While making the new (improved!) rolling system for the table saw, I found two old 2x4s that came from a concrete project when we first moved here. I salvaged and reused them in the big chicken coop after the first chicken coop came down. Originally, these boards cost 70% off from Home Depot because they were warped, knotty crap in the first place. They leaned on the garage for the last two or three years.
I used them as spacer pieces — fork separators — for the rear axles of the newly self-leveling table saw. When finished, this will be a lovelier $50 saw than ever, remarkably stable for an unstable old man, with self-referencing side and outfeed tables. It should be possible to move it, for a project if not a season, without too many pulled muscles.
What’s left will help keep us warm next winter. That is a pretty good life for 2 defective 2x4s. There are eight new 2x4s in the shop. I wonder what they will become?
And that is how I learned that if you want something done wrong, but good enough for now, ask Dave to do it for free with on hand materials.
No guarantees.
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