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Strange how things pop back in your head. A few years ago someone posted a story about them being robbed, police caught the thieves, and whoever it was went to sentencing and spoke and I believe took the kids hunting (shortening the story considerably). My question is did anything ever come of...

For the past two years, my daughter has made metal yard art, mostly butterflies and dragonflies, selling to family, friends and having a couple yard sales. Kid has made some money, bought a plasma table and now has several different products. Had planned on hitting the art fairs and craft...

So I am going to sand blast and paint an old jointer I have been using for a long time. I want to remove and re attach the name plates once I am done, how? Grinder is to error prone, thinking a small chisel will remove the rivet, then drill the remaining portion out, do my clean up and then...

I need a new drill press, badly. Went looking today at a couple of woodworking/metalworking stores and saw a couple Shop Fox 20" drill presses. On both the table castings wasn't the smoothest, but table seemed flat with a ruler across it. Saw a couple other finish/detail issues. I guess my...

I spent the last two and half days at a Harley Davidson riding school and this afternoon passed my test, on to the DMV for my motorcycle endorsement. I have been looking at bikes for awhile, and think I want either a dyna wide glide or soft tail. As this is my first real bike, not going to...

Last week Wednesday, my wife asked me to go to Walmart with her for a few items. Now I don't know about your local Walmart, but ours is full of freaks, where these people come from and what they do for a living, just makes my head scratch. I usually go just to watch people. Turns out I am now...

I need to change the connections on a welding gun, bought the new connector, cut off the old and have tried for two days to solder the wires onto the new connecter. Can not get solder to stick to the wire?? I know I have the wire hot enough, the solder balls up but does the stick/coat the...

Anybody else ever get these? I have a very large old metal band saw, that I use about once a month. It's a Johnson model J, made in 1963, probably my favorite tool in the shop. Every time I use it, I think about all the things it's made, and the different people that owned it, hoping my next...

So I bought a torch yesterday from Praxair. I have several jobs lined up where I am sick of cutting old welds off with an offset grinder. I have set the cutting torch up per the chart included in the kit and as I adjust the oxygen to get a neutral flame, it starts popping (back firing) and...

Redoing some e allen decoys and would like to make the keels more decorative, while still being functional, anyone got a picture I could use as a reference. Please either post or email me at avholley@hotmail.com Thanks

I am a pretty good mild steel welder, but want to start welding aluminum, and need some help with the setup. I currently have an older Linclon Idealarc DC-250 with an LN-7 wire feed. Can this weld alum? Do I need a different feeder? I know alum won't feed thru my existing setup, would like to...

Picked up a free ipad, was hoping to move duck pictures from the desktop computer onto the ipad and take the ipad out to the shop for carving and painting reference Was hoping because their jpeg photos they would transfer over, however, I can't move/copy them. Anybody got any ideas? Thanks

For something different I tried making my own breakfast sausage this evening. I had some last weekend from grass fed pork, was the best I have ever had. So decided to try making my own. Got a very basic grind, with two plates (grinding disks?), used the one with the larger holes, probably...

This past Sunday while the birds weren't cooperating, I went for a walk and found a "new to me" decoy. In fifteen years of hunting, this would be the third one I found. Hopefully one day, I find one of Jodi's (LOL). At first sight, thought it was a plain Herter, but the body has a plastic form...

I have a older Simplicity front deck mower, out mowing lawn tonight and the mower deck stopped spinning, thought I busted a the belt but no. Looked underneath and I saw the negative battery cable dragging, had melted the terminal off the battery (motor still running). Drove it into the garage...

I am making a few foamer field decoys and trying to figure out how to positon/hold them up. I can make a metal base similar to store bought ones, but haven't come up with a way to support them. I would call it a flange and have tried search Home Depot etc for something to use but no success...

Need some help. I purchased a floor mounted metal bender from Harbor Freight and want to mount it to my garage floor, but need to be able to remove it during the week and mount it over the weekend to use it. I thought about those expansion sleeves where you use a lag bolt and then found some...

Anyone purchase insurance/ taken one of their classes? Seems like a good program, almost too good?? Thoughts info would be appreciated.

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Saturday at 1:00 I started my first Tough Mudder, 20 obstacles and 10 miles later I finished. Every inch of my body was cover in mud, no broken bones, but knees are bruised and bloody. All said it was the hardest and most fun day I have had in a long long time. Signed up for next year's...