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I will be pouring my new shop floor/footings next week. It will look somewhat like the drawing attached, but with a "hay-loft" door above the garage doors and no returns on the eave tails. The shop will be 32 x 50, post and beam, single story but with attic trusses 2' oc. The trusses...

I have an "opportunity" to buy a massive old-school drill that looks like a medium to large impact drill but is not, including a box of twist drills for it that go up to maybe 2" in diameter. I don't have a photo of the machine yet, but it has no screw chuck, instead, it uses tapered bits the...

I bought this at the same estate sale where I bought my brand new 1967 Wilton 9450 vise for $100. I could not pass this blade up, too cool. I suspect it is a carving blade for an angle grinder, but I've never seen one like this before - I have one that is really a chainsaw chain on a round...

I am on a roll this week. I bought a 3/4 HP Baldor 8107w for $100, including five wheels and I just bought a top quality welding table with the thickest top I've seen on it, along with the mounted Wilton 9450 in tip top shape (machining just a bit worn but tight and straight and never abused)...

I have a friend whose uncle passed away and my friend is handling the estate. The uncle was an avid machinist, welder and woodworker with a quality shop. He has two very nice vices in the shop, tip top shape and tight. I told my friend I'd check with the vice authorities here to get an...

I was planning a large shop with two floors (the top one for my wife's sewing studio) and a large storage attic. Unfortunately, the permitting process in our CA county is onerous and quite expensive, even if they deny the permits (yes, plural administrative, grading, wet weather plan...

My little CUT is short of storage space for carrying stuff around the ranch. I use it extensively for felling trees and cutting firewood so it's nice to have a place to put my chainsaws, oil cans, and gas cans when I go from place to place, other than in the bucket. I had an old garden wagon...

I have this grinder with a bad paddle switch, since a replacement costs almost $70, I'm not about to buy one. The grinder is otherwise a nice unit, and I got it for free. Trouble is, there is some sort of interlock in the original switch/circuit that prevents it from working with my toggle...

This is a table I use for welding up/grinding heavy parts on. I can weld/grind on all sides without moving around the table. I haven't done it myself, but I could also use this for spray painting parts. The table is very heavy but has wheel barrow type casters on it - soon to be replaced...

I have never seen this vise mounted. I intend to put it onto a portable stand to use out near the vehicles etc that I work on. It will be mounted on a sheet of 1/2 mild steel that will have room for a small anvil and places to put small projects and lay down a tool or two - probably hang some...

This little vise has been in the family for at least 40 years. I have only used in occasionally for the past 10 years or so, but it always serves my needs when I do ask for its help. I'm going to pull it of the old workbench, clean it up and tune it, and mount it onto a plate and piece of...

I got all the material for this project from FreeCycle, except the tires/wheels, which I removed from one of my four handtrucks (the one I got for $3 at a yard/moving sale). I have a large welding table that can handle 4x8 or larger sheets, but this is the one I use most often. Since I...

This is a welding cart I built to hold my Hobart Handler 210 MIG, my 120v sheet metal MIG, my plasma cutter, all of my helmets, goggles, and face shields, various clamps, and small tools/parts/consumables. I do most of my welding outside and my ranch driveway is made of asphalt grindings, so...

Hi all. I just discovered this site while researching one of my vises. It is a Parker 88 1/2 that I got from a friend several years ago - his father used it for years before his death in the early 60s. I'm going to finally mount it on a movable stand and use it for various projects around the...