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I put in a low, sealed bid for a bandsaw and won the auction at our city's surplus auction recently. It's a power maxx 18" bandsaw, I believe the part number is 1-090-018. I have googled the heck out of this thing and have come up with nothing. Does anyone have any knowledge of these tools? I'm...

i have a circular driveway, in the centre is a grass "island" which has 5 trees on it. 3 poplar and 2 spruce. the poplars days were numbered as the they were old and only produced leaves on the top, the spruce were ugly but mature. as the leaves finally came out last week on our other trees, i...

i have been using my mitler dimple dies for years now without fail, i love the look of flared holes in everything when i build a hot rod. my question is, how are you guys cutting your holes to be flared? i have been using traditional hole saws, which don't do a great job. i have a greenlee...

i have been looking on ebay for a 4 ch outdoor security camera systen for my place, i've looked at so many systems its just becoming a blur:eyecrazy: i'd like to cover my driveway, and the perimeter of my garage, day and night. i'll need a system with a dvr and internet monitoring, so i can see...

what are you guys using in your parts washers? i bought a 40gal unit from greg smith equipment and would hate to have to buy 40g of varsol for it. is there something bettter, a concentrate?

i picked up this lincoln unit a while back, anyone have one or pics of one restored? just trying to get some info on it:beer:

my girlfriend wanted to put a, now get this...a "wood working" shop in my new "hot rod" shop:eyecrazy: there will be no wood cutting in the garage. period!! so, now i have to build a small out building for her hobby shop. i was thinking about maybe 12' wide x 16' long, gambrel roof, for lots of...

i have decided to build an open faced, colapsable spray booth. perhaps 5-6 feet wide, running from floor to ceiling. i am going to need a fan to draw the fumes outside through some air filter, the kind traditional booths use. how would i determine the size of fan needed and because the booth is...

i need a spray painting area in my new garage, but floor space is limited. i was looking at open face spray booths on ebay, and then it hit me...why not make the sides on hinges, so i could close the sides when not in use and reclaim that floor space, also, the folded in walls would contain and...

i have been messing around with my bare bones in floor system for the past few days trying to get it running right, a couple of questions... i'll post some pictures later... it is a hot water tank setup, one zone, using a 4 branch manifold, all the branches are close to the same length at about...

what have you guys come up with for the storage of large sheet materials, like sheetmetal, lexan, etc.i was thinking about building a shelf or two beneath my work table, but first i'd like to weigh my options :)

back in 07 i built a cheap little garage http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8335 to hold me over until we built the new place. i framed the garage last fall and it sat basically as a place top store building materials while we built the new house, well, the house is just about...

i framed in my mezanine floor today, now i have to figure out the best way to access it. i figured i would just use a ladder, but after climbing a ladder framing, i need to think of something that may be a little safer when retreiving whatever parts i store up there. i don't really want to frame...

i was thinking about mounting a jib crane on the outside of my new garage. i'd like it to be able to lift something up from a truck or trailer and swing it around into the garage. anyone have any pics of their setups? thanks:)

i am going to build a new shop this fall, i would like to build a barn style building, either a gambrel or monitor style. i have a size restriction in my area for out buildings of about 2100 sq ft. so i have to keep it under that. what i would like to build would have a clear span area at the...

last year i sold my house and moved in with my girlfriend. our plan is to live here for another year while we build our new house. our present house had only a small garage on a 50' lot. i need a garage badly, so we decided to build a 20 by 24 with 10' walls on a tight budget. because we are...

i'm just forming up my new slab and was interested in seeing what people have done when putting a pit in their floor. i have the basic knowledge of how to construct it, my brother is a forming carpenter, i just wanted to see some pics of some of yours. depth, length, stair construction...

hi, i have been lurking for a while now, i came over from the corvetteforum, and really enjoy this site. :beer: my question is...a couple of years ago i was in a guys garage who had built his own in floor heating system using an electric hot water tank. i really didn't pay to much attention to...