Recent content by timmit

Thank each of you for the replies. I really appreciate them all. Very encouraging. I didn't want to tear down the saw and move the base to the new location just to discover that it wouldn't work. When I was looking for similar lathes online to find a picture, I was shocked to see the...

I'm not sure, but I looked up a similar one online and it weighs 600 lbs? I sure didn't think that it weighed that much.

I was planning on using the drawers to hold tooling and such...there is a lot of unused space above the drawers where I could add weight. Thanks for the idea!

Hello, I have a cheap mid-size lathe (Chinese) with a milling head that's about 3 1/2' long.... I also have a basket-case radial arm saw on a heavy sheet metal base as shown in the picture below. Do you think that a base like this would be sturdy enough for the lathe? I know that it's heavy...

Just wanted to thank everyone for all of the excellent advice. I got busy and never got around to posting this as soon as I should have. Sorry. I'm trying to do better. I never throw anything away and I actually found a broken grinder in my junk tool box that had a much deeper and flatter...

Thank you all for your replies....I only have one angle grinder with me right now (The one that I said was harbor freight) and it does have different depths for the top nut to allow for thicker and thinner blades (Which I didn't realize) but the bottom nut isn't really reversible. You can...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to properly use flat grinder blades on a 4 1/2" grinder? I have both a Dewalt and a Harbor Freight 4 1/2" angle grinder and both have the same design problem. I am trying to use a flat diamond blades as well as the thin brown...