MaterialsForBoatbuilding

Have you heard of the new table saw that (believe it or not) senses a ground fault (I guess) through the blade (if you are foolish enough to accidentally touch the blade) and stops instantly by using a powerful blade brake before the blade has hardly scratched you?
Funny nobody's come up with a simple anti-kick device for a skilsaw. I am aware from the many times my saw has kicked exactly how powerful the kick can be, and I know to hold the saw stiffly enough.
I always do long curves with the skilsaw. Much smoother and superfast, as you say.

Alan

 

Terry, You sure are a busy guy. Nice looking wiki page. Lots of good info. Actally I just bought some plywood to build a 12 foot stitch and glue boat. I haven't built a boat myself since I was a teen so it should be fun.

 

i saw that tablesaw on "this old house" i think,,,,but they were showing it work,,,was using a carrot tho,,(scardycats),,but anyways,,,,the VERY second it was touched it stopped,,,so fast it didnt even scratch the carrot,,,in fact so fast you really couldnt tell it stopped till you see the carrot was still there.

 

Chainsaws have anti-kickback bars. Yes, I meant a circular saw.
I think a device similar to a shear pin (but self-resetting) would work with circular saws. Just noodling.
Yeah, isn't that finger-saver saw amazing? expensive, but school shops are buying them.

Alan

 

should be a law schools should have them,,,,,and most red-necks heh,,,and ya chainsaw anti-kick bars work great,,,,ive seen em work a few hundred times heh

 

Back to the Wiki.....
The MaterialsForBoatbuilding article is getting too long, to the point where it may cause trouble with slower connections. I'd like to restructure this article as an overview page and break the components out into individual articles. Any thoughts?

 

You could easily cut it up in the different materials.

I have a small problem with the WIKI: For some reason the lines do not break at the end of the screen, making me scroll from left to right. Anyone having the same problem?

And yet another remark: Balsa is said to be an expensive core option. I have no idea of pricing in the USA, but here (NL) it is the cheapest option for the thickness and stiffness needed.

 

Matt, Please do! I will If I have time... I'm trying to get a boatbuilding group started (In Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea).. http://www.kaust.edu.sa

Thanks!

Terry King

 

text wrap

You have some great content in the wiki, but it's a little hard to get past the format. When I look at it in FireFox, the lines of text do not wrap to page width. I did not look at the source code in much detail, but there is at least 1 nowrap attribute in there, and I'm guessing that this is behind the effect. If I'm doing something stupid, or if there's anything I can do to help out, please let me know.

 

The leading space at the very beginning of that page which is translated by the wiki software to the <pre> tag (but which was then applied to the whole article rather than that one line) has been removed in hopes of solving the display issue.

 

Yes I saw an article in Wooden Boat sometime ago.
I think to much safety can be dangerous. I prefer to be carefull.
Yes the anti-kick will be nice, but as you said, we get acustumate.
I would like to try the Makita 16". A monster but get the job done smoothly said my friend who bought one.
Daniel

 

I added a couple of wood document links from this thread http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/materials/wood-thread-sources-qualities-prices-like-35239.html