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I’m liking the price point of the Lincoln, but am I seeing the name and associating welders with hose reels in a way I shouldn’t?

I was a flexzilla fanboy. I have two hose reels and a cord reel. Used to have the water hose as well. One year of mechanic work, the extension cord reel ratchet broke (I fixed it but it’s days are numbered), the hose reels are worse for wear, and the water hose is scrap. Looking for a...

Man I don’t really want to post this picture… it’ll be clean someday. That’s the whole space from the top of the stairs. It’s a mess; we’re doing construction everywhere; upstairs, outside, in this space, in the farmhouse, and this is the staging area. And it’s an active garage in the middle...

Is the Rust-Oleum coating unbreakable? No. Would I do it again? Yes. $1k<$16k 1 week work< 5 months lead This took a pretty extreme amount of beating to happen, and I’m not super happy that it happened, but I was gone for a year and a mechanic has been doing his thing. If you financed...

Between my last post about this and the photo below, my wife has done everything while I’ve been in Europe with the Army. You can keep your high-heeled super model girlfriends, I’ll keep my general contractor.

Jeez, that’s an interesting failure mode. I might use some fittings and jack from the side. Yikes. It’s not going far; already on the feet, just needs finagling to final level. I don’t think it’ll end up with a full 9 tons by any means.

Who said it was decent? Haha. It’s ok; Tsugami TMA8 from 1998. Monster of a machine, in OK shape. Unfortunately, that logic goes into all tools; why not spend more money on collets, tool holders, special plated carbide tooling, turning inserts, coolant mix, coolant mix valve, probes styli, etc...

Apparently, that is not the cheapest toe jack on the block: Vevor toe jack I have a few vevor products: They're like the old-fashioned harbor freight. You get what you pay for, but at least you didn't pay too much. I've got one of their belt sanders I bought through home depot; a true Ellis...

Here's the toe jack in question: Harbor Freight Toe Jack The question is: Can it actually lift 10 tons? I have an 18,000 lb CNC machine that needs to be leveled. The jack won't have to lift the whole machine, but depending on the foot, it's a lot.

The true ending of the Milwaukee: the wife found the missing bit, but my oldest dropped it from a height of 2 feet:

I got the Picquic super 8 I think it was. Excellent build quality, it just hasn’t had the bits I’ve needed when I needed it. If I grab the Klein, so long as it has all the bits I know there’s nothing I can’t get into. For now I just fidget with it.

Going to give the picquic a shot, then it’s over for the multi-bit disasters for a while.

Hmm… If you run across them again, post if you can. I’ve had a hundred instances where I wish I had the EMX but didn’t have the right one handy. I started using the Robertson bits until I stripped out a few outlets; the problem was less the torque and more the low quality of the screw. Still, I...

Does Picquic have the flat-head square combo bits like the Milwaukee EMX for electrical? They go by a dozen different acronyms, so I’m having a hard time finding via the google.

Alright… I’m sure there’s a hundred posts like this, but sometimes ya just gotta let it out. Background: One day, I got sick of the excessive number of screwdrivers everywhere, so I collected them all in one giant bin, made a drawer for all the bits to collect as needed, and tried to convert...

Hi! For those with radiant floor slabs using hot water through pex: How long does it take to heat your space from cold? Say from 60 to 70 F? Does the room take just as long to heat up from a cold slab than a hot slab if you open the garage door? The long story: I built my 33x40 garage with...

Here's a list of things people said I should spend more money on because they think it's important: Floor epoxy install Sprayfoam insulation Insulated garage doors Compressed air lines Siding/PVC trim Doors/windows Standing seam roofing Single-piece gutters Outlets Paint Much much more We...

Glad you're hiring out. You won't regret it. The worst that can happen is your most experienced helpers get tired out quickly, and the quality suffers as you progress through the project. I've got a thread on here where it went pretty badly; I ground it all up and coated with a cheap epoxy-like...

Paint once the rain dries off and we putty over the screw holes, two-tone gray. The eave is on this edge, so it gets a rain gutter and a snow guard.

Finally nice enough out to pull the tarps. Painting this week.