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Sorry for the departure, back to making a side cover for the Ammco shaper. The heat. To the left a bucket of anthracite coal, takes a...

I built the shop attached to my house back in 1983. The garage is 1800 square feet, cement block 12' 6" ceiling, front 900 square feet...

chunk of pipe, a bit extra long, drill a hole clear through near the 'socket' end for a tommy bar As McGyver says, drill round hole and...

@Susquatch : I have a spool gun for my welder. As this was pretty thick stuff I had it cranked up to 180 amps, argon gas and 0.030 Al...

So my cousin needed a “tiller head” for his fish sonar. No better time than to mill up a big hunk of aluminum. This is a 3 inch x...

Let there be light!

For those not familiar with the Newbould indexer, please do yourself a favour and go read the fascinating tale of it's invention, told...

Thank you. That makes PERFECT sense!

My dad's truck, a 1968 Ford F100 spent so much time on gravel roads that been freshly oiled that it had about 3/8" of tar on the...

We had a service truck that carried diesel fuel, engine/hydraulic oil and grease to service our forestry machines in the bush. It was an...

I detest working on car rust, whatever you see it's almost always 10x worse, from the inside out in most cases. We have had great...

Those slots are actually oil transfer ports. Oil pressure is supplied through the camshaft to control the variable valve timing. it has...

Hyundai/kia definitely know that this is a problem. They are usually very good about implementing fixes quickly, so I'm sure it has...

Nice save!

Nicely done! You deserve a pat on the back for that innovative solution.