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I just picked this up from CL and I am looking for information. Does anyone have a manual for this. The guy said it was a Harbor Freight welder but it appears to have been made by CEM which I gather is now Cemont out of Italy. There was just enough wire in it to test before I bought is and...

What brand and grit of sanding belts do you guys use in your 6" X 48" sanders. I am going to set mine up soon before I start building my welding table and workbenches. I figure I will use it to clean up my cuts and possibly get mill scale off quickly.

I was surfing CL around 6am yesterday morning and found an ad for an old set of SO cabinets about 10 miles from my house. The ad said make an offer. The ad had been up for a few hours and I figured he had some offers in already, but I gave it a try anyway. I offered $75. He emailed me back a...

Anyone have any experience with using this stuff for workbenches? Doesn’t seem as much fun as welding a bench up from steel tubing but it may be faster and lighter for mobile benches. We used it for mobile benches for instruments at my last job and it seemed pretty good. I was thinking of...

I recently pulled a DC motor out of a treadmill a friend was getting rid of. I want to use it on my drill press to get the speed slow enough to drill metal. I want to run it off regular 120v current. Will the KB KBMM-125 controller (http://www.kbelectronics.com/manuals/kbmm_smt_manual.pdf)...

Need a little help determining if this compressor tank is OK to use. This is the tank from my Quincy 325 I bought earlier this year. Just getting around to setting it up. The unit was built/sold by Scales Compressor in 1991 so it is relatively young for an industrial compressor. I pulled the...

I picked this up off eBay a few months ago and wanted to get some ideas on refreshing it a little. It is an older (pre-1965 I think) Hazet 166N. Despite the appearance it is in really nice shape. I rolls very smoothly and the rust is only on the surface. I had been watching it, and for most...

Not a huge score but I am happy with it: Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Saw the ad on CL and sent a friend to go it. THe guy had two of them. One for me and one for my freind. $50 for the pair.

I have a good friend at work who has made more than a few trips to pick up things from CraigsList for me. Lot of good rusty sh*t in South Jersey. Anyway, he's a big surf fisher and wants to turn his own lures. I told him I would keep an eye out for a decent lathe for him. I showed him a few...

OK, I know you are supposed to start threads like this with a good example but this is all I've got. I'm taking a class at the local CC. Using a Miller XMT with 6010 rod. I am starting to get the hang of it, but still a long way off from looking good or being strong. So let's see 'em...

I'm trying to replace the plug and leads from the switch on an old Dunlap 1/3hp motor. I can't get the entire motor apart but I think I can fish the leads in without removing the shaft and front case. Has anyone ever done this before? I opened up the cover on the front of the motor and I...

By the end of this weekend I want be able to hook up the Lincoln buzz box I bought off Craigslist a month ago. You know, the one I bought completely forgetting I have a gas dryer. I am going from a 100amp sub panel in the basement into the garage. The total distance will be about 100ft. I...

I have been thinking about getting a metal lathe for a while now. I don't really have any specific use for it right now but I want to learn. I'm not in any real hurry, but of I find a deal I am going to jump on it. Which brings me to my question. I found a Atlas lathe on CraigsList for...

So if was changing the radiator in my wife’s car this weekend and was almost finished when I realized I needed a hose clamp. I look through my meager pile of hardware I have and didn’t find one. No problem since there is a Sears Hardware in town. Go there and start looking for hose clamps...

So I went to my first auction on a few Sunday's ago. It was advertised a woodworkers estate sale. I don't really do a lot of woodworking, but it was 2 miles from my house so I went just for kicks. It was kind of a mess. There were lots of miscellaneous stuff thrown on tables; sandpaper...

So I tried media blasting for the first time today and it didn't work out so well. I couldn't get any media to actually come out of the nozzle. I tried using a Harbor Freight 40lb blaster and a Speed Blaster. I was using Black Diamond media from TSC. With a nozzle on, I only got a little...

A few months ago I was doing a few small projects which reminded me how much my cheap Cummins vise sucked. Around the same time, I found this site and the vise thread. You can see where this is going, right? This is the first one I bought. I found it on Craig’s List and had a friend...

No affiliation. You don't see these very often. http://allentown.craigslist.org/tls/2514461875.html

I realize this is a loaded question but here goes anyway: how much do you think it would cost to install a 100 AMP 20 circuit sub panel 35 feet from the main box? We are having an in-law suite built and as part of that I wanted to add the panel and 3 220V lines for a compressor, lift and s...

So how do I do it? I have a 3 phase motor and I want to transfer the pulley to my single phase. By whowhatnow1 at 2011-07-20 First step is obviously to remove the two screws. After that do I just pull it off with a puller? Or do I need to remove the pin first? How do I do that? Not much...