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    I'm 62 and my shop needs serious work.

    If you sold your present living quarters, what would that give you? Then either fix by yourself, or hire out the living quarters first. Do you really need that big shop heated? Could you build a smaller insulated shop on the property to do your work in and use the big for storage?
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    Steel Building Trim Question

    Yes, pics please.
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    Shed doors, better than quick and dirty?

    Trace a line 3/4" above your current top trim board and down the sides. When you replace the door cut at that line and put in drip cap so it's 3/4" below the cut. You don't want the bottom edge of the siding to touch the drip cap and soak up water. Bend the ends of the drip cap up at 90° to stop...
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    Any suggestions for a portable garage which could survive in Alberta winters and cost less than $500?

    greenhouse pthe... What is?
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    Any suggestions for a portable garage which could survive in Alberta winters and cost less than $500?

    I have a 12 by 20 frame given to me. I strapped it with 1x6 approximately 3' on center then I temporary stapled some 12mil heat shrink fire resistant poly over that then permanently attached some lath over top. Then I shrunk the poly. That has held up for 4 years so far. 2 sides are tied to a...
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    Trying to use dead space

    The cleats installed upside down would work too. At least in my head...
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    Does anyone have a 3” copper pipe cap lying around?

    1.66"
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    Collection of Greenfield taps and dies. Don’t need these and No idea how to value them.

    I picked up a similar set of taps, no die, including 5 pipe taps for C$50.00 15 years ago. Yours look to be all sae so maybe not much of a market. I'd probably start at 150 to 200 and drop from there as time passes. And then 10 years ago I bought a set of machinists tool boxes for C$100.00. It...
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    exhaust manifold studs stripped - best way to remove?

    The way heating a bolt or stud works: Once the part is heated to near red hot the stud wants to expand. The only direction it can go is longitudinal. When it shrinks back down the diameter is slightly less. This makes for less friction and easier removal. Map torch is unlikely to make it hot...
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    Big Greenlee slick

    What is a slick?
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    Get a hook into it!

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    Odd hoe/adze thing: Anybody have any guesses what it is?

    Maybe made for a child?
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    Two post lift concrete mistake

    I take it you didn't look at the pictures of the jack stands.
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    Two post lift concrete mistake

    I'm on gravel with a wood floor I did add a croos piece to the top.
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    Safe to install an angle grinder cut off wheel on a bench grinder?

    Full face shield and neck protection.
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    Canada Only Deals!

    FB doesn't like me. Feeling is mutual. Have some other way of showing the new store?
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    Any tools you buy NEW and immediate upgrade or modify or polish or whatever??

    Ok, the snips I have are getting worn, so I was able to force the tips past the normal range which you will see in the first pic. The second pic is how I want then to be when closed naturally. You may also notice that I round over all the edges so that I can get into tighter spaces like J-trim...
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    Teaching a New Welder - What Do You Wish You Had Been Shown?

    Fluxcore
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    Teaching a New Welder - What Do You Wish You Had Been Shown?

    Its been a long time for me too. I think me learning oxy-acet first really helped me understand puddle control. I've helped a couple people trying to arc weld and that is where they were messing up.
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    Any tools you buy NEW and immediate upgrade or modify or polish or whatever??

    All my tin snips are dressed so they don't have an over-bite. If I'm cutting metal and close them all the way they don't leave a distorted end cut. This is for doing vinyl siding J trim.
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