Recent content by e015475

I'm no expert but I stayed in a Holiday Inn last night........... You should have about an amp for every .001 of material thickness, and from the pics it looks about 1/4", so your amps are way too low. Bet that took you a while to weld. That bead should be going down like **** through a goose...

The quickest way to do this is to take a die grinder with a tapered carbide burr and hog it out a little. I hold the P clamp in a pair of vice grips and you have to be pretty gentle to keep it from chattering. If hogging it out compromises the P clamp too much, I'll TIG and #10 screw to the...

Followed the sale of your truck on BAT. I'm contemplating on going down the same path with mine. Could you comment on your BAT experience?

I bought this laser off of Amazon- https://www.amazon.com/Rechargeable-Alignment-Tool-Woodworking-Construction/dp/B0FYNFY4TZ/?tag=atomicindus08-20 This one was about $40 but you can buy simpler ones for about $12 on Amazon I mounted it to the ceiling and used a wall-wart to power it. It...

I just moved here and I don't enjoy going out and meeting people - I think this is the crux of your issue. I've been a member of an informal 'tool exchange' for a number of years. Welders, lathes, mills, tube benders, paint guns, lifts, cherry pickers etc. In fact, a few of my tools are at...

I sent FoamFit a spreadsheet with all my sockets' diameters and they made this for me. It is about 10 years old and has stood up well to occasional garage shop use, but I agree with concerns about how it would hold up in a production shop. I have about 25 drawers foamed at this writing and...

24 drawers and counting

Another variation on the wooden frames idea. i bought some tool sets with foam trays and made frames for them, inserted the foam into the frame and hung the frame on the pegboard. They both sit at eye-level and so-far are working out very well. The pegboard is on the same wall as the...

My favorite paint for these types of projects is SEM Trim Black. Durable and it blends in well with just a scuff from a scotchbrite pad. Not glossy, not flat and just right.

I had this Kalamazoo saw in my shop for quite a few years. Unless it had a pretty new blade in it, it had a hard time cutting a straight line with it. My shop wasn't big and this saw had a pretty big footprint. I sold it and bought a portaband and a SWAG table and never looked back

Curious. I put Sikkaflex in the tooled crack joints on my garage floor so the wheels on the chair I use under my lift wouldn't catch. It has held up remarkably well - I've spilled ATF, motor oil and antifreeze on it pretty regularly. I has been down about four years now. Cleans up fine...

About ten-fifteen years ago, I was in the local hose shop buying hoses for a car project and there was a garden hose they'd made up for a customer on the will-call shelf. (they sold a lot of hoses to the pressure-wash trade) I bought a 50' hose from them and I'm still using it. It is a little...

I took the truck in my avatar to the local alignment shop and they refused to do it saying their wheel attachment device wouldn't project beyond my fenders, so I do it myself Doing it on my four-post lift makes it a little easier and saves having to get up and down multiple times. I have a set...

Just bought a cordless Milwaukee M18 Fuel angle grinder, and so far I really like it. My drill and drivers use the same battery. In the past, 99% of the time I'd use an air-powered die grinder instead of an angle grinder. They were so cheap I'd keep three or four in the drawer, straight and...

In the first iteration of my coated floor in my shop, I used vinyl coved base. After it'd been scrubbed a few times it seemed like it was impossible to make it look nice (was a light color to match the floor) and where the cove met the floor it never looked clean when I mopped it. If I had to...