Recent content by TheClaw

I'm traveling so I can't upload a picture. I recently finished a new shop. The walls are light gray painted with a product called Scuff-X from Benjamin Moore. It's practically indestructible. I coat the top my motorcycle lift with it. It holds up to gas oil, even brake fluid. Yes, I tested it...

Put together my souvenir wall. My old Merc coat, models I made when I was a teenager (50+years ago) and my great-grandfather's pipe fitting tools. Anybody remember the American Pipe Tool Company from Chicago? Story goes. He was pipefitter building the fountain of the Great lakes on Chicago's...

Most of what I plan to do are making bushings for motorcycle spacers on Wheels and forks. Maybe some control bits, push rods or foot pegs. Now that I think about it a little bit, I could move my 220 from the front of the shop to the rear of the shop with some surface conduit. I'm not an...

The shop is built, most of the bikes are in there and cool stuff is on the walls. Now I'm in the market for a lathe. I'm not a machinist. I did take a lathe and milling class at the local community college a couple of years ago. Now that I have the space I'm ready to start practicing. I...

Love this! Can you post some resources on how you did it?

I put about 4 or 5 coats of 50/50 BLO/Mineral spirits on there.

Here are some pictures. The bench on the left ultimately got built too using a Uline table. I used super long flat head deck construction screws in the front. the cross members are placed such that I just have to slide the box in under the bench and they stop them at the right depth.

Finally got the sidewalk built and the posts stained on the new shop

Exactly! It also builds some trust and appreciation. They will do a better job for you if they feel treated well.

Took some PVC I had laying around and made a couple of things to hold things.

Just sat in it.

Fitted the new reconditioned Yosh pipe on the ZRX. Before After

Winner winner, chicken dinner! Good idea.

I inadvertantly left my Tekton 24330 click type torque wrench sitting in the drawer all wound up to 75 ft-lbs. It's a pretty new wrench. On the handle it says to store at 10 ft-lbs. I'm hoping I did not mess up the calibration. Does anybody have an idea if I have caused some internal damage...

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