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I've used hardboard on several workbenches. I've generally gone with 1/4", both because of easy availability and bigger is better (plus its not much more expensive). I painted one bench top thinking it would add some protection. I'm still using that one, but wish I hadn't painted it. Hardboard...

I've got a 4" Homecraft. Homecraft was Deltas "lesser" brand, usually just an older Delta design rebadged after Delta came out with something new. What I'd really like, although not at all needed is a Craftsman "alien head" planer. Outclassed by modern 13" lunchbox planers, but so cool with...

There is a reason a lot of people have gone to electric tools for so many traditional air tools, but I don't know of an airless option for sand blasters. I've come down to three useful sizes for compressors. Fixed 60-80 gallon units, and don't cheap out on the compressor for your tool needs...

If we are talking about the Little Giant A frame ladders, I think they are great for their purpose. I used Little Giants as a utility ladder at the fire department, and I've got a Warner clone at home. An A frame ladder is a different thing than a step ladder. It does some things better, and...

There are a lot of variables, soil characteristics, size of the system, number of people actually using it vs what the system was designed for etc. I'm on sewer now and I swear I have more sewer issues than when I was on a septic. Many of the fire stations (forestry) I worked at were on septic...

Most people just buy the kits because they are significantly cheaper and they are not that hard to put together. Prusa also includes gummy bears with their printers, and calls out in the instructions when to take a gummy bear break. :LOL:

You can get decent 3D printers very cheap these days, Bambu is the current hotness but it has gotten to the point that you almost have to try to find a bad one. If you want to go super cheap I've seen used Ender 3s on CL and Ebay for around $50. Odds are decent that a used 3D printer is either...

Prusa seems to get dismissed by many for the price, and admittedly it seems like they kind of fell into a patch of complacency which they are now scrambling to get out of. Prusa was comfortable sitting in the market as THE printer to buy if you wanted to print things instead of futzing with...

Most of the 1x30 belt / disc sanders seem to be about the same, if not nearly identical HF, Craftsman, Grizzly etc. Not sure about the belt sander only as fewer brands offer that version. I've had a Craftsman 1x30 belt / disc sander about 25 years. It is fine for light work, I've mostly used...

There are tons of youtubers doing 3D printing stuff, but I like this guy. He is older (mid-late 60's?) and stays focused on beginners and people who don't want to get into the weeds designing parts for space craft, they just want to make basic 3D printer stuff. You can tell he is teaching...

This seems like ideal small parts storage to me. I've been slowly working towards a similar arrangement. I like your shelves, sure they are not pretty, but they work. It is a shop not a display space.

$2000 for a decent used Bridgeport seems pretty standard in California. Rather than trying to wheedle them down in price I'd lean into having them include tooling. Vise, rotary table, dividing head, boring bars, collets, fly cutters, indexible milling head, cutters, drill bits etc. If they are...

Even in the early internet days I didn't know there were places for regular people to buy decent tools other than Sears, Home Depot, Lowes or one of the local hardware stores. None of these alternatives seemed to offer tools of significantly better quality than another, but there were places to...

Well at least it isn't just my Lowes. I had to order the bottom boxes online as they never had them in stock in the store. They almost never had the top boxes either.

How about building a "dog house" behind the shed for the jointer / planer? At 300+lbs it may just be safer and easier to find it a usable spot and build an easily removed / disassembled mini-shed to protect it from the weather. I realize that this is a free machine and a jointer / planer...

Has anybody bought one of these PIT mini tool boxes? They offer a 5 drawer lower and a 3 drawer upper, the combo of both is $79 from Amazon. Seeing the difference in quality between the US General and Kobalt really makes me wish these were available in a brick and mortar store so I could...

This list is obviously based on the Kobalt boxes The US General does have drawer slides and liners. There are no drawer locks but there is a detent to help keep the drawers closed and the lid stops at 90 degrees. Not really sure what you mean on the last point. I just wish HF offered a...

I like the way you think. We can always buy another when the time comes. :LOL: We both knew there would be no enthusiasm for the tools, it was for the future. If nothing else he will have some tools on hand when a friend offers to help fix something. ;)

That also made them a favorite for tool chronic abuse. I've taken several auto extrication classes and until the early 2000s instructors were always pushing Craftsman for the lifetime warranty. It didn't matter that we did things with and to those tools that was never imagined by the engineers...

:LOL: Perfect example, I bought a Quinn (Harbor Freight) 66 piece set a couple months back when they had a big 35% off sale. Full price is $60, I paid $39. Not the best set I've ever used, but it is better than the Craftsman set I bought new in the mid 90s, and the Quinn set was probably...