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That monitor angle down low is brilliant! Stealing that for my own mag trainer set up!

This project is a hydraulic press modification. I welded a mobile base on and added some bits that I want to match. All my tools are for use, but I do like them to look good. I keep them clean, oiled, and free of rust. Matching paint for a mod or damage repair is just an extension of taking...

Awesome. Thank you. Will edit

I have searched the forums, here and the fab and off-road sites, and I cannot find anyone that has successfully found the color match for the US General Tools/Harbor Freight Grey color. I modified my 20t press and need to add matching paint. Does anyone have some first-hand experience with...

I roll my own:

I am in the Seattle Area and have one that I use about once a year. Let me know if you are within driving distance.

I use schaller boxes for tab and die org. https://www.schallercorporation.com/ I made another solution on the 3D printer for endmills solution that could be used for taps a well. I have my version up on Thingiverse YouTupe Video: My Thingiverse Models...

Nice. Great minds think alike! I am adding a lip and rail around the top got tongs and top tools, just as an added feature. Making it a little more useful.

Fabricated up a stand for my post vise out of some 1/2" steel plate and a 9" scrap hunk of I-beam. Made a video:

RapidAir Maxline as well. Get or build a tubbing straitener. It will save you a ton of time in installation.

I am still healing from shoulder surgery and NEED things to do besides eat, rage post on the 9 forums I belong to, drink beer and rose in the yard, watch YouTube until 4AM, play video games, and get fatter. So I planned a busy weekend with the Jeep, some 3D printing, a little design work, some...

Use the American Wood Council calculator to start. be sure to list the correct wood and grade though. https://www.awc.org/codes-standards/calculators-software/spancalc

I am healing from shoulder surgery and am on a tool and toolbox organization kick. I had a drawer full of thread gauges, rose & V-blocks, and various other tools used on my mill and lathe. I designed the insert with AutoCAD and Easel as I have with previous inserts and then cut it out of some...

I use mine to store my utility trailer on, remove the hard top on my CJ7 (video below), I have used to remove equipment from a trailer, built a temporary spray booth with it, used as a stand up bench base, and as a drying rack for doors.

I have a 10K Rotary. I have ~3700PSI concrte, 6" slab, fiber re-inforced, 8" welded wire, rebar in slab, and 4'x4'x12" footing with a rebar cage under each lift post. The footing was overkill, but... I like to way over build. This guy has some sound advice as well:

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I had shoulder surgery and I have been spending my down time on a number of organization projects around the shop: end mill bit storage, precision measurement tool drawers, CNC tooling drawers, organizing router bits, getting my lathe tooling up and within easy access, and hanging/organizing a...

5' You will want room to remove tires, push tool carts around, move a compressor, etc. I only have 3 feet from wall to post and it is not enough room!

I live in a seismic zone and anchoring a 4 post is not recommended. My 2-post is sitting on a 36X36X18" rebar cage reinforced footing though...

My Grandfather's barn and dad's shop was FULL of cut oil jug organization. W used them for everything: scoops, bins, loose parts trays, and I didn't know that you could BUY a funnel until I was maybe 12. It was sinful to throw away a plastic jug.