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I recently picked up a used Skat cabinet, and I'm trying to find a compressor for it...I mostly blast small parts (brackets, moto frame, valve covers), and once in a blue moon I might blast a Jeep frame or spray paint. I figure I'll use a compressor a few times a week until I'm dead; I'm hoping...

Some things I think I now know: Vapor blasting is a finishing technique that is applied to clean parts. It doesn't clean parts. It makes clean parts shine as bare metal (for aluminum, I guess). Soda blasting can be wet or dry. Dry, it's a mild abrasive. Wet, it cleans grease and grime, and can...

I am weary of wire wheels. I am weary of nylon brushes. I am weary of mineral spirits. I am weary of tumblers. I am weary of elbow grease. I think it's time to spend some money on some kind of media blasting...This will mostly be used for restoring car/moto parts. I need to clean rusty or...

I was able to fit a 4-post and a 2-post in the same space as the double lifts (and I believe for similar money). Having the central posts does make it tight, but...I have a 2-post and 4-post lift...I'm happy with the tradeoff.

To whom it may concern, the little compressor I bought doesn't hold enough air to lower the car without pausing on the way down. If I had to do it again, I'd make sure to use a a bottle at least twice the volume.

I was thinking the same thing... Here's a thread of the motorcycle I "restored" in my apartment that I also wasn't renting. Got the motor together, but sold everything before changing coasts! Seems on-topic enough...

Before this rather entertaining thread goes off the rails, I think I should communicate the scope of this project better: I need to make a dozen tack welds. I own the house. This is pretty much it. I think I'm just letting impatience get the better of me.

This is one small project. It wouldn't take much to put a whole sheet of metal on the ground and wrap the whole work area in fire blanket or some other barrier if sparks were just flyin' everywhere. Once things are tacked up, I can do the rest elsewhere.

I'm fabricating motor mounts, and I'd like to do a modest amount of cutting with an angle grinder and stick welding in my extra bedroom without destroying it too much. My thought was to just throw down a big fire blanket on the floor and be mindful of where sparks were going to fly. Is this...

Great stuff, thanks! I rigged up a bit of a gantry just to hold some weight. I'm gonna put a proper hoist on it so I can balance this motor while trying to figure out where to cut out relief for the motor to fit...

...It seems my evening plans have changed.

I'm putting a Nissan Leaf motor into a classic Mini and I'm at the point where I need to figure out how to modify the front subframe to accommodate the Leaf motor. I'm struggling to find someone in LA that I trust who wants to do the work, so I figured I'd give it a whirl. I've never fabricated...

I have a lift that is manual release and one that is air release. It's a pain to hold the lever down while lowering. It's a pain to fire up a compressor. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For my 4-post, I would raise it a bit, run the compressor until it topped out at 70psi, then I'd hit the release button and hold it...

Also, to anyone searching around for adapters...The outlet is 1/8" BSPP male. The manual says "Most of our compressors are 1/8 BSPT" but mine did not seem all that tapered...I put teflon tape on it with a 1/8" BSP female -> 1/4" NPT male adapter and it is holding air fine. Female BSP accepts...

I gave this a whirl and it won't disengage the locks on my Bendpak HD-7. It pumps up to 60psi, I raise the lift off the stops, hit the lock release valve, and lower and it just stops. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need and air tank or something...? The manual calls for 30 PSI, 3 CFM...It...

I bought this new last year and have used it to raise a car a few dozen times. It works well. I have since installed a full 2-post lift and no longer need it. I can lower it into the back of a pickup truck using my 2-post lift and some straps, but you'll want to be sure it will fit first. It's...

I go without.

Welp.