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Call me old and lame (and maybe losing a bit of hearing) but shop is noisy enough as it is. Trying to power over tools and working is just a way to be more mentally tired at the end of a day and chip away at your hearing when you get old. ANC earbuds are the best solution - you can get a dB...

Much ado is made about mold - most of it is harmless. If concerned a bleach/water mix and scrubbing down should take care about it.

For 99% (or more) single 3/4" line is probably going to be overkill, a loop setup for the CFM of tool that most people have is pointless and more work to setup. If you want to save a bit on parts costs and are at the upper end of air consumption then maybe going with 1/2" and a loop might get...

I have no dryer on my machine - I have gotten my 1/4" settings spot on. 3/8" is very good. 1/8" I am sort of limited there since my machine doesn't like to run the ipm recommended so I am still playing with how far to take down the amps on the plasma cutter to improve cut quality. Depending on...

I have a supplier I use when I am ordering more than about 1000# of material. When I need smaller orders I have another shop I use, the location is also better but I end up paying about 50% more per pound. The good news is that sort of project usually has better margins. For my own stuff I just...

Get all the yard care stuff out of there. Hang it outside in the unfinished area or house garage or a shed... just not the shop. Those sacks of concrete are probably half hard, stop trying to store them they don't keep and are worth all of $40 or so to replace. BTDT. Pallet racking is great...

I have been around doors like that before - the chain is maybe 2:1 ratio. Not huge leverage but it helps and really helps to control the door on the downhill side of things or to be able to hook the chain anywhere between full open and full closed and keep the door at that height without...

Agree - check if the springs are still both in tact. There should be some paint marks on the coils that are similarly offset if they are equally wound. Lube the spring if that thing is old and some surface rust is showing up - that can be a lot of friction and that stops assisting the lifting...

Here are my regrets of moving in early - granted it would have sat for a couple years as I came up with money. I wish I had sheetrocked the lid - now I am a stick built building so this is a bit different than what you can do in pole building but there is no time to do that like when the...

For the love of all things:rolleyes: - it is a concrete floor in an empty shop. Get the garden hose rinse it down a bit, if it doesn't wash away use a scrub brush or even just your push broom to agitate it a bit and rinse it again. This thread has more time invested in it than time it would...

Steel is pricing out at just under $1/lb so the beam would be about $286 assuming it isn't a really uncommon size. I didn't do any math to confirm that an S12x22 beam would span this.

For occasional heating - nothing is going to work as fast as a unit heater. I am a guy with a job and an uninsulated building. I get out and work in the shop maybe 1-2 nights a week and one of the weekend days. NFW am I leaving the heat on 24/7. I can go out and have it below freezing inside...

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Problem with this strategy is that the main bolt actually can't do the right amount of clamping because you won't be able to torque the fastener properly. Might as well just use a Clevis pin

Here is my general strategy that I would take: 3 come-alongs tied into the top plate at 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 of the length of the building. Pull to snug. Remove all the new lumber Pull to plumb the walls ... probably even go past a bit. At this point the sag in the ridge should be a lot less. Nail...

This is a double edged sword - to not be a burden on whoever gets to clean out the place there is an obligation to clean up after yourself. Not having your stuff to do anything to putter around in retirement is a sure fire way to hasten your demise. A lot of this really depends on your health...

Helping a the proverbial little old lady who didn't want the old railing to go to waste. I am not sure I would call this a hack job. For enough money I could have done all the field measure, rework 100% in steel, had it all recoated, or just built a whole new rail. The economics weren't there...

You are going to spend cubic dollars for a very small shop space. Even with transaction costs - moving is probably better option, even if it is to a house a couple doors down with a better lot/siting of the house.

Relocating a hand rail to an odd spot in a garden. Pitch won't be exactly right for the new location which is part of the strategy with sloppy fit. New receivers are about 5" deep.

1" Square going into a 1.5"x.120 wall Square. So I have about 1/8" of fill space. Doesn't make sense to do a field weld on this one and not practical to field measure and weld in the shop due to time/distance between shop and install location. My first inclination is to mix epoxy and pour...