[sdiy] Fixing cheap machinery

[CHoaglin at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/1/02 6:21:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
madhun2001 at yahoo.com writes:


>  just successfully made a $30 belt sander into a
> usable piece of gear. This Harbor Freight special is
> by far the crappiest piece I've ever seen. But it does
> spin a 1x30" belt. I'm very poor, you see. However,
> the tracking was way off and the belt would slide to
> the far end of its tracking range and start taking off
> material from the casting.
> 

Ah..I just picked myself up a 7" DeWalt angle grinder today for around 60 and 
got a free powered subwoofer in the process. I bought the subwoofer at a 
pawnshop, where they said that it blew a fuse because they put one in that 
was too small, and I'd just need to put the right one in. Of course it really 
blew because of an internal fault, so I took it back today and demonstrated 
blowing a fuse of about twice the required rating on their counter. Told them 
"well, I'd like to trade it in for this grinder (of equal price) and we both 
know you'll just toss the subwoofer in the dumpster out back (I know this 
because I used to pull such stuff out of their dumpster and fix it), so can I 
just keep the subwoofer and fix it? They obliged, so now I have a nice free 
KLH powered subwoofer if I can fix the interal short...

I think the angle grinder might end up getting more musical use though..<evil 
grin>

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