Recent content by MisterFixIt1952

If it's so easy then why did my nut come all the way off leaving me to have to pry the collet out? Does this die grinder use a standard collet & nut like an er8 or er11?

Next time you see a $500 lathe "with plenty of tooling" give me a call. You always get this type of answer from people who (usually) live in the rustbelt where old iron is common. A lot of us hobby machinists live in machine-deprived areas where overpriced "vintage" machines are the norm. I...

I bought my Gorilla racks (ugly, baby **** brown) from Costco back in 1997. I think they were about $50-60 each back then. I owned a computer store/repair shop and needed shelving for my back storage room. The ceilings were really high so I had 2 racks stacked on top of each other. When I closed...