Dang. I would love this. But I’m pretty sure I would blow a fuse running this and my two heaters in the winter. I’m not much an electrical guy.
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Yeah idk what kind of amps this or your heaters pull but I really don’t think this pulls that many. It’s a relatively small motor but works really well. My heater is 240V and on a separate breaker though.
I can say I haven’t tripped anything on whatever 15/20A breaker that feeds most of my stuff.
I’ve had a biscuit jointer for 10 years and I bet I’ve used it 5 times ever. They’re occasionally useful but if I had it to do over I would have spent that money on something else.
Product image on Amazon shows 1 amp - I’m not much of an electrical guy either, but if this is the straw that breaks the camels back, you’re probably due for an upgrade anyway.
Went to these guys last week and they were great. Affordable and they pull the stock for you and load it as well. Thanks for the recommendation.
Because I’m a dork… I found one of those on eBay, and the tag on the side says it pulls 12.5 amps at the 1500 watt setting. Do you have a single 20A breaker feeding the outlets in the garage/shop? 2 heaters, an air filter, and a table saw might be pushing your luck… time to upgrade!
Wow. Those look like some good deals. I have a **** ton of projects in our new house and have been starting my research on sourcing wood. Best deal I found so far would be going to one friends place 2 hours away, picking up logs, hauling it 3 hours to my other friends place to mill, then taking it back home an hour away to dry before I can use it. That doesn't work with my ADD brain lol. I actually travel to Clear Lake a few times a month so that would be an easy stop...
Router and potentially a new orbital sander for me. Router is pretty high up on the list. Sander would be to replace an old ****** one I currently use. I've got a lot of sanding ahead of me so something that didn't suck to use for more than 5 minutes would be nice.
Just got an email about these being on sale from Rockler. Free shipping if you sign up for their mailing list.
These are officially known as milkhouse heaters. And I know we had three of them in our milkhouse growing up, so it is confirmed.
I am aware. Can't part with the old thing even if it's not nearly as effective as new technology. Sentimental value.
I think it depends what sort of projects you're building how useful a biscuit joiner is. If you're doing much edge gluing (either combining multiple solid boards together for something like a table top, or gluing solid strips onto the edges of plywood to disguise that it's plywood) biscuits are really hand because they keep the top face even as you get clamps on. One of the keys is that they allow some side-to-side wiggle, so if you have a long joint you don't have to be dead nuts accurate like you would if you were trying to drill holes and put in 6-8 dowels.
I bought a cheap-ish Ryobi probably 8-9 years ago, which has served my purposes fine. I don't use it a ton, but there are times where it's the right tool for a job... and in those cases it makes glue-up fast and easy.
I'm just teasing. I have the same problem in my garage. When we moved the subpanel in the garage came off of a subpanel in the house which seemed a little shady. When I attached my garage I made it so it didn't have a subpanel in between but still need to be careful with the loads.
I’d like to get some more outlets in my garage but the panel is on absolute opposite end of the house in the basement. So I would have for run a cord a long way through the ceiling of a finished basement. There are extra spots in my box so I have room there. Beyond that, The other issue is that I don’t know enough about electricity to know what kind of questions to ask. I have a guy I know that might help me out this winter at some point. I hate paying for stuff like an electrician when I can do part of it myself.
