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You would have much better success going with a fabricator that uses bending tooling / equipment that uses internal mandrels (sometimes called a "mouse")... The "mouse" is used on the inside of the square tube and its purpose is to resist the inward collapsing of the tube walls when bending... I...

Part deux today... Cleanup on the JD mower deck... Lots of grass buildup (I hate it when I have to mow the grass when it's wet)... More stuff... I inherited an old power washer from my FI when he passed away... It's one of my most appreciated tools in my garage... Makes life so much...

Today, in front of the garage, my JD 330 Garden Tractor got... A new transmission filter and 5 quarts of Type F transmission fluid... All the ball joints and king pins got greased... I also gave it a pressure wash...

Virtually everything needed to repair your 14" Rockwell-Delta Drill Press (aka DP220) is found here !

We used the same welded nut method on projects in my shop... We did find a slight shrinkage occurred to the nuts from the welding heat relieving the stresses in the nuts... When working with SS, we would run a tap through the SS nuts to reform the threads after welding... This step prevented the...

"A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT"

Yesterday I gave the second garage door the same treatment... All new panel trim with a gazillion miter cuts... S/W Bonding Primer dried... Today I'll start painting both doors with a final top coat of S/W paint...

My MINI Cooper has these plastic aerodynamic panels on the underside of the body... They cover the open areas around the suspension and get rid of air turbulence and give the underbody smooth airflow... The plastic panels are held on with small head metric screws... I wanted to spread out the...

There's gotta be a way to charge up your cell phone for free, while parked under the Interie...

I don't have any JIS screwdrivers... Until today ... This Vessel set of 4 arrived today... I'm impressed for $20.00 Seem like pretty nice quality...

Did a 5K oil and filter change on my wife's 2017 Ford Explorer today... I went with the 5W30 Valvoline Restore and Protect... Supposed to slowly remove carbon buildup... Want to keep the Ford "Valvetronic or whatever it's called" clean and free of buildup... It's supposed to keep carbon out of...

It's just a piece of 1/4" thick hot rolled steel, cut to size to fit the dimensions of the 42" x 22" U.S. General Roll Cab... I didn't bother trying to remove the HR scale... I ran a bead of urethane caulking on the top of the cab, and dropped the plate in place... That should keep the oils...

For the last few days I've been cutting a gazillion miter cuts on the garage door panel trim... Yesterday I applied a coat of primer to all those same miter cuts... Paint dried and today I installed all the panel trim pieces on one garage door... Tomorrow I'll need to get some putty to fill 2...

You are somewhere in California I'm guessing.... Maybe call one of those car dipping strippers and get a quote...

Today in the garage I spent a little time futzing around with my 1938ish Atlas 612 lathe... It got new belts and I installed the motor and connected the power switch and I replaced all the wiring with oil resistant SOOW... The frame and motor is now properly grounded... I decided to just clean...

As far as I'm concerned they are a master force at making Chicken Tikka Masala with garlic Naan...

Whoo Hoo... I've been thinking about getting back to finishing my garage door refurb all winter... Wanted to tackle it before the hot humid weather hits... Lots and lots of miter cuts are required... Will task that operation to my old Black & Decker "Professional" (Ha Ha) saw... Set up my B&D...

This PDF might help with getting the proper spacings during your reassembly...

Vieux... Nice progress with your tractor... Amazing creative work... I applaud your ability to find solutions and workarounds to fixing things... I look forward to your progress updates... I'm amazed that you are able to still get posts out with what you are faced with... Stay safe...