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  • Details on Making a Welding Cart

    Details on Making a Welding Cart

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    How to Make a Welding Cart You may be wondering why I built a torch cart when they are available at fairly affordable prices.(If you count my time & material I have much more invested than a commercial one would cost) I simply could not find one that possessed the features I wanted. I have…

  • How to Build A Homemade Belt Sander

    How to Build A Homemade Belt Sander

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    Once you own a stationary belt sander, it’s hard to imagine life without one. Clamped to a bench in your shop, these workhorses deburr, contour, polish, grind and shape almost any type of material. Great for the woodworking shop as well as the metalworking shop. One of my addictions in life draws me to garage…

  • Making Wind Chimes

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    From time to time people ask how to make wind chimes, especially how to calculate the lengths of the tubes/rods. There is no precise answer to this question! Let’s discuss it. There was an article in Projects In Metal, December 1991, “Eight-tube Wind Chimes” by Thomas F. Howard. This is probably also reprinted in one of…

  • How to Build an Auto-Start Rotary Three Phase Converter

    How to Build an Auto-Start Rotary Three Phase Converter

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    Disclaimer: Electrical wiring is inherently dangerous. No warranties are issued or implied about the safety or success of this system. What I built is an automated-start version of a standard rotary phase converter with 3hp capacity. While the auto-start feature is not required and thus adds a little complexity, the general construction rules of a rotary…

  • Building a Phase Converter

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    Many quality used industrial machines are available at attractive prices that have 3 phase electric motors. Most residential homes do not have access to 3 phase electric power at a reasonable price. If the home shop builder decides to use these machines they must either replace the 3 phase motors with single phase motors or…

  • How to Remove Super Glue from Metal

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    Super glue is one of the best adhesives to use in different craft projects because of the great hold it has. You can use it on a variety of surfaces and with different materials such as plastic and wood. When you use it on metal though, you may want to know how to remove super…

  • Does Super Glue Work on Metal?

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    Super glue is one of the strongest and most powerful adhesives available for home use. Depending on your age, you might remember seeing the old ads for Krazy Glue that ran during the 1980s. Those ads showed a man gluing his helmet to a metal beam, which then carried him across a construction site. Super…

  • Metal Thickness Chart

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  • Press Brake Tonnage Chart

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  • How To Build A Tube Bender

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    I would like to thank the good people at Blind Chicken Racing for supplying the basics to make this bender. I have taken their project a step further and have included a drawing for the sides, and will show you how the cross braces are installed. This may look complex, but it’s not. Once I had my…