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Nope, it's actually a 7hp...and it still doesn't keep up under continuous blasting.

I have a Husky 5hp and a homemade blast cabinet. IMO, the 5hp compressor does struggle to keep up if I'm doing a lot of blasting. I started with a Coleman blast gun but it wore thru a while back. The current blast gun is one of these...

I have no idea if this would work for your application, but... I bunch of years ago, I was at some craft bazaar with the Missus and watched a local stone artisan cut and shape a stone slab (I believe it was sandstone) using 2 triangle files and a few F-style clamps. It was a bit tricky to...

IMO, this is a situation where you need to accept the goof-up as a lesson learned, and go get a new floor jack. Recover all the usable hardware, material, casters, etc. from the messed up jack and just throw out the carcass.

On the occasion where I let the leaf cover get too thick, I just slow down to a crawl and make one pass through the middle. Whereas the leaves do build up a bit between the front casters and the deck, it's not enough to stall or bog down the mower. After the 1st pass through, I can speed up...

Just mulch them. You already have a lawn tractor. Get a mulching kit for it (block off plate and high lift mulching blades) and just mow them down. I'm on 2.25 acres and have 5 maples, 2 oaks, 1 gum, 1 sycamore, 4 apple and 2 pear trees; meaning, I've got leaves. After only one season...

When I was trying to tune a Jeep in the middle winter and didn't want to keep the barn slider open, I opted to run a 4" dryer tube from the Jeep exhaust to my dust collector, and let the collector pull the fumes out. I should point out that the dust collector did not use any filters and...

My 1st "professional invention" was a workbench device to install these without cracking the plastic. I was a junior in High School and worked at a local bicycle shop. At Christmas time, the shop sold hundreds of little red tricycles and each has the rear wheels held on by these push caps...

I can't add to the list, but I'm interested in hearing if anyone has experience or an opinion of this surface tool: https://www.harborfreight.com/9-amp-surface-conditioning-tool-58079.html?_br_psugg_q=surface+conditioning+tools

My 1st weld helmet was a Jackson. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HTMLSGG/?tag=atomicindus08-20 It lasted over 5 years without any problems.

At the local Lowes, their tactic for keeping the general public off the rolling ladders is to lock & chain the ladder to the rack upright, having the chain also span between the handrails of the ladder. The one time I needed an associate to retrieve an item from an upper shelf (a Shop-vac...

Just my opinion, but those round tube style drafting table frames are not all that steady and tend to wiggle. I've had a few over the years and was not happy with any of them.

Back in the day ('84 to '90) I was a fan of the Vemco parallel arm types. I believe the one I have a home is a model 3500. The places I worked had those types and also the track types. Being a lefty, I could reverse the Vemco, but not the track style. In the early 90's, I moved onto...

Just to put some closure on this . . . the generator is installed and working perfectly.

Maybe late to the discussion, but last week, the guys hooking up the natural gas piping to my standby generator used a blue, brush-on sealant AND wrapped teflon tape at each joint.

FWIW, I have a Jet JMD-18. It's a bit of an upgrade from the one you're looking it, but it's still a round column mill/drill. So far, it's worked out fine. As a kid working at my father's shop, I had experience using a "Newport" vertical mill. It looked just like standard...

Yup, use them all the time...even for one off projects.

Whereas I can't vouch for being void-free, 1/4" Lauan plywood, is regularly used for small boat building. As a kid we used it for building skiffs and one of my neighbors used it to build a little tear-drop travel trailer.

Impressive work. I've always been a fan of El Camino's despite the '79 GMC El Diablo I traded a '70 Mustang (coupe) for in the late 80's. I'm told that it would be a rare collector car now, but back in '89, it was a POS that desperately needed a fuel leak and lit match.

What about a 4 post lift installed in the basement? Something like: https://www.wildfirelifts.com/copy-of-double-wide-car-lift In the garage, you can install hinged floor decking that can be opened to allow a vehicle to be raised up from the lower level. It will take some engineering to...