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dnsfailure said:
how well does that tapmatic work? I bet that's fun to use if the machine is slow enough.
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I think they work pretty good and those things hold a good resale value too. I think they’re best if you do a lot of same sized repetitious holes. One or two offs, I don’t think it’s worth it.

I reverse engineered one of those leverer tapping arms years ago but never built it. I cut out enough side plates to build two, one for me and one for a buddy. Just gotta figure out what I did with my notes.

This thing was cool because you could quick change tap sizes in different collects and one with a drill chuck. It used an air tool like a die grinder.
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I have a couple of Chinese knockoff tapmatics in different sizes and they are ***s for repetitive work. I do have trouble keeping them from pulling the morse taper out of the drill press though. I hose clamp a piece of flat bar to the quill with a small bend at the bottom so it can't fall enough to disengage the drive tang. Ghetto but it works.
 
AlxJ64 said:
Man! Those are nice! A few of mine have the chrome peeling off in some spots and the missing ones are on eBay for like $50 each right now.
I am going to scour the farm property next time I am there to hopefully find the missing ones. Then again, they were all scattered all over so they may be gone totally.

I used them recently to break some lines free on an excavator control block without having to take all of the lines across the block loose, it was very very nice! I would like to find a set of the 90 degree fitting nut sockets too eventually. Or buy some hobo freight ones and mill the slots into them.
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When doing **** like that I always take a rolling magnet with me.... I find a lot of useless ****, but sometimes the diamond arises out of the dung heap....
 
Landslide said:
I won this at auction for $3. My thought is to beef the undercarriage with some wiggle wheels. I want to use it for my laptop and mouse for my new plasma table. I’m not interested in the swivel stick arm mounted to the table setup. I’ll try it and ifn it doesn’t work out well, then I’ll post it on FBMP and figure something else out. Main issue I see having is room in my shop and I’m not 100% on the actual physical size of it.

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I have this exact old table / desk in my shop. I run my CNC plasma table from it. Mine was given to me by someone who I bought a bunch of vintage tools from during covid. If you haven't picked it up yet, I can measure mine.
 
AlxJ64 said:
I have this exact old table / desk in my shop. I run my CNC plasma table from it. Mine was given to me by someone who I bought a bunch of vintage tools from during covid. If you haven't picked it up yet, I can measure mine.
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The official desk of the loading dock/shipping dept.

34.5"x30" for that standard size one.
 
AlxJ64 said:
I have this exact old table / desk in my shop. I run my CNC plasma table from it. Mine was given to me by someone who I bought a bunch of vintage tools from during covid. If you haven't picked it up yet, I can measure mine.
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I got it home setting under my shop leanto for now. Still moving things around in my shop. I think it’s a perfect size desk and I’ll do what I can to make room for it.
 
andrew_ln65 said:
Got sick of borrowing my neighbour's router and even sicker of it having to be plugged in

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So that doubled the price of the sandpit project but hey at least it has nice round corners now
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I got a couple different sized cordless DeWalt routers and I like using them on different projects. As anything goes, router bits are required to be able to use the router and quality bits get expensive fast.

I like this brand a lot
www.whitesiderouterbits.com

Whiteside Machine Company

Home of Industrial Grade Router Bits & Drilling Tools. Family Owned and Operated. American Owned and Operated. Committed to Quality and a Superb Product Line.
www.whitesiderouterbits.com www.whitesiderouterbits.com
 
I picked up one of those 20V DeWalt routers awhile back and have to admit that being cordless is nice. However, the weight at the top is a bit ungainly at times and I find myself pulling out my trusty Bosch router for jobs requiring more finesse.
 
Vevor cold cut.
Guard and miter gauge is total **** but it cuts pretty good.
 

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Landslide said:
I got a couple different sized cordless DeWalt routers and I like using them on different projects. As anything goes, router bits are required to be able to use the router and quality bits get expensive fast.

I like this brand a lot
www.whitesiderouterbits.com

Whiteside Machine Company

Home of Industrial Grade Router Bits & Drilling Tools. Family Owned and Operated. American Owned and Operated. Committed to Quality and a Superb Product Line.
www.whitesiderouterbits.com www.whitesiderouterbits.com
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Damn, didn't know there were different sized units available. Would have been happy with a smaller or brushed one for cheaper.

