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There is a helpful Atlas/Craftsman group on groupsio dot com

I just found out about an upcoming tool auction in Minnesota that may have things of interest. https://www.premiermachineryauctions.com/auctions/detail/bw124252 And a video of a walk through of the garage and house:

I got my copy of George Thomas's The Model Engineers Workshop Manual on Amazon for less than $55, including tax and shipping, a year ago in June, from the seller in England mentioned above by ChazzC. It took awhile to get here from Britain, but not as long as I had expected. Strangely though...

I see that there's a copy of the Machining Projects book on eBay at the moment for under $200, still an absurd price. I imagine that somewhere there are stacks of this book, in well used condition, left from when high schools or tech schools still taught hands-on machine shop classes. Probably...

Regarding using wood pellets to fire a boiler, I have a friend who has been working on a wood gasification unit to run a small internal combustion engine (using a common lawn mower type of engine) and is using an Arduino computer to control some of the functions to make the pellet feed more...

I see a number of things in the recent discussion to comment on. We grew most of our food on about a 1/2 acre garden when we lived in our off-grid place. We had chickens and we helped a relative who farmed make hay and butcher steers in return for our supply of beef. We traded land rent on...

We added more and newer solar panels (PVs) to the system 3 times, and improved the controller that connects the batteries to the inverter and couple of times, and added a sine wave inverter in 1999 with an auxiliary transformer to provide 4 kw of 120/240 60 cycle AC power. The Jacobs wind...

We built and lived in an off grid home starting in 1977. It was initially non-electric but as we were talking to people and buying useful tools etc, we found a 1937 vintage Windpower brand wind turbine and 55 foot tower for it, and used it for quite a few years until replacing it with a 1940s...

I have a pamphlet from some US government agency about converting a Ford 9N type tractor to run on wood gas. I think it was originally World War 2 vintage. I also had a friend who stored methane that he made from manure, in large tire inner tubes.

I saw a discussion of eBay prices on various items that sold at absurdly high prices and it was suggested that this was part of a money laundering scheme, somehow. But some of the booksellers offering this book at ridiculous prices seem to be legitimate, in business for years, and offering a...

I just looked online trying find a copy of this book, and prices start at $168 (June of 2024) and quickly go into the thousands of dollars!!!

I had carpal tunnel surgery on both wrists, about a year apart, and it made a tremendous difference in pain in my hands, wrists and also my arms. Well worth doing, but do the PT and exercises recommended to help recovery.

I appreciate corrections to postings if they are factual and can be backed up with evidence or references, and are done politely.

Apparently birds (such as pet canaries or parrots) can be killed by fumes from overheated Teflon pans. Not having either a bird in the house or any non-stick pans (except old well seasoned cast iron), I can't verify this personally, but it makes me wary of heating anything containing Teflon.

I've been on Facebook for almost 20 years. I use it primarily for a few tool collector and shop groups where some very knowledgeable people post good information. I have had variable luck with Face Book Marketplace to sell or buy things. At least half the time I get no response to my...

We put a "lifetime" standing seam metal roof on our 120 year old house, even though we probably wouldn't outlive an asphalt shingle roof. We also bought what will probably be the last automobile we will ever need to purchase, barring accidents. And I occasionally use tools that were my...

In the past I made a coil of copper tubing to fit around the stovepipe of a wood stove to heat water. I made a form using a coffee can filled with cement, and I filled the tubing with dry sand and left the ends long so I could crimp them and later cut off the crimped ends . It worked well and...

There is a 3 part article online about using a belt sander to sharpen lathe cutters, and a related article about modifying a belt sanding, including making a better table and other modifications. https://www.machinistblog.com/grinding-lathe-tools-on-a-belt-sander/...

I have looked at many of the scanned versions online, but I am not interested in reading them completely online. I am interested in hard copies of good quality books, and my question, as I mentioned, is about the quality of the available reprints, especially some of the publishers that I...

I did buy a number of Lindsay books from someone else, probably the seller you are thinking of, and they had a final clear out sale awhile ago, with quite a limited selection of books. I'm hoping that at least one of the newer publishers is producing books up to the standards of Lindsay. His...