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Purchased a '70s vintage Hardinge HC at auction. My bid was supposed to be a thumb in the eye of whoever won it, because usually tool auctions around here go to the moon, so I figured $1500 was reasonably low, so I'm calling it the Spite lathe. Tested the spite lathe yesterday with a "digital...

Want to run my Hardinge HC (1.5HP 3ph) without converting to VFD and figuring out all the stuff that's on the other input phases or asking the poco to run 3ph to my garage. Whatcha got for sale?

I've been in the market for a long time, ever since I tossed an old kitchen oven about a year ago (and I've had ambitions for a while before that). I was planning to go based on the plans here, along the lines of the one @lilscorpion built, but then I saw a pizza oven for sale at a local...

So, pretty much immediately after meeting @CapriMikeC last April at Radwood and commiserating over that hooptie turbocharged life, number three rod exited the chat from my 311,000 mile Audi UrS6. It had been a while coming. In May of 2020, the head gasket let go. I got it back together with a...

I'm fairly competent with my welder (a basic FCAW Lincoln 35-88a unit), but I'm going to help a friend tomorrow make a replacement for the lower air guide in her 3rd gen Firebird. It doesn't have to be pretty, but it would be nice if I didn't blow any holes in it. I figured my best option...

I've got a nice new to me compressor, and I'm standardizing to tru-flate type couplers with 3/8" fitting-side to 1/4" NPT tool-side fittings. It was nice and convenient with the Lowe's T-type 2 male/male, 1 female/male, 1 quick disconnect female fitting pack, but they don't sell the 3/8 to 1/4...

In December of last year, I moved into a new place. Unlike the old house, this one has a garage (the old one had a driveway, and the master bedroom was converted from the garage). It's a smallish 3 car, in that I couldn't fit 3 full size cars or trucks inside - it's got a 16 foot door and an 8...

I've finally closed on and moved into a new house with a great 3 car garage (yay!), and I'm getting ready to reassemble my workbench inside, but the place I want to put it has the oddest thing: what looks like a gable vent, installed at ground level. I don't want to block an air intake. I'm...

Though I lack the requisite garage, being a carport dweller, I nonetheless love my tools, and workspace. To that end, I'm dumping my old workbench. Since I'm a carport dweller, I have the somewhat unique problem of having my stuff rifled every once in a while. I mitigate this by bolting down...