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I drilled all those holes this morning, and don't think I was off much more than that on any of them. I had ordered a couple of different brands of 3/4" Forstner bits to try. Only one had come, an...

After building and using a couple of mobile bases recently, I'll never again have any mobile base with anything smaller than 4" wheels, easy to lock and unlock without bending over locks, and ball...

Brian, I also have a Brakesmart. When I looked for a link this morning, it looks like both Brakesmart and Maxbrake (a later variation by Brakesmart) are no longer on the market, but are still...

The holes are not very big.

My BIL shot me doing this today. No editing, and first take. I make no claim to be good at explaining things. I can answer questions though.

This is a foolproof way to make sure every open...

We have the Dexter actuator on a horse trailer, and it's been troublefree. I do keep that trailer under a shed, and never put anything on the road when there is salt added.

I was going to...

A high percentage of my Scientist friends drive Teslas, since they first came out, including some that work for SpaceX of course. One called to wish me happy birthday tonight. I asked him is any of...

Don't worry Fritz, it's not as hard as it sounds, and doesn't take long at all once you find the right spot, to be able to put another one there. I never measure turns, but I don't think I'm at a...

No happy medium. It has to be just right.

Anyone see the Mythbusters episode where they lit cars on fire with different amounts of gas in the tank?

Looks great! While reprofiling an old molding plane, I saw really quickly why European Beech was the preferred wood.

Here's the conductive grease I use for such things. It has carbon in it, and will easily get all over everything if you get it on a finger. I already had it for working on old tractors. It's not...

One of ours in the rental house is also an old Craftsman. I started looking at replacement parts, and pretty quickly decided the better way to go would be to just replace it. Fortunately, the...

I asked a local guy I know here who is very active with the Fire Department if there had been an EV fire around here. He said not in their territory, or the other adjoining ones. He said they talk...

This has gotten a bit out of hand, but that wasn't the comment that I laughed at years ago. The link I posted was the only reference to that particular bench that I found easily with a google search...

My book off ebay came today. The ad said it was like new, and it is. It's an original from 1940, not a reprint, but not even a folded corner anywhere. There is the slightest bit of old book smell,...

The roads around the lake are full of Tesla's. Our grocery store, auto parts store, and hardware store are all close together 7 miles from our house. There is always little traffic on the road, but...

I did another Google search putting "no one uses one" in quotes, and this came up:

https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?58479-Levard-workbench

Looks like his link is dead, but I do remember...

These are the shorts I live in for all the hot months-just slightly more than running shorts with pockets.
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I don't remember where I read that, but it's been years ago. I did a Google search, and this is all that came up. This is the same as my bench. I can't remember if the sale price was $177, or...

I set them by feel with a strip of the hardest wood I have on hand (Boxwood). When you can feel the knife rubbing on the wood without lifting it, that's good. I take the jack screws and springs out...

That little bench has averaged being moved once a year since I bought it new in 1977. I would never have wanted to move extra weight. Sometimes I clamp a 2x4 to the stretchers and put it against a...

Start of a morning's work. This was in the air conditioned basement of one of the old houses I worked on. The little Lervad gets clamped to the table saw so it doesn't move.

The more wooden shingles can breathe on both sides, the longer they will last.

Just the bottom of that mortise probably has enough surface area to be strong enough, and some would squeeze up the sides. I would also try not to have any squeezeout.