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I have a 10 inch compound miter saw which also doesnt have the feature of pulling up for cutting tall mouldings. I have tried to cut my 5 1/2 high crown moulding by holding the moulding flush on both the wall angle and the spring angle against the wall of the miter saw. Problem is the moulding is too tall and doesnt fit under the saw blade. What do I need to do? is there another way to go around this. I have spent the entire weekend trying to fix this problem. my husband I am are barely speaking because we are soooooooooooooo frustrated with this. do I need a larger compound miter saw or can I lie the moulding flat and do it another way. By the way… my compound miter saw only bevels to the left, and not to the right.

You can use the 10" but you will have to rotate the wood 180 degrees to make a complete cut so it requires a little skill. use an equipment rental and get a sliding 12" for 35 per day.

Hi, I have just been given an old Ryobi HBS 100 Handy Workshop Band saw (year 1987). I have just the Band saw. I don't have the rip fence or other accessories. I need a manual for it and also a blade size and where to buy blades. I live in Victoria Australia. help much appreciated

York County Soil and Water Conservation District has been awarded $55,000 by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to implement projects on Square Pond that reduce erosion and protect water quality.This is the second phase of funding which is designed to build on the success of Phase I accomplishments, which included 34 technical assistance visits, 23 remediated erosion sites, 3 hands-on workshops and the presentation of the “Septic Socials,” where residents learned how their septic systems work and also how to maintain them to protect the lake and save money.Phase II will offer the same free technical assistance and advise on ways to make your property more lake-friendly, provide financial assistance up to $500 toward the installation of buffers and other conservation measures and will include more workshops and “Septic Socials.” The grant will run through the fall of 2012.for more information, contact Project manager Joe Anderson at 324-0888, ext. 208, or jandersonyorkswcd.org to find out how to take advantage of the program.York County Soil and Water Conservation District is located at 21 Bradeen Street, Suite 104, in Springvale.ABSENTEE BALLOTS AVAILABLEAbsentee ballots are available in the town clerk’s office at the Shapleigh Town Hall for the RSU 57 Budget Validation Referendum on June 7.Requests for a mailed ballot may be made by writing to Town Clerk, Town of Shapleigh, P.O. Box 26, Shapleigh, Maine 04076 or by calling 636-2839, ext. 415 or 413.The polls will be open at the Shapleigh Town Hall on Tuesday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.ROMANO CONGRATULATEDSelectman Michael Perro publicly announced at the board of selectmen’s meeting last week that Kevin Romano recently finished the courses and requirements to be a paramedic.Romano is Chief of Rescue for the Town of Shapleigh and also works for the fire department. He has been taking courses at Southern Maine Community College for the past two years. He is now a nationally registered paramedic.Romano is also a Maine EMS instructor coordinator and has a degree in fire science technology.In an interview with Romano, I learned that Kyle Santosuosso, of Shapleigh Rescue, also received the Associate degree to be a paramedic the same day he did.three other members of the Shapleigh Rescue Squad are currently enrolled in courses to become a paramedic — Carolyn Romano is enrolled at NCTI, and Jay Vachon and Aaron Downs are enrolled at SMCC.TOUR DE CUREMembers of the Acton-Shapleigh Lions Clubs and other folks are once again taking their bikes to Kennebunk on June 12 to ride in the Tour de Cure to increase awareness of diabetes. The event will raise money for research to try to find a cure.The 100K route will travel through rolling farmland before traversing the scenic York County coastline from Wells to Biddeford Pool. Both 100K and 50K routes will go through Kennebunkport’s charming Dock Square and will pass Walker’s Point, home of the Bush family. The 25K route will wind through downtown Kennebunk, with intimate views of the majestic 18th and 19th century mansions, including the Wedding Cake House. all three routes follow scenic Kennebunk Beach.The Tour de Cure will start and finish at Kennebunk High School, where the Lions will serve a hearty and healthy breakfast at 5:30 a.m. Members of the Acton-Shapleigh Lions Club will be participating by preparing breakfast for those who are taking part in the event? Other Lions Clubs also will be assisting along the route, providing beverages, and so on.The hundred mile check-in is at 6:30 a.m. with a 7 a.m. start. The 100K check-in is at 7 a.m. with an 8 a.m. start. The 50K check-in is at 8 a.m. with a 9 a.m. start. The 25K check-in is at 10 a.m. with an 11 a.m. start. The 5K check-in is at 10 a.m. with an 11:15 a.m. start.Donation checks may be made payable to the American Diabetes Association and sent to Bob Dennett, District 41, Co-Chairman for Diabetes, 207 Mountfort Road, North Yarmouth, Maine 04097.MOMS AND SONS ENJOY EVENTMothers and sons recently enjoyed a successful event at Shapleigh Memorial School. The school’s Parent-Teacher Committee helped support and