Recent content by MetalMangler

My wife would have made sure I was fitted with a cone to prevent that! MM!

:lol_hitti I was referring to having too many toys, hadn't even realized the possibility of the other side of the statement! That is too funny! MM

you take that heresy back! Mm

I've heard that certain activities can cause blindness! :lol_hitti MM

So I assume the next "mini-project" will be leveling the building? :lol_hitti MM

Beautiful work, and I'm assuming by your wording that he's active military, so please extend a "Thank You!" to your "nephew" for his service! MM

Do you have a thread on this? My house has crappy reception (either standing very still in one corner of an upstairs bedroom or out on the driveway which gets mighty chilly in the winter), so doing something like this would be a big quality of life improvement for us. MM

Ok, so now I've got to ask a question... To my mind to clock a screw you have to either overtighten it or loosen it... The first would seem to either not be guaranteed (maybe you can't tighten it far enough to get it clocked, or you risk stripping the threads involved), while the other would...

Well it will be now!!! Thanks a lot mdbeck1! I bet you were the kid in class reminding the teacher they said that they were going to give a quiz today! :lol_hitti MM

Extra axles (either ones such as on dump trucks that are under the main body but can be raised, or ones that are after the body (frequently called "stinger axles")) are used to distribute the weight of the payload. By lowering the axle the weight on each axle decreases, allowing a heavier...

Or the one "Once the pilot has finished carving his initials in the runway..." :lol_hitti MM

Won't give you **** about your welding since most of mine look like a bird has visited. However putting that on the pool table?!?!?! What the felt, man???? :eyecrazy: MM

Bill/Kevin/Dan/Everyone - While I agree that designing a shop to accommodate the workflow is desirable, is it as much an issue in an educational setting? For instance I could see having a large open space so that for instance when you have a project for grinders you can move some grinding...

Dan Tootle- Never having been to Haiti I don't know if my thoughts and pre-conceptions would be valid, however I would ask you to evaluate including blacksmith and basic metal-working in the curriculum. I am envisioning farms across the US in say the 40s. If the farmers in Haiti have something...

Sorry to hear that... It looked like an interesting project. Any closing information you'd care to share on what you got accomplished, or what you learned, would do again, wouldn't do again, etc? Or maybe what project(s) you've moved on to since then? And if not, I wish you the best of luck! MM