Recent content by SusKatCas

...and there was light!

TLDR. Ask Chat GPT to make some drawings for you. Why the welding restriction? I my opinion you are often better off welding the light HSS shapes together. They are to thin to behave nicely when compressed and if you only bolt to one side, the bolted joint is too thin to be effective...

I think it has Garage Journal Secret Santa written all over it. Cheers, Alan

There are much smarter people here than me on this topic. 1/16" stick electrodes are not real easy to work with. Which one are you using? I have used 6011 and 6013. 6013 was ok fo some sheet metal work with no access to a MIG. The 6011 was miserable because it seems to burn back so fast...

Here I go down the rabbit hole... For last 15 years I have used a progression of multi-tools for EDC. I find the pliers and files get a surprising amount of use, after the blades. Now I need to consider a second knife...

Our main auctioneer would cart away stuff so that Mom did not have to deal with buyers. Those first nine auctions came with a 20% fee from proceeds. Generally there were around 500 lots per sale. There was also a buyers premium of about 20%. The combo of those two charges really hurt Mom's...

Convince me that you are a legit poster and I have a lot of thoughts. My experience stems from cleaning up after my Dad passed in '19. It took nine small tool auctions, one big outdoor equipment auction (all online) and numerous spot deals. His collection was location in central Michigan...

I have had good success with the weld method on a number of projects. However, I have not used it on one broken off this far into the hole. I too have seen videos where a piece of copper tube was used to protect the base metal. I have used both 0.035" ER70S-6 MIG wire and 3/32 6011 stick for...

I wish I had thought about that, maybe six years ago. Now I have four machines with 6-50 plugs and a dedicated wall outlet and a nice (overkill) 40' extension cord with the 6-50P/R setup. I now dislike that plug. For the OP, I have found that the lighted receptacle end for my cord is really...

I have the smaller Skilsaw table saw (8 1/4"). I shopped pretty hard for it in 2022 and it was a great step up from my forty year old Craftsman. At the time it compared very well to the other brands available in the box stores. Looking at Amazon today, Dewalt seems to have applied many of the...

I'm not any kind of architect. (I work in fabrication for the rail industry.) However, you could sketch on this for discussion sake. The rear eave of your addition is the hardest thing to tie in from what I can see. Do you have drawings for the house? If you do, please share the front, rear...

Post a plan view? Even a google maps satellite shot would help. I think you may want to sketch in a cross-hipped roof. https://retipster.com/roofs/

Lot going on there. My guess, you can't touch that in aluminum for $600.

Give careful thought to managing galvanic corrosion if you use aluminum. Be cautious about choking off cooling air. You may want to consider using a fiberglass backing to repair your existing plastics. You see people does this with motorcycle fairing panels. What is your goal function...

Tell us about that hacksaw?