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When I bought my boring tool, it came with an R8 shank, and so did my mill. And then I sold the mill and got something more ridgid, and with a CAT40 spindle. I have no idea if any of you use this type of spindle, but I thought it may be useful, so... I initially thought meh, I'll just get...

I recently sold off my Lincoln 180 and bought a new Miller Autoset. I have become totally unimpressed with the Autoset. It starts so hot that it burns back into the tip and then birdnests. I suspect they have incorporated a hotstart feature into it and it reacts too slow to deal with the wire...

From foundry to 3D prototyping and assembly

I've been on a search for aggressive grinding disks for my small grinders. For the large ones it's the pipeliner disks at P.A. So these ones which are made in Whitby, ont are worthy of reordering for me. At least I think they are made here, but could be chinese. These are soft and always open up...

Want to sell this welding table, but have no idea on a price. Any ideas as to what I should ask? Top is 1/2" plate, Record vice is 4"

As I get older, and things become more exhausting, I'm mechanizing as much as I can. I have always grown my own food and ground my own flour, and depend on the stores for very little. So a few years ago I threw together a potato planter out of thin tubing and car hubs and junk. I have always...

We are running Win10 on our 3 computers here. Recently the brains at Bills Privates (micro soft) decided to force people to use their new stuff, like Win11 and force them to buy a new computer to do it. My wife does the accounting for our 3 companies, and was horrified to find her accounting...

We all have one of those stamped tin cable coma-longs held together with spot welds, pop rivets and pins with cotter keepers that are supposed to lift 2-4 tons. I use these alot for straightening stuff that comes to the shop all bent up. I am never going to trust one and sooner or later they all...

I know people get nervous when the green planet saving lithium fires take 35 days to be put out, or super trucks that burn up a National Forest when they run off the road. This is more fun than a black powder cannon:D:p

Had a job 3 years back to power this dirt mixer for a tree farmer. I had to use his 9hp Subaru motor, (to replace a 40hp 3 phase)which was not enough and I recommended he use a tractor pto. After a pile of work I was able to demonstrate to him that it would not work. Then he started to suffer...