Crosscut Sled
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This is basically a “Super Sled” from Eagle Lake Woodworking, with a few modifications. I didn’t have any T-track, nor a slot cutting router bit, so I made my fence from 2 pieces of 1x white pine, cutting the slots on the table saw before glue-up. I clamped the fence halves to my 6 foot level to get them as straight as possible. I know most sleds have a hardwood fence, but I figured it was worth a try, since I didn’t have enough maple for a fence, and it’s hard to find in Florida. If it warps I can always replace it later. I used what maple I had for the flipstop, which is held together with a 6” piece of #8-32 threaded rod. I made the hold downs by gluing up thin strips of 1 ½” wide pine bent and clamped to a simple form. (I also use them on my drill press table.) The slots in the sled will also accommodate a future miter jig, and maybe a vertical panel or tenon jig.
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Pics of the flipstop and hold down.
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Nice work, Tom. I especially like the hold down clamps.
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Thanks, Dave, for the kind feedback.
I tried to upload this to 3D warehouse, per your suggestion on LJ, and got an error message:
"Only files of type KMZ (KML 2.1 or greater) can be uploaded."
I've never tried to upload to 3D Warehouse, and I'm not familiar with KMZ or KML. do I have to do some sort of conversion to skp files before uploading?
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KMZ files are for Google Earth. You should need to do that for your model because it doesn't need to be geo-located. Did you try clicking on the Share Model button on the Google toolbar?
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I tried that first, got "Unauthorized. error 401" in the popup window. Then I clicked on the home button in the popup, and tried clicking on "sign in"; no response. That's when I went to 3D Warehouse in Firefox, logged in using my gmail account, tried to upload the model, and got the KMZ error message. I searched the Google help files, and found something about maybe having too common a nickname in my Google profile, so I changed from Tom to TomWinFL; same result, even after closing and reopening the skp file.
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I think there was a problem with the 3D Warehouse. I'll look into it and see if I can find out.
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SO what was the fix?
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I found it in one of the help forums (fora?). In the model, click on the "G" on the bottom left of the screen, log out, and log back in. Go figure.
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