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    "New" machine day HLV-H

    New addition to the shop... Gonna need a lot of elbow grease and head scratching but itll be worth it in the end. Found it as a 220v 3ph which will make it easy, i wont have to mess around with transformers. Now i just need to build a RPC. Needed to happen sooner or later anyway and this is a...
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    New bench for the shop - finished

    In the last house we owned I had the same problem with the rickedy bench I had, always frustrating. Anything big enough to have to be built on the floor was always a bugger too. This particular bench had a fairly wicked twist in the top(learned a lesson when gluing it up). Ended up making a...
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    New bench for the shop - finished

    Thanks guys, and yes the legs are adjustable, my garage floor is fairly even but made the adjustable feet just in case I need to make any adjustments or if it wasnt level in either direction I could easily adjust it. Instead of messing around with shims and such. Have a few others benches at...
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    New bench for the shop - finished

    Built a new bench for the shop and turned out pretty good so figured id share with yas. First time doing any picky woodwork for me but a fun build none the less.
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    Checking bed twist

    Another option is to use a pendulum setup to check lathe bed twist. Very easy to make and no special(machinist level) required and still quite accurate. I don't have a picture of the setup I made but there is a video on youtube link below I personally would not use the tailstock sliding back...
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    Prussian Blue in Calgary

    Ive usually bought mine from Napa of all places. Permatex is the brand and from what I can find the part # is PER-58835 worth a try...
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    Heating a garage - Infrared, innovative or terrible idea?

    Just had the wonderful experience of doing the same thing this fall. Bought a different house middle of last summer that had just a detached garage(shop for me), but it wasnt insulated and only had a small subpanel service fed from the house. Not sure if this will work for an attached garage but...
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    ISO shaper.

    Might be a bit hard to come by with those stipulations in your first post. Cheap or Free. It took quite a few years for me to come across an Atlas 7B over here in Saskatoon at a half descent price, got lucky on that one. My other machines though I had to find outside of the prairies. One from...
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    I like tools.....

    I like tools.....
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    ClampTite tool

    Nice tool to have around, ill add it to the "to be made" list haha Thanks for showing
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