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What is the best sound deadening insulation for residential or garage applications? Or some type of sound deadening drywall or dyna-mat type of product? Something that could handle the decibel levels of an angle grinder and air compressor so I could work at night without having to worry about...

I realize that. However my reasoning is that there are a bunch of posts and threads that have good organization and storage ideas that get lost or die off as no one posts on them anymore and it is tedious to search through and find them all one at a time, when having them all captured and...

Maybe I should post this in the general discussion section to get a little more traction on this subject?

It seems to me that Garage organization and storage is such a major and important topic that it would deserve its own forum category that could then have multiple threads spawned off of it to detail the different aspects of organizing and storing tools and items in people's garages. Especially...

I have a nice 2" thick workbench top (similar to a butcher block or vidmar top) that is a bunch of 2" strips all laminated together. I was going to sand it down and re seal it until I noticed that a majority of the laminated seams are starting to split at the ends of the table top. The splits...

thats a good idea! thanks!

yeah im slowly starting to come to this realization. I think the few successes i have had with extractors has been far outweighed by the problems associated with them breaking. Though there are times where there are flanges or piping or other intereferences where drilling is impossible or...

yeah ive tried the "shatter" method as well, but half the time i end up lodging the snapped off part of the extractor deeper in the bolt or if the hole is in soft metal like brass or aluminum then the sometmimes the threads in the hole get damaged by my attempts to shatter the extractor driving...

yeah ive had to resort to the carbide burr in a die grinder trick a few times. only problem in other applications was soetimes i couldnt get it to bite into the hard tungsten of the extractor because it was deep down in a blind hole and the carbide burr was just spinning against it instead of...

Yeah Ive read about the EDM. Seems a little out of price for us and you'd have to be able to bring the workpiece to the EDM device, which isnt always an option when your dealing with machinery in a ship's engine room that is too large to easily remove. I do like the freezing idea. I'll have to...

kroil--ok ill give that a whirl. "wheel of extractors" haha aint that the truth. just yesterday i spent 2 days trying to remove a bunch of stainless studs from a brass evaporator shell that all were so rusted they snapped off flush with the end with barely a twist. 2 came out easily with...

bees wax...ill have to give that a try. only thing is doing hot work onboard is so tedious to get approved. cant wait till we got our inductor machine---then we can just heat things up whenver we want! thanks

yeah ive got a set of left hand drill bits. seems like the really stuck ones dont really spin out easily with these, though.

that is a genius idea. I cant believe i never thought of that. thanks.

Hey guys, In my line of work, I frequently encounter the snapped off, broken off, russted or corroded fastener that I need to remove with as little collateral damage to the existing thread hole as possible. Often times, this involves drilling out and extracting, or completely drilling out and...

Re: Sharing my little workshop Its interesting that you mention that you dont have a lathe or mill because i was just wondering if you did because i didnt see any in the background pictures of your shop. So how do you work around issues or problems where you need to make a piece such as an...

Re: Sharing my little workshop I really like how you have your shop set up woth everything on wheels. I am planning on doing the same. Do hou ever have issues with the locks on the wheels not holding when doing any heavy duty work? where do you do your painting? i am trying to decide how to...

when i was stationed on a patrol boat a few years back we used to perfrom a water wash procedure to clean the vanes on the main propulsion engines' turbos using a kerosine/detergent/water mix. we ran em up to full power, and there was a little tank you poured the mixture in that was sucked into...

I have a small one car garage that i use for everything from metalwork, vehicle work, woodwork, painting, and everything in between. everything in it is set up as temporary or portable as i frequently move every few years when i get new orders. I just got a table saw and have been doing a lot...

I have an old 10" Delta table saw I was gifted from my in laws. It had been in storage for years, and I whipped it out plugged it in and it was good to go. Even had the fence. But it was missing the miter gauge. I'm working on a project where I need to make some square cross cuts and figured...