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I've got a work project that involves welding some strips of A36 to a piece of hardish something on a large metal cart. The cart was originally used to move around injecting molding tools. The top of the cart is a piece of 1/2" thick plate. I know the top is hard because when someone welded...

I come from a family with sleep issues. Compound on top of that a night work schedule and a wife who left me and seems to want to just live separate lives while pretending it's healthy and I find myself trying to get back to sleep a lot after the initial 4 or 5 hours. In talking with my doctor...

I noticed this voltage spec on a piece of automation equipment tonight. Am I correct in assuming that since we are looking at 200 and not 220/240 that this equipment is expected to be wired in using a wild leg of a 240V 3phase?

I've always hated how tall most of the mtx shifters are in cars from the 2000s. It feels super high to me almost like you're driving a truck. Right after I bought my 2008 Mazda 3 I cut out 2 inches of shifter shaft and welded it back together. This week it was finally time to be brave enough to...

I know a bit more about pressure washers than the average chap but this one is a new one on me. I picked up this Karcher washer cheap. I was told that it wouldn't build pressure. The gun had obviously froze with water in it and cracked the tube so I changed that out with a spare I have on...

A while back I inquired about hard jaw covers as the vise here at work has a set of soft aluminum V jaws that I machined installed and I know eventually some gorilla is going to come along and damage them with some big hunk of random steel that they want to beat on. Nothing seemed readily...

Every now and then I have a repair application come up where the best method of repair would be to inject glue or epoxy either into a small space or through a small hole and then to clamp in place as the pieces cannot be opened up. In this particular case the rubber lamination is coming off the...

The people who built our house installed white grout in the kitchen, dining and master bathroom. That grout is of course now a nice chocolate brown. We went after it once with scrub brushes and grout cleaner and it was better but the effort faded fast. I'm not opposed to purchasing special...

I just machined and installed some replacement aluminum jaws for our 8" vise at work. This vise mostly holds the drive end of a molding machine screw so they need to be aluminum in order to not do damage and the V profile will help them hold the screw's cantilevered leverage. However, every...

My new to me Sheldon lathe has a L00 spindle. The 5C collet closer chuck purchased for it is mounted to a backplate that was turned on the lathe and in my opinion it appears to have additive runout. The back plate has .0004" of runout, the outboard edge of the chuck mounting surface has...

I have an older Ranger tire machine that came with a rectangular lube bucket that apparently no one else in the industry used as I can't even find a reference to it let alone a place to purchase a replacement. I'm one of those guys who hates ugly repairs. When I bought the machine it had a...

It has always been my plan to have a lathe with a collet system. I much prefer that to a 3 jaw or 4 jaw chuck because of it's speed, low rotational mass and lack of part damage. To that end a few years ago I bought a 15pc 5C collet set from Amazon that has been sitting in a drawer for a while...

We just can't have nice things at work. Not all that long ago I bought a cheap but nice keyless drill chuck for the mill in our maintenance shop. I came in one day to find that one of my coworkers was apparently too lazy to switch collets when he switched cuttters and he had been chucking...

This came in a bin of auction tooling. Has a small insert on either end. Appears adjustable via tiny spanner. Guessing that I am missing a holder or arbor of some kind.

Bought an auction lathe last fall that I finally got a chance to inventory and found this Swedish beauty. Got any oddballs to share that might be new to the rest of us?

...but I cannot figure out where the factory switch is supposed to be on this Sioux valve grinder. I picked up an old Sioux valve grinder at the local consignment sale a couple of weeks ago. I'm working on some garden tractors with Onan engines in them and a tool to refurbish valves is cheaper...

My wrench holder for my metric ratcheting wrenches is loaded from 6 to 19 by 1mm increments. There are two more spaces on the top end. Knowing that not all metric sizes are actually useful, what two sizes would you purchase to fill that up?

Built super heavy with a 1 inch thick blanchard ground top. Originally an automation cell base. Plenty of threaded holes in the table to use to fixture and heavy bosses in the sides to clamp to as well. Measures about 35 x 36 and 33 inches tall.

Google and Amazon seem to be failing me. I'm looking for some kind of a wire brush that would have a hole in the center to accommodate the 5/16 threaded stud and clean the flat section of the terminal where the battery cables touch when secured.

I have a Shop Vac project I am working on that had been deemed scrap. It may or may not have been disassembled and diagnosed in order to make that determination. I took a look at it today and the motor doesn't spin. I verified that the cord and DPST switch are good. The motor appears to be...