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Joerg wrote:
> 
> Joel Koltner wrote:
> > "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:7ai5luF1ur1mbU1@mid.individual.net...
> >> I usually spent a lot more time on the enclosures than on the electronics
> >> but the stuff is still working.
> >
> > Didn't anyone tell you that dovetail joints were optional? :-)
> >
> > Just kidding.  I can't imagine even you would have chiseled out dovetail
> > joints (since I'm thinking those dovetail jigs you use with a router didn't
> > exist for the casual home woodworker back then)...
> >
> 
> I didn't go that far but I polished and stained the corners until you
> couldn't really see where things butted up anymore.
> 
> Saw a contractor commercial lately about the Fein Multimaster. Drooling
> all over the place. Fein is "the" electric tool company in Germany, only
> the good stuff. You had to call a 1-800 number to find out the price and
> that should have been a dead give-away. Well, found it on the Internet,
> saw the prices of spare inserts and decided that I do not need it this
> urgently.
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Fein-MultiMaster-FMM-250Q-Top/dp/B000U8S3QA


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> > I built a small table (~2'x2'x1') for test equipment to live on not quite a
> > month ago.  I thoroughly enjoyed using a dado blade to cut a bunch of lap
> > joints, and verified the table could hold 300lbs.  Old boat anchors, here I
> > come!
> >
> 
> That's the other thing I built, or partially had built when I was around
> 15, size 6ft by 4ft and extremely sturdy (boat anchor proof). I made a
> drawing of the frame and asked my parents whether it was ok to get some
> metal stock, borrow a welding transformer and weld it in the garage. Oh
> no, no dice. So I went to the local HW store, a larger kind of mom and
> pop place. My classmates said they'd laugh at me there. The foreman took
> a look, "Yep, will be ready in two days, then we'll drive up there and
> chuck the frame over the hedge and you come down here to pay us the 70
> Deutschmarks". They didn't even want up front cash. Oh, now my chest
> swelled and I felt like an engineer. Until I glued the formica onto a
> panel that would become the top and I had it slightly skewed ...
> 
> --
> Regards, Joerg
> 
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> 
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