After a while all you want in life are pre-set work stations for common tasks. Coarse French Wheel, fine French wheel, hard wax wheel, soft wax wheel, nook-and-cranny wax wheel, dry wheel, post-stain residue remover, tenon fit tuner, and so forth. Just stepping up and flipping a switch without having to look for and mount/dismount the same wheels over and over all day long is a repairman's version of living on a tropical beach.Charl wrote:I'm glad I'm a pipemaker, a repair guy needs way too many buffs.
In fact, I do so many things with spinny shit that enhancing that capability was one of the recent upgrades I mentioned. After discovering the magic that's possible with a variable speed unit, I retrofitted a 3/4hp 3-phase motor that sweeps butter smooth from a dead stop to full speed using an analog dial control. Thinking back, I don't know how I managed without it: