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Before you attack those drive screws, try scraping the paint with the edge of an old credit card. If that fails, read up on drive screws before you try to remove them. Lots of times the heads will break off leaving the hardened shanks in the holes. Then you're screwed, and most likely you will...

I make handle ends differently. I buy a robust round bar for the handle and turn a shoulder on each end, in about half an inch or so. Then I cut two more short pieces of round stock thicker than the handle. I bore those to the same diameter as the shoulder. Then I slip one onto the handle bar...

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Here's the trick I used tensioning my Champion: Mine is an R30A. It's basically two R15s hung off a single crankcase. I would encourage you to do a bit more to that air pump before you put it back in service. It's very easy to expose the valves on Champion pumps. Air compressor valves often...

You bought a cheap Chinese motor and having trouble with it? Who'da thunk?

Sheet metal stomp shear

This is my bit set from 1988, what's left of it. The bottom row's slot names are legible. As you can see, every bit can be secured into an impact driver, and every slot in the box is labeled. I have replaced many of these bits but a surprising number are original. The Taiwanese brand was...

I'll post a picture of my old set. Just not right now. I want every bit to have a long shank with circular indent so it can lock into an impact driver. What I meant by integral sockets are better called nut drivers. Yes, the set should/could have a basic set of drills with 1/4" hex drive...

I learned to read when my mom taught my older sister to read. I stood behind the chair and paid attention. I was 3. The first real book I got all the way through was Christopher Robin. When I got to first grade, the teacher passed out reader books. While she was talking about them, I started...

I have carpenter levels and machinist levels. The short carpenter level has one side magnetic and I stick it to the (open) lid of the top box of one of my Kennedy stacks. The longer carpenter levels hang from a single prong type pegboard hook. (One wall of the landing of the stairs going down to...

I have a decent quality (Taiwan) bit set from 1988 in a blue blow-molded case, hinges and latches long since busted. It's a very nice assortment. Several sizes each of Phillips and straight, hex drive and Torx, integral sockets, drills and a few miscellaneous bits like the magnetic extension and...

Pressure relief valves screw into holes with NPT threads. Yours probably has 1/4" NPT threads. Buy one with 1/4" NPT threads. Done. (yes, make sure the specs match)

If it were me, I would certainly try electrolysis. You have nothing to lose, and often the electrolytic action blows off anything attached to the surface.

I'm trying to find the missing pieces of a Proto puller set. If you have any of this please let me know. 2 of their long narrow puller jaws no. 4017/J4017 Thanks for looking! metalmagpie Kirkland, Washington

That Champion pump has a robust centrifugal unloader. After each pumping cycle after the motor stops when the tank is fully pressurized, you hear a distinct hiss of escaping air as the unloader releases pressure.

That is an automatic tank drain valve. See the Champion document: https://nwnative.us/Drain.pdf

Air as it comes out of the pump is hot and wet. Lots of guys these days are plumbing oil coolers into that air path between compressor pump and the tank. It goes pump - cooler - filter - tank. Those coolers take advantage of the air flow from the large air pump pulley/fans. These coolers have...

Got any leftover blue tiles? Grind them up and use them to tint mortar to fill the cavities. If that were my problem I'd knock off the loose rust and then use phosphoric acid (Ospho) to convert the rest to iron phosphate and then paint it carefully. I'd probably do that first before I filled the...

Piece of cake on a horizontal bandsaw.

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