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Gregg Distributors instead of Uline https://greggdistributors.ca/

So the Lawson storage system is better than this?

Slip-on steel toed shoes, and very well-developed machinist reflexes. Everything we work with is some combination of sharp, hot, or heavy. When it feels like hitting the ground, I let it. Never try to catch anything, never triy to nudge it with your foot, just get out of the way. And when I...

Nice folks, ordered lots of stuff from them and never been disappointed.

Diameter? Dollar store water bottle might have a food-safe gasket

Every fab shop on earth has one of these. If you can’t find one, give me a dimension and I’ll cut you a few squares of EPDM gasket material and mail them to you. Buddy of mine owns the largest gasket importer in BC.

Combine with a fluid torque converter? Best of all worlds?

Agreed. But in my shop, they last a couple of years before I'm annoyed enough to replace them. Small, low HP machines and mostly work in aluminum or cast iron, so soft or fine swarf. YMMV. Used to work with an old-school machinist who used duck boards. Shop was in a shed at a low-end shipyard...

I'm really, really cheap. Crappy dollar store 24"x24" EVA foam floor tiles, in bright collars. Eighteen for $24 at Amazon. Soft enough to stand on for hours, hot chips melt in to them and stay there, easy to remove to vacuum up sawdust, and when they wear out I go buy new ones. Also good in the...

Switch will work but not the way you have it wired. Capacitor goes to blue and black, connecting blue or black to line with the other wire open reverses the motor. Centre-Off SPDT or DPDT switch will work just fine. (Green isn't ground, but it's impossible to draw a white wire.