Recent content by ADKAmateur

@MoonRise. Great idea on upgrading the wheels. I have the same cart as Scott and it is awesome. I have my TIG and water cooler and plasma cutter on it. It had enough room to hold my 211 MiG but I decided to put that on a separate cart.

The newest host on weld.com swears by his Abicor Benzel flex neck. I have the 211 and have been thinking of getting one but they make a gazillion different versions and I haven't been able to figure out which one to get.

I bought an Emco Maximat v7 from its second owner. They are 1970s Austrian made lathes. Bulletproof and the bonus is some of them come with a separate milling head attachment. They were built to the same tool room specs as the larger v10 and v11. So you get a compact lathe like a...

I like Stoggles safety glasses with the side shields. Not too expensive and seem to be pretty durable and well made. 3M filter masks with P100 or P100 with activated charcoal depending on what I am doing Optrel and Miller welding helmets (DO NOT buy a Harbor Freight or cheap Amazon helmet -...

Get two AMS if you can afford it. One four bay and one high temp to print ABS and support materials which need to be dried. You can also swap the HT one out to a different color filament so you can do two color prints using both nozzles which dramatically speeds up print time and reduces...

One other thing to add is that if you are interested in reproducing items like knobs resin printing is the way to go because the resolution and finish is much better. They are limited in size to pretty small parts. Maybe 6x6 max? They are actually relatively inexpensive. You can buy a...

I got into it a year ago. I bought the Bambu H2D. There is a very, very small learning curve if all you are doing is simple stuff. I can’t recommend the Bambu stuff highly enough. First, it is an ecosystem like Apple - everything is plug and play and printing is as easy as using an iPhone...

I have a bunch and I think they are great. Super high quality in my view so worth the $$. I don't think you are going to mar any fasteners that aren't stuck and if they are stuck you are replacing it anyway (or all of them per your practice). The only thing I have noted is that sometimes a...

LS1-IROC is excatly right on a center punch and starting with a pilot hole. Without the center punch your bit will likely wander when starting.

So i retired a couple of years back and had a 90 day notice period where I didn't need to go into the office. I was going to be moving to Upstate NY from the NYC area at the end of those 90 days so I wanted to take advantage of that time and find a legit welding school. I did 40 hours of MIG...

Ancel. Not Cancel. Autocorrect…

Cancel makes one for like $30. You connect it to your battery and then download the logged data onto their app via Bluetooth. Don’t know if you can export the data though. Another alternative would be a Pokit multimeter. They are pretty cheap and data log

I have never met a tool I didn’t want to buy. As long as I had a real use for it at least one time. That is the threshold.

get the curtains the use to divide workspaces. Like the shower curtain idea but the are very heavy. You can get clear ones so you won’t lose light.

Lucky enough to have two garages…. One for cars and wood (have a good dust collection system set up) and one for metal. It never ceases to amaze me how much fine grit and debris get thrown around the shop from grinding and using a cold saw. Maybe look at Uline or Grainger and see if you can