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Simple - ask your insurance agent to stop by your home. Mine came by (Farmers Ins.) I showed him the contents of my machine shop and had him value the contents at $100K. This is over and above the contents of the house. Additionally I gave him the plot plan of the permitted addition to the...

Figureitout gave you some pretty good advice - it would serve you well to listen to it. Your going to need quality crimping tools and I would look to eboner for UL approved "Ratcheting Type" crimp tools. He named the obvious ones you'll need but you'll also run across the European variant of...

Well there ya go - offering perfectly good free advice .... Thanks guys - don't know why I didn't think of that. Bout time I get out the manual and service it

Anyone got any good news for me .... Other then replacing whole circuit boards, dropping it off at an authorized ****** center for repair ... any thing ... checked the foot control already and even tried the thumb control too .... not it

There is a reason why guys hang on to those Fluke 87s So it sounds like your working an oil refinery and yes they are phasing out tool bags. Just had an incident where a single jack fell out of a nose bucket being lowered down and hit a Hole Watch on the back of the neck. Guy is alright but...

Pine shelves and Milk Crates The Milk Crates make it extremely easy to load all the gear into the truck/car/van when your ready to go or returning from your trip. Also they are rugged enough to take some abuse or even double as seating around the camp fire

Leech fields don't last forever - and especially if your doing a lot of clothes washing with bleach and harsh detergents. I hope your contractor recommended a "Diversion Valve" so you can alternate between leech fields when its all done.

I built my Chassie welding jig out of a Welded Double Unistrut frame with a couple of those cheap engine stands from Happy Fart on either end. I had to use some 3" x 1/4" Angle Iron down the middle and 4" x 1/4" Flat stock on the corners to give it enough rigidity to resist contortion. That...

Here is mine Except mine has a PC based control system and servo motors attached All kidding aside, I would plunge the corners with an endmill the 1/2 the size of the radius I wanted making the first plunge my datum point and hollow out the round cornered rectangle from there. Is it...

Look Thumper - Your never finished Once the metal addiction gets in ya - ya just got to have more. Sure I know, it seems harmless. You make a few widgets, then you find out you can make tools too. Next thing ya know your the talk of the neighborhood "Oh Lookie what Thumpedr Fixed" - praise and...

Sure But better to tack weld a couple 1" strips on the sides to keep it stationary

Good move Thumper I bought one of those TECO VFDs and ended up giving it away. By the time you derate a 5Kw VFD to run off single phase you don't have enough power to start up a 2 Hp motor without creeping up the speed ever so slowly. I have a 10 Hp Ronk RPC that I piped a 3 phase electrical...

You'll be able to buy a Chinese saw twice over for what they'll charge for that gear

Would highly recommend you start with your local IBEW / JATC Wouldn't want to pay for training that wouldn't be accredited nor have to start all over/on the bottom of the pay scale every time you go to a new shop. Union membership does not have those problems

would like to see how they get the sand/mold out of the tank after they pour it

Ditto on the Lincoln Square wave I've had a Lincoln Square Wave 175 for years and its never given me a problem. The foot peddle in Tig mode gives me a nice linear response that allows me to start off at almost nothing and then pour in the heat once I'm all lined up

You running AC stepper motors on a Gecko set up ?? Most CNCs come with DC Servo Motors. Now days "Brushless DC Servo Motors". But ya - I'm still running DC Brushed Motors on mine too. Had problems with the Servos until I took the single phase transformer feeding the DC rectifier off the...

When your buddy comes over with the "Brake Stay" for his new Harley - "Its just a temporary Fix" "Just need it until the new one comes in" "I hardly ever ride the thing" "Brakes - who uses brakes anyway" ....

You want to weld Al - get a real welder Al takes heat and lots of it. You can always weld thinner but with a small machine you can't weld Thicker. Don't get me wrong - Love Lincoln Welders, have a 175 Square Wave I do Tig with. But when I want to MIG Al. I use a Miller 304. Mig for Al. is one...