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My steel MIG is a smaller one, Lincoln Weld-Pak 155 with a gas kit (and I'm an occasional hobbyist welder). I've used MIG wire from Lincoln, Hobart and Vulcan (Harbor Freight), large and small spools, and have never had a feed problem with any. The only difference I could spot had...

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The statement is less about the simplicity of various projects, and more about my ability to overthink and make things a lot more complicated than needed.

I moved to our current house in '99, and have been using/developing the 36' x 24' pole barn for my workshop Whereas it's gone through many configurations and is currently stuffed to the gills, until today, I'd not added anything on the inside to personalize or "bling" it up. About 10...

This has been done for a while, but I was snapping pics today... I added a strap winch to the top for raising and lowering the anvil beam. It was tricky getting the strap to spool from the middle and stay equal. I used a piece of PVC tube, slit, to snap over the arbor of the winch and...

Here are the pics of what I added to the weld table frame. The bar that holds the angle grinders is more of the 2x2 tube. The brackets that hold the clamps are 1/4" stainless, waterjet cut pieces, bent and bolted to the underside of the 4" channel frame. The bench grinder bracket is my...

I added a bar for holding angle grinders and brackets for storing clamps. Whereas it wasn't attached to the square tubing, I also made a pivoting bracket to hold the bench grinder that when not in use, rotates and stores under the weld table top. I don't have any pictures of the new set up...

My weld table is made with 2x2x1/8 wall steel tube for the legs and lower shelf support, and uses 4" c-channel for supporting the 1/2" thick top. The square material for the legs was chosen out of convenience as I upcycled a few extrusion racks. So far, I've seen a benefit to using the...

Can you weld? You can take 2 of these screw bit holders, cut off the male ends and weld the two female ends together making the adapter you need.

We have a similar situation, 1/2 bucket of water every two weeks. My house is essentially 2 full dwellings. A normal house on the main level and an efficiency home in the basement. The prior owner installed a new water heater in what was the old shower stall. It's nice peace of mind...

All gas equipment... I mow 2.25 acres with a Scag 52" hydro-drive walk behind, 16 hp Kawasaki. From '99 to the end of the '21 season, I used a Snapper 52" belt drive walk-behind (20 hp B&S).

I didn't think of timers, but that might be an option. When the heater runs, it brings the greenhouse to about 60F ambient, but at the roof peak, the temp can be high enough to activate the roof vents. FYI, the roof vents are passive and are activated by small gas cylinders that extend...

Moderator, please move this over to the Electrical forum. I goofed and posted it in the wrong forum. Rlitman, you mis-interpreted what I'm trying to do. When the 220v heater kicks on, I want a relay to cut the electrical power to the 110v gable fan. I'm not interested in trying to sync...

Ok electrical gurus, here’s a conundrum… The greenhouse I built for Mrs. Imagineer gets too warm on sunny days. For example, over the weekend, it was 33F outside and because it was sunny out, the greenhouse was 107F inside. I do have 2 automatic roof vents (that open at ~78F) and am planning on...

Thanks but I'm not looking to control ambient dust. I'm looking for a means controlling the inevitable spray of sparks, and the residual metallic grit.

How do you guys control/contain grinding grit? In my small workshop, it’s a constant chore to clean up the grit that seems to find its way into every nook and cranny. Most every project I take on involves creating rooster tails of sparks, so figuring out a means of control is long overdue...

Probably just not cleaned well enough. In December, I was welding some pieces of 8" square x 3/8" wall steel tube to make a section of 8" x 6.75" rectangle tube and ended up making the worst welds I'd ever done. Horrible porosity. I checked all my set ups and shielding gas, ground...

I've been to the Aurora, Oh facility. It's huge! And to answer the original question, I feel McMaster-Carr's shipping charges are too high.

A funny memory from my youth involved one of those ‘egg-beater’ hand drills. When I was a kid, there was a really nice, retired guy, Mr. Watson, across the street who washed and waxed his car (’74 Malibu) weekly. To polish the car, he used a Black & Decker electric drill with a wool buffing...

This demonstrates why I should have built a smaller weld table...at this size, it becomes a convenient catch-all for clutter and other projects. The 1/2" thick top is drilled with 189 - 5/8" holes on 3" centers. Later I welded M10 flange nuts to the underside of the top and each hole is...