So today I was feeling a little extra motivation. I've got a couple projects I'm trying to complete and deliver before fall semester starts in a couple weeks but the mess and disorder in my shop has really been slowing me down so I decided to fix that.

I started last night by scrubbing my bandsaw table. There were a couple little rust spots I needed to get rid of. I went over it with some 320 grit sandpaper on the really bad spots. I know what you're thinking, "Sandpaper on the cast iron?!?! You're crazy!" Now hold on.  It was just in a couple spots where the Scotchbrite wasn't quite cutting it.  Sure it's not all glassy shiny, but does that really matter? I don't think so. After coating it with T-9 Boeshield and two coats of wax it is as slick as can be. There are a couple whirls where I cleaned it but that is not going to affect the quality of the cuts.  Once that was done I remounted my 3/4" Woodslicer and started tuning it up. I've still got a couple tracking and guide adjustments to make, but it's looking pretty good.

Once that was done I finally got the mobile base mounted to it.  The base I'm using isn't perfect for this tool.  I originally bought it for my Ridgid planer which weighs about 100 pounds compared to the nearly 400 pounds of my 17" bandsaw. It'll work for now though.

Once that was done I did a bunch of sweeping and dejunking and moved the drill press to the other end of the shop and built a little holder for the cordless drills that mounts  to the side of my drill press cabinet and mounted a power strip on the back so I can use one plug for both chargers and the drill press.

This made more room at the opening of the shop which made for a perfect place for my poor dust collector.  I bought this dust collector around Christmas of last year and it's been outside covered with a tarp every since like some kind of second-class citizen from my society of tools. Now it finally has a home right next to the garage door.  I had been planning to put the DC here since it first arrived but there just wasn't room.  Since it now had a home I figured it was also time to wire up and connect the wireless remote for the DC that has been gathering dust for about six months.  That is now done and workds great.  With the DC now having a home I need to get to work on installing tubing to each tool.

That is a project for another day...