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    Buying an old, OLD lathe from a friend. Anyone know anything about it?

    My friend wants to upgrade to a larger lathe, and is going to sell me his. I've had an eye on it since he got it, so he offered me first dibs. What I know is that it's a Chandler-Farquhar, and he said he's pre-1920. He thinks that it came from a factory where it was driven off some sort of...
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    Started putting together my home shop.

    Moved into this house last year, finally getting around to setting up my shop. I'm currently renting a barn about 10 miles away, and I'm sick of driving there to work on stuff, and not having tools around the house. Here is the garage when we moved in. A few weeks ago we applied Epoxy...
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    Epoxy Coated the garage today.

    Finally getting started on the garage at my house after being here almost a year. Ordered a kit from Epoxy-Coat after doing some research on different brands of shop-floor coatings. Here is is when cleaning the floor and putting down the acid etching stuff, which is included in the kit...
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    My vintage air compressor.

    I figured I'd post up the pride of my shop, the 1950 Westinghouse Air-Brake air compressor I got over winter. I've been using it for a few months now, and other than it not being the fastest thing on Earth, it seems to work great! It's an 80 gallon tank, I have it set to 160psi, has a 1hp motor...
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    New guy from PA.

    Hi, I wondered over here while searching for Dayton Speedair parts on Google. I'm also over at the HAMB. Last fall I moved into a new shop. These pictures are from right when I finished the initial move-in. I had just made the work benches and shelves. It's a bit more full now with the...
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