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    Do We Really NEED All These Tools?

    I'll bet if you sell all your tools you will feel lost and horrible about it for a loooog time. I KNOW I would. Would I sell everything IF I HAD to? In a second. But as long as I can funtion I will be a serious garage shop guy. My now ex didn't understand either. I took my tools over my ex and...
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    Do We Really NEED All These Tools?

    One word. YES. I have had your same dream and I'm as close to having this dream come true more then ever. Then I almost died from cancer and brain tumors in 12'. I survived. Purchased a brand new cnc mill and had it delivered the day before my birthday on 13'. Then my woman and I broke up after...
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    Stolen tools in Topeka

    Thieves deserve a beating period. My brother and his buddy went hunting one time, and his bud parked out in the front of my brothers house. or return as they drove down my bro's street my brother noticed someone sitting in the driver seat as they aproached the house. They realized he was going...
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    Adding Laser etching to sockets?

    I just use an acid etch pen. Works great.
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    FOR SALE two sea containers

    Deal fell through. Still available
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    #2 pencils

    And the hitter gets to set the strike height for his max hit ability.
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    #2 pencils

    FIRST thing that came to my mind with a #2 pencil lol! You want quality pencils when playing Pencil Break or Pencil War too :D. Like back in elementary school :D. Anybody on here ever play Pencil Break or Pencil War back in the day? I'm 47 and all us boys played it to see who could break the...
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    Mechanic friend passed away, wife has to sell tools.

    Thats right. I've told my son about Rich. What a great guy he was. If he learns the machine trade Rich will live on thru my son too. He is thru me everytime I reach for the vise handle and see and read his name.
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    How long will sand blasting sand last?

    Thanks. Sorry, I don't spell check. I don't give a **** if I mis spell a damn thing. And I know it bothers the spelling nazi's on most sites and I don't mind ******* those guys off. lol. I've been in the machining, welding, fabrication world for about 3 decades. I'm always happy to help anybody...
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    How long will sand blasting sand last?

    Best setup is a dust separator. ***** the dust without sucking the heavier grit. Sand is for sand blasing houses for repaint or other uses. Sand shouldn't be used for metal parts unless it's been dried. Grit is what you want to use in a grit blast cabinet for metal parts. Aluminum Oxide, Glass...
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    Mechanic friend passed away, wife has to sell tools.

    P.S. That was over 20 years ago. I now have my own personal machine shop in my garage and have my own cnc mill. You WILL find the custom mill vise handle Rich made on my Kurt cnc milling vise right now as I type this.
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    Engine hoist storage?

    Folding one sits in the corner out of the way. Used to have a none folding one, those are a pita to keep and store. Sold it to buy a folding one later on when I needed one again. Finally had a need and bought the folding one I have now.
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    Mechanic friend passed away, wife has to sell tools.

    My condolences for your friend as well. Good advice already given. Just want to say when a coworker passed away at one of the machine shops I worked at many years ago, I bought hundreds of dollars worth of stuff to help his wife and family out. These tools are some of my most prized tools...
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    How do I do this without a mill?

    You will ruin the spindle and or drill chuck quick chucking and endmill in a drill chuck and milling with it. It's NOT designed for that purpose period. In ANY machine shop I've ever worked in doing that would get you fired on the spot. Including myown shop. This is why people who do not know...
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    Milling machine storage

    You might as well just pile cash up and set in on fire at that price. What a rip off. As has been suggested, Aluminum and some holes done. Maybe make a cover for it too.
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    If tool makers had made wrenches and sockets

    Just need sockets in every thousandths, then we'd be fine without metrics. :lol:
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    Who the heck would SCRAP THIS??? Oh well, mine now!

    I'd kill for a table like that but wouldn't want to die for it :evil:
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    FOR SALE two sea containers

    Sale pending
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    Who the heck would SCRAP THIS??? Oh well, mine now!

    Score of the year!!! GOOD for you!!! :rocker:
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    Painting with Rustoleum - Need help/tips

    Thanks, Good to know. I was trying to get by cheap. Not so lol.
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