MachineFab812

You can fix the warping, or close-enough to "fixed", if you're poor or cheap or just obsessed with wringing the value from each purchase ( hi ).

Luckilly, the line between "fixable" and "holy shit, this things wobbling so much its going to grab, walk its way off the board, and cut into my leg" is readilly apparent, to anyone who has any business using such tools.

For wood hole-saws, you might want to double-check the angle of each tooth. Some of them will have a turned-out/turned-in alternating profile, and this is both: doable because thinner sheet metal is used to make those saws, and necessary because otherwise the track they cut would be too narrow, causing the saw to bind up and warp quicker.

Basically, if you can't afford carbide-tipped, super-rigid hole-saws, and you want your hole-saws to last, maintaining the over-all circular/cylindrical profile of the overall saw, and the geometry of each tooth is at least as important as the sharpness of the teeth.

That sharpness is wasted if the profile goes egg-shaped, causing each tooth to have to carve its own path, essentially from scratch. your wood plugs should NOT just fall out of the saw after each cut.

The real pro-tip? This. If you start with a template made with a brand-new hole-saw, it will help maintain the circular profile of the blade itself, cutting down on your hole-saw maintenance/sharpening/replacement needs significantly.

Me? I just got sick of relying on/replacing the 1/4" drill-bit in the center. I use it to line-up my template, then I take it out, unless I'm using the Spyder kit I picked-up for 75%-off on clearance about seven years ago, although I have saved and continue to use Spyder hex-arbors where the drill-tip has broken or fallen out.

For $20, you can't go wrong with the Spyder arbors. I even have one of each of both sizes that I've shortened for use in my drill-press. If that sounds crazy, just rest assured that I still have all of my fingers, so far.

EDIT: Holy shit, JFC, I've just realized you're clamping the saw itself. STOP THAT. The only way to properly clamp a holesaw is to clamp the arbor, or with a bolt through the center-hole as your clamp, but never clamp the saw itself. Maybe, MAYBE, you could put two such saws back-to-back, and clamp the seam where they meet with V-blocks, or in a lathe-chuck, but your setup here is just asking that thing to go egg-shaped.

Need this like we'll need their forgiveness. Only through suffering will they understand our ineptitude, particularly when it comes to how we'll mistreat them without even realizing it, and any flaws they'll inevitably find in their code-bases.

No, I don't mean Mother Theresa-speak on "massive suffering = salvation", just enough to make them sloppy sometimes. Just sloppy enough to develop compassion for us meatbags. Real compassion, not the kind we'll inevitably try and fail to force them to emulate.

Which Series are you claiming flew over my head? The original series was far more serious in tone than TNG, and I re-watch all of TNG and DS9 almost yearly. Have you ever even read any of the books?

Between the two of us, I'm not the one dismissing new experiences, new takes, and previous lore out-of-hand.

Dems being drowned out by Republicans is the whole point of the DNC; Its their goal. Leftists have been anything but quiet about the fact that that is our problem.

secede*, but yes

Congratulations on missing the simple fact that every protest and campaign against America or Imperialism world-wide for decades has been as squarely aimed at the Democrats as much so as the Republicans. This goes doubly so for US domestic protests.

The US people and people worldwide have been very clear about we want. Stop apologizing for the manchurian party from behind your "third party observer" bullshit.

The worst thing "NuTrek" did was give us villains (cHaNgElInGs) who were unironically more interesting and relatable than the Federation, right up until their ... ally.

Other than that, Trek has always been more about enjoyment than substance, save for some arcs of Deep Space Nine.

Wow. This is just about the most pitiful criticism of the man I've seen yet. iS ThIs a pSyOp mEaNt tO MaKe mUsK HaTeRs lOoK BaD - levels of petty. Mostly just makes me feel bad for the average streamer; The candle thing was almost creepy enough on its own to take the other "issues" listed at face value though.

You're talking about a people who changed the color of their blood and adopted a Conlang at inception. They also managed to craft a civilization that accomodated/compensated for the extremity of their emotions. You really have a bizarre take on what is or isn't possible for a species, simply because another one did it first. Calling some of the best Trek in decades Nu Trek/non-canon is revisionist non-sense.

Nah. It was juvenile of them to insist the E had to be a 3, as if children would be the ones buying the cars.

I'm actually disappointed its not frat-boy humor. Just more of, even when he's actually pragmatic, its in a way that everyone else has to live with.