plan the activities.The school is grateful to Jen Cole, who chaired the event.a number of games were played at the event. The winners were students Lucas Labbe, Collin Milburn, Jacob and Jaren Breton, James and John Lessard, Jacob Desrochers and Cameron DesrochersCongratulations to all of you.MMM . . . PANCAKESThe Acton-Shapleigh Lions Club will old its annual pancake breakfast at the Acton Town Hall this Saturday, June 4, from 8 to 10 a.m.Not only are plain and blueberry pancakes on the menu, scrambled eggs, sausage, Maine baked beans, hot buttered toast, orange juice, coffee, tea, and milk are too.Proceeds of the meal will go toward providing funds for assisting residents of Shapleigh and Acton with eyeglasses, scholarships, Camp Sunshine, humanitarian trips, and so on. LOTS OF CLOTHES DONATEDThe Shapleigh Board of Selectmen has received an environmental impact report from Planet Aid, which operates out of Nashua, New Hampshire.During the first quarter of this year 1,700 pounds of clothing have been deposited in the bright yellow Planet Aid container at the Shapleigh Transfer Station. at 1.1 items per pound, this amounted to 1,870 items of clothing which might otherwise have been disposed of in landfills. over the duration of Planet Aid service to the Town of Shapleigh, 35,880 pounds have been collected at the local transfer station.CHECKING IN WITH THE PLANNING BOARDAshley Bailey has applied to the Shapleigh planning Board for a Conditional use Permit (CUP) for an in-home day care service at her residence on Simon Ricker Road. a public hearing on the matter is scheduled at the Shapleigh Town Hall for Tuesday, June 14, at 7 p.m. with the planning board’s meeting to follow at 7:30 p.m.Also, Clifford and Monique Libby, of 32nd Street on the Lower Mousam, have applied for a CUP for a 48-foot dock. This item will also appear on the agenda for the June 14 planning board meeting.The Town of Shapleigh has applied for a CUP to erect a salt and sand storage facility on Shapleigh Corner Road across the street from Boonies. a site inspection will be conducted at 5:30 p.m. on June 14, with a public hearing to be held at 7 p.m. at the town hall, before the planning board’s meeting.William Elwell has been granted a Residential Growth Permit (RGP) for his property on Tax Map 3, Lot 17, on the Simon Ricker Road. This is only the third RGP that has been applied for this year, presumably because of the poor economic conditions.all planning board meetings are held at the Shapleigh Town Hall and are open to the public. Abutters within 500 feet of any of the CUP applicants’ properties have been notified for comments. FROM THE STATE HOUSEState Rep. David R. Burns has provided the following information.Free Workshops on Forming Road AssociationsForming road associations will be the focus of workshops led by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and local soil and water conservation districts this month in Bangor and Belgrade. The June gatherings are for those interested in organizing or strengthening a road association. they will cover the relationship between road and water quality, types of road associations and associated benefits, steps to forming a formal road association, and common road association concerns.The workshops are free and open to the public and will be held on Friday, June 10, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer and on Friday, June 24, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Center for all Seasons in Belgrade.to RSVP for either event, please contact Kristin Feindel, of the Maine DEP, at kristin.b.feindelmaine.gov or (207) 287-5586.The Maine DEP also publishes a “Guide to Forming Road Associations” that is available for download at mainedep.com. Attorney General Urges Consumers to Do their Homework When Purchasing Home Heating OilIn light of recent cases of local home-heating oil dealers going out of business without fulfilling the prepaid accounts of customers, Attorney General William Schneider urged Maine residents to do their homework before purchasing oil.In 2005, the Maine Legislature enacted a statute that prohibits home heating oil dealers from offering prepaid guaranteed price plans without first obtaining one of three forms of financial protection to ensure the dealer’s ability to deliver the product for the agreed-upon price. The law requires dealers to obtain one of the following:– Contracts with suppliers that guarantee the dealer will be able to purchase at a fixed price an amount equal to 75 percent of the maximum gallons the dealer is committed to delivering to its prepaid customers;– a surety bond equal to at least 50 percent of the total amount paid by its prepaid customers; or– a letter of credit equal to 100 percent of the total amount paid by its prepaid customers.The terms of each customer’s prepaid contract must specifically include the total amount of money paid by the customer under the contract, the maximum number of gallons committed by the dealer for delivery, and confirmation that the dealer has secured one of the three consumer protections listed above.at least two Maine oil dealers, Thibeault, of Brunswick, and Price-Rite/Veilleux, of Biddeford, have gone out of business recently. due to the lack of assets available to satisfy a judgment, there is little recourse for customers. Consequently, this has left hundreds of customers without the fuel they