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I was a machinist for a large printing company. A large part of their business was printing checks. One of the old obsolete machines was having impression troubles making the MICR numbers readable. The numbers are set to the customers checking account numbers, and are set on a huge rotating...

You should have dry walled before putting up the cabinets.

I think you will need to pull the drywall and re-insulate. Probably the quickest and easiest will be the spray-in foam. I would: 1. pull the sheetrock 2. pull the insulation 3. spray with moldicide 4. spray foam 5. re-wall it and mud it 6. kick back with a beer while you decide what color to...

I am envious of the shop. The spiders give me the willies!

Chiming in late here, but I agree with the Bridgeport comments. I've been a machinist my whole life. My dad was a machinist. I've been around a lot of metalworking machinery as a result. I can say one thing about the Bridgeport: All other milling machines aspire to be a Bridgeport - plain and...

Ahh, I see that you have awakened, my friend. Many here still quaff the Craftsman Koolaid. :rolleyes: I've been a mechanic all my life, and never saw a reason to waste my money on expensive tools. Men get together and puff out their chests, and squirt testosterone out of their ears and...

Put it on eBay. There's always someone looking for stuff like that. If I had that, I'd probably be scheming to make some sort of proprietary machine with it.

That's a nice tractor, and that compliment is coming from a Deere man. However, If I were to get $18,000 in payments it'd be a for a brand new Road King.

^^^This, Jim. ^^^

That is a decent price. I'd go with 230V if it were me.

Sadly it is so with women these days as well. :lol_hitti

Buy the HF. I've had one for 22 years and it runs very nice. I've cut 4" steel rounds, and it never skipped a beat. In fact there are newsgroups dedicated solely to this little machine. Put a good blade on it - dont buy the HF blades - they **** - get yourself Starrett or Lenox, and you'll be fine.

Thanks, Man... with tools. :D My next question is: Are the cheapass chinese VFDs any good?

I'm subscribed. I want to see where this thread goes. I'm looking at getting a bridgeport, and I want to put a VFD on it. I've been studying up on it, but have made no concrete plans yet. Jim, I also want to make a switch box with said fwd/rev/stop/speed controls. My question is: Do all VFDs...

I've had a Lincoln 135P for a long time. I bought it in 2002, and since then its been a real trooper. I recently bought an Eastwood 200 tig, and after I get this danged cast off my arm, I'll set that up, and THEN its time for a new mig.

Same here. Use what you got. For me its been McDonalds napkins and duct tape.

Scaffolding. A few years ago, Wife and I redid our entire roof. Stripped it down to the sheathing, put another 1/2" of sheathing, Grace underlayment, new mouldings, roof vents, and drip rails all around, and we installed IKO Cambridge shingles. Pretty good stuff for asphalt shingles. The point...

Building code around here demands that 1" thickness of sheetrock must line the interior of any garage that is attached to aa dwelling. My house was built before that code was established, so currently my garage is lined with white-painted OSB. If I ever sold it, I would have to reline everything...

First of all, Ryan, I doubt you'll lose any customers to your friend. :lol: Secondly, I'd like to say that woodworking as well as any other trade skill can be taught, but there also has to have a spark of intuition in the student. Anyone who works with their hands will need to be able to...

Also, my property taxes are brutal. Adding an external shop would bump my taxes to over $6k a year. Something else to factor in.