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so I'm working out a diagram on wiring up the blank canvas garage I just got with a new house purchase. lets say its 24x24, 2 garage doors, 10 feet to the bottom of the rafters. I want three 120 outlets on both the left and right sides, four 120 outlets on the back wall, and one 220 on each of...

I'm about to buy a house with a detached 2 car garage that is stick built and never taken any further. I am going to want to insulate it and finish the inside shortly after moving into the home. I would like to use spray foam as it is said to be one of the best ways to insulate these days. I...

I'm in a bit of a bind. for all of my 3" 304 ss mandrel bends, all are made with a 4.5 center bend radius. I am looking for 3" center bend radius. I have found them, but at extremely high prices, considering what little I paid for the 4.5" that I currently have... I have thought about pie cuts...

I have two cast iron wood stoves that my grandfather built back in the 50's. both were used inside of a log cabin until about 20 years ago, then they both sat out in an open garage. what would be the best media to use to get them cleaned up of all of the scale and rust on them? also, what would...

I'm looking for a quality, but not insanely expensive soldering iron so I can start building my harnesses. right now I have a Bernzo-matic butane soldering iron, but it seems to take forever to heat up, its sometimes troublesome to light, and burns a lot of butane pretty fast let me know what...

finally bought myself a dual regulator for my argon tank so I can back purge my stainless. how high do I need to set my purge regulator?

i've been cutting and welding aluminum tubing for some time now and was wondering if the finish of the cut makes a difference on the quality of the weld??? now i know that fitup is everything, but i'm not asking about that to explain further, i have alumunum bends to make intercooler piping...

i've been using my TIG welder now for about 3 years and have been grinding my tungsten with a 5" bench grinder i had laying around. until recently, i hadn't considered the harshness of the grinding wheel to have an effect on the arc. so all along, i have been using a 36 grit, which has given me...

i've been looking into investing in a CNC Plasma Table, which typically comes with everything except for the plasma torch and compressor. how would i know if a particular plasma cutter is compatable with the table to know when to turn on and off with the program?

ever since I moved into my house almost 2 years ago, a light post out front has not been working. it has a light sensor on it, so it should only come when dark. to activate it, there is a light switch by the front door there is also a GFI receptacle on the house in line with the light post that...

i needed to tig up something that was made of mild steel this past weekend. i used the same TIG machine that i do all of my aluminum welding with, and the same helmet that I TIG and MIG with. 90% of the time with TIG I am welding aluminum and my helmet works as it should, but when I switch the...

i've decided to finally make a thread to showcase a few things i have done. i am no pro by any means, and i haven't been doing this forever or with the big and bad tools, but it works for what i want/need i designed this coolant filler neck/coolant temp sensor port off of the original that came...

i've had my Eastwood TIG 200 for almost 2 years now and has had no issues. however, the torch hose comes straight out of the machine, where gravity forces it down to the ground, causing it to have a stress bend in the line. this has now put a tear in my line. luckily i am within warrenty and...

so far with welding aluminum, i have been using 6061, and seems to weld pretty well, however sometimes tough to keep clean. lets discuss the different alloys and why or why not to use them when welding...be it 2024, 5052, 6061, 7075, etc...

i am in the process of building my 20x26 metal dettached garage. living in the MD/VA area, it gets pretty cold, and i have a cast iron wood stove that was hand built by my grandfather in the 50's. i would like to utilize this to warm up my garage in the colder months but want to know the safest...

i've had my throatless shear for about 2 years now, and it has cut anything .090 and smaller without hesitation for many projects i have done. now, it has begun to dull, and it now just pushing the material between the two blades and not making a clean cut. i would like to sharpen these and...

well, after the old lady slipped on the garage floor twice now, both on rainy days, i think its time for some epoxy. i actually need alot, 325sqft for my attached garage, and 1750sqft for my basement. now lets get a bidding war going between the vendors to sell me your product :pimpflash

so i have a customer who is adiment that this specific brake system goes onto his car, however the rotors are made to a 5 lug bolt pattern, and the customer's car uses a 4 lug setup. not budging at all on doing a 5 lug conversion, the only option appears to be to drill the 4 lug pattern into the...

i have been searching around for a box and pan brake for a while now...i am noticing that they all say that they can bend up to ** gauge mild steel across the full length of the brake so does this mean that it can bend thicker among a shorter length?

been tig welding for a little over a year now, and have been sharpening my tungsten using a dedicated bench grinder, and has thus far worked without an issue. now, after doing some quick looking around on the web, i found this stuff called Chem Sharp. i've found it made by several different...