IcePrick

That's exactly what I was going to say. Please tell me that's just a showroom, and you have another garage to do actual work in? I can't imagine the time it takes to keep everything clean in there if any kind of in-depth work happens in that space. Either that, or I'm just the laziest shop cleaner-upper ever in comparison. On the other hand, what I do in my garage would take most of the amazing out of that picture pretty quickly. A little plasma cutting (especially the part where you light the garbage can on fire), some angle grinder work, welding, and painting a truck in there... after about a year of that I would have ruined it. Really, I just can't have nice things.

I'm thinking of making a "turret" style table for my smaller bench items - bench grinder, buffer, belt/disk sander combo, mini (angle grinder) chop saw, and small wood bandsaw. Something with a foot pedal that would lift the deck of the table and allow it to rotate, then drop onto location pins and orient each tool at the front station. I think I can arrange the tools in such a way that it won't be too deep, as a couple of the tools are relatively shallow like the buffer and the grinder. The problem would be side clearance, maybe each tool could be on some form of slider to extend it toward the operator and allow for more clearance on the sides. Each would have to have a quick release in order to relocate them for temporary work elsewhere. Power management would be interesting, maybe just plug/unplug them in turn as needed. I have to lay it out and see what I can come up with. You've come up with some cool solutions for a small shop, there's a lot of big equipment packed into a small space in your garage yet it remains pretty usable without having to move stuff out of the way to get and use other stuff. I have more space, but it has so much clutter from unfinished projects that it seems smaller than your single-car side. I have a friend who has a couple of those cable lift ceiling racks, he has them situated over benches. His tabletop woodworking tools live on them, he drops the entire rack onto the bench and uses them, then lifts the rack up to the ceiling when he's done. He has to keep the benches clear to do this, but it turns out to be a feature rather than a bug. For someone with a high ceiling, this is a great answer, but I don't have that luxury.

Congratulations on a half century! I looked at 50 the same as a 100k service interval - get a good checkup, fix anything worn or broken, look at trade-in value and decide to keep it.

I had the same thing happen several months ago. Carlos looked into it, but I don't know if it was ever resolved - it's likely deep in the forum software. Guess not by your post. Based on his recommendation, I found that never pasting as rich text was a good preventative, but the error has popped up a couple times since without even pasting anything. When the error has popped up, I have cut the entire post, then paste the entire thing back in, look for the "paste as plain text?" prompt and select that. If you keep trying to repost without "fixing" whatever it thinks is "wrong", you'll get bounced. My guess is the same, that the software thinks it is an attack and locks out that IP. I did the same workaround by jumping on my hotspot (and not trying to post the same content). IIRC, it was 48 hours before I could post with my original IP.

Numb, I feel.

Maybe that's how acetone clears up a sore throat when I gargle with it. Smooooth.

Brush over it lightly with a torch? Or still the same problem, have to do the entire object?

I have machinist friends who think anything other than way oil is heretical, and others who are 30-wt Mobil-1 fans. If you ever want to start a death match at a machinist convention, that's your ticket.

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Change the native iPhone .heic file to a jpeg and it will show. If you're bringing it over from iCloud on a laptop, I think there's an option to download it as a .jpeg so it saves a step. Not sure directly from an iPhone as I rarely use my phone to upload here. I'm guessing there's a way in Settings to make the phone default to .jpeg as the saved photo format. *edit*: Look at you, pro machinist, with the can of way lube!

Wait, you're drunk in a bar and surrounded by strippers? At this hour?

I almost mentioned that they tend to be a little generous when estimating things like power ratings and duty cycle, but I think most of us view a lot of manufacturer claims as optimistic unless proven otherwise.

I don't know anything about blowback start or IPT40 guns - I guess if consumables are more expensive, it's probably an upgrade over the PT31? We know that YesWelder isn't crap, and among Chinese welding and cutting products, is a step above average (and I don't really hear bad things about any of them). I don't think you'll be unhappy. Having the power of Thor in your hand is impressive - a tiny little lightning tornado.

I've always admired the powertrain of a... well, train. Locomotive, I guess. That's Spanish for "crazy motion", for those who don't habla. I assumed the reason we didn't do that in cars was because of the added weight and complexity. I agree with Carlos that it brings additional complexity and potential fail points, all the disadvantages of each propulsion source. But if reliability can be achieved (Cummins R2.8 on the ICE side, enough said) and on the EV side, the benefits would be amazing. Then there's this guy, putting a 300HP Tesla front motor/axle in a Civic...

Wow, great idea, the wrenches. A circle cutter was a project in fabrication class, it took about 15 minutes to make. Pretty much like the one he made, but more planned out with the staggered rows of holes and it had a handle on the non-torch side to help turn it.