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Also if Airgas is your only option, you should at least try going to a different Airgas location. I have had great interactions with a store manager at one location leading to swapping several marketplace pickups with no questions asked, and told to pound sand by another store manager for the...

Thanks y’all! Been a busy year with other things but I do have some shop updates to share. The drill press is functional! I didn’t do a very good job of documenting it since it was some pretty straightforward turning and seating bearings. I pretty much immediately put it to work after it...

I second the flashing- that's the right way to do it and have it be a forever fix. The Tremco mentioned above is good stuff, but I'll also throw out MasterSeal NP1. It's great stuff- I've had some that's been outside for a few years so far and it looks just like the day I put it down. It levels...

I've used Sherwin-Williams all surface enamel for my tools. I prep with bondo or similar, high build auto primer, then paint. Thin with a little bit of penetrol so it levels well, brush on with a china bristle brush, and then bake it on in front of the heater for a week or so. It might hold up...

I bought a set of these stubby star bit sockets at O'Reilly last week- they worked great with a low profile 1/4" flex head ratchet to get in some tight places in a steering column. Can't find them on their website though, but they look identical to this OEM Tools version on ebay. If you want to...

That's some great info and a great old motor.

Definitely filing this one away for when I finally get around to installing my Quincy 5HP.

I’ve got an almost identical motor to that Westinghouse that came off some 1920s era textile equipment. Looking here, it looks like the “Westinghouse” logo type was in use between 1916 and 1960, and the logo as used on these motors was used between 1913 and 1936. So that would narrow it down to...

Steel on top is a good idea, that way you have a solid surface to shim the lathe in to level. I’d at least put it over a couple of layers of 3/4” plywood and screw it down well to help absorb some vibration. There’s a good video posted by Blondihacks on leveling and alignment of a similar size...

Thanks! I really appreciate it. Yeah, pacing is hard for sure, hopefully I’m getting better at striking the balance between showing the work that goes in to a project but still making it watchable. I checked yours out and you’ve got great content too. Definitely earned a sub. Throwing another...

I agree with what everyone else has said about metal and heavy, but one thing that hasn’t come up is vibration. Steel tube, angle, beams, etc. can ring like a bell once a lathe gets vibrating. This can make chatter worse and make a lot of really annoying noises if everything isn’t balanced. I...

Sure! It's https://www.youtube.com/c/DuluthMachineWorks. I'll check yours out too for the same reason.

Very nice and beefy. Bet it doesn't move around too much at all. Love the looks of that Yost vise too.

Jeremy Fielding is a great engineer/hobby machinist and has built some very impressive things. His industrial robot arm is very impressive and I'm hoping he gets it to doing something productive soon. He's also a Solidworks user and has some really helpful Solidworks videos. I'm hoping he makes...

Prewar is totally my thing- My shop is shaping up to be period correct 1930s as best as I can make it. Here's my build thread: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/duluth-machine-works-duluth-machine-works-pre-war-machine-shop-in-a-two-car-space.418122/post-9468448 I love the resources...

I'm a huge fan of the ultrasonic cleaner filled with heated and diluted simple green. Replace the solution as soon as it's clody too for the best results. Takes everything down to bare metal eventually, and will even strip paint. I follow it up by a scrub and rinse under the sink, and then a...

Thanks! Those are some nice looking vises for sure.

Personally, I would work out how to incorporate the retaining wall in to your structure. The cost of the wall per linear foot, and the associated excavation, will likely be high enough that you wouldn't want to spend the extra money to make the wall larger than your structure, and you'd need to...

I use ISOTunes and have been very happy with them. I replace the ear tips with these, which are a lot more comfortable and feel like they have even better noise isolation than the stock ones.

Thanks! It was actually hard to find an inexpensive (cheap import) VFD that had plenty of output terminals. It seemed like most only had the standard run and stop, but this one has five programmable inputs. Just enough to do what I wanted it to.