Thread: I love kerbside pick-up days...

Doesn't say on the plate on the motor anything about 3 phase, only has a 10 amp plug on it, so might just be dirty connections inside.

Sadly it's true. We get a lot of rubbish from the southern states...

Originally Posted by richmond68

you should just offload the Makita saw and get one that can use the blades

If I had the room for a decent cabinet saw i'd be all over them... But i'm working out of a single car garage, so everything is small and on wheels.

Originally Posted by Lance Reid

I was at the refuse transfer station yesterday and a bloke was throwing out a radial arm saw, said it goes but drops a phase. Got it home, checked out the tilts, slides, rotation of head, all good. Need to give the motor a look at and a new blade.

Does that mean that when you apply power it just hums and doesn't spin?

If so that means that the starter winding is not being activated. Probably due to faulty starter contact.

Originally Posted by Bohdan

Does that mean that when you apply power it just hums and doesn't spin?

If so that means that the starter winding is not being activated. Probably due to faulty starter contact.

Turns over ok.

Used to own a 1915 cottage in a lakeside summer resort. Monday morning garbage pick up from the weekenders.
Saw 6 x 6-panel big glass windows. Old rippled cylinder glass, even bubbles in some, 9" x 12" glass.
I know 2 guys who built replica antique china cabinets. The need matching antique glass for the doors.
Absolutely fossilized putty but I got the glass out. Got the trade price $0.50/in^2. 9x12 = $54.00 each.

Originally Posted by Tccp123

Apart from the Merbau above I also got a trailer load of "ex pergola" which I have since cut into bite size bits that will provide heating for at least the next winter. This would otherwise have ended up as land-fill.

You wouldn't be thinking of putting your "ex-pergola" ie. painted or stained "treated pine" in your fire place now would you?

If it was treated pine I might think twice about it but as it's hardwood that's exactly the plan (if it ever gets cold enough again here in Brisbane to need heating)

they tore down the house across the road and are building duplexes i think... i missed the demo (don't ask me how, i just came home from work and the house was gone haha) so didn't get anything good from that, but hoping to score some bits & bobs from the construction... even if its just some pallets or framing timber to build some storage bins or something... when they start i might wander over and say g'day and ask if its OK for me to help myself to anything in the skip...