Recent content by shaune

Mentioned elsewhere, my new to me band saw from an auction and the belt sander that the high school was disposing of. Upon retiring I had to bring home my big tool box from the hangar… and find a place to put it. I knew this was coming, I sold the top hutch and then had to shorten my bench 11...

Super efficient use of space, can’t help but wonder how much that giant hoist cost (you don’t have to say). Yours is The only 1 I have seen like that but I bet there will be more now once we have seen it.

Tires and blast cabinet for sure. The odd time to blow out my eaves trough.

And then I tuned up my new to me belt and disc sander, it was a throw away from the high school so it had a tough life. The band saw was an auction purchase 2 years ago and it has been in storage till now. Going to be a handy piece, more handy with a metal blade in it. Yes the garage floor is...

Moved the cab from the Annex to the driveway, with the intention of mounting it on the frame to measure engine and transmission clearance and start working on brake pedal mounting, steering column etc etc etc …. The cab sat outside on its dolly in the snow for 6 weeks but tonight it got moved...

10 years ago I had my garage added on at the back and there was no insulation at all. i Heat mine almost the entire winter (Canadian winter at that) and while the floor isn’t warm to sit on I have not had any issues with cracking or heaving. I like the idea of adding wing insulation but that’s...

I should start following this thread too, Cdn to Cdn plus you have some cool stuff

I have been a Gray fan since 1985 when I was awarded $1200 worth of Gray tools for a high school shop award. Amusingly that was the highest dollar value award over all the academic awards for the brainiacs : ) I still have all of that set and of course after 38 years of aircraft maintenance I...

Started some metal work on my truck and it was a dusty dirty job so I built myself this. Didn’t take long to have to change out the filters.

After finishing the work bench amputation I helped my friend with his car. He stored it in one of garages for the winter and we are still in winter but he wanted to get it ready for summer. Oil change, fix some leaks, tighten the bellhousing to engine bolts and install 3 that were missing :eek...

This was over the span of a couple days but….. I had built my nook work bench to fit the smaller tool box for home but when I retired I brought home my bigger tool box and puzzled over where it was going to fit. The only solution was cut the work bench shorter and fit the big box in. It was more...

I was using gas with my mig so I just kept zapping it. On the bench you will have way more control and should not have nearly the troubles I had. My stuff got red hot but the aluminum head was never damaged in my case.

I have done both sides still in the truck with welding to the broken stud and I am NO welder. Flux core will work yes. I used pliers to hold a larger nut over the hole and just zapped away. It took several tries to get it all to hold but the heat helps break the stub from the aluminum. when i...

I have been kicking this around the garage for a couple years, move it here move it there. This past week was assigned to get the little things out of the way for the big picture so, I finished cleaning the light assembly up, repaired wiring and made a mount. Might add a flasher or sequencer later.

Upgraded my compressor this fall, I had a bought this Pioneer new several years back and it served for what I needed but now that I have a cabinet sandblaster I knew I needed an upgrade. So through the summer I watched some auctions and bought this Eagle from an auction where the old fella was...