles) and
I was a good boy at the grocery store so St. Soozan may have
noticed I needed to destimulate/depressurize. One of the up
sides to staying with the same wife for a number of years I
suppose?

That's one of them.

I got my trimmer in late November, a year ago. Convinced myself that I
needed it, in order to complete the quilting worktable I was making for
LOML. And it did the job, quite well. I bought it when HD was having a
20% or so discount on power tools, which didn't come along every day.

So about mid-December, working in the shop, our eldest son drops in, as
I'm doing some mini-routing. Takes him about 30 seconds to figure out
that I've gone and purchased for myself the same present that he and
LOML have purchased for me. She was on slow boil for several days. Son
asked what I would like to have as a second choice? KBodies!

She doesn't try to purchase handplanes for me, since that unfortunate
incident regarding the timing of the arrival of a heavy package from one
P. Leach, of Ashby, MA.

I guess that I've built up a few credits over 32 years. I know she has.

Patriarch

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:25:34 GMT, skeezics wrote:
you sure kmow how to make a short story long ! lol.. nice catch BTW.
or was that a drive buy? yeh you may sucketh just a tad...if i was to
buy another router right now i would prolly be in devorce court
forfittin all my hard earnt doe.

skeez


Bonus points are awarded to a gloat with an
interesting/scary/one-upmanship story attached.

Groggs

Jeff P. wrote:
LOL, figures. I'd just be thankful that the little lady knows enough about
your hobby to know what you want. That's a rare quality in a hobby like
ours.


And yes I am.

UA-100, who got a Lamello for his birthday...

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:08:12 GMT, Unisaw A100
wrote:


... after that St. Soozan remembers that she wants
new cranks for the casements so, "would it be OK if we go to
Home Depot?"

No really, that's what she said.



I saw this episode before.

It was different when Rod Serling told it...



tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:12:20 GMT, Unisaw A100 wrote:

Jeff P. wrote:
LOL, figures. I'd just be thankful that the little lady knows enough about
your hobby to know what you want. That's a rare quality in a hobby like
ours.


And yes I am.

UA-100, who got a Lamello for his birthday...


OK, now you suck.




+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The absence of accidents does not mean the presence of safety

Army General Richard Cody

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Silvan wrote:
And then when you got back to the house she said "Would it be OK if we have
sex?"


Given what I learned over the last two days (lay and
wait/something better will come along), I turned her down.

I understand Robin Hartl isn't busy these days?

UA100

And yes I am.

UA-100, who got a Lamello for his birthday...

damn you..!!!!!!!!!!!. and a drive by to boot !! just when you
thought you sucketh too much... lol..

skeez