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Welp, did a maybe stupid thing and bought a 4 post lift sight unseen. Its a complete 10k lb four post unit, bought through auction. Only details I have are that it's an "a-1" 10k pound lift. Now I haven't seen it yet, and won't be able to until Friday, but I'm curious if anyone in here has...

I'm looking to get rid of the center/overhead garage door opener and go to a side mount. I have a vaulted ceiling and I want to maximize this space. My door size is 8.5x16' In short I don't have the ~$500 to buy new right now (but in the future when I do i'll do this proper), and used are...

Looking to build a belt grinder (unless I find a used one first). I have a motor (5hp 220v 3450rpm motor) & plenty of steel to do this, only thing I'm missing are the pulleys/wheels. Whats everyone use? I'd like a big and small pulley (big drive wheel 8"? drive, small idler ~2" for notching, at...

Picked up a 5HP standup compressor from auction the other day, and got it home only to find out the compressor head/ pump is cracked, likely my own doing when we were loading it. I bought it to replace an older horizontal compressor of mine. My question is, could I swap the pump off my other...

Been looking for a plasma, came across a spectrum 2050 that needs some repair, guy says it need a mothherboard of some sorts, also needs a torch. Machine is from a shop that I have experience with, and they were generally pretty good with their equipment. They are asking $100 for it. Been...

Like the title says, looking for some ideas on storing my bronco top for the summer in my tiny garage. I have a vaulted ceiling in the garage, and would like to store it up high out of the way, because of the lack of space I have. But I have no idea on the best way to do this. I was thinking...

Last summer after a big local event, I found a contact at a local place called Western Canadian Rockwell had the Meritor RF611-19's (they came under the MRAP military trucks) available for a pretty good price (1000cdn ea). For some backstory, aout 5 years ago I came across a fellow on...

Posting up my plans a build of my welding table. Also hoping to get a few ideas too. Anyway long story short, my plans of finding a blanchard ground table top from anything has been taking forever, and through all my searching I've stumbled across a bunch of decently sized i-beams. I ended up...

Thought I'd post up my garage build, its a small basic build with enough extras to make it a decent workshop as well. Its 22' wide and 24' long, 9' walls and vaulted ceiling (I wanted bigger but that's detailed below). It will be wired for 220/110 service, insulated, heated, & drywalled. I won't...

Welp, after almost falling for that miller 211 ebay scam and then doing some searching for looking on who was selling welders locally I stumbled across a well known shop advertising the above machine for $714 cdn after gst. Link to said machine: http://www.weldking.com/pdf/Flier-MAG255.pdf...

Local shop here in calgary AB is selling these for $679 cdn before tax, I'll toss a review thread up in the fabrication tools forum. Anyway here's the shop: http://www.kristian.ca here's the flyer: http://media.wix.com/ugd/778b26_d75c3a57a3854fb49ebc7046c64a4e00.pdf Here's mine: I'll...