The Home Machinist!

I used to have access to shot blasting equipment. I tried a hood for a tractor once, wasn't pretty! It did get all of the paint off though.

Jim B

That looks great Harold! I bet your getting anxious for a pour.

Jim B

Nobody asks me about helping them with my pickup to move anymore. I have alot of excuses.

We had a "professional" install our kitchen cabinets about 20 years ago, and we are still dealing with the hack job. So now we try to do everything ourselves.

Jim B

Same here, but some of the friends are quick to ask when they need it.

Jim B

I have the same problem here. This past summer I called the plumber 3 times to get my new split unit heat pump started up and running. No return calls and no show. I wound up buying the tools, called the supplier with questions and got it running myself. At least my heating oil supplier shows up. Ji...

I have a customer in MA that has 4 VTL's, CNC, but they are still fun to watch. One of the horizontal milling machines that they have, the operator rides in a pulpit with the spindle and it is CNC. The sindle has a 20ft height.

Jim B

I can do it.

Jim B

"One of the things you've been overlooking is what the potassium nitrate does to wood. Once absorbed, it encourages combustion. "

So now Steve will have exploding stumps.

Jim B

Oops! I meant to say that I would NOT recommend this stuff that I used for air line.
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools ... _200484023

Jim B

Why is it that everything that falls off the front of my work bench has to go under the work bench and far enough back so I have to move the bench!

Jim B

For air piping, I put this into my shop https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200484023_200484023. I would recommend if anybody is considering it, throw away the instructions. If you follow the instructions, the joints will blow apart when you least expect it. For instance, I was doing a m...

2 wires or are there 4 wires coming out of it? 4 wires means that it has a field, so you want a dc controller that will support a field. There are a lot of the newer ones that won't. They will only run a permanent magnet motor. Of course that is ok if you have only 2 wires coming out of the motor. J...