ChrisK

Hey guys. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers, this is really appreciated. I am home now, I came home Christmas Day to my family with my Wife driving me through a major snow storm. She left our home at 5 am not even knowing if I would be released. She is awesome. She spent most of the week at Mass General with my Son who is 13 months old. He couldn’t even recognize me, it was terrible. The Neurosurgeons and Nurses and ALL of the personnel from the janitors to transport, security and cafeteria employees were amazing. They tried to med flight me from Dover NH but couldn’t get one so a ground ambulance brought me down and they were awesome. I started to check out after we got to Mass General and my poor wife got a lot of bad news Thursday and Friday that she had to cope with by herself. I’ll never forget how hard this was on her or my son. My parents got here from Florida and my brother and his fiancé were there. They had to stabilize me prior to surgery and call in a specialized neurosurgeon. Needless to say God watched over me and two hours after surgery I was walking into the bathroom with my nurse. The next morning I was on my feet doing physical therapy with my therapist, Maria. On October 1st, I got a concussion. I had an MRI and started to see a neurologist. He continued to ignore my complaints and refused to give me another MRI. I stayed working thinking that I was being a wimp and started to see spots last week. I got an eye doctor appointment and my Optometrist saved my life, she found my optic nerves were being crushed by blood and it turned out I had a massive brain hemorrhage. The head neurologist at WDH couldn’t believe I was conscious let alone working. For future reference......ALWAYS.....get a second opinion. God watched over me and put me in contact with the right people and I am able to be with my beautiful wife and son. I have been unable to be online because of what happened in October and the last two weeks I started to deteriorate. I woke up at 3 this morning and am typing this at five in the morning. The screen isn’t bugging me. That’s amazing. Thanks for for your thoughts and prayers. I have loved this forum for years because of its members and it’s amazing how a bunch of perfect strangers in life can care so much about eachother. 🙏 You guys are awesome and this moved me so much I couldn’t respond until today. It’s amazing when something crazy like this happens that people care so much. I had visitors at the hospital and calls from guys that I work with but rarely see. I had family and friends pulling from everywhere. My ex-wife was at my house twice while this was going on, once when I was in surgery clearing my driveway and on Christmas, snow blowing the foot of snow we got and she and her girlfriend (long story....) brought my family and I dinner. This is what has helped me recover. I’ve been at a loss for all of the love and support. I cannot thank you all enough. Thank you. Chris 😎

Welcome to the forums bro!

Check out Woodcraft or Rockler that make a ton of DC hoses and attachments that’ll fit most saws and jointers

Ewwwww.......the 150.......scha-wiiiiiiiiiing

Amen guys. A long list of members have gone long away and it is really sad to see them move on. We’ve got some great members and the forum has waxed and waned over the years but sadly social media is killing the forums.

Here’s the link showing one left.... http://www.toolup.com/cart?_ga=2.267845511.881427643.1511579987-1248685106.1511579987

Happy Thanksgiving guys! Have a safe holiday, I hope you all get to spend it with your family. I remember last year, being at NICU, with my Wife and my newborn Son worried sick....now???? I’ve got a family to pig out with!!! Much to be thankful for 😇

Not a plate, it connect right out the bottom of the machine. I bought the plate through amazon warehouse pretty cheap though.

So....where the saw blade, brake and assembly are located, it’s in an enormous basket like structure. There is a hose that drops down. I bought the dust collection plate that has allowance for various sized hoses (4” in my case). I do not have the over head dust collector, I would like to add it but it’s a pricey set up. I will add it and more likely than not at some point the sliding arm assembly. I would have love to have gone with a cabinet base but alas....

I have the Sawstop CNS175TGP36 contractor saw. The saw is sealed down below. Absolutely love my saw. Guys are going to start talking smack. Regardless what they say, it’s an beautiful saw. The guy who locked the pat is an a hole no doubt but it is a phenomenal machine worth every penny. Super powerful, quiet. Dust collection when set up is phenomenal. I’m going to switch out the stamped steel wings at some point for cast iron.

I just sold my TXS drill set and I have the rail edge guide set plus a brand new OF1010 up for sale on CL. Never used the 1010, bought a new set a couple of years ago but the 1400 has been my primary router big and small. Been using the heck out of my 1400 and 1617 and have great plans for the 2200. Also sold my Dewalt 12v drills. Loved them but to much stuff sitting.

Yeah I’ve got the portamate, I like it a lot but the Grizzly price is way better

So no pics today, and don’t really know why I update this but.... This weekend, I finally finished wiring in the shop. Lighting is done, yesterday I added two separate outlets, both ceiling mounted, one line for the DC unit, the other for the Sawstop. I also finally installed the Grizzly air cleaner which created its own set of issues that I resolved. I had to do some rust repair to my table saw, I had a small leak from one of the copper water lines that dripped onto my table top and even got a speck on my bandsaw table so they are both soaking in T9 Boeshield till tomorrow then I’ll hit them with Renaissance wax (oh yes, the name of a the basement woodworker). I ended up listing some tools on CL to clear out some floor space in the shop and put some money on the coffers for later on but hopefully by Fridayish I might have some pics to post.

Mag switch, some awesome Fastbacks and shockwave red helix bits...

Yeah I had mine for a couple of years and it was a great little saw. No complaints.

Ha! I used to have that bandsaw several years ago! Great little saw!

From that smokin’ hot deal over at Tool Nut

Here you go guys, unfortunately they won’t ship to the USA https://www.amazon.co.uk/DEWALT-3-0AH-LI-ION-BATTERY-DCB187-XJ/dp/B075FWGSL3/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510964345&sr=8-1&keywords=Dewalt+3.0

Oh yeah. That’s impressive.

Awesome bro! If you run into Nalu tell him we said howdy!!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/17/navy-admits-its-aircraft-drew-lewd-images-in-sky.html

Yeah looks pretty neat too

I got mine too. Lucked out I guess!

That’s not a bad deal. I was running my 20v lawn tools and obviously my flexvolt skilsaw on these

I’ve got the Bosch jacket too. I bought one for my Wife also. Works great, remember the more layers UNDER the jacket, the less you’ll feel the heat. Layer over. Love the jacket though, need to switch to 4.0s