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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


> 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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