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267324 galoot@l... 2018‑12‑11 galoot BBQ (turkey edition)
If the bbq featured a turkey with trimmings can we call it a BBQ?  In 
any case, Darrell and Kathy hosted the annual Advent event, about half 
a dozen people, one of whom brought wooden toast, charcuterie, and 
salad tongs for everyone, all of whom brought assorted goodies came.

I suggested saw sharpening as a subject since I wanted to learn how, 
and now have 3 sharp saws on which I did about 1.5-2 saws worth of 
work, and it isn't as bad as you would think.  (First I'm pushing the 
file too hard, then later not hard enough...)  Darrel also retoothed 
someone's "anti-breasted" saw which now has a straight row of teeth, 
nice hand crank saw toother.  Lots of chatting and snacking by all.  I 
also spend ~US410 improving the Ontario CA economy in the Hamilton 
fabric district (more than half will be a 2 day class in January).

They do this yearly, seriously consider coming if you are in driving range!

Esther
267325 Mike Rock <mikerock@m...> 2018‑12‑11 Re: galoot BBQ (turkey edition)
Sounds like a fun time.  I'd like to learn more about the saw toother.  
I have an old hand crank setting machine from a factory in Rockford, 
IL.  Wife got it as a 'stump the engineer' gift, it works on the band 
saw blades after the tooth cutter.  I messed about with it on some 7tpi 
hack saw blades and reversed the set, just for giggles.  Works neat.   
Now a toother!!

God bless.
267326 Darrell & Kathy <larchmont@s...> 2018‑12‑11 Re: galoot BBQ (turkey edition)
On 12/10/2018 7:43 PM, galoot@l... wrote:


 > If the bbq featured a turkey with trimmings can we call it a BBQ? In
 > any case, Darrell and Kathy hosted the annual Advent event, about
 > half a dozen people, one of whom brought wooden toast, charcuterie,
 > and salad tongs for everyone, all of whom brought assorted goodies
 > came.

Hi Esther,

I got kind of caught up yesterday with the crank old drill press
so I neglected to report on the Galoot Xmas BBQ event.
I was still messing about with the drill tonight, managed to get
a new motor mounted on it, but I wired something wrong, as
it spins the wrong way.  If Kathy wasn't threatening to go buy
a new one tomorrow I would have let it be for a while, but
SWMBO is the correct term!  Enough about the silly tools.

I had 5 shop guests, Esther, Richard, Matt, Craig, and Rob.
Dan and Mihai sent their regards, but were unable to attend.
We had lots of snacks, and a tray full of Kathy's cookies.
Also had a bowl of cookies from Esther, which she whipped
up in our kitchen when she arrived.  Rob brought his chocolate
covered bacon, an interesting take on sweet & savory.

Esther provided the most interesting suggestion for Galootish
activities for the Xmas BBQ (turkey notwithstanding).  I have
a Foley retoother, which was at one time operated by some
magical means, but the smoke escaped from the beast, and
I simply cut the traces and turned it loose.  The machine came
with an handle that screwed onto the flywheel for Galoot
operation.  When I was practicing on a junk saw on Saturday
morning, I was cutting 11 TPI and it went through the steel fast
and easy.  The old rip saw Richard brought wanted to be 4 1/2
TPI, so I swapped out the ratchet bar and set it up to straighten
out the tooth line.  It was cutting LOTS of steel this time, and
After half a dozen teeth I ran up against a dead stop, when I
failed to give it enough Zoom to keep it going.  Once I got
it cutting again it was fine.  But I had to take a file later  to
correct the one misplaced tooth when the machine jammed.
It's noisy, even when Galoot powered, but it makes retoothing
a saw a fairly easy and fast operation.

We had a couple of saw vises set up, and lots of files to choose
amongst.  Esther and I made three saws sharper, and Richard
went much more slowly and carefully, completing a very fine
crosscut panel saw, at 11 TPI I think.

Dinner was delicious and lots of it, dessert was cookies and
tarts.  We hung around until about 9 PM, Esther left a bit earlier
as she had a longer trip.  Good friends, good food, fun with
tools, and conversation that was interesting and varied.

Merry Xmas to all Galoots, near and far!
Darrell


-- 
Darrell LaRue
Oakville ON
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User

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