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This is a serious-looking drill press! RPM ranges from 150 up to 4000. At $200, I'd be all over this if I had the room.

I found this interesting Walker Turner DP on FB. The base is what caught my eye. I assume it's cast iron, and HEAVY. If it were closer and cheaper (asking $200) I might be a player. Ever seen one like this?

As I mentioned in another thread, I always carry a spare hub and bearings as well as a tire and wheel when traveling long distances with a trailer. I've mounted them a number of ways over the years, and finally got around to putting one on my boat trailer. Usually I mount them so the tire is...

I'm in the market for a basic Volt-Ohmeter for home and auto use. I have a bunch of the cheap HF give-aways, but some have failed, and others have gotten flaky. I have slightly better Sperry unit, but the inner plastic hub where the leads plug in broke, so there is no longer reliable contact...

Our neighbor is having a big yard sale, and I found a few tools to buy. Most interesting was the two small vises. No identifying marks, although the larger one has 'Made In USA' cast into it. The bigger green and red vise is 2-1/2"; the smaller on is 1-1/2". I also got a small copper hammer...

Well, the latest storm tested out my generator hook-up, and it failed. Every time I turned on the breaker on the generator, it immediately clicked off. I tested everything- the genny itself, the cord, the connection to the house. My rig goes in through a 30A breaker, with a mechanical lock-out...

I'm still trying to figure out an effective yet affordable ceiling and insulation for my shop. I'm seeing used cooler panels pretty cheap on FB. They are 4" thick, with a steel skin on either side. I see used ones as cheap as $1 a square foot. Anyone use these? The good thing is that they are...

Now for something totally different. I built a very pretty traditional rowboat, and decided I wanted to put the name on the transom. I watched a few videos on gold leaf lettering, and it looked easy, and was surprisingly inexpensive. Reason prevailed, so I did a practice run on a name board...

I'm trying to find a deal on insulation for my shop. I ran across a good deal on unfaced batts. If I use them, what should I use for a vapor barrier? Is plastic OK, or should I use something a little more breathable? What about Tyvek?

I've been trying to cast a brass plaque for my rowboat. I say 'trying', because it's been mostly failure, although the last try (number 4) might be good enough. If nothing else, I'm running out of materials. I have a small old heat treating oven which supposedly goes up to about 2000 F., but the...

The burger thread got me thinking about a kitchen problem I need to solve. I cook our steel-cut oatmeal in large batches (30 servings), then freeze it. I'd like to figure out a clever tool to portion out 6 ounces of cooked oatmeal. Right now, I weigh each portion, shove it into a measuring cup...

I'm putting a '68 grille on my '72 F-250; a steel grille. The headlight doors/bezels have become rare as hen's teeth. You can get re-pops, but they are aluminum. I'm not sure if they fit right, so I kept looking for steel ones. I had one badly rusted old set, and one decent set, except for a...

I say 'recommissioning' because all of the freon has leaked out, so I'm starting from scratch. I have a Mitsubishi mini-split. I know the first thing I need to do is find and repair the system leak. I have a nitrogen set-up to pressure-test the system, and have the flaring tool, should the lines...

...in my shop is automotive rust repair. Gahhh! It's disheartening, frustrating, and just plain hard to do well. If I was a younger man, I'd apprentice myself to a shop that does metal restoration. I'm working (slowly) on a '72 F-250. Pretty solid, but not perfect. I welded in new floors. Good...

I have a LOT of brush around my place, and it grows back every year. I'd like to find a tool to deal with it. I have a Husqvarna weedeater, but the manual specifically says not to use a brush cutter on it. I assume doing so would kill it? Is there specific type of weedeater for cutting brush? I...

I just finished restoring my second Rockwell/Delta band saw in the last year. First, I found a 1959 wood saw. It was a basket case, but complete. I painted it and put all new bearings and tires on it. I'd been looking for one of these for years to replace my crummy little Craftsman saw. Well...

My old Scotchbright convolute deburring wheel finally disintegrated the other day. I like to use them for cleaning up parts. It was a standard 6" X 1" on my old Baldor grinder. The question is- Which one to get? Name brands such as Norton are very, very expensive, often well over $100. I found...

I'd like to screen the opening to my shop, which is roughly 12X12 feet. In the spring, birds come in (and won't leave) wasps come in (and won't leave) and of course, there are mosquitoes and flies. I've looked into commercially available screens, but $$$. What about Velcro? I could join enough...

Maybe somebody here has a clever way to do this safely. I have an instrument cluster out of an F600, which bolts right into my '72 F-250 for a real old-timey look. It took a while to find a fair deal, as these are sought after now. It has the speedo and other gauges. Here's the question- I want...

Cleaning up the shop, I stumbled across this little folding knife I got at the first shop I worked at in 1974. They had a whole box of them- hundreds of them. Surface rust, but I think they were NOS. I used it on and off over the years as a utility knife in the shop. I looked at it closely under...