Recent content by Cyclotronguy

It might be time for these old eyes to be treated to a better welding experience. Has anyone compared the new Miller clearlight 4X lens to the previous incarnation. They of course claim it's 4X better, than 2.0 but how much of that is marketing hype? IF anyone has "real-world" insight: I'd...

Once you experience a proper "chipping", "railroad" or "foundry" vise it's hard to conceive of a vise ever being big enough, let alone too big. As for height is you are going to swing a hammer wrist high is about right. Filing and sawing elbow height seems to be a good start point...

Im a metal guy, I use the Markall silver streak leads. They sharpen up pretty good and I can see them clearly under the tig torch or plasma arc, they are highly refective. Lathe and mill work, strictly by the numbers. When I do woodworking and need a mark a fine pentel mechanical pencil is...

Go get a Huntsman / Lincoln " Sugar Scoop" and a number 10 or 11 lens at Home Depot. You'll learn real quick how to flip your hood down with a nod. Honestly I have those $500 auto dark hoods, and I weld just about as well (or as poorly) without as with. The only time my auto dark really...

Lockwire is always in good taste!

Royce has the eye, imagination, the talent; and seemingly access to some classic pieces of starter stock.

If I could afford to retire, I'd like to be Royce's apprentice.

Dad was the foreman of the tool and die shop at the old Benicia Arsenal during the day and tinkered alot in the garage time permitting.... kids / family not especially welcomed. The memorable project for me (watched from afar) was ongoing maintenance on a Bourke Cycle engine and outdrive for...

They were in the day very high quality machines, made in SoCal. I had one with all the collets and somewhere I have the prints for the collets from Hardinge Bros. I sold mine to a guy and he didn't want the base, he wanted it bench mounted. To this day the base lives with me, although now it...

plumbed in backwards with a wound yarn filter you'd have a coalescing filter.. but having said that when a water system lets go at 120 psi, water being non compressible is rather polite. A compressed gas at 120 psi is a bomb. If your unit is plastic a metal cage is in order, the oil out of...

I have a refrigerated air dryer and the 40 degree F dew point is very workable for 9 months out of the year. On days like today, when it's raining and the ambient temp is 39 F, it's not so useful; which is why all the drops have Milton desiccant dryers. The belt and suspenders approach.

You're going to like that a lot. I built mine out of a 2" cross cut of A-36 atop two small lista cabinets. It's fantastic to have all the layout and fab tools right at hand and organized The framework was all 2-1/2" seam-out. Lots of raw ends that accept vises table extension whatever.

At about 50A through my Powermax 65 I can cut about 10" inches of 1/4" plate before I have to wait for an IR Garagemate (2HP portable) to catch up I'm plumbed in with 20 ft of 1/2 " id air line straight out of the the receiver, rather than the original piping Going through the supplied IR...

Your answer is a purpose built inlet muffler on an already quiet compressor.

Z3K3Y That's a pretty interesting casting that you're using for a vise pedestal. Any providence on that piece?