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I was surprised to find 48" twin led 'tube' shop lights at Walmart now offered at $19.87, which is about half what they used to be. Confirmed in store with a price scanner. OEM: Hyper Tough Model: T4135A2 UPC: 755277813005 I have not tried these, but they look very similar to what Sam's Club...

A quick simple fabricated tubing straightener. I buy the line in coiled rolls and it needs to be straightened before use. This design is a proven one that people have been making for a long time. It took me all of about 30 minutes to knock it together out of a couple of pieces of angle iron...

I like the HF welding tables. Those portable things are great, but they don't hold a welder. I had modified a simple welding cart with an extra shelf a year or two ago and it's been my happy cart, but there were some things I didn't like- not enough storage, no enclosed storage, and it had...

Why reinvent the wheel? Because the wheel costs $40 and I can fabricate my own for less than $10! I have need to weld up some holes on a firewall. I have a copper backer for areas I can reach, but if I want to TIG weld stuff, then I will need both hands and that means making a mount that can...

I can't even work on my Spitfire in the garage for too long before I get distracted by other things that catch my eye. One of my standard searches on Craigslist got a hit and it was worth checking out. Converted to Propane, this Westward Industries G0-4 Interceptor is powered by a Ford...

Ever have trouble finding the dead center of a spindle, shaft, or round stock? Want to drill a hole in the exact center of a round item? Or even finding the center of a square object? It's easy to draw lines from corner to corner on a square object, but nothing you line up on a round end...

I am in need of cutting some brackets out of some plate steel with a plasma cutter and don't really fancy clamping pieces to a welding table and hanging them off the edge. I wanted a plasma cutting table top like you can see from Eastwood, Northern Tool, etc. Something with replaceable slats...

The portable welding tables from Northern, Eastwood and Harbor Freight are surprisingly useful for many projects and I quite like it, but it has one huge design flaw that drives me nuts. Clamps don't work. This table has slots that are punched and the edges bend/flared down like a dimple which...

So.... windstorm rolled in and took out a lot of trees in the region. Power has been out for coming up on 24 hours. Temps outside are in the low 40's. Temps inside the house got to 45F overnight. Ended up putting perishables outside on the deck overnight. Kept thinking the power would be...

When the 12x16 shed was built in my backyard, I set up a camera to capture the process in a time lapse video. The whole thing took only about 12 hours with all the materials precut off site and assembled at the location, but it sure felt even faster than that. Results are pretty nice. I've...

My garage is for working in. Mostly metal work and automotive. I do have token wood working tools, but I'm a metal person by preference. With a pair of mismatched Husky base cabinets, I've got mostly my automotive stuff in the right spot, but there are files and drills that really should be...

After hearing all you guys going on about how nice it is to have a Tractor Supply store near by and getting jealous that you have a nice tool and hardware supplier with big sales, great inventory, and just super cool stuff, I'm happy to say that Puget Sound is finally getting a TSC. 631 River...

I'm not really familiar with WEN tools. I know this is a China built grinder, but what grinders aren't these days. :eyecrazy: $79.99 seems like a decent deal, even when Woot's owner, Amazon, lists the same thing for $105 for this slow speed grinder. A stand by itself is another $35, so the...

I was at an estate sale of industrial Boeing/Navy equipment and spotted this monster sitting on its side in the soft dirt. Everything is for sale and this would go for scrap value alone. Looks like a planishing hammer, but I could be wrong. With that massive structure, it seems like it...

Looks like CREE is going to jump into the fluorescent tube replacement business. They already made a big impact in the LED screw in bulb replacments when they came out with $5-10 bulbs in a market where the average was $15-30 each. The market had to adjust pricing to a more realistic level to...

A new addition to my collection of unusual toys arrived yesterday. A FREAKIN' LASER BEAM! (No sharks attached though) Yes, it's a China built laser, but that's where they all are built so that's not really much of a choice. These units used to be $2500 just two years ago. Last year at...

The Husky 26" wide black tool boxes are not top of the line, but pretty rugged for what they are with ball bearing slides. I like the sets I've gotten. I have a pair of short chests and wanted a top box to match. Most top boxes are shallow though, not the full depth. They have a 5 drawer...

I picked up this used and abused Miller Thunderbolt 225 stick welder at a local auction a couple of months ago. It had definitely seen better days. Case was bent up badly with a lot of dings and dents, leads were missing, power cord chopped off, and the entire interior caked in dirt and grime...

Back in the day- okay, the 1980's, my father picked up a Craftsman right angle plier that had jaws of a medium size set and bent half way down the length, perhaps only 2" on each side of the bend. This has been in my tool box and largely my go-to set for many jobs for decades. A roommate...

I've seen plenty of the 'Identify this Vise" threads, but this is the first one I'm going to ask for not a Vise, but a Vise-Grip. The jaws have a round rod on the upper jaw from the factory welded in (nicely done), and the bottom is ground very smooth in a half moon shape. It's all finished...