Thread: Silky bookcase

Loverly.

Thats doing it the hard way hope the BS is fixed soon.

Nice Silky shelves good design

Your sawyer does not look impressed at all!!

Nice looking unit and some pretty grain there.

By the look of it so far the hard work will be rewarded.

It was hard work resawing the boards.
My friend looked more enthusiastic in another pic but this was more how we both felt by the end of it.
The doc said the motor was fine. I brought it home , wired it up and it ran fine for a while. Then the next time I turned it on the breaker was thrown. Not sure what to do now.

There are some pretty boards and they have been good to machine.

I lapped the thin boards into a groove at the back and screwed them to each shelf. They are nice and secure. Certainly look better than a ply back.

The six doors were glued up and shaped to fit each opening.
Hinges recessed.
Today we finished burning the tree patterns each door. then wiped on a coat of Floorseal.

Everything needs another coat of F&W Floorseal.
Then fit the door stops.

Nearly there.

Nice result, Scally. Pity about having to resaw on the T/S & by hand.
Could the B/S problem be a thermal cutout, or possibly a switch full of dust?

Scally, that looks like an interesting project. It is beautiful.

Hi Alex.

The motor was cleaned up to go to the doc so it shouldn't be dust.

I ran it for a few minutes while trying to line up one of those link-belts.
I couldn't get it to run true so I put the old V-belt back on.
When I hit the switch - the power went off.

There is no reset switch on this 1 1/2 HP motor.
Where is the thermal cutout?

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi wongo.
It is nice to get away from the drums and make something square for a change.
Bookcases take a lot of timber but then it gets covered in books and you don't see it.
At least with the doors you will see some timber.
I tried to choose interesting figure for the doors.

Pyrography didn't interest me until I started adding some to the drums.
One of the guys is an artist so that makes it more interesting.
I am still experimenting and learning with the burner.

It is a bit like the arbortec and carving. they are good techniques to add a bit of extra interest to a project.

Some motors have a thermal cut-out that kills the motor if it overheats, but if it hasn't got a reset it probably doesn't have a cut-out.
When you say the power went off, did it blow the fuses or circuit breakers at the fuse box? If so, and the motor's been checked, could it be a short in the switch or elsewhere in the wiring? Or could it be an intermittent fault in the motor that wasn't detected? No doubt one of the sparkies here will have a better idea.

I had a new circuit put in the garage when I moved in a few months ago.
Nothing else throws the breaker.

I am pretty sure it is the BS motor.

It is strange that it was OK for a few minutes. I had switched it on and off several times trying to set the belts straight.
Then it just went click.

A bigger motor, 2 or 3 HP , would be nice but I don't want to buy one just yet.

Run the motor without any load for a while ( 1/2 hour), and see how that goes ie no belts or pulleys connected. If the motor trips the CB, then the motor definitely is your problem.

Can't help with the BS problem but bookcase is looking excellent.

I had a similar problem with my dust extractor. 9 times out of 10 it would operate fine, then it would trip out the safety switch. Sparky tested it and found no fault. He suggested I replace the circuit breaker that feeds the shed with a new safety switch/circuit breaker combo unit. This little unit is the same size as the old circuit breaker, but also contains its own safety switch, so if something in the shed trips the power, it doesn't kill the whole house.

So he fitted this device, and since then, no problems. Dust extractor hasn't tripped at all. I don't understand why it fixed the problem, but it did.

ajw

Thanks all.

I am trying to finish the bookcase for delivery tomorrow.Too many friends with too many jobs keep turning up.

Anyway, I haven't touched the motor.
All the other tools and machines run on the same circuit with no problem.
The motor tripped the circuit breaker to the workshop. It has its own circuit that is separate from the rest of the house. The power to the rest of the house is not affected.

I could run the motor on another circuit to see if it throws that circuit breaker. That might tell me if I have a "sensitive" breaker on the workshop.

It's Christmas.
I'll have a look at it later.

Thanks again for the suggestions.