Recent content by Proeliator

Except it would only be informative if I didn’t already know that information. I was talking as if I were on a general hobbyist board…which this is. Or at least was when I joined nearly eighteen years ago. I only asked who makes quality metal stamps………today. I would have appreciated debate...

Yea, really don’t care, to be completely honest. Sure, I know the difference; just like motor vs engine….which seems to be one people like to bring up. For my usage, it only applies to engine and drivetrain parts……which the hardest parts are advertised as forged billet, such as my flywheel. I...

occasional use on forged billet steel, is the hardest steel it would be used on. I’ll rephrase the question: do you all have a brand of metal stamps you prefer? On stuff that would be impossible to stamp I etch.

Looking at picking up a quality metal stamp set that will work on hardened steel. I was looking at Young Bros. but I’ve seen mixed reviews. CH Hanson another option that stood out. Quality is far more important to me than cost. I usually like Starret but I wasn’t seeing stamps. Any...

Thanks all for the responses. I look forward to restoring these. It's been awhile since I've poked around on this board and I see it's become a pretty incredible wealth of information!

A friend of mine whom I've helped a good deal work on and tune his truck just gave me these as a thank you for all my help. He knows my love of old tools and I have to say I was very touched by his gesture. From what I can see and what I know of this company they are great vises. The big one...

What to you think they use is grocery stores across America ;) VCT wears like iron and is super durable. You can get some of the Armstrong VCT commercial grade tile for @ $1.20 a square foot. I'm actually surprised more people don't use it. Biggest drawback is that its very slippery when wet...

Ooops, meant carbon MONoxide :beer: At this point I really think its just the protective coating burning off, as it seems pretty much non-existant at this point. I've never experienced it so thick and noxious before though....bleah.

Its not visibly smoking, its just after running for awhile the shop became visibly hazy and had kind of an "exhaust" smell. Almost as if it were not venting properly, although it is. I do have the lpg model, and no soot is evident. I can say, that after the initial run that caused the need to...

Just installed a lpg Mr. Heater 45,000 btu hanging Maxx unit in the shop. Upon intially firing it up, it got downright hazy in the shop after running for about twenty minutes to the point where I had to shut it down and open the doors to vent it out. After triple checking everything, all is...

Okay, so maybe I'm not a complete idiot. I mean, it doesn't really make sense to have to still manually pump it, does it? I thought all you had to do was use the trigger in the airline to utilize it. Although, the way the instructions read you still have to manually pump it, go figure. I'm...

It has a thumb lever in the airline....I thought thats how you regulated how much pressure you're putting in. However, unless this thing is defective AND I mis-read the instructions, this thing just operates like a normal jack, with the air-over simply acting as an assist. I guess it was my...

So, I've had the air over hydraulic 20ton jack sitting around forever waiting for me to put it on my 20ton press. Finally got around to installing it, gave it a test run, and rapidly became confused. Now, I assumed that I could just depress the lever on the included airline and that operated...

I got that 1/2 nitrocat for christmas and LOVE it. Strong, quiet, its fantastic. My buddy came over and was using it (he has the ti) and he liked how it felt (doesn't beat on you) and how quiet it was. When I told him the price he got real bitter. :D

A drawback to that stuff is that its nylon pipe. Sure, its rated for air just like the abs green air pipe they have, but they won't pull heat out of the line like a metal pipe would. Heat dissapation being an important factor of course. Less heat equals less water formation. Still, its an...