The Home Machinist!

Spro my friend, The area I have lived in the last 30 years is mostly farming country and was dotted with small one man shops that supported the farm community. Mechanics, welder / blacksmith, starter, generator, magneto repair, general machine shop, well drillers, etc. I knew many of these proprieto...

I miss his goat stories and the lawn mower saga. RIP Dave.

Nice clean shop with a nice layout of equipment Mr. Ramsey!

I've been a plumber (retired now) since 1972. When I first started in the trade we used lead based solder for domestic water piping installations. When lead free solder came in to play the learning curve was about two solder joints. My point is if you couldn't do it with lead free solder, you couldn...

www.jdeereparts.com $169.00 new. There is a used on on Evilbay for $80.00.

My set is numbered on a nice little brass hex handle, otherwise it would be a jumble.

Sorry about your Dad Steve, it's tough, lost mine 3 years ago and I took care of him for 4 years after my Mom died. I'm still not caught up the way I should be. I have an Anderson-Forrester GDK4080 kit, had it for years for doing oil, propane and natural gas burner orfices, really handy. https://www...

Congratulations RSG, I highly recommend it. I have about ten years of it under my belt and still haven't run out of things to do.

Good luck and enjoy whatever you choose to do.

Silicon bronze, TIG would be my choice also.

Al Gore is probably responsible.

Having worked in the plumbing, heating, and cooling industry for 50 years and having installed thousands of feet of copper tube I can tell you with certainty that no copper tube is measured or sold or ordered by it's inside diameter or I.D. Example, if you have a 5/8" copper sweat 90 degree ell it w...

Sad news, RIP Dave. . . your wit and wisdom will be missed by all.

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