PAToyota said:
I picked up one of those 20V DeWalt routers awhile back and have to admit that being cordless is nice. However, the weight at the top is a bit ungainly at times and I find myself pulling out my trusty Bosch router for jobs requiring more finesse.
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Yeah it certainly is a bit bigger/heavier than I was expecting. It was better with the 2ah battery but that didn't last long.

chumly2071 said:
Have had good luck with this ebay seller for inexpensive carbide router bits.
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The individual bits were pretty expensive in the tool shop so I went with the kit hoping it has everything I'll ever need. Annoyingly when I got it home all 3 roundover bits had too small of a bearing fitted so they would have left a step at the bottom of the cut. Silly Chinese kid must've been off his game that day. Luckily the next one on the shelf was fine.
 
Aight this may be pedestrian compared to some of the **** you guys buy, but I got one of those non-aerosol sprayers and a 5 gallon metal bucket of brake cleaner... $130~ for five gallons...I feel like I've spent that in the last 30 days on not even 1/4th that amount of the aerosol cans.

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wt91 said:
Aight this may be pedestrian compared to some of the **** you guys buy, but I got one of those non-aerosol sprayers and a 5 gallon metal bucket of brake cleaner... $130~ for five gallons...I feel like I've spent that in the last 30 days on not even 1/4th that amount of the aerosol cans.

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These are one of the best shop tools I wish I learned about 20 years earlier. Last shop I worked for had one of these systems:

sureshotsprayer.com

SURE-FIL® Machines

SURE-FIL® is the fastest, easiest way to fill all of your Sure Shot Sprayers. It's as easy as connecting your chemical and air then flipping a lever. Never open up your filler caps ever again. No electrical power needs required. Works exclusively with Sure Shot® Sprayers. Lever control fills...
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Pretty awesome.
 
abrogate said:
These are one of the best shop tools I wish I learned about 20 years earlier. Last shop I worked for had one of these systems:

sureshotsprayer.com

SURE-FIL® Machines

SURE-FIL® is the fastest, easiest way to fill all of your Sure Shot Sprayers. It's as easy as connecting your chemical and air then flipping a lever. Never open up your filler caps ever again. No electrical power needs required. Works exclusively with Sure Shot® Sprayers. Lever control fills...
sureshotsprayer.com sureshotsprayer.com
Pretty awesome.
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agreed, they are fantastic. I keep one full of brake cleaner, and I want a 2nd one for WD40. So much cheaper to buy chemicals in gallon+ sizes rather than pre-packaged small spray cans.
 
andrew_ln65 said:
Damn, didn't know there were different sized units available. Would have been happy with a smaller or brushed one for cheaper.


Yeah it certainly is a bit bigger/heavier than I was expecting. It was better with the 2ah battery but that didn't last long.



The individual bits were pretty expensive in the tool shop so I went with the kit hoping it has everything I'll ever need. Annoyingly when I got it home all 3 roundover bits had too small of a bearing fitted so they would have left a step at the bottom of the cut. Silly Chinese kid must've been off his game that day. Luckily the next one on the shelf was fine.
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The smaller router is a trim router or veneer router for like doing countertops and whatnot.

In the router bit world, you get what you pay for mostly. I own a couple bit kits but mostly use for crap wood or torcher jobs. For hardwood like white oak, better have a good quality carbide bit for that or all you’ll end up doing is burning the wood after several inches.
 
abrogate said:
These are one of the best shop tools I wish I learned about 20 years earlier. Last shop I worked for had one of these systems:

sureshotsprayer.com

SURE-FIL® Machines

SURE-FIL® is the fastest, easiest way to fill all of your Sure Shot Sprayers. It's as easy as connecting your chemical and air then flipping a lever. Never open up your filler caps ever again. No electrical power needs required. Works exclusively with Sure Shot® Sprayers. Lever control fills...
sureshotsprayer.com sureshotsprayer.com
Pretty awesome.
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I’d say worth it ifn you use a lot of brake cleaner fluid. $1,200 for a filling station is a lot of aerosol cans for my use. I buy chlorinated CMC stuff by the case and it last me about three four years. Oddly enough, I use a lot of it as wasp killer, drops em like a rock.

