Recent content by CodigoRojo

I'm subscribed to the reddit/mechanicalpencils and I have never seen the cleo messograf. Thanks Olli! I'm ordering one now.

So I got tired of making holes in my pockets (and poking my legs and buttocks) and decided to go at my el cheapo Harbor Fright caliper with a grinder. First I sawed off the inside measuring points altogether on the band saw. Then I ground the OD points way down and rounded them off. Once...

I was bored. Also tired of squinting to see the tiny size stampings on my sockets and wrenches. Getting old *****. Yellow for metric and red for inches. I did all my sockets and combo wrenches. Here are the after pix. I didn't take any before. I used paint pens and after they dried I wiped...

A neighborhood shop near me had this on Craigslist so I went and bought it yesterday. We tested it out and it works fine. The shop had upgraded to a new Hunter system and wanted to make space. One of the older techs looked like he was gonna cry a little when I loaded it up. Apparently he...

I finished my top chest fab and installed it today. I've been lurking at Home Depot looking for a beat up Husky box exactly like my first one so I could score a deal. The 52x25 9 drawer boxes are harder to find than other sizes. Since the two boxes stacked wouldn't fit under my shelving, I...

I just finished putting on some Snap-On Masters style chrome trim. It's just polished aluminum channel slipped over some steel square tube that's bolted to the front of the vertical framing with rivnuts. Next step in my Masters clone project is to replace the bulky, curved aluminum drawer...

Funny you mention that. I have some ebay Snap-On 6" sprung casters coming in the mail. Total height when I stack the bottom boxes even with the 9" tall casters will be 65" (5'-5") so height not a problem either way. If you look at the sketchup rendering in the 3rd picture you can see that I'm...

Sorry, I made them on the fly with no plans. I measured my space and started cutting. Just a bunch of edge banded 3/4 birch plywood, doweled, glued and pocket screwed. I have those blue plastic Rockler "clamp-it" corner clamping jigs which really help building carcasses (sorry, I try to use the...

I made up a similar arrangement once to drive a square-drive spare tire lifting winch, but it was 1/2 drive. I put an 8 point socket on my u-joint but that thing of yours would have been better. That is the one time in my life I've ever needed a female to female u-joint. I agree this is either...

Awesome! That's exactly what I was thinking of doing, except leaving my casters on the bottom. The available Husky top chest is only 16 deep and I need more real estate than that. And I don't have room to open up the top chest lid anyway when I keep my cab parked under the pallet rack shelving...

I will third (or fourth) the vote for Wiha. I'm not an electronics guys at all but they end up getting used all the time. For about $30 on wihatools.com the 7-piece set is worth every penny. My local hardware store keeps them by the register so they must be pretty popular.

I got rid of my home made roll cabs. They were nice but took up too much space in my small garage at 40 wide and 30 deep times two. I got this decent Husky box at HD for $300 because of soem minor scratches and whatnot. Now I think I'm gonna stack another one on top. Anyone else think...

I just used standard grade 28" drawer slides. Got some at Lowes and some off Amazon. They're not great but I don't have a problem with racking. They don't like a drawer that fits too tight, better to have an extra 16th or 8th and let the mounting tabs flex to take up the clearance. I clearanced...

I finally finished my DIY tool cabs. They are 40" wide, 30" deep, and 60" tall. There are two 12" deep drawers, one 9", eight 6" and nine 3". So far I like it. I put in black vinyl stair runner mats in the drawers to keep stuff from sliding around. Working on dividers out of 1x2 cvg doug fir...

The pallet rack beams are bolted to the uprights. The shelf is bolted to the beams and supported by 2x6s 16" oc. The cabinet box is bolted to the shelf. All the hardware drawer boxes are bolted to the cabinet frame. The only thing I'm worried about is the drawer slides crumpling and dumping my...