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Landslide said:
What brand jack did you rebuild that failed twice on your rebuilds? What failed on them?

I rebuilt an old school Lincoln jack (hein Werner) a few years ago and it’s working fine. I bought the jack new decades ago and the main pump seal just rotted out.

I have around three more of those to rebuild with different brand markings on them but are Hein Werner jacks. I have a couple old school sears craftsman 1-1/2 ton jacks I got kits for to I’m going to rebuild. They’re made in Japan.

There’s nothing much to rebuilding them imo unless someone messed up the needle seat valve by extreme over tightening it. That will require a valve seat cutter tool to repair that.
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It's a single piston Lincoln. I guess "rebuilt" is a little outtah line. I've slapped seals in it twice. It'll work 7/8's assed (much better than 1/2 assed) for multiple years then just **** the bed again one day.

It's being shamed in the corner now. Maybe I'll order another seal kit and throw it in so it can get hauled out now and then, rather than toss it out. Dunno. I'm currently trying to de-clutter some.
 
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just as rare as water that's wet
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It is common, I know this. But people use higher rpm motors on stuff like that not knowing any difference. I got a 1950’s craftsman 12” bandsaw that had a 3000 rpm range motor with it around 15 years ago.
 
Picked up a tapping arm for a job a couple months ago. Sure makes tapping easy.
 

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cj7jeep81 said:
Picked up a tapping arm for a job a couple months ago. Sure makes tapping easy.
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I watched a video on one of these just the other day.

I used one of the old school ones that used an air drill/die grinder type power tool with quick change tooling chucks.

I reversed engineered the arm assembly and water jet cut out the side plates to build two units. That was ten years ago and that’s as far as I got with it. I don’t drill and tap enough in my fab shop to use one honestly.
 
I won this mag drill at auction for $300. I need to get arbor cutters for it and a good set of those is $$$.

It came with a bunch of hole saws and three of them are carbide teeth saws. One is a large carbide saw with a holder.

Mag drill is one of those tools that are nice to have to use but justify buying one considering the amount of uses it’ll have is tough. But at $300 for a good working condition unit. I’ll bit. It was at my last top bid too and I wasn’t sure the other bidder would stop or not.

Came with the steel cart too
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I bought a second Ridged shop vac for my basement shop. Tired of moving my other one around. I use bags in my shop vac for several reasons. One, it’s a major pita to dump the container out, but really easy using a bag. Two, all the nasty stuff like cat hair etc, is dumped out in the bag. Three, the bag stops a lot of the fine dust from passing through. Four, I never need to touch the shop vac filter as it never needs cleaning.

I like the ridged brand because they offer an optional or accessory flexible hose you can get to replace the stiff black plastic one that comes with the vac. I don’t know why they sell that crappy hose to begin with.
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Dethmachinefab said:
What's what looks like Iike a computer screen on it do?
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Yeah, that video is the same one I got. But the highlights are you can control the torque (even though the collets also have built in clutches), but more important for me, you can control the tap speed (both tapping and retracting), and the tap depth. In auto mode, you just push and release teh down button, and it taps down to the desired depth, then automatically reverses out. Makes it very consistent, but also nice to operate when doing hundreds of holes you don't have to hold down the button, push a second button, etc.
 
cj7jeep81 said:
Yeah, that video is the same one I got. But the highlights are you can control the torque (even though the collets also have built in clutches), but more important for me, you can control the tap speed (both tapping and retracting), and the tap depth. In auto mode, you just push and release teh down button, and it taps down to the desired depth, then automatically reverses out. Makes it very consistent, but also nice to operate when doing hundreds of holes you don't have to hold down the button, push a second button, etc.
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Good for mfg purposes but hard to justify for home shop imo.
 
Landslide said:
Good for mfg purposes but hard to justify for home shop imo.
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Yeah, I had a job that was 144 parts with 6 tapped holes each. Had some issues tapping with my CNC, so bought this to finish the job (since I had another job come up with 275 parts and 24 tapped holes each). Ended up figuring out what was wrong with my program, so thankfully tapping those in the machine, but will have it for future work.
 
Landslide said:
I won this mag drill at auction for $300. I need to get arbor cutters for it and a good set of those is $$$.

It came with a bunch of hole saws and three of them are carbide teeth saws. One is a large carbide saw with a holder.

Mag drill is one of those tools that are nice to have to use but justify buying one considering the amount of uses it’ll have is tough. But at $300 for a good working condition unit. I’ll bit. It was at my last top bid too and I wasn’t sure the other bidder would stop or not.

Came with the steel cart too
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That is a magnetic annular cutter drill. Will only have like 2” of travel. So it cannot be used for drills .
 
Sceep said:
why can it not be used with drills?
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No room for chuck. Only travels about 2.5” from the plate. You can see it has a lower spindle support. That does not move.

So unless you can figure out how to adapt the 3/4” Weldon spindle to hold a shorty drill bit your out of luck. Now it whoops ass if you need to drill 1.25” holes in 1” plate. This is definitely the tool for that.

Also these guys turn slower only like 300rpm.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
My magnetic drills all have like 6-8” of travel with the drill chuck on them.
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I think the ol milwaukee's set the bar pretty high for a doitall magdrill.

My hougen slings annulars pretty damn nice, but sometimes I want a drill bit damnit :laughing: Or to be able to change the speed, or whatever else. Didnt even think about that when I bought mine:homer:
 
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This guy's got a chuck adapter and a bunch of travel. Definitely a great tool and plenty of power. Magnet holds better too.

Ive got that hogen, and also the low profile hogen that takes the special cutters.
 
Dethmachinefab said:
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This guy's got a chuck adapter and a bunch of travel. Definitely a great tool and plenty of power. Magnet holds better too.

Ive got that hogen, and also the low profile hogen that takes the special cutters.
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sick bro.

after a week going down the rabbit hole, ordered a festool midi. It seems to be what the standard is for dust extraction, and I guess it would be nice to cut down on dust. I have to do some sanding on my old project, and at the current pace, theres a dusty mess everywhere. Besides my lungs, damn stuff goes everywhere in the garage, so this should help a ton.

I was seriously looking at the ct15 thats a lot cheaper, but the hose and bluetooth alone are worth the differencd, plus you get some other stuff.

Buy once cry once. Mirka deros is next on the list
 
Landslide said:
Mag drill is one of those tools that are nice to have to use but justify buying one considering the amount of uses it’ll have is tough.
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I got my set in exchange for shortening the frame for my **** of an ex, it was nice to drill holes this way, altho the annular cutters wore out quick despite being slow with lube, maybe frame material. It was a 4k job and I just said buy the drill and Ill do it, so thats how I got mine. Just sits now, but **** selling it.

I probably have around 10k of tools I used once that just sit, but using them once was worth it so no complaints.
 
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