purchased, or the money they laid out advance.for more home heating information, visit online at maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/attach.php?id=27939&an=1.HISTORY OF ROSS CORNER VILLAGEThe following historical information is taken from the “History of Shapleigh,” which was published for the Town’s Bicentennial in 1985 and told by Carl Leavitt Pike.”Ross Corner at the beginning of this century was a busy little community. The roads were lined with beautiful shade trees. most of the houses were painted white or yellow, and many had long porches. The square was a beehive of activity. there were two stores, two blacksmith shops, a Baptist Church, a butcher shop, an ice house, a corn house, a hide barn and an old home that had originally been a stagecoach inn.”The general store was run by Stephen and Nesta Pike Cook, parents of Lena Cook Bradburn who is 96 years young and still lives at Ross Corner. one could purchase anything in one store: shoes, dry goods, harnesses, lineament, horse blankets, hardware, etc. at one time the barber shop was located there. if Steve didn’t have an article in stock, he would obtain it from a “drummer” who made regular visits. This drummer could produce a fur coat or a watch, a needle or a threshing machine, and everything in between. an astute storekeeper had to watch his inventory or the drummer would have the place overstocked. This is perhaps the origin of the saying ‘drumming up business.’”In the summer the store was a collection center for blueberries. Fifty bushels of berries were crated there during an evening and prepared for shipment. In the morning the berries were sent by horse and wagon six miles to Waterboro. they were shipped by rail to Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, in care of the W.L. Lawrence Market where a Shapleigh native named George Mann ran a stall. if families were able to pick enough berries to earn one hundred dollars there were financially all set for the winter. The price of berries was ten cents a quart at the beginning of the season and it dropped to five cents later on. However, it was possible to make money because the berries were so plentiful. The plains were literally blue with them. my grandmother picked one bushel a day (32 quarts at 5 cents equals $1.60 a day). it was the custom to take a lunch and spend the day berrying. one summer when I was a small boy, I picked enough berries to buy a $25 bicycle. it had red ‘velvet’ tires and was made by Meade Cycle co. The blueberry plains were burned over each year (the fire always controlled) and the new bushes were thus more productive the following season.”In the winter the store was a collection center for barrel hoops which were made from small maple or birch saplings. After processing (cutting to proper length and splitting down the center of the pole and shaving the split surface with a draw shave), they brought the price of 35 cents for a bundle of 100 and were often exchanged for groceries. The other farmers also traded butter and eggs for other necessities.”The Post Office was located in the store also and there was much other activity. for instance, sawmill help would gather there in the evenings. Locomotive-type boilers and big steam engines were the type of power used by the portable mills. it was amazing how these men could transport and erect these mills at each location and produce such fine lumber.”The blacksmith shops were a great place for a boy to visit. we watched the oxen and horses being shod by Hiram Stetson and Will Bradford. The sparks from the anvil flew while the shoes were being made. all repairs on farm wagons and sleighs were made here too. This was all done by hand, and they were rugged men who did the work.”The biggest event of the day was the thundering sound of the arrival of the stagecoach from Newfield. it was drawn by a pair of spirited horses driven by Charles Jellison. Passengers and mail bags were picked up at the store. The coach ran every morning at 7 o’clock from Newfield to Waterboro where ten to twelve trains ran daily. all supplies for the area came to Waterboro by rail.”Peddlers traveled through the country every year. at first they came on foot, carrying back packs, then, pulling a two-wheel cart, and later there was a two-horse-drawn wagon driven by Maxie Dondice. He would shout, ‘Any rags, any bones, any bottles today? The same old story in the same old way!’ His wagon was stocked with various and sundry items for household use. we youngsters would go down to the bone yard and gather bones for which we received a few pennies a sack.”Another visitor to the country was the Raleigh man who carried a large suitcase stocked with extracts, fly dope and lineaments.”The butcher shop was owned by Prescott Thyng, who had a team of horses hitched to a covered wagon. He peddled meat to the towns of North Shapleigh, Newfield and Parsonsfield. The farm animals were led over the road to the shop for slaughter by a man named Farnsworth Jellison. every fall it was customary to slaughter pigs for various farmers. The method of heating the water for this was a unique one. a large hogshead, or wooden tub, was filled with water, then rocks which had been heated by a bonfire were placed in the water.”The butcher had an ice house; 1,400 cakes of ice were sawed by hand as a year’s supply for his shop. The ice was cut when it got to be about 1

