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I have a Porter Cable 80 gal compressor. An air hose in the shop split and the compressor ran for who knows how long. I shut the compressor off. I thought the pump had locked up because the motor was running, but the pump was not. The pump is OK but the belt was very loose. I was able to loosen...

I bought a Milwaukee portable bandsaw used a few months back with the idea to make a table for it. Well, here it is. I also posted a YouTube video on it if would like to take a look at this newbies welding & fab skills.

My brother moved into a new house. It has a 2 car & 1 car garage. The 1 car will be where the bench goes along the back wall. The space is a few inches over 12' long, so we built a 12' long bench. The top is made up of 2"x 8" SYP ripped in half and glued up. We figure the top weighs over 250...

So I have $100 Lowe’s gift card burning a hole in my pocket right now. I have a good selection of Bosch 18 V tools. 1/2” drill, 1/2” hammer drill, impact driver, 6-1/2” circular saw, & mini metal band saw I wish they had a right angle impact but they only have a right angle drill. I’m...

I am a 30 plus yr woodworking who is getting into welding. In my woodworking I delegate different routers (11 total) with different bits and leave it set up that way. I see people doing that same kind of thing with 4-1/2" angle grinders. I am up to 5 now with a really great open box buy on 2...

I am slowly building my own 2" x 72" knife grinding sander. The only problem is I need a grinder/sander to help build it. Ran across a great deal on a new in the box Dayton 2" x 42" sander in a pawn shop. Paid $100 for it.

I'm in the process of hooking up my first VFD. A Teco FM50. I tested it on the bench first the basic setup went fine without any external switches or the potentiometer yet. I hooked up the potentiometer and reset the parameters on the function key and tried it it works sort of, it won't go...