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I gather from reading many posts on other forums this is a loaded question. That said, I have two lista cabinets that need paint AND my welders Miller Dynasty 300 and XMT450 are both looking like they have had better days! The two shades of blue at least on the pieces I have are close...

I am considering replacing my CFL's with LED UFO's. My shop area is 75X 120 but not all of that is lit and some area are lower light areas. I have 105 watt CFL's that are 13-16' high every 15' in areas where work lights on machines fill in the blanks. The overall light quality is OK...

I want to use a stand alone 12 volt a/c compressor to cool a heat exchanger in a vehicle. The mounting location of the compressor is flexible to a degree. The compressor would likely be located in an area with little natural airflow. The idea of using a fan to cool the compressor is...

I am looking for information on rolling window shutters. I see these are also called hurricane shutters? I have 2 -16' wide and three 6' wide window bays I would like to cover. Cost and how they fit are two of the big things. I would do the install so a material vendor and or...

l sold my house in Woodland Hills and have to be out by Feb 13, I have two workbenches in the garage and a small cart, cabinets etc, There is junk on all the benches so give me a day to post pics. One bench is a steel 30x60 heavy sheet from the 1970's like you would see in dealership stalls...

My truck is getting an overhaul in the sleeper, the bed was raised and a dinette is in progress. Lots of fab that is unseen, bed frame, bed frame brackets, seats and trim panels. More as I get further along.

I used the drillpress yesterday no issues, today I try to turn it on no go. It has an old mechanical starter switch, thought that may be it, nope. Plug in other drillpress no joy. Go to the breaker panel, yup breaker open. Go to panel that feeds the sub-panel with blown breaker...

I am putting an RV window in the back of my truck. The window is a common RV window that was designed to mount with an inner frome. I don't have an inner frame and would like to use butyl or urathene to glue the frame to the back of the cab. Two questions, first urathane or butyl...

I want to get some single stage Urethane paint for some machinery. This site poped up it seems to be a company called Trinity 1945 that produces the paint? The price is quite good and again this is going on machine tools not show cars. Other on-line paint suppliers are more expensive by...

Looking for ideas to use wheel chair wheels for other projects. Thoughts that come to mind are welder carts. I have several wheelchairs that are incomplete and no organization wants them so what great ideas do the creative minds here suggest?

This is not exactly a garage floor, I have a space that is roughly 18X24 that was a wash down area with a drain in the middle of the floor. I would like to raise the floor and insuate it for an office. The floor is concrete and slopes 3~5 inches or so. Using 2X6 as a start would foam...

I have a number of medical grade tools/instruments most made in the US or Germany. These are great for O-rings, gaskets and small cavity work. The dental tools are all new in packaging or new out of box. The other medical tools are new except as noted a few forceps/tweezers and...

I have seen a few folks mention medical or dental tools here. I know a few who use some but this thread is about broadining the scope of these types of tools in general shop application. Now a lot of this stuff is just over the top for "shop work" but, things like the forceps AKA tweezers...

I have a couple of these OK grinders and wanted to start a thread for these. If you don't know of these this will be a bit of an intro. My first sight of one of these beasts was as a child, ever since I have wanted one, I now have two. Hammond of Kalamazoo is a company known more for the...

I have a Liftmaster opener that will not close to the set position. We can reset the door and it closes, then it will rise up. The amount it rises is not consistent, it may rise a few inches or go up a couple of feet. Steve

Garage Door guru Anyone a garage door pro, I have a unique door counterbalance that I would like to go over. It is NOT an overhead door it is a ramp on the back of a trailer. It is heavy 500lbs and it has 105 degrees of travel. Due to physical constraints it also has cable pulleys to...

I have a driveshaft that I need to change a flange. The flanges are friction welded at the factory, these are steel shafts. I would like to have the replacement flange friction welded if possible. Are there shops with rotary friction welders that do one off work? The tube diameter is...

I needed a little hoist for my surface grinder to load and unload work. The grinder is in a room with a metal roof. I attached a section of Unistrut to a purlin for the hoist to travel on. The hoist will be used to pick up heavy for a person <50Lbs but, not more than about 200Lbs...

I have several gas fired infrared high intensity heaters, one in particular runs for a while then shuts off, as it shuts down the start sequence reignites the heater. This continues in random intervals, sometimes 5 minutes or less sometimes longer 10~15 minutes. The heater never shuts...

This is a no holds bared IF you could spec the ideal Mig welder what would it be? Red, Blue, Yellow or? Inverter, Multi Process, Transformer, 3 phase or single, power is not an issue 240/480 any amperage is no sweat. Consider the power supply, wire feeder, hose and gun, any add on boxes...