To begin, I suppose I should first say a little bit about this mangy little thing called pitch. to put it as simply as possible, pitch is that sticky build-up or, literally, tree sap and other natural materials that accrue on your blades with each pass through a piece of wood. these materials cling to the entire blade and essentially suffocate its effectiveness. under a veil of pitch, your blades retain heat, they can lose temper, and even warp and will without a doubt quickly become dull and sloppy – your blade’s will overall performance will suffer. Pitch is also known to contribute to blade binding and kickback. Needless to say, it is important to keep your saw blades clean and free of this bloody pitch to ensure the best cutting results and most optimal longevity from your saw blades.

Of course there are plenty of pitch and blade specific cleaning solutions available at your finer woodworking shops, but you might just have something around the house that will do the job just as well; oven-cleaner. Oven-cleaner is perfectly non-abrasive and, as advertized, designed to break-up and remove tough, stuck, baked-on gunk – essentially, pitch. because pitch does literally bake onto your blades during the friction of use, oven-cleaner is as effective as the werewolf’s silver bullet. Another simple household cleaner that strangely seems to have been designed for cleaning blades is, well, toilet bowl cleaner. It’s tough on pitch, it’s my preferred blade-cleaning method, and it leaves your blades sparkling like polished porcelain.

After soaking your blade for an hour (or a few depending on the degree of pitch build-up) simply wipe or scrub any problem areas (paying special attention to the teeth and the gullets between them) with a non-abrasive pad, then rinse and dry thoroughly. Never use an abrasive scrubbing tool (i.e. steel-wool, a metal scraper, etc) or anything else that could scratch the surface of your blade. Surface grooves will effect both the blade’s performance as well as your ability to clean the pitch from them later. If there are scratches in your blades, those grooves will fill up with that sticky pitch you are trying to remove. Of course its possible to get it out, it’s just a much greater hassle and presents the serious danger of using compromised blades which are essentially a ticking time-bomb when spinning on your saw. If any scrubbing is necessary, use only softer scrubbing or scraping tools (i.e. plastic, nylon, brass bristled brushes, etc). I repeat, do not risk the integrity of your blade with abrasive scrubbing or scraping tools. Additionally, if your blade has a friction reducing coating (applied by manufacturer) use a scrubbing utensil designed or safe for Teflon kitchen-ware. This will ensure the coating remains intact and effective.

Repeat soaking and gentle scrubbing process until the blade is clean. thoroughly rinse the blade with water and dry thoroughly with a clean, soft, lint-free cloth. Drying your blades will help keep them rust free. Before reinstalling your perfectly clean blade, apply a thin coat of WD-40 to keep that sucker cleaner for a longer period of time. This will also ensure the blade spinning and slicing as smoothly as possible.

Please Note: Although oven-cleaners are a very effective household remedy, they are, of course, risky methods as well. some oven-cleaners have corrosive elements which overtime can damage the integrity of your blades. Ensure you use a product (whether oven-cleaner or not) without corrosive elements before subjecting your blades to the soaking process and yourself to the threat of a compromised blade.

Soaking your blades overnight in mineral spirits or kerosene are other non-abrasive, non-corrosive, and effective pitch removal methods. Using the same soaking, gentle scrubbing, rinsing and drying process as above, these should get your blades clean and shining like brand-new. keep in mind, however, when using these methods that these solutions are highly flammable. Be cautious and always utilize safe practices when working with blades, high-heat, or open flame. Be aware also of the dangers of using kerosene – use as little as possible and be sure to store and dispose of it properly. Additionally, before using any solution to clean your blades, either from under the kitchen sink or over the woodshop counter, thoroughly read the directions and safety/warning labels. also remember to soak your blades in a safe and well-ventilated area away from pets, children, or any other living or non-living thing that can hurt or be hurt by your arrangements. Additionally, after being used as your “blade-soaking container”, blade-soaking containers should not be used for any other purpose. Clean them and either properly dispose of them or store them for future blade-soaking.

Disclaimer: because woodworking blades and the solvents used to clean them can be extremely dangerous, please exercise the utmost care and caution at all times when working with or near these items.

And after all that, your blades should be perfectly clean and in tippy-top, super-fighting condition. Remember to clean them regularly for the best cutting results and optimal blade longevity. For more information about woodworking’s best saw blades, or for more woodworking tips like this one, please visit toolsandmachinery.com. which of your saw blades will you clean first?

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