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Ok a company has contacted me about building a sign for them. Sign building is what I do, but this one brings about ALOT of questions and concerns. They want a steel sign 60' wide x about 8' tall. Normally that wouldn't be a problem IF it were to be mounted in a different manner, such as against...

I posted the beginnings to this shop a long while back but cant find it and it only had a couple comments anyway so Im going to start a new posting on it now that things have progressed pretty good. This is my stick built 40' x 50' shop that is finally nearing completion. I had someone build it...

For so long now I have been absolutely slammed building things for other people that I literally have not had time to make anything for myself. Finally I said screw it and took a full couple days and built some remnant racks for myself and it felt so good. No pressure, no doing the same ole...

This last week I picked up a Ridgid 300 pipe threader for $650. I got it to plumb my shop for air with the intention of reselling it afterwards figuring I could make some coin. I remember seeing a post by someone quite awhile back I think on this forum of some metal work he was doing where he...

For those of you that have an ironworker post up what you have and what you mainly use it for. I have a uni-hydro 50 ton. I constantly use the shear on it which is the part of it I use the most. The second most used part of it would be the brake followed by the punch. All I have is 10 different...

By looking at this plate can anybody tell if it is 3 phase or single phase? It doesn't come right out and say it that I can see but didn't know if there is some kind of code word for it or something? :dunno:

Well I have lurked here for quite some time but haven't posted much as I didn't have much to post! But I am finally getting going on my new shop which I am pumped about and wanted to share. The shop measures 40' x 50' x 16' tall eaves so 2000 square feet which isn't as big as I wanted but we...