By Keven Coates Do you have any plastic gauge faces that have become so hazed by sunlight or so scratched up they are unreadable? Ten minutes and some auto parts store rubbing compound may be all that's needed to make your gauge functional again. In my case, I had a portable air tank used to [...]
By Marc Giroux Here is a simple and quick way to hold parallels in place while removing/installing the workpiece. I came up with this idea after realizing I was wasting too much time clamping every little part because I had to re-position the parallels for each one. Since I had about 20 parts to modify, [...]
By Dietrich Kanzler After struggling with finding specific drill bits in my index boxes, I did a minor reorganization that makes it faster and easier to pick out the bit I want. Generally, all drills are placed in the indexes with the point up. For the fractional index, I put all the multiples of 1/16” [...]
By Jon Anderson Brake line typically comes in either 6 or 8 foot lengths. If you want a longer piece, you have to buy a 25 foot coil. These long coils are difficult to straighten out and require the use of a commercial tool to do so. Since the commercial tool costs about $200, I [...]
By Reid Kowallis It seems like I never have the right length of machine screws. If the screws on hand are too short, it means a trip to the hardware store where I can usually only find screws that are too long, so I need to shorten them. If the screws are smaller than No. [...]
by Paul Temple A few years ago I came across a sale on a band saw blade butt welder that I couldn’t resist, which gave me the ability to roll my own blades. It works fine, except for one irritation: It is very difficult to align the blade ends well enough to avoid a misalignment [...]
