Well last week the table saw motor was still having issues, needing a kick start like an old airplane propeller is not so good for a table saw blade or our fingers. So after taking the motor off, our workbench now looks like a robot stepped on a land mine. It was ridiculous all the screws and bolts, and rods that had to come off to get the job done. Alas we did get the motor off. We put it in a box and took it in town to an old man with a small work shop behind his home. This man seems to be a dying breed, at first glance his shop is a complete mess, but when you look more closely you see all kinds of rigged up motors and tools that only he knows how to use and how he pieced them together. The impressive thing is that he knows exactly where every tool is and what it does. After seeing this I was immediately confident that this was the man that could fix the motor. After a few days sure enough he got the motor in like new condition. He was a mumbler, so when he told me what he had to do I nodded and smiled and assumed the pile of wires he showed me had something to do with it. I happily paid the man put the motor in the box took it back to the shop and am building the courage and fortitude to put the robot table saw pieces back together. Our goal now is that one day The Rusted Nail shop will have a proper table saw, if not I will visit the old timer and see if he can teach me how to rig the parts of different saws together to make our own.
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