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IF this is strictly a home shop and not going to do any 3rd party work. Then you build the shop, have any inspection come before any machines, period. Keep every machine as a plug in receptacle only and the inspection stops at the receptacle. For how use the inspection even in Ontario Stops at...

The Old Adage still holds true. Buy each Tool/Machine as the need arrises. Consider each machine or Tool like that of purchasing a Socket Set. Do you buy just a Socket handle or a single socket. No You usually purchase a Simple Set which meets the immediate need and expand it as required for...

mrbugbums: As Brian has suggested, the BusyBee Tools CX701 Lathe is an excellent lathe and you can read about Brians set up here and his exploits setting it up. A very well written Piece. Either the CX601 or CX611 mill will suit your needs. My only addition to your list is as follows. Go for a...

While not quite a Tombstone but it could be engraved as an unground marker. those things are not light by anyones standards.

My wife is watching a TV show where they are recommending cutting back on Coffee, absolute Sacrilege, The re people out there who also state people should stop drink tea. Some people just do not have their heads cross threaded for sure. We have people tha insist coal should never be used for any...

Here we have bell collars for the dogs. Our first Rottweiler loved hers and would prance around the house and make them ring. The new rescues did not like them the first year but this years as soon as the box came out of storage and they heard the sounds were sitting in front of us as if to say...

terryd: I have the Acute Tool Sharpening System Kit, so my grinding platform will be this at least for the foreseeable future. I have many jigs for my Tormek. I can tell you for a fact the lathe tools bits sharpened in the Tormek are extremely sharp and cut very well. I am thinking toward...

Well, I know both my wife will have the vaccination, when it comes our turn.

Yes a very nice dog. which is why is use the Avitar of our favourite Rottweiler. She was as I think the picture illustrates a big silly puppy all her life. It was a shame to loose her to Cancer. We also lost the next Rottie to cancer as well. Now we just have rescue dogs as the thought of...

Well I would like to call it something like "Grumpy Old Man's Shop" Why well my daughter bought me the sign, years ago. Nicola Spring Hanging Metal 4 Panel Wall Plaque - Beware Grumpy Old Man for sale online | eBay What can I say, I now have to live up to the image. ha ha

Richard: Over the years I have met and visited people who have very creative minds for the use of the under the stairs space. Our current house design is very common, the floor plan has been modified to suit vastly different tastes and approaches. The original design had except for the living...

That was a horrible fire. That created more damage than what we experienced in our flood. In our case the heavy rainfall over loaded the sanitary sewer which backed uo almost filling the entire basement. while we did have the backup valve it was installed such that it protected the city from us...

Thank you one an all. She Who Must Be Obeyed, will Appreciate all your input. The workshop here is in the Basement, so once I leave the shop I am into Her house. ha ha I have looked into the Cookie sheets, they are just not big enough. I know machinists who seem to have the ability to only have...

As the bird population changes, it has been interesting living here in Edmonton. when we moved her in 1976 we had only Magpies and they chased virtually all the robins away steeling the eggs in the nests ETC. The Raven up North in Ft McMurray are huge, and are a year round resident. Of late 2020...

I have to admit, I am not familiar with Jackdaws, do they have another name. Here in the North it has taken about 40 years for the Robins to be able to adapt, and that only because the trees have grown to provide natural protection. Fortunate for me neither the Squirrel nor Magpies affect me in...

I also have considered Ising a sheet metal surface, I have to revisit all my sheetmetal shop notes as to bending and forming. the Lathe Bench is 29 x 59 and the Mill is 29 x 29 inches There is absolutely nothing worse than that pesky noisy squirrel. ha ha Then there are the screaming Magpies (Birds)

WE live a far more quiet life. So we do not have parties or event which require any official being called to attendance as witness to the excessive festivities. ha ha I have several projects in my head and parts and pieces in the shop. 1. The Acute Tool Sharpening System 2. Dual Dial Gauge...

Now you are cooking so to speak. However a Combustion Engineer friend of mine pointed out that while we remove all the physical pollutants we also create Carbon Monoxide. Believe me the Environmentalists are never happy, you burn fuel, you ar polluting, and so on and so on. Note most of the...

From what I have read and from YouTube Videos the Rocket stove, concept could be used even for a forge which as we know could also be used to melt iron to make crucible steel. I am sure with some thought the concept could be expanded to where the normal bellows of the forge would not be...

I pick up two versions of the Rocket Stove. Which is an interesting concept. It sure goes through fuel fast. Fuel being anything that will burn. If you go on line people have taken the Rocket Stove to ridiculous directions but it is an interesting concept. It is one of those things that could an...