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For having a garage dropped on it, it doesn't look to bad. Always sad to see an old project come back to you in that state, but glad, based on the lack of statement, the family made it through safe. I hope I didn't misread the situation on that.

You will not be disappointed with your Knipex. My collection has slowly been growing over the years. I really like their cobra pliers and parallel jaw pliers wrenches of which I have a pretty full set of each. I've started building out some of their other wrenches now and have not found one that...

Out of curiosity, which company do you work for? I work for Timken (bearing) in North Canton. I've been out to the Bucyrus bearing plant a couple times and have no desire to go back. We used to have the opposite situation with where Timken used to own a whole section of downtown Canton. They...

Its amazing how much coolant can boil off at high MRR. We used to run a particular series of parts, the worst of which would have ~300 lbs of material removal per piece which took ~3 hrs between the 3 roughing setups. We'd do 10-20 at a time. We only ran day shift, but you'd still have to refill...

Coolant management is always such a challenge. I've never seen that style skimmer system, but the theory makes sense. Some of our machines have a similar catch system before the coolant pump. We **** out the separated oil from them regularly. We have both the disc (don't like) and the belt...

Glad nothing worse happens. Since its still in the same side up/out, I'm assuming it slid down the wall and didn't fall forward. The fall forwards are the ones everyone tries to catch and bad things happen. We had a new guy who tried to catch a 300-400# bearing that started to fall off the...

I'm also a fan of a simple tool bag, or 2 in my case, for general project work. I have one for my power tool supplies (drill, driver, screwdriver bit set, drill bit sets, spare battery/charger) and one for hand tools (screwdrivers, hammer, pliers, tape measurer, ect). I find that it works well...

Not sure how available they are in your neck of the woods, but they make 2K clearcoats specifically for headlights that would restore some UV resistance and give you a clearcoat to polish vs the plastic directly...

Thanks for the super detailed response. Paints not my specialty. I've done a fair amount of paint prep, but not spraying. For exterior finish work I used to have a buddy who did body work that I would have lay down the paint that mattered. My laying painting has been somewhat limited to floors...

That turned out great. Out of curiosity, did you use the Spray Max 1K basecoat to go with their 2K clear? How many cans of each? Did you have them mixed locally, or ordered online? My bumpers are getting really faded and the clear is flaking on my daily. I'm trying to decide on whether to try...

We did this at my church last year. Remove all the ballasts and rewired the existing tombstones. Power to one sides tombstone and ground to the other. If you snip the wires near the ballast, you should be able to rewire with all existing components except new wire nuts/wago connectors. We only...

I'll throw my $.02 in on the brake conversation. If you live anywhere where you have salt on the road, do yourself a favor and get fully coated rotors. I've been running the Raybestos Element3 rotors on both mine and my wife's vehicles and have had great luck with them. It is so nice having no...

Glad to hear! That's going to look great. Out of curiosity, has there been any progress on the garage side of that big wall? I'm guessing its construction storage/staging for the time being, but wasn't sure if you had organized any functional shop space yet.

I'm so glad to see this moving again. One of my favorite builds and was sad to see it stall out there for a while. I love the staircase and it really does fit in with the vibe of the building. I will say that the straight beam that cuts across the end of vaulted ceiling transition over the...

agreed! I learned my lesson as a young homeowner when I went to China for a month for work and posted pictures every day I was gone. I had a roommate I rented a room to so it wasn't like no one was home, but he wasn't home much. Came home to find someone had broke their pick while trying to get...

I'm really sad we missed him. We walked through that section between 9:00-10:00am Friday and it wasn't there at that point. I've got several pictures with that background and even stopped to talk for a while to a nice lady about her super clean red Camaro about 50 ft to his left. I don't recall...

So did you get the van finished up and on your way on time?

Thanks casmurbax, I've been warned about the size and to bring good shoes by a couple of the people at the local cruise-ins. Most of them don't do the big shows anymore because of the size and time commitment, but many of them were in it for years. My wife informed me that it'll have to be...

Are you going to be up for all 3 days of the show? Are you bringing up any of your other cars, or just the van? I'm looking forward to seeing one of your projects in person. I unfortunately am probably only going to be able to make it one day. Either all day Friday, or I might be able to go...

I've never had many issues with it, but you do have to have the right setup. I used to pot electronics, and infill extruded 3D prints and engraved letter at work on a regular basis. If paint, squeeze bottles with a blunt hypodermic needle tip are your friend. Can also put needle tips on the end...