Finally got the Rigid TS3650. It took 8 whole days after moving into the new house before I got enough time to go get it and put it together. I did install the two garage door openers and ran two 20 amp GFCI circuits to the thrid bay of the garage first (115 feet of conduit in all), so don't think I was sitting on my tail.
I meant to ask this question before, but it slipped my mind: What is paste wax? You know, the stuff you are supposed to treat the table top with?
Thanks in advance.
I think paste wax is like the old wax we used to use to wax a car with. I've never use paste wax on a saw top but back in the day I did use parafin. For the last several years I've only use a product called Top-Cote. I think a lot of the people here use it. It comes in a spray can and although somewhat more expensive, works great and seems to last pretty well.
Mike O.
Meguires furniture wax, Johnsons Paste wax. Anything that does NOT have silicone in it. Lowes used to carry Johnson's Paste wax in the yellow tin.
Greg G.
Butcher's White Diamond Bowling Alley Wax also has no silicone.
They still do. I bought a tin this week, only to discover the old half full tin out in the shop a day later. And it's the red stripe tin. Legend has it that the red stripe tin is better because it's banned in Kalifornia. Or Somesuch.
Lobby Dosser wrote in news:bUykf.1069$Jg5.891@trnddc07:
You also want to make certain that the wax doesn't have any anti-slip agents added. Wax, for this purpose at least, should be as slick as reasonably possible.
I use Butcher's Bowling Alley Wax. Or Liberon's. Or one of the others. There's more wax in the shop than I'll use in the next ten years, I'm sure.
Congrats on the new home, and on the new saw. Enjoy both.
Patriarch
Lowes still has it.. only place I can find it.. big, ugly yellow can for 4 or 5 bucks...
mac
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Has to be a myth.. only kind I've seen is with the red stripe and we're about as central in CA as you can get.. (Fresno area)
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At least some True Value hardware stores also carry the Johnson's paste wax. I'm lucky to have one just down the road that carries it as well as a couple of other types of paste wax including bowling alley wax. Can't imagine how much of that they sell in a year...
John Emmons
ANY _good_ paint store will have canned paste wax.
Butcher's and Johnson's have already been mentioned, but there's also Trewax, Briwax, etc...
Barry
Maybe it was Kanuckistan?
That's a possibility... no telling what they might wax there..
mac
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Ice.
Now *that's* funny. "As slick as waxed ice." I like it.
JP
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