What did you do in your shop today?

Mr. Peet said:
I've been cooking old paint on the wood stove and adding kitty litter to make it acceptable for curb side pick-up. Preacher family left about 20 gallons for us to deal with when they left. SURPRISE... About 2/3rds are shot, other 1/3 good but what to do with it? Now days people are so snotty in general, used paint (new just not full), oh no, sooner buy.

About 6 gallons of various wood stains. Think I'll mix them all and plaster the kids Treehouse when I finish it. She's already out grown it. Started 2 years ago. Sad how the need to work gets in the way of life. Often tainting memories, but required for any of those memories to even exist.

Hope to get 5 gallons of bad paint done for this week's pickup.
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https://www.paintcare.org/3979-2/
That place takes paint and stain. No charge...
 
Mr. Peet said:
Thanks Marc, I see the closest is just down the road 2 hours one way...There is another not on the list, but they charge quite a bit, money not readily at hand. Was worth posting, thank you.
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How about an actual paint store? I dont know the PA laws, but up here, any place that sells paint or stain has to take back the old stuff, to recycle it. We pay for it upfront when the paint is purchased.
 
ripjack13 said:
How about an actual paint store? I dont know the PA laws, but up here, any place that sells paint or stain has to take back the old stuff, to recycle it. We pay for it upfront when the paint is purchased.
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Not yet, they charge extra for environmental clean-up costs at purchase,but don't take old back. I think Lowes is starting to take it back, if you have your receipt and the containers are clean, bar code legible and so on. A few others might do so as well. As for the 10 - 20 year old stuff with high voc...the local exchange charge a few bucks per item. It would be around $150. Kitty litter, cheaper and legal.
 
@woodtickgreg , Greg, saw a metal working/welding bench with a neat vice mount: it was a receiver tube. Vice was mounted on a plate mounted on a square tube that then slid into a receiver tube mounted under the welding table. I know it is more difficult to mount a tube like that on a wood workbench, but I have always remembered that idea. Really like your solution also, very creative.
 
Gdurfey said:
@woodtickgreg , Greg, saw a metal working/welding bench with a neat vice mount: it was a receiver tube. Vice was mounted on a plate mounted on a square tube that then slid into a receiver tube mounted under the welding table. I know it is more difficult to mount a tube like that on a wood workbench, but I have always remembered that idea. Really like your solution also, very creative.
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I've seen that done before, pretty cool.
I have a reciever tube welded to the top tube of my trailer so I can put my winch on it. :cool:
 
So the kitty litter did not soak up or swell as much as I had thought. The paint smell started to spread throughout the house. So I said, wood shop, lets think wood. I added some sawdust. It seemed to work. Since I had just emptied all the sawdust last week, all I had was shavings. They did not work. Standing there at the stove anew wood idea, wood ash. Wow, that worked really well. Added a small bit to each and quickly stiffened the mess. Took them all outside, opened opposite doors and flushed the house with fresh air (20 degree fresh). In the morning I counted 8 gallons of rendered cans of paint for the refuse guy. They were gone when I came home last night.

Maybe I'll hold unto some of the spray paint cans, but still need to get rid of others.

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Finished up the vice mount today.
Got the 4" grinder out with a new flap wheel on it to round off all the corners and break all the edges. Then I bolted it on.
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Shop still won't be set up for a while, and I probably shouldn't have been keeping my eye on Facebook Marketplace, but a Radial Arm Saw has been on machine want list for some time. And here I have enough shop space to have one. So I had just started to keep my eye out for a good deal on an old DeWalt or Delta.

Well, this Radio Area Saw popped up. For $50 and only 5 miles from home, yeah, I went and bought it. A check of the serial number against information on VintageMachinery.org dates it to 1954. Runs well - in good shape. I'll replace the motor bearings eventually and check the carriage bearings and see if they need anything. I'll clean up any rust. It's in good enough shape that I doubt I'll repaint it. For now it's just parked in the garage - going to be a while before I get the shop set up or have the chance to give this saw some attention. I do plan to build a nice stand for it with support on each side.

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Nice Matt! That looks like. Bigger saw, 10" and probably a bigger motor. Nice grab for $50. The old dewalts where built very solid. You'll understand that when you pick one up, lol.
 
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woodtickgreg said:
Nice Matt! That looks like. Bigger saw, 10" and probably a bigger motor. Nice grab for $50. The old dewalts where built very solid. You'll understand that when you pick one up, lol.
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This one is a MBC - it's a 9" saw, but the seller had a 10" blade on it. Weight wise, this wasn't all that heavy - the seller helped me get it into the back of our minivan, but I got it out by myself, no problem. Very solid machine. With a 9" blade it'll cut up to about 2 1/2" thick, which should meet my needs well.
 
It has a different style guard than my 9", that's why I thought it was a 10"
 
Does yours have the electric brake?
 
After I messaged the seller and made arrangements to pick it up today, I was trying to determine the exact model - it seems that style guard was only available for a very short time.

No electric brake on it.
 
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