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Skin's advice for drilling the crack is right- drill both ends and you'll stop the crack from growing. HDPE welding rod is cheap on amazon, and from something small a soldering iron should do it well enough. Start low, and ramp up heat until it just melts; a soldering iron on full blast will...

5/16" phillips bits are readily available.. although you'd be better off just using a regular drill/screwdriver.

I was on a job site once where a guy got KILLED by an exploding grinding wheel. He took about a third of the wheel directly to the sternum, and was stopped by the guy's spine. Face shields, grinder guards in place, and quality name brand grinding wheels are the only way to do it. Spend the...

You'll get better leakdown performance if you migrate from tapered fittings to fittings with flat face seals or o-rings- but you're going to spend a LOT more money to outfit an entire air system that way. Nothing is leak free indefinitely- that's just physics at work.

Well this thread is certainly full of bad information. Never put anti seize on bolts that didn't have it already. Anti-sieze has a giant effect on a fastener's ability to maintain preload over time. Using a stock reference chart instead of what's in the manual for whatever you're rebuilding...

This is what green loctite is for

The things some people care about...

An auction through a specialty house (such as the ones already suggested in this thread) are the best chance at recovering the maximum value for this type of equipment. Very few people who are after a six figure CNC machine are going to buy one on craigslist. Auctions are how it gets done. As...

Have you tried a Milwaukee cordless jigsaw yet? My fuel barrel grip jigsaw has been excellent, and I've cut LVL up to 2" with it without any problems.

So you'll use $3,000 worth of hardware to solve a $500 problem? Seems smart.

You need deep posts to resist soil shear from moisture changes and heating/cooling, which will rack the entire building. If you sleeve a rotted post, it's going to keep rotting and it's going to do it much faster because all the moisture will be trapped inside your sleeve. The sleeve will...

No one is paying their mortgage with 27k subscribers and no ads on their videos. With that said... these tests are beyond meaningless. Why people give them any weight, I don't understand.

Everyone who makes side cutters makes flush cutters... but they won't last long cutting nails. It's not possible to make a flush cutter edge that is as strong as the double-sided edge on a standard nipper or side cutter. You'd be better off using a nail set.

Dewalt or craftsman make decent ones. Excuse the 'search the forum snobs'. Viair makes nice product but in my opinion there's no reason to spend $300 when you can spend $75 and get more features.

Determining what system most efficiently meets the need is precisely what an engineer will do. They wiill also ensure that your design doesn't kill someone 1 year or 25 years down the road. Designing efficient, safe, water tight multi-level structures is not a trivial endeavor. Pay a...

The listed knives are all garbage. Made overseas, and will be difficult/impossible to keep useably sharp. For work use nothing beats a folding box cutter. In my opinion Milwaukee makes the best one, but there are a zillion alternatives out there.

when you're done tightening the fastener, pull the handle lightly perpendicular to the shaft to break the bit free from the Phillips/torx/hex/whatever head before you try to pull it back and this problem will go away forever. It doesn't take much.

I'd like to know exactly how you measure to hundred-thousandths of an inch in your home shop

I'm a metallurgist. You will absolutely change the properties of high speed steel if you get it red hot and let it cool in air. You'd be right that a bit that's gotten that hot will still make holes in mild steel and most aluminum alloys without issue. Sharpening drill bits is hard- for most...

Sharpening a drill bit in a way that results in a sharp bit that hasn't had the edge temper destroyed (I.e. sharp and will stay sharp) is very difficult. The bolt you're drilling is also likely to be very hard, which means if you're not using good quality bits, good luck. Basically cheap bits...