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Six course is done. Seventh course is done minus the last brick, but that brick is cut and ready to go. This was the first course I couldn't clean from the outside. Had to go in through the entry, which was very tight. It's a small oven with a semicircular entry (as opposed to a more rectangular entry). Not easy.
Thanks TOGNJ, you're always quick with the encouraging comments.
BTW, I just noticed what you do for a living, as per your profile. You should really take a look at my PhD. It's on my website. I think you would find it very interesting.
Sounds like our weather is similar - mine is just a little colder here in middle TN. I got my footer poured and three block (not three courses) laid before the weather turned sour. The footer is now covered in mud. Oh well, I guess that's why they make shovels. Now if it would just stay above freezing for a few days maybe I could finish that first course of block and climb up out of the mud. Great work!
Fifth tilted course is almost up. Three or four bricks to go. This is the course with the most individual bricks incidentally. Lower courses, although larger, were constructed from one-half bricks and were incomplete due to the arch (although that is a whole rubble or trouble in and of itself). This is the first course of one-third bricks. It is also the first course that, when done, will look complete from the top although I believe I will have to cut some notches out of the bottoms of the last two bricks to fit over the arch.
Geez. I think a good test for tightness has already been mentioned. Just go to the half-span of the belt and pull on it to see how much it deflects. If it is less than 1/2", then you might have too tight of a belt. No special equipment required.
No, I don't have this saw but most belt driven anything (tool or equipment) I've owned had ways of adjusting belt tension, either by altering distance between pullies or by varying thickness of V-style pullies.
Even my new cement mixer came "factory adjusted" with what seemed like a very loose belt but was able to drive a fully loaded barrel without any slippage. If the belt starts to slip, I can pivot the motor back a tad to increase tension.
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