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So one of the things I like to do, is to keep a running wishlist on Amazon, of tools that I would like to buy (or receive as a gift obviously). Every so often I'll pop in there and pick one or two items, not because I need them now...but because one day I will need them, and it is almost always...

So I recently got the notion that I *needed* (in the sense that we *need* most of our tools) a metal lathe for the garage. I've been doing my due diligence, hitting up a lot of the forums, trawling craigslist, etc etc trying to get a feel for what I'm looking for, need, and can afford. I set up...

Fretters: It was pretty well stuck before I cleaned it up, so I guess maybe over time as it tightened up it had to "pull" harder to open it each time? I guess you do anything enough over the years, steel on steel will hear that down. Sometimes a file is the only way to go. I did bust out the...

I've never tried to weld cast before, but I *think* there are issues with the metal hardening (crystalizing maybe?) with the heat. I don't know if you can do some kind of heat cycling or treatment to change that or not. I had an issue with one of the lock bolts, and had to cut the handle off...

Thanks! I have a dedicated oven for pc. Powder coating releases some pretty nasty chemicals as it bakes. Apparently, it also re-emits those chemicals every time you use it after that as well. So I just watched CL until one came up for cheap and picked it up. I just need to have a wilton C3...

Picked up my first Wilton a few weeks ago, and finally got it reassembled this evening. It's a recent model 1765 (from 2000 if I'm reading the stamp correctly), that had seen better days. I've wanted a Wilton for a while and this was the first sub $100 vise to show up on CL that was anywhere...

I actually really like the hospital bed idea. So let me ask the other side of it, from a strictly manual standpoint, what type of gearing could take small circular motions and transform it into vertical movement (that stayed in place when you stopped turning it.

Wow, that's actually a really fantastic idea.

Just a generic question, and I'm not really sure where else to put this. I'm in the early planning stages of a two part work bench, with a fixed area for welding, and a thick and heavy wooden surface for other work. I thought it would be interesting to be able to raise and lower the wooden...

That looks awesome, what type of filing cabinet is that? (i.e. what magical search terms would I use to track one down)? Sorry, was talking about this one: http://images52.fotki.com/v734/photos/9/904975/3555066/MVC006F-vi.jpg

Just went for $610, Hopefully the winner will be traveling through huntsville and will let me buy one of the wilton's off him. :D

Doh! I just emailed the seller a few minutes ago, hopefully they've still got it. I'd like it to be a little closer, but for whatever reason, we either don't see many locally, or they seem like they're overpriced.

I wondered about leaving them clean, but as I mentioned, they had paint on them from the factory, so I figured they knew better than i did :D It's certainly smoother operating than when i got it... but that is probably the cleaning and fresh grease it got.

This particular style of vise doesn't rest on, or move up and down the slide per se, it the dynamic jaw (the rear on in this case) moves forward and back on a dovetail cut into the body of the vise. I wondered if I should mask off that area when I powder coated it, but it looked like it had...

Coworker told me I had to post this. Nothing special, but I really wanted a Leinen-style vise, and this was one of the few vise's (at all) that showed up locally. The price was right, even though it was damaged, and it gave me a chance to practice my restoration skills before trying it on...