D-8: Okay, what am I doing wrong?

Re: Skip the freezer

Dave (Arlington, VA)

>Hi Sanders -

No freezer, eh. Sounds like (if I don't want to file these holes in the blade larger) the best bet would be to stick the handle out in my garage for a bit when it starts to get hot and humid...and hope for the best. Still it fit only two months ago, you would think it would again.

Thanks for your post.

Regards -

Dave

Sorry, Sandor, my bad -

Dave (Arlington, VA)

>on the spelling of your name.

Dave

The kitchen thing

Bob Hackett

>the reason I mentioned the kitchen is that I ALMOST got caught rehabbing tools in ours.I was quick thinking enough to wipe up the mess and stash the sawblade in the cabinet(under the baking pans) as soon as I heard the car pull in.

Unfortunately I forgot where I had stashed the blade till it was found some months later.It nearly drove me nuts knowing I had a blade to fit the handle but not knowing where I put it.

When SWMBO pulled it out of the cabinet months later I did what any self respecting neander would do when his survival instincts kick in,I put on my best game face and demanded to know what the heck she was using my tools up here for now and why hadn`t she put it back when she was done.I even complained about those stains obviously caused by tomatoe sauce or some other equally harmful corosive culinary ingredient.

The quick thinking allowed me to stalk off in a (well faked) huff and,stow the blade in the shop and return before the "HUH? face" had worn off.

Another bullet dodged by the narrowest of margins.

Mainely,Bob

Funny story, Bob!

Dave (Arlington, VA)

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Re: The kitchen thing

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>It'd never work in my house Bob. My wife has a memory like the proverbial elephant and has the additional ability ot read my face from 100 yards and know I'm trying to pull a fast one. still, to cynically paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time,.......and that's usually sufficient."

Re: The kitchen thing

Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT

>I've got one like that, too. After 34 years you think I'd quit trying to fool her.

Greg

I can`t really fool her anymore

Bob Hackett

>After 30 years the best I can hope for is to successfully execute a "stun and run" maneuver.

MB

I restate my case

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I've argued for some years that the true solution is not to attempt to deceive or conceal things from the loves of our lives, but to somehow get them hooked on some activity that requires expensive tooling. My life got much easier after LOML got addicted to pottery (that's making, not buying). She continues to have a hard time understanding why I keep bringing home bits of wood, because pottery, being an additive art, just requires a lump of the right sort of clay, and she has a hard time grasping that woodworking, being a subtractive art, requires that you keep every piece of wood that might be useful. Of course, it's also possible that she's just yanking my chain.

Well Dave, did you get the handle back on?

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

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Not yet

Dave (Arlington, VA)

>Hi Don -

Thanks for asking. Not yet. I have tried the "start with the two nuts in the center approach" thatt someone suggested, but that didn't work either. I also started with a file (briefly) but then decided that I don't "need" this saw right away - and would rather wait and see if I can't get "wood movement" to work for me. I would hate to have the handle rattling around on my in the summer.

Thanks to some of the observations here, I now think that since this saw was stored in the previous owners garage - and that since I've had it the saw has been in my basement, that the wood shrinkage due to the differences in moisture content may account for the "movement" of the holes in my saw.

So now I am inclined to set the saw blade aside, and put the handle outside - when it gets a bit hotter and more humid. If I were in Florida, I might be able to do that right now. In Washington I'm going to have to wait a bit.

As I sight through the holes of the blade and the handle when they are assembled, they are not off by much -- just enough to mess things up. So I'm hoping this approach will work.

In some things - this being one - I can be patient.

Regards -

Dave