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Definitely go with a thicker top. My weld table is 3'-2" x 7'-2" with a 1/2" thick top. The horizontal frame is 4" C channel and the vertical legs are 2" square tube. I have the top drilled with M10 nuts welded underneath. I hindsight, I should have made the table smaller (more like...

Might not be directly applicable, but the drawer slides I used on the 17 drawer tool box I built back in 2006 are still working fine. They're 100lb capacity, full extension slides. Whereas the tools don't get daily use, I'm in the workshop every weekend. I used the same spec drawer slides...

It pays to be in charge of the company asset list as well as the keeper of the off-site warehouse inventory. Managed to "scavenge" a new, unused Jet belt Grinder, a well used but functional Ellis 1600 Band Saw and a Steel City 10" table saw.

If you do forego a spool gun, help yourself out and use 5356 wire. It's a lot stiffer than 4043 and feeds better. IMO it welds better too. Before I invested in the Lincoln spool gun, I did similar to what is described above; I zip tied a length of 1/2" PVC conduit to the torch cable to help...

As a few have stated, becoming proficient at aluminum welding will take a lot of practice. What thickness material are to planning to use? If you're planning on using material thinner than .100", and are planning MIG welding, you will probably end up making hundreds of very short, quick...

I sacrificed two so far. I hammered the handle off and repurposed then for handles on flat files.

Ok, not an actual problem, but there are too many screwdrivers in the tool chest drawer. Not sure where they all came from…they seem to multiply like wire coat hangers. Some of them in the drawer are very old and worn and some of the flat bladed ones have been “sharpened” to try and extend the...

Thanks. FWIW, the leading edges of the extrusion holding the front casters have been rounded should I dive on one again.

Hopefully I'm not retracing previous replies, but does your garage door opener have a "Vacation Mode" or "Lock" feature? The Genie door opener at my house has an extra button on the wall unit that locks and disables the remote control function on the receiver. It's fairly easy to use...

if anyone was questioning being able to heat an uninsulated pole barn with a wood stove in one corner... Granted, it only got into the low 50's inside, but it was far better than the single digits outside.

Thanks. The cut was small, but deep. I came down on the front corner of the lower leg of a welding cart and ended up with a 2 sided, 90 degree, 1/2" long piercing in the meat of my (58 year-old) right deltoid. I'm sure it needed stitched, but I was too pissed about the fall and messing up...

I think the solution going forward, (cost, implementation time, maintenance, adjustability) will be cord reels suspended above.

I specifically don't want to use a power pole (my shop is relatively small and I'll eventually damage the power pole). It will either be power run under the floor, or retractable cord reels from above.

I recently acquired all the milling and lathe tools from my father's workshop and needed a place to keep most of it. Since I still had some of the 1/8" aluminum from this old tool chest project, I built a new 10-drawer companion box and attached it tot he end of the existing tool chest.

I'm not opposed to this. How do the pull down cord reels hold up? Many years ago, I watched one short out when the cord was being extended.

I now have a strong dislike for extension cords, despite using them every time I’m in the workshop. It’s not the cords so much, it’s that I am constantly walking across them, or stepping on them. This past week, I ended up tripping badly on a cord, taking a fall and in the course of...

Blast out and replace the concrete floor in my workshop.

Probably late to the party, but I just ordered a Shop Fox M1049 (same thing as a Grizzly G4000). Based on available shop space, budget and features, the M1049 seemed to check off most of the boxes.

I heat a 24' x 32' pole barn with a Vogelzang Boxwood stove tucked into a corner. To improve the efficiency, I built what I call a coaxial heat exchanger on the flue pipe. Basically, it's a section of 8" duct with the 6" duct inside. There is a aluminum fin in the space between the 6"...

After I insulated the underside of the roof in my pole barn, I found there was considerable condensation build up. Some days, it seemed to be raining inside the barn. I added a powered gable vent fan (https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200673792_200673792) and a...