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I often work by with the garage door open for ventilation. That is always a fear as I have been startled a few times by movement outside, and just yesterday a neighbor walked up for a friendly visit...

I bought a $500 MIG welder 11 years ago to weld a floor of a minibus I was converting to a camper. After stripping out the rusted floor, I welded exactly 12 inches of new steel floor. The following...

Thanks for the good words everyone. I find that I'm always in the garage now clamping boards to it , making useless cuts, practicing dovetails, trying to plane the perfect ribbon.... Gotta get a...

Well ..almost done. Good enough to start working on. Fir 2x4 and 2x6. Top seems like it weighed 100 pounds when done. I wanted a middle tool well so that I could work on both sides of it. Besides...

What a great thread. The car dealers thought i was nuts for bringing my own plywood test piece.

For the record- 4x8 fits in my 2013 Kia Sorento with 2 feet sticking out the back and tailgate roped...

I'm thinking of selling my laser, (have no idea on it's used value) and wanted to know if this was the proper place to get advice on it's price.

Thanks,
Tom

Please include me in the drawing.

My experience with my 5 year old Mercury 40 is to scrap the USB>Serial and just go straight com port. Early on I tried 3 brands of USB adapters each with it's own driver, and gave up. I'm sure...

How do I sign up?? Is this it? Am I in ?!!

Count me in !

Mike,
I might have to get some tips from you in the near future on this alignment thing.

In the cnc router area we all talk inches per minute. Maybe we should put rulers on our beds and make a cross reference chart.

I hope you meant 3% speed instead of power or else I'm gonna go downstairs and kick my 45w Pinnacle.

Thanks Tom !

Hmmm 100 proff vodka. Just happen to have some of that here.

I only did about 6 coin size pieces of dichroic. The coating etched off very easy at medium power.

Joe,way past warranty, and...

Besides all the usual wood, plastic, granite, and cermark stuff I've always done, I narrowed it down to 2 new items.

I etched some dichroic glass. Small designs that were put into a kiln. Looked...

OK, I don't know what it was, maybe I'm dyslexic or have low blood sugar.. I dunno.
I installed the software and driver 10 times different ways, and following the directions exactly and got nothing....

1. Yes
2. Don't know what that is. I say no.
3.Yes, "set from printer" 25 x 18
4. LPT. tried setting it 1, 2,3. set at LPT1, ptinting ti,es out forever. Set at 2 or 3, when I hit print, Corel...

2nd computer, installed X3 and divers...same thing, new cable, same.

Come and get it.

Well after many attempts, and re-installing X3, and using 2 different driver versions, nothing.
Following directions to a T.
Everything appears normal, but printing never starts. I wait over 6...

George..THANKS!

I'll give it a try when I get home from work.

The only time I met (saw) Joe Pa is when I was driving a saellite tv truck for ESPN a couple years ago. I was blocking his VIP...

Well I blew it

Monday my laser works fine, as it worked fine since day one with my same computer, but I'm getting really tired of this buggy virus I had on my computer. I decided to re-format...

I have my router table on my table saw too. I use the back of the saw fence with some sacrificial ply screwed to it.

All my life I took Intro Price to mean--get it now, it will never be this low again.

From the Encyclopedia od Small Business:

"Penetration pricing, however, is not the same as introductory...

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