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    Show us your welding projects

    Custom 2x72 grinder and mobile stand - 3HP, 3PH, with VFD my first Tig project: Welded with an original 2003 HTP water cooled HTP 201 Tig system:
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    Fireball tool jigs - which ones on a budget

    LOL! Yes, she is aware, and she paid for them (she ordered them today Friday). She is a keeper for sure :)
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    Fireball tool jigs - which ones on a budget

    For father's day, my lovely wife is giving me two of the 8" mega squares (cast iron) ;)
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    custom scooter ...

    Yup, small, technology company, although it is all one floor, so having the scooter to go from one side to the other is nice. We also fly small quads indoors, although not often since those can get noisy, specially then you have 10+ of them flying at once.
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    custom scooter ...

    Thank you - something fun to work, and something I can use daily in my office :o
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    custom scooter ...

    At my company, we actually are allowed to use scooters inside of our building, and in fact our company bought about 20 Razor scooters. A few bought high-end, custom Aluminum racing/trick scooters ($200-350). My son had a 3-wheel toy he had used a lot which he did not care for, so instead of...
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    Beat-up Vintage Wilton Vise

    Thank you. This "project" was done back in 2011, and I am still using it almost every single week. I simply change the aluminum jaws depending on what I need to grab. Given the light duty I put the vise through, it has continued to work as good as when I refinished years ago. I am still...
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    Yet another shop light LED conversion ...

    12C. I have that one in the shop, another 12C in my home office, and a RPN application in my phone which looks/works like the 11C/12C. It is sad, but am useless without an RPN calculator.
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    Yet another shop light LED conversion ...

    Thank you guys. There are many LED shop lights available today, but not at this level of output and not end-user configurable - this is putting close to 1000 lumens. But even if I can find something similar, the manufacturer would have made some sort of compromise regarding...
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    Yet another shop light LED conversion ...

    Nothing too exciting - just another LED conversion thread :-) This is how the lamp looked like when it was new: I used this lamp primarily in my belt sander, and although bright, the coverage was not even/smooth, and of course a little too yellow for my taste (now that I am used to the...
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    LED Shop Light

    The particular coating that I am using here is called Moly Resin. It is a very tough finish, used in firearms, and hard-use gear. I have done my own comparisons/torture of Moly Resin against Powder Coating and Cerakote, and Moly Resin did MUCH better than Powder Coating, and about the...
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    LED Shop Light

    Per CPF standards, what I am doing is still considered low power :scared: Some of the solutions involve an LED drawing 5 to 9 amps at 3-4 volts :shocking: So "high power" is all relative :) The idea of course it to try to match the LED to the application. In most applications heat is the...
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    LED Shop Light

    Yup, also "wquiles" on the CPF :) Will
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    LED Shop Light

    Loc-Line Will
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    LED Shop Light

    I forgot, for those considering making their own LED lamp upgrades, I recorded/documented the steps I follow here in this page: http://atdms.com/tutorial_led_shop_lamps.html Will
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    LED Shop Light

    I made extra parts (the bare head) just in case, and I have 4x uncoated and 1x coated bare heads (so that you can do a DIY - you guy the base lamp, buy the LED's, do the modifying, etc.). For those who don't want to procure all of the parts, I also have two completed, tested assemblies (without...
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    The knife blank is an off-the-shelf series (called Mules) from Spyderco. Do a Google search on "Spyderco Mules". The grips are 95% complete for these Mules, and come from various sources - those come from here: http://www.halperntitanium.com/knife.html And you should really check this long...
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    I am a big fan of the Aluminum jaws as they are fairly stiff, still soft enough to cut (and not damage most other things being held in the jaws), and since it is relatively easy to have various sets of jaws depending what you need to "hold". I have two sets: Original thread in here...
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    LED Shop Light

    One thing I neglected to do was to post "before and after" pictures so that folks can see the dramatic improvements. Stock light on the left, upgraded light on the right - stepped down exposure so that you can see the beam, but camera on manual exposure so that you can compare the relative...
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    Repairing my Electrix hotwire shop lamp ...

    Thank you guys :o The best part is that now I don't have to worry about it breaking again nor falling down :rocker: Will
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