Recent content by Miket

The overall building size is 32x70, with 20x32 of it being heated with the tube, plan on using the tube but for summer time a mini split or window ac unit to keep the 20x32 cool on hot days. the million dollar question is to rip out the old osb/pegboard and then reinsulate the whole thing or not.

Hey everyone, just purchased a house on 10 acres, mama loves the house I love the pole barn. So it has a ceiling radiant heater but as you can see in the pics the 20x32 heated space is poorly insulated. Looks like maybe a 1" piece of Styrofoam between the OSB or pegboard and they nailed it all...

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I've been doing a lot of reading, so here is the pole barn, you can see one large door one small, plan is to do batts in the walls r19 and r38 in the ceiling. Probably combo of OSB/Steel for the walls and Steel for the ceiling. Trying to determine if a mini split can maintain 65 deg temps while...

Thanks for the replies, I do have it on a low temp at right now it maintain about 42 deg in the garage. Granted it hasn't gotten super cold yet in Michigan, but getting there at night in the 20's. days are 30s to 40s depending on the day. I figure for about $200 and my time its gotta help keep...

So I have an existing garage, well insulated walls and ceiling, garage door has insulation, etc. But normal slab so in the winter the concrete floor gets really cold and while I can heat up the space once the concrete is cold I'll never warm it up. So my foundation is block on the outside some...

Thanks for the feedback, will definitely check a couple out.

Went to Ann Arbor welding supply as I'm new to the area and sold my old ones back to the local shop. They wanter $245 a tank for 80cf tanks. I'm looking for argon for tig and a tank for mig. Seems awful expensive for tanks. about 30-32 bucks to refill. They are open Saturday and 10 min from...

If you have a local habitat for humanity resale store you can find cabinets in there all the time for 20-30 bucks, over a period of a month you can pick some similar ones up, paint them all the same color and boom. Cheap garage cabinets.

Home depot, that's where I get mine. Lowes also has them. They carry the Lincoln welding ones.

I can get scrap for .50 and drops for .60 cents per pound. Different places.

Got a new to me tig welder and so of course I had to build a new welding cart.

You mean like this one. Made a solid frame for them to sit on, used a solid core door for a top and bolted the cabinets to the door. Then mounted the lathe on top. No vibration, no issues and tons of storage for 100 bucks. go for it.

A lot of people will chuck the motor and actually go to a treadmill motor and speed controller, then mount up an rpm sensor to control speed. A buddy of mine did it to his southbend and loves it. Something I am going to do to mine as well. I did it for a bandsaw and it works great for metal...

Made this for my lathe and all it's goodies and other ****. Had an old wooden one that served the purpose but was always messy. So I put this together from finds at the local Habitat for Humanity reuse store. 4 filing cabinets, a rolling base and a solid wood door. Haven't tried it out yet...