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http://www.ebay.com/itm/U-S-BURKE-Millrite-MVN-Vertical-Mill-Milling-Machine-with-power-table-feed-R8-/401140274843?hash=item5d65d2d69b:g:eXEAAOSwvg9XbZdy Your welcome. That's the twin of the one I own, other than that one has factory power feed where mine has the cheapy aftermarket. Mine has...

Guys, I thought I saw that someone was selling an automotive battery charger that was webenabled and had a smartphone app where you could monitor the charge state of the battery remotely. Yet...I can't seem to find this again. Has anyone seen or does anyone own something like that? If so, a...

http://louisville.craigslist.org/for/5651604794.html Drill Press? Reminds me of the old "57 Chevy for Sale $500" Story. Phil

"When it rains it pours". So, last Friday I was looking forward to a little quality time in the garage wrenching with my 20 year-old son, who called earlier in the week to report his Fox mustang's heater core was leaking. While we wouldn't have time to pull the dash and replace it, we planned...

So..... I have a first world problem. My significant other cannot get the inflator attachment chucked into my garage's air system. It's easy for me...but she can't do it. I've watched her try and the issue is she just isn't quite strong enough to jam the male part of the inflator far enough...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016NNSIUG/?tag=atomicindus08-20 Like many of you, I have access to borrow a decent code reader from work. But, that's a hassle and means it's never in the garage when I need one. So...on my last amazon order I splurged and bought the above listed box. About the...

So, Those of you that use additional jack stands to stabilize a car on a 2 post lift...how many do you use and where do you put them? Phil

So...I've got his MASSIVE cold and was pretty much stuck in bed all weekend. Sunday, the wife comes up and wakes me up about 4:00 in the afternoon and says, "I know you don't want to hear this but the water heater is leaking". Great. Well...she was wrong. It was just the stainless braided...

:sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad: I had sort of a bittersweet milestone yesterday. I showed my last kid how to do an oil change. It's something I've gone through with each of my 3 boys at some point. This one probably was the oldest by the time I got around to it. Now his older brothers always...

So...said goodbye to my sons at a restaurant as they loaded into their cars and headed north for second semester at college Sunday. The younger one (against my better judgement) was in his old Fox mustang and there was snow on the ground. We made it about a 10th of the way home when my phone...

I should have known better. Trying to install a new chuck on my shop's air line...I've got a male threads from my new hose barb fitting and male threads on my new quick connect air-chuck. NO WORRIES, because I also have an aluminum "hex ******" for lack of a better description that can put it...

Saw this one on the local CL. Left a voicemail but haven't heard back. What do you guys make of this? Great winter project or just something to hang a bird feeder off of? The description is "No24. canedy-otto. mfg co. " Phil

Hey guys, So 20 years ago, or thereabouts, I had just bought my house and was digging in the yard, and I hit the 240 going to my barn. I knew I hit it when the sparks started flying off my shovel. So, I shut off the breaker and (I recall being in a hurry at the time) taped it all up really...

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: So...my son wanted to make my wife a cutting board for a present for Christmas. We cut it out of oak on the table saw and then took it into the garage to round off the corners using the belt portion of my cheapie combo belt sander/disk sander...

Hey guys, This is an offshoot of my earlier post "Is it a sin to turn wood on a metal lathe?" The gist of what I got from that post was "Probably not...but it may not be the best tool for the job. So I got on CL and found this 5 miles from my house. It has some other tooling that I didn't...

So, my 20+ year old Trek has finally started crapping out on me. I thought about replacing it, but I don't really ride enough to justify a new one, so instead I decided to replace the crankset (broken teeth) and bottom bracket (bad bearings) front derailleur (sticky) and chain (recommended...

Hey guys, Over the years we've used my South Bend heavy 10 to turn a few wooden items. Thinking back, it's normally been something for my son's 4H woodworking projects, like he needed an oak dowel for the handle for the "Tool Box" project and it was easier to turn then to go to the store and...

Saw this in the paper this week. There was a problem with an outdoor A/C unit and this is what it was. We don't normally see a lot of Boa Constrictors in Indiana. The assumption is this is someone's pet that got too big, so they decided to let it go. It had to find somewhere warm to...

So...yesterday I got a call from a homeowner looking for some water heater advice. As I work for a utility, I get these calls once every blue moon. Basically someone who is trying to ask anyone who might have an opinion what they should do with heating or water heating or pool heating or a...

Hey guys, I was gifted an old electric glass hardening kiln that was designed to harden lenses for eyeglasses (back when they were made out of glass, I guess instead of plastic). I put it to use hardening a few knife blades and it works great as long as the blade is about 5-inches or less...as...