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Right on the heels of the New to me Enco 105-1110 mill thread comes the new to me Grizzly G0752 lathe thread. These darn metalworking machines are multiplying. lol...:lol_hitti Another Craig's List find. There is a guy in my area-ish (1.5 hours away) that buys machines at the Grizzly tent sales...

I'm in the planning stages for a new stand for my Enco 105 mill. Looking for input/pics/etc.. What are you guys using? How tall is it? Wood or metal?

So I'm not the electrical guy. lol... I've been able to follow directions to do this sort of thing before but I'm confused with what I see on my new to me mill. It's running fine on 110 now but I have 240 available and I want to utilize it. Problem is, the original owner has done his own...

My new to me mill - Enco 105-1110 RF-30 Craig's List find... So I decide that I really should have a mill because, well, you know, I should really have a mill. :lol_hitti Been searching on CL for a while but nothing but junk or way too big and way to much $$$. I had pretty much given up to just...

I'd really like to have a small vertical metal cutting band saw for sawing shapes, plate etc.. I have a cold cut saw and a portaband already for general cutting. Interesting to me that there are a bazillion small wood band saws but virtually nothing in the metal cutting speeds. Assuming that the...

In the spirit of the cart mod thread I thought I'd create a thread for the Yukon 46" workbench and show my mods to get it kicked off. I got it for $239.99 with this coupon... I needed a second work surface with storage and instead of building something I decided that I'd just buy the HF...

Reloading bench and gun room build... Evening all. Haven't had the opportunity to build anything in a bit but recently took up long range shooting so a reloading bench was in order. Decided to do a budget bench build. This is all construction lumber that I milled. 3/4" melamine top with 2 -...

I'm building a run for my wife's chickens. It's 9x26. Sloped roof 1/10 pitch. Corrugated metal roofing. I'd like to use 2x4 rafters on 16" centers with 2x4 strapping on top to screw the metal to. Some snow load here. Will that work?

My shop hideout... I'm finally getting around to putting together a shop thread. A couple of friends and I built my shop in 1995 shortly after we bought our house. It's a 30x40 with 10' ceilings. It's transitioned many times through the years from being 100% automotive when it was built to how...

I had debated about getting a horizontal band saw or a dry cut saw for cutting tubing, angle and the like in my shop. I decided that I would go with the dry cut saw for a variety of reasons including the cost and the small foot print of the dry cut saws. I'm a wood worker and the dry cut saw was...

I'm actually using a table that I've had in my shop for many years as the basis of a new welding table. The existing table is 33" tall and the top is 33" square. It's made from 1 3/4" angle that's 1/4" thick. The existing top and shelf are 1/8" plate. I ordered a new 40" x 40" x 3/8" top and...

Designing a couple of new benches and I'm considering mounting a vise, grinder and maybe even my little sheet metal brake on a 2" reciever. What have you got mounted on one? I see that most are mounted horizontal but seems that a few have them mounted verticaly which seems kinda cool to me. One...

I built my 40x30 detached nearly 20 years ago and I've never stopped thinking about how to improve and reorganize it. It started off life as strictly a place to work on cars but has morphed a few times over the years. It's 60% wood working now but I've been expanding my metal working tools and...

Had some time today to get my new Hobart Handler 190 / Spool Runner 100 unpacked and set up. I did a few mods to the HF cart while I was at it that I'll show as well. First, the deal on the welder. Tractor Supply has the package on sale for $819 which is a pretty good price on it's own but I...

and go ahead and get one. I really had my heart set on the Miller 211 but I eventually decided to go with the Hobart 190 instead. I really thought that dual voltage and the infinite output adjustment on the 211 would be better but after reading about a zillion reviews where everyone that had one...

Been relisted a few times. Apparently it finally got cheap enough. It is very cool and probably worth this money. $1875 right now. Sure would love to have one. Maybe sometime. http://www.ebay.com/itm/160976945005?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2648

I just saw this deal and wondered if anyoone had one or had any direct experience. Seems too good to be true. Has awesome reviews, 60 of them, on Eastwood's site. Eastwood 175 MIG with spool gun If only I could spell Eastwood in the title...grrr....

Guy on CL says he has a Simplex "100" for $75.00 I've been wanting to get a good vise and I know that Simplex is a good, well built vise. I see Simplex vises on the board and on Google but I can't find anything on a model "100". Is there such a thing? Could it be a "400" instead and the dude...

I bought the HF auto darkening helment when I bought everything else to set up my little home shop welding station. A comment was made that perhaps the HF helment wasn't going to protect one's eyes properly. I welded quite a bit yesterday and everything is fine today and as I have had welder...

Disclaimer: I am not a welder. I do not play one on TV. I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I am not going to build top fuel chassis or fighter jets with my HF welder. I will not endager the lives of innocent people with what I weld. I will hire a professional to do those sorts...