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Hey Guys I am looking to make a combo welding cart MIG/TIG with a table top fixture table. I attached a few pics so you guys can see what I am talking about. What gauge metal would you use? I was thinking 1"x1"x.065" but newer to fabrication and not sure if .065" is too thin. The fab table will...

What are the capabilities of a tube roller (specifically the Harbor Freight one)? I have a couple of pieces or 2" .120" wall steel tubing that I am looking to bend in the below shape. I need this to go around the 8" coil spring and am limited by space between the coil and the red bar...

Hey guys, I am considering buying a tube bender. I need to make crossmembers and may build a roll cage down the road. The two benders above seem like good options from forums I read and are at very similar price points (besides M625) when adding hydraulics and shipping costs. I do not need...

I have a small shop for personal use and looking to get a small bandsaw to cut steel and aluminum (=< .250"). I do not see anything in my price range that does metal, only wood. I know I cannot be the only one that wants to cut metal. Am I looking in the wrong sections? seems like a smaller wood...

I have smaller intricate laser cut parts that I am looking to clean up the dross and shine up/polish the parts and therefore looking for a vibe tumbler as doing this by hand would not be efficient. I would am not looking to spend a ton of money and have looked into cheaper options such as...

Hey all I have been doing a lot of grinding with a painters type respirator and some safety glasses. Turns out safety glass dont work 100% of the time and I am essentially getting metal dust in my eye very occasionally. I am worried the normal face shields do not have room underneath for such a...

I am building a diesel truck and would like an exhaust cutout. Seems to me cutouts are really only a gasser thing, many of which would be too small for diesel exhaust. I am looking to build one myself but do not know what to use for the motor. I know there are many different DC motor types but...

I have a question for some of you more experienced. I need some PVC plumbing advise. I am redoing my bathroom and the upstairs toilet drainage drops below the rafters, into a T, then goes down into the basement. The upwards portion of the T goes to a street 45° up and out the roof (Vent). Since...

Hello, I have started my floor prep for epoxy (Primer, Base, Clear) but it will take me awhile to complete so I am also looking into what, if any, flake (light coverage) that I would like in the epoxy. I really like the idea of having a nice white shiny floor with no flake but I am unsure of my...

I am starting the prep work on the floor of my garage. I filled in the hairline cracks and am now beginning to grind the entire 750sqft with a 4in grinder... going to take a while but trying to save money and would rather spend my time. It goes decently quick but will for sure take hours to...

Figured some of you may have ran into this and I didn't want to join another forum. I live in in southern central NY and the soil here is terrible. TONS of rocks ranging from big to small. The dirt isn't like any dirt i've seen previously in my years in CT. Its hard and dry compared to CT and a...

I cannot seem to find this answer so I figured I'd ask here. Say someone wants to hire me to do trade work (electrical, HVAC, plumbing, etc) which requires a license to perform. Is there a way to perform the work for a customer without having a license? For example, pulling a permit for the...

I am in the process of mudding my garage. I have to take off the garage door to finish mudding. Being in NY the weather is starting to warm up and then get cold again at night (60deg day/ 40 deg night). According to google you arent supposed to mud below 55ish. what happens if I apply mud during...

I have removed the garage door and tracks completely from the wall to drywall my shop. When I reinstalled the garage door I cannot seem to figure out how to get the tensions back into the cables. My garage door is nothing I have seen before. I has a long spring that goes inside a tube (approx 2...

Hoping you all may be able to help me here. What would be my best way to Power Wash my garage floor in preparation for epoxying the floors with drywall hung on the walls? When I plan to do this, my drywall ill have been mudded, sanded, primed, and painted prior. I am worried about the bottom...

I am looking to install a minisplit in my gatage roughly a 30x30 space with 10 or 11ft ceilings...cant remember. Walls are R23 Ceilings R30 Relatively well sealed I live in New York/PA border were temps regularly get into the teens and occasionally stay in single digits. Will a "normal" mini...