Recent content by AMurray

I was in that same spot a few months ago and was not looking forward to it. I actually decided to just move it (Bendpak 4 post) completely assembled to my shop which was also about 15 minutes away. I just raised the ramps, backed the trailer under it, lowered the ramps, jacked up the legs, and...

FWIW We have one of the Gen1 Tormach PCNC1100 and it has performed very well. tormach support is outstanding and pretty much every problem can be repaired yourself vs calling in a service tech which was a major benefit for us. I learned a lot on the PCNC. It moves slow enough that you feel...

I dont think you can go wrong with BendPak. When there is a 5000 lb vehicle over my head I prefer a brand name product holding it up :) I have no complaints about my HD9 4 post or my 2 post.

I impulse bought a WEN 15" variable speed floor model from Amazon earlier this year. It had good reviews so I thought Id give it a shot. I really like it. Nice drill press for the price. I also looked at several of the Grizzlys but the reviews were all over the place.

I have the QT-5 in my shop and really like it a lot. I did a lot of research before buying. http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200350476_200350476 Not sure what the main differences between the QT-5 and QT-54 are though. We run air tools & plasma cutter most of the day. We've...

Slow steady progress. I'm hoping to have garage doors by the end of the day!

Absolutely. I don't have any pictures of it completed for some reason but here are a few in progress. This was actually my second CNC plasma table build. The first was a 4x4 which worked nicely but was just too small. I used the 4x4 to make a lot of parts for the 5x12 and fixed a lot of the...

Thanks! Yes, I built a 5'x12' CNC plasma table last year. I don't know how I ever lived without it :) I use it for everything now.

While my new shop is getting built at home I decided the first thing I would need when it got done was a good work bench. I really like a big table so I decided to just use a 4x8x1/4" sheet of steel and build the table right on it. I've done this before and it really makes it easy to keep...

You guessed it. North Texas. A little more progress made yesterday. The steel is painted and windows and walk doors are installed. Flashing today.

Thanks! It is an I-Beam building that is being fabricated on location. It is not a kit.

There was some more progress today. They got the overall structure up and are going to paint & start sheet metal tomorrow. The shop almost looks too big for the house in this picture because it is closer to the camera. In reality it does not look that big. I'm standing up on a big hill that...

I finally managed to clutter up our garage enough that the wife gave me approval to build a shop. Something about her wanting to actually be able to park her car in the garage... scraping snow off her windshield... hail storms... who knows... as soon as 'a shop' was suggested I was on board...