Now WD-40 on the other hand. I acquired several cases of cans of that years ago for free. I’ve used about half of that so far. Before that, I bought it by the gallon and filled spray bottles with it.
 
Landslide said:
The smaller router is a trim router or veneer router for like doing countertops and whatnot.

In the router bit world, you get what you pay for mostly. I own a couple bit kits but mostly use for crap wood or torcher jobs. For hardwood like white oak, better have a good quality carbide bit for that or all you’ll end up doing is burning the wood after several inches.
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Interesting, this was the only cordless option I saw. They sell it as a trim router, but it's kinda modular. The motor/spindle comes out of the "trim" base and goes right into the "plunge" base. The kit with the plunge base included was about $150 more and I've had decent results hand plunging my neighbour's trim router so I didn't feel like paying the extra.

Good to know on the bits, thanks. Guess it's just like metal cutting tools then. These are all Carbide tipped but will keep it in mind for hardwood. I only do homeowner type ****, no "real" woodwork.
 
Landslide said:
I’d say worth it ifn you use a lot of brake cleaner fluid. $1,200 for a filling station is a lot of aerosol cans for my use. I buy chlorinated CMC stuff by the case and it last me about three four years. Oddly enough, I use a lot of it as wasp killer, drops em like a rock.

Now WD-40 on the other hand. I acquired several cases of cans of that years ago for free. I’ve used about half of that so far. Before that, I bought it by the gallon and filled spray bottles with it.
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There were ~15 guys working there and it was owned by the shop. We just bought the sprayers and they shop paid for the bulk fluid. The filler probably paid for itself in less than a year vs. buying aerosols from the local supplier.

Random related memory: Some dudes there loved to spray your back with brake clean from across the room. I was shocked they were that dumb, but it always made me think of the gas pump scene in Zoolander

 
abrogate said:
These are one of the best shop tools I wish I learned about 20 years earlier. Last shop I worked for had one of these systems:

sureshotsprayer.com

SURE-FIL® Machines

SURE-FIL® is the fastest, easiest way to fill all of your Sure Shot Sprayers. It's as easy as connecting your chemical and air then flipping a lever. Never open up your filler caps ever again. No electrical power needs required. Works exclusively with Sure Shot® Sprayers. Lever control fills...
sureshotsprayer.com sureshotsprayer.com
Pretty awesome.
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Sureshots kick ass. I use gasoline in one to clean about everything. I rarely use any brake cleaner or carb cleaner anymore... 1200 for a sureshot filler is crazy though. It's not hard to dump a quart of your preferred fluid in and re-pressurize with air.
 
trick is to have a tire filler head hard mounted to your compressed air piping wherever's convenient

the little ball headed air chuck, stubbed right onto a 1/4" pipe nipple
jam the sprayer against it to pressurize it, no two handed monkeybusiness holding both things or looking for your tire filler or sticking it into a quick coupler
 
Sceep said:
Isn't compressing gasoline a severe no-no? Or am I just living an urban legend?
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I don’t think that’s the issue as much as atomizing it for cleaning. Arcie sparkie.

Decades ago one of the fellow employees where my brother worked at ****ed himself up reeeeeally bad. He was using gasoline to clean his basement concrete floor. Gas or electric furnace kicked on and well, you already know. Burned his house down and lost everything and icing on the cake, got 3rd degree burns most of his body. Yeah, fawk cleaning **** with gas. Use kerosene or diesel fuel.
 
Bought this coxreel hose reel from auction online. Well, **** mango, I had no idea they built a freakin giant Ferris wheel of a hose reel. I could tell it looked new and it was missing the hose. I go to pick it up and as I walk up to it I’m like oh fawk me now. :laughing: :shaking:

I thiiiiink I can still make it work out ok. Just gotta install a reducer in the plumbing. Like like the coxreels the best as they are very smooth and are easy to pull the air hose out of.

I mount them up in my shop ceiling so my A frame avoids them. I got another Lincoln one I’m putting outside my shop to use.


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