Tool Maintenance

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  Mark Extension Cords with Right Amperage to Protect Your Power Tools

  Using cords with the wrong amperage rating can overheat your tools or worse, this simple trick will help you remember which extension cords to use

  
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  How to Perform Shop Maintenance on Your Dust Collector, Ductwork and Fan Blades

  Maintaining a shop dust collector is an often overlooked but vital part of shop safety and maintenance.

  
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  Cleaning Paint Brushes Made Easy with Rockler’s Cleaning and Storage Container

  Rockler’s new storage system provides a tidy and simple way to store and clean your paint brush.

  
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  How to Perform Shop Maintenance on a Benchtop Planer to Maintain Accuracy

  Accurately planing wood down to Accuracy is extremely important when planing in your workshop. Expert Sandor Nagyszalanczy provides some tips on how to best perform maintenance on your benchtop planer is very important to many projects, so maintaining your planer to keep working properly is key.

  
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  Rockler Woodworking and Hardware Recycled Bench Mat Protects Your Workbench

  Rockler’s Bench Mat is made of 100% recycled material and protects your benchtop, tools, and projects from the wear and tear of your shop.

  
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  How to Maintain Your Shop Drill Press from Drive Belt to Tool Lubricant

  It’s often easy to ignore the shop drill press as it seems like a sturdy, unflappable tool, but a little simple maintenance goes a long way.

  
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  How to Perform Shop Maintenance on Jointer Infeed and Outfeed Tables

  Jointers can be important workpieces in your shop, but a slight imbalance between the tables can throw it off entirely, so maintaining it is important.

  
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  How to Perform Shop Maintenance on a Bandsaw from Guide Wheel to Blade Drive

  The bandsaw gets wood chips and other grime constantly flying into every space, and the violent motion of the blade can knock it out of alignment, thus it needs regular maintenance.

  
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  What Is Table Saw Blade Wobble – How to Detect and Fix Table Saw Runout

  If your table saw blade begins to wobble, it is experiencing something called table saw runout, there are several steps to determine the cause and how to fix it.

  
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  What Is Blade Drift and How Does It Affect Workshop Band Saw Blades

  When talking about band saw blades, a lot of experts talk about the blade drifting to the right or left, learn why that is and how to deal with it.

  
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  How to Improve Your Bandsaw’s Shop Production with Accessories

  There are several aftermarket upgrades and accessories that can overhaul your old saw or improve your new one to increase your bandsaw’s durability.

  
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  5 Useful Products for Containing DIY Project Mess

  DIY projects are satisfying and fun, but one thing is for sure: most of them are messy, thanks to these products from Rockler, clean-up can be made easy.

  
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  Trend Tool and Bit Cleaner Offers Biodegradeable and Nontoxic Dirt Removal

  Trend Tool’s Bit Cleaner offers dirt and resin clean up and rust protection for bits, blades and just about anything in your shop in a clean and safe formula.

  
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  How to Make Shop Storage for Spare Parts and Wrenches in Ziploc Bags

  Keep your shop organized by storing your spare parts, tool attachments and small wrenches in a Ziploc® bag with a tag reminding you what parts it holds.

  
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  Top 10 Woodworking Workshop Tips for Shop Safety and Convenience

  Woodworking expert Sandor Nagyszalanczy gives his top ten tips for how to deal with his most annoying shop issues including safety and convenience.

  
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  Cheap and Easy Replacement for the Locking System for Old Routers

  Trying to use your old router in a new way can unveil some big problems, like a bad locking system, thankfully our author has a quick fix.

  
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  Using Wine Corks to Clean Your Sanders and Abrasives

  Cleaning a sanding disc, drum or belt can keep it running longer, and one cheap way to do it is by grinding down wine corks on the abrasives.

  
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  Using Camphor Blocks as a Metal Tool Box Rust Prevention Device

  Camphor blocks are simple pharmacy store items that, when allowed to release fumes in drawers or tool box provides solid rust prevention for metal tools.

  
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  Should Your New Turning Tools Be Smoothly Sharpened When You Open Them?

    Q: I recently received a detail gouge as a gift and was wondering why the grind looks and feels rough. Do I have to run it through a light grind to smooth it before I start turning? I thought I could just grab a new tool and start turning. A: Turning tools do not [...]

  
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  Using Different Colors to Organize Tool Electric Cords and Plugs

  Painting your electrical cord plugs different colors is a good way to keep your bunches of tool plugs organized and finding the one you need easier.