Recent content by BJinaTJ

Great stuff!

You can't laugh.. It is not easy to hold a junk camera in one hand and make tooling with the other.. ;)

Sorry guys.. I forgot to subscribe so I didn't see anyone replied. The machine is a Lennox nibbler, slitter or reciprocating machine. Whatever you want to call it. As far as tooling I received very little, but I have already made 5 sets of dies. Linear stretch dies were easy. The louver dies...

The metal shaping is gonna get interesting around here now.. Check out the new tool! It has 33 years (1940 to 1973) worth of Indianapolis 500 registered car stickers on it. I was told by the previous owner that he was told by the speedshop he purchased it from that it came from a Indy 500 team...

After making the machine I started on the task of creating dies. Here is a pair of dies I made in about 10 minutes and a couple of pictures of what they are for.

Here is my version of a popular reciprocating hammer documented on another website. It still needs cleaned up and painted, but I couldn't wait to use it. It works very well with a set of thumbnail dies and doming dies I also built.

Good call. I personally had not thought of that.

Too funny... I heard all of that too.

If I were to by chance aircondition the garage would I have to worry about condensation in the attic since that would be the warm side? Thanks again!

I have a normal everyday 24 x 24 garage that I would like to throw a ceiling in. I have a bunch or galvanized steel left over from a pole barn and wondered if this is something I might be able to put up there? My concerns are vapor barrier as I live in Indiana and it can go from very hot to...