8th June 2023
It was a bad night for both of us, Kelli because she woke early and couldn’t get back to sleep, and I, because Kelli could get back to sleep.
It sets the tone for the whole day and I didn’t want to be here. Fortunately I was going to visit John the wood man to discuss how to remove the bow in the worktop.
It was the first time I had driven solo to his barn, and got off to a bad start. I took the wrong road and landed in a construction area.
The road was being dug up and diversions were in place. This didn’t help me one bit, so I turned to my GPS to get me out of a mess.
John was slicing a red oak tree as I arrived but he halted that and helped me unload the worktop. We lifted it on to his flat table where he could see how much the top had bowed.
He was surprised at the amount, so we discussed different ways of flatting it out.
Short of adding lumps of steel, which might be the only way, he had a selection of America’s hardest timber most of which I can’t remember, as other options. He agreed to try a few things next week.
The drive back was quicker and easier because I was on the right road.
I did notice the truck was sounding louder than usual, when I got home I noticed that an exhaust clamp had broken, so I need to get that fixed.
The good new was I got the saw fixed. The new switch came in the post, so there was some trepidation on my part that it was the problem. It took a while to find out how to get the old one out. I had to knock out the pivot pin that held the emergency stop flap.
Once that was out, with depressing a couple of tabs and it was out. Then there was pressure on to attach the terminals correctly, there were six. Eventually I had it reassembled and fitted back in the saw, now came the crucial test.
I plugged in the power cable, pausing before I hit the green button. I could wait no longer, my finger pressed the starter, the saw burst into life, YAY! I was so relieved.
Another Lifetime to go 