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Can't tell from your photo, but it looks like the upper wheel is missing the urethane bandsaw tire... That and there should be a tension adjustment mechanism at the axle on the upper wheel...

Workpiece clamp... Used to prevent the drill bit from grabbing the part and becoming a Craftsman Bass-O-Matic blender... Here's mine, Welch 1100 Cam-Lock Drill Press Clamp, should have a similar operation... The loose silver fitting needs to be installed into the hole at the end of the blue arm...

At quitting time at the shop after the guys left for home, I'd always walk back to the welding area and check the welding bottles... Invariably, I'd find the valves not turned off and this also included the tank on the forklift... Would bring this up to the guys... It'd work for a while and then...

I replaced all my shop faucets with T&S Brass, sourced from McMaster-Carr... Still running drip free for over 25 years now...

Makes working on my MINI a breeze... Depending on which end I'm working on I'll position my wood ramp blocks under the wheels for safety... I've considered adding grease zerks, but the outer sleeve is too thin of a wall thickness or the threads on the grease zerks would bottom out on the pivot...

Worked on the JD garden tractor yesterday... The ignition switch was being temperamental... Original 40 YO switch... Tight space with my big hands... Cleaned up the plug connector on the wireing harness that plugs into the switch... The contact cleaner did a nice job on the female spade...

Looking at he size of that drive drum on the motor... I bet that belt flys...

Today in my garage... Cleaned the MINI today and applied Opti Seal to the paint and plastic trim... I had a few paint chips on the Cayman bonnet that were bugging me... I had a touch up bottle of the OEM paint with the small brush inside the cap... I knew I didn't want to use the supplied...

As you probably know, Porsche is pretty good at recycling parts and they will use some parts forward on new models... As an example, if you look up the door seal gasket "Weather-Strip On Body 981-537-076-06", it's used on 2014 thru 2024 Caymans... Based on this part, I'd say your door opening is...

Did the poolboy scream?

Mines a 2016 981S... I was able to rotate 360 degrees while still in the cabin... I settled with only doing 180 degrees... The seats need to be pushed all the way forward and fully reclined... The steering wheel needs to be pushed all the way forward and down... Work the headliner above the...

Yesterday I took my headliner to a local automotive upholstery company I've used in the past... Met with the owner of Tritex Corp. and he had the perfect fabric match and has done a number of Cayman headliners... Normally he charges $750 + tax, but since I had already pulled the headliner from...

Looks like a second handle / bar was welded onto the head of an adjustable wrench... I see some weld porosity on the head and some grinding / polishing on the add on piece... Seems to work well for her purpose...

Last year I noticed the fabric in my Cayman started to delaminate from the headliner structure... This is a common issue that plague the German cars made after their government mandated certain adhesive VOC reduction take place... The glue simply falls apart... Today, in the garage, I decided to...

I think the "portability" of it will come in handy when it's not convenient to do the soldering work on a table / benchtop...

This is what I copied from Eric O... I need to add a few pieces of heat shrink tubing on mine to the alligator jaws to protect the wire insulation from being pierced...

Not much in the garage today... I was watching Eric O on S M Auto do some wiring repair today and noticed he was using what looked like a DIY soldering aid using it to do a **** solder joint on some broken wiring... I thought, hey that's good, I would try and make one too... I seem to recall...

Just tell your wife you need to go to the grocery store for a gallon of milk...

OK... Pulled vs. Rolled... You'll never ever see it being used with rolled tubing... Different method, different tooling... Limitations to both...

Here is an example how an internal mandrel bender works, in this case for a round tube profile, but square is similar... The mandrel is stationary and the tube is pulled over the mandrel... internal mandrel bending