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I have a home machine shop. Use it for fab work and tooling setup. Not a thread here though. I don't mess with wood. I'm a metals fab guy. Hate wood dust. When I was 18 I watched a master wood craftsman try and corner round route a piece of aluminum plate on a table router. He thought he...

This is a difficult subject for me now. I used to have wish lists. Now with cancer and brain tumors, I just want to survive another year. Purchasing tools if it happens great, but not priority anymore.

LOL! I DID didn't I lol!!! And for that exact reason is why I WILL spend good monsy to get better stuff. So I can used it production daily. Maybe thats why the crappy Jet at my work is such a pos. It gets used daily and it falling apart. I buy nothing but good equipment. It MUST last for my...

AWESOME work bench. THATS how you build a stout bench. Everything looks great!!! Props to you :beer:

Thank you very much. Appreciated. hug right back. :)

Here is my tip. Use a better paint brand. That stuff is THE worst rattle can paint I have personally ever used. Takes forever to dry and harden up, then it's like glass and chips like mad. My entire 73' K5 frame was done in it. Prepped the hell out of the frame before hand for quality adhesion...

This, except the jet at my work is a huge pos. It is really old though too. Maybe a new one would be fine. But I'd buy used good equipment before junk new. Thats just me though. I will spend LOTS of money to get exactly what I want.

Ok, so who's winning? lol

You CAN'T flame harden with plasma.

Was told absolutely DO NOT cook in an oven after powder coating in it. You do not want to end up with some kind of cancer. I'm a rare lung cancer survivor and brain tumor and brain surgery survivor fighting a 2nd brain tumor as I type this, cause from my cancer. Trust me you DO NOT want to go...

This. I use this method for my cast iron gang drill table. Works great. Then after getting it super clean and dry, I use Lemon Pledge in it.

Thats bad *** but man that has to be pricy too. I see it's only in 220v. The drawback is you can't fit big parts in it like an axle housings. Thats why I decided to just do a build for the type of parts I work with. How well does it clean in the nooks and cranny's? In those tough areas you...

I had a Waterloo 48" for 25 years. After about ten years every plastic detent had broken and I kept finding little plastic pieces in the back corners of the drawers. Ended up making a custom plate that could be quickly instally and removed without having to lock the box to move that would keep...

Kind of like an engine hot tank enclosed degreaser? Lots of work for the extra cleaning. Just get good quality solvent and let parts soak, just like dishes in a sink of hot soapy water. My parts washer leak test before powder coating. Can soak a complete axle in it.

It's everything. Poor quality first and formost. Design...box "looks" ok, but quality is in the details. The spot welds, how many, the construction of the box. Yes the detents. The gaps between the drawers were not even the same on the Extreme boxes I put together. That old saying of you get...

Ya need both if your gonna be working metal period. Torches were around LOOOOG before Plasma. Sure it's better for outright cutting, but a torch is invaluable in a metal shop. Many many uses.

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I picked up a 2 yr old electric oven at a yard sale just for PCing, people were moving and were trying to recoup some of their cost on the oven they had bought not long before. I put a good temp gauge inside I can see to better moniter the temp. It has worked flawlessly from day one. My only...

My personal experience with the Extreme boxes are that they are junk. My company bought 20 complete top and bottom boxes for our techs to work out of. I was put in charge of setting up all 20 boxes and loading them with all the new tools they bought to fill every single one of them. The quality...

Thanks. Big one is my mechanic box, smaller blue is my machinist box, and the red one stores and holds powder coated parts for my 73' K5 off road project and grade 8 hardware and fastener hardware.