Care and Repair of Shop Machines: A Complete Guide to Setup, Troubleshooting, and Ma

By John Wilson White

Book Overview

Care and Repair of Shop Machines: A Complete Guide to Setup, Troubleshooting, and Maintenance is an essential resource for any woodworker looking to protect their investment in shop tools. Veteran woodworker John White offers practical, straightforward advice on assembling, tuning, maintaining, and repairing the machines you rely on.

Key features:

Comprehensive guidance on tuning and maintaining all major shop machines, including jointers, table saws, thickness planers, drill presses, bandsaws, router tables, and miter saws. Low-tech solutions and alternatives to expensive setup tools and jigs. Clear, concise troubleshooting tips to help you quickly resolve common tool problems. Innovative jigs designed to enhance tool performance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156158424X
• ISBN13: 9781561584246
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book!

This book is superb for explaining how to maintain, tune-up and trouble-shoot the most common woodworking machines; i.e., jointer, table saw, planer, drill press, bandsaw, router table and miter saw. One important thing this book covers is how you can save money by making your own set-up jigs instead of buying expensive ones from a retailer. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who is a "do-it-yourself-er."

Excellent book and a must have

John White does a great job with nice illustrations. I recommend this to anyone with a woodworking machine. It's amazing how far off your tools are until you set them up correctly. You'll save time and money by making better cuts the first time when the tool is setup correctly. It's amazing we take the time to measure an angle for moulding and when we cut it and it doesn't fit you think you measured incorrectly when it could have been your tool off by one degree.

Worth Every Penny!

What can I say, the chapter on setting up your jointer is worth the price of the book by itself. The pictures and the diagrams are great, easy to understand, and the text is informative and easy to read. This book makes you a better woodworker, because your tools will be correctly set up, which also makes them more fun to use and much safer. I would recommend this book to you, even if you do not own the tool, but are looking at getting into woodworking, with this book you will be better able to understand how the various tools work, and you can buy decent used tools and tune them up, saving you a bundle! Great book!!

Excellent resource

This is an outstanding book. It is well written, well organized, has excellent graphics and pictures, and serves a much needed role in most woodshops. White would have been a great engineer. His jigs and measurement techniques are clever, well documented, and easy to make and use. I found myself smiling several times at the ingenuity of his low-cost (and effective!) solutions to high-cost measurement tools. I have a middle-of-the-road chinese knock off table saw that wasn't cutting well (burns and lots of resistance). I made the jigs and went through the tune up procedure in an evening, and the saw performs much better afterwards. I would like have heard White's recommendations for storage, cleaning, and top protection (e.g., waxing vs. oiling ground surfaces), as well as his tips and comments for shop safety, but they are justifiably outside the scope of this book. Overall an excellent book that I am very glad to have stumbled upon.

Great book for tool tune-ups and alignment

I've been having some problems getting my jointer tables aligned properly, and happened upon this book by accident. What luck! This book is full of great info on tune-ups and alignment. John White goes in depth into the set up and alignment of primary power tools (jointer, planer, table saw, bandsaw, router table, drill press and miter saw). His writing is clear, easy to understand and follow, with plenty of very descriptive pictures. The book is very complete on each of the tools covered. I truly appreciated that he used many shop-built jigs and common tools to get things done.