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Would you pay $3500 for this NOS Powermatic 66? For sale in Naples, NY.

Need some insight here prior to putting down a new floor. House build 15 years ago, stem/frost wall with concrete slab. Slab is the finish floor (stained) and is tilting. Slab has radiant floor hydronic heating. Slab is not notched into the stem wall, but is butted up against the stem wall with...

Picked up this Mac toolbox as part of an auction win a month ago, with the intent to fully refurbish and use. The drawers do not lock and the latching mechanisms in the inside back of the cabinet (see pic) do not slide up and down. The lever that is inside the top portion of the box, presumably...

Just came into a load of drill bits from a local auction. I'm not sure if it would be useful to try and identify and sort them for specific purposes or to avoid using them on some stock. Backstory is that I won an online auction from a small sheet metal fab business. $25 for a 13 drawer MAC...

This MAC box is part of a local auction. I've searched and can only find one pic showing handles like these. Matco has an identical box with the roll formed pulls, but those are seemingly rare. There are many boxes with this drawer layout with regular riveted on pulls. I wonder if this was an...

Looking to purchase new ramps for my newly refurbished trailer that I can also use separately for my new truck (would build a platform to run the ramps up to). Amazon has a huge array of 6000# (pair) 6' long ramps, all made in China, of course. Aside from one mention from PWC Customs in the...

Every now and then the blind squirrel finds an acorn. . . I'm the first guy to answer a FBM ad for free jointers. Answered, it is an acquaintance. He holds for me for a a day until I can get it. I take the 6", leave the 4". Craftsman, all works, similar to what I already have, but would take to...

One of my daughters spied this free workbench while on a walk a few hundred yards down the block. "It's got a vise, dad!" Gotta love having lookouts! Anyway, it was at a home of friend who passed away a couple of years ago, and the new owners were only using the garage to refurbish Volvos. The...

Picked up at auction a workbench with "industrial" metal legs and a WoodWelded (Bally Block Co. https://butcherblock.com/) butcher block top. Serious business is this top, but it has numerous holes, ranging from 1/8" nail holes to 3/4" round to 3/4 x 1.5" oblong. The larger holes go all the way...

Been a really windy winter. Took out my flag pole bracket. An easy replacement, from a cheap $5 to nice stainless at $50. But I can really do a whole lot better, says me. I'm sure I've got some scrap (i.e., inventory) around and I can weld up a bracket to withstand a tornado. First, of course...

I am pondering the need for another welder beyond my Forney flux core. I can anticipate needing to weld steel plate from 1/4 to up to 1/2". I think stick welding is my best bet, and can get a used tombstone or equivalent for less than $200. I am not sure that such welders are compatible with my...

Picked this up for free on FBM. Guy said it was in the house when his dad bought the house in the 70s. They have used it and moved it around from garage to garage to basement, but time for a new home. From the FBM pics I though it may be home built, but clearly it is not. The legs and crossbars...

I enjoy Matt Risinger's "Build" videos, but this one I could not agree with. The point being made is that a well built house -- a 100+ year house -- must have 3 things: 1) water mitigation, 2) HVAC in the conditioned space, and 3) control air infiltration...

I am collecting salvaged (old furniture) white oak planks to turn into a butcher block workbench top, about 6' long and 30" wide. The planks will be ripped and planed to be strips that 1" or 2" thick (two different sizes) and 2" wide. They will then be edge-laid (face glued) in typical fashion...

Came out to the shop this morning and one run of 20A receptacles was not working. Flipped the breaker on and off, no change. Did not look like the breaker had tripped. All the other breakers and electrical works. Is there a procedure here to figure out the issue?

I have in my possession a 20" x 22" x 1" aluminum slab that served as a base plate for a piezoelectric force plate. There are threaded holes, some with ground off studs. The edges are rough with what looks to be epoxy remnants. Weights about 50 lbs. I am looking to sell but before doing so would...

A steel workbench with a wood top and a large Wilton bullet was on sale in Liverpool, NY. The vise was just sold off for probably about $50. Had to have been one of you CNYers.

Never owned a JET power tool, but JET table saws, jointers, bandsaws, planers, drill presses, and the like seem to be popping up all over the place around here on CL and FMP. I've always considered them similar to Grizzly (not owned a Grizz, either), but I am curious as to what old JETs (not...

I've concluded that I need a solidly stable outdoor work station for metal bending and heavy vise work. I don't want to bolt my work tables to the floor in my garage as I need to move things around. I am thinking a small table, a minimum of 2' x 2' with the capability to mount a large vise...

Hypothetical question, sort of what would happen when/if the SHTF. I have a 10 year old 8.6 KWh, microinverter solar system on my roof. It is grid tied for net metering. Theoretically, when the system is producing it is spinning the meter backward by introducing 120V AC back into the grid (or...