I was just looking at my bench and thought I might share a tool mod that I have been using for years, I replaced the thumb screws on my saw frame with socket head cap screws. This keeps me from pinching my finger with the wing of the thumb screw on the down stroke, it also keeps the blade from loosening up if you over stroke and hit the thumb screw against the bench pin or the work. Also it allows you to tighten the blade with more force than you can apply with your fingers which for heavy sawing with larger blades is a great thing.
Jim
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Brilliant.
Perhaps you could put a regular hex key on a tether of some sort, and a clip on the back of the frame to hold the key itself. That way the key is always with the saw, and it wouldn’t jangle around during use.
Kudos Jim, great idea, now you just need to tether that wrench down.
Good theory…
Over the years my shops have gotten much larger. I have learned that a tool I just put down for a second is now always 20 feet away when I need it.
Jeff
That is why it has a great big blue plastic handle, so I can find it 🙂
But one more wrench to loose in the bench clutter.
Jeff
Great idea. So simple that you overlook it.
john
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