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The internal cooling fan has been making a racket for awhile, but yesterday to get it to actually turn on/light up I had to smack it a few times. Seems to be working now (as well as it ever did, at least), but I thought I'd start shopping for a new one. I might also be in the market for a brake-bleeding kit/machine/whatever, I think I need to do the clutch in the Fiero and its a pain do to it solo. Last time I had a buddy help me with the brakes, and he still refers to it as "that time the neighbors thought we were having extremely boring gay sex"... ("Push it in, okay, let it out...). He lives across town now, anyway, so some sort of power/solo bleeder would be nice.
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boxen posted:Looks like my cheap parts-store battery charger is dying, anyone have any reccomendations? Just need something to charge car batteries. I've had very good luck with Schumacher (available at Amazon, Lowe's, and others). Beyond that it just depends on how many options you want for long term battery maintenance, fast charging, jump-starting, etc. boxen posted:The internal cooling fan has been making a racket for awhile, but yesterday to get it to actually turn on/light up I had to smack it a few times. Seems to be working now (as well as it ever did, at least), but I thought I'd start shopping for a new one. I built a DIY pressure bleeder that works reasonably well. Cheapest garden sprayer at Lowe's (I imagine most are threaded the same, but can't guarantee anything for other brands), unscrew the wand just past the trigger and an air tool quick disconnect threads right on. Drill a hole in the top of a junkyard brake fluid cap and screw in the other end of your airline plug (so you can change them out between cars) and secure on the other end with an NPT fitting from the plumbing section. Don't forget to fill in the breather hole/trench on your fluid cap with epoxy. I can post pictures if anyone is interested.
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Apr 12, 2018 01:04
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boxen posted:The internal cooling fan has been making a racket for awhile, but yesterday to get it to actually turn on/light up I had to smack it a few times. Seems to be working now (as well as it ever did, at least), but I thought I'd start shopping for a new one. I've got a nice Schumacher that has the same problem. I opened it up and replaced the fan with something non-lovely. Now it works correctly. It's usually only like 4 screws to open them up, then 2 wires to snip/strip/solder.
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Apr 12, 2018 04:08
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Huh, I haven't actually checked, but I think mine's identical to this Schumacher: https://www.amazon.com/Schumacher-SC-1200A-CA-SpeedCharge-Automatic-Battery/dp/B000BQSIWK/ I guess I should open it up and check for loose connections.
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Apr 12, 2018 07:20
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If you have a compressor, I like the air-powered vacuum bleeders. I think they do hand pumped ones too.
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CarForumPoster posted:How cheap you wanna go? Laptop charger could work well. If it's like a friend of mine's, it catches fire and burns your house almost to the ground. Near as they can tell it started at the car battery charger he had plugged in in his attached garage. They were home and managed to get all the cars out of the garage and some important keepsakes and paperwork but the house was a total loss, especially after the evidence destruction team arrived and poured several thousand gallons of water on everything.
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Apr 13, 2018 22:14
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Battery Tender Jr. has my vote
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CloFan posted:Battery Tender Jr. has my vote It’ll maintain a charge, but takes forever to actually charge from half empty.
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Apr 14, 2018 00:45
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I put one on my stone dead battery I the 996 and it showed full in about 1.5 days. Definitely not a quick charger but if you can wait a day work well and a good maintainer so you don't have to worry about it boiling.
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Apr 14, 2018 00:52
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I'm going to cut everything I own in half just because I can. 
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Apr 20, 2018 13:20
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I'm going to cut everything I own in half just because I can. Good thing you don't own anything more than 2" wide
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Apr 20, 2018 13:59
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Look, it's a cold workshop, alright?
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Apr 20, 2018 14:17
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Larrymer posted:Good thing you don't own anything more than 2" wide Everything I own is hollow. 
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I'm going to cut everything I own in half just because I can. I want one to stick on my service truck but just can't justify the price for the rare occasion I'd need it. If you found it on a steal somewhere, please share.
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angryrobots posted:I want one to stick on my service truck but just can't justify the price for the rare occasion I'd need it. Birthday gift actually, but it was purchased from amazon. Tool only so it was a bit cheaper. I don't see myself using it a ton, but I got a feeling it will be a god-send that first time I do.
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Me and my brother are looking at getting some kind of belt sander/grinder for the family workshop, and these seem cheap and possibly useful:  There are a few different brands of various nonamed-ness that all look like either of these ones, just with different stickers and colors (I think Ryobi has one that looks like the latter). Belt can tilt up 90°, and the plate by the disc can be angled. 375W motor, same size belt (915x100mm) and disc (150mm). Weighs around 17 or 21kg, the latter is a bit heavier probably because of what looks like a cast casing rather than pressed sheet metal. They cost about 1200SEK, equivalent to ~$150, but I've seen them in US stores for around $100. That seems to be in line with other tools that aren't in everyones garage costing about that much more here. Does anyone here have something like it, and how is it to use? It seems to be mostly geared towards wood, is it useable for metal? Of course, given the appropriate belt and some care in how hard it is pushed. What I would like to be able to do is to flatten out sides of certain things, such as cleaning up and straightening cuts in exhaust pipe or square tubing and such. I don't care too much if various plastic covering bits get destroyed from metal sparks or whatever, as long as it works. There next level of belt sanders is about 6-10x the price and just take up much more room. I'm sure those are better, but it feels like too much money and space for our needs. The other cheap option would be something more like this:  Those are at least marketed as being useful for metal grinding, but the belt is just 50mm wide which is too narrow to easily grind the end of things like an exhaust pipe.
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Apr 21, 2018 08:31
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As you say, with the right belt they're fine for a little metal work.
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Apr 21, 2018 09:22
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I have one of those bench grinders with a belt on one side at work. It's fine for work you would do on the grinding wheel but where the curve of the wheel is an issue. The main issues are that the belts don't have a lot of surface area so wear out quick and that there is no proper platform so you have to free hand everything.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I'm going to cut everything I own in half just because I can. I use one of these with a demo blade for cutting tree branches that fall in the back yard. It's so much easier than dragging out the chainsaw for something too tiny for it anyway. It' can cut surprisingly huge branches!
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I'm going to cut everything I own in half just because I can. Wait, is that thing real? I thought it belonged in this set: 
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I would much prefer one with the wider (100mm) belt, as I want to grind the ends of up to 76mm pipe, or various flanges and stuff. Certainly doable on a narrower belt too, but not as easily. Not to mention the usefulness of just having a large sanding area for the occasional wood thing. Also on that kind, I reckon on I can make an extended rest to make it easier to grind the ends of longer things (pipe, square tubing, whatnot) flat at right angles.
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spog posted:Wait, is that thing real? It looks cute, but since it takes any full sized sawsall blade, (it just has a shorter stroke than the bigger corded ones) I've absolutely put a 9 inch carbide tipped diablo blade on that specific saw to reach up under a car in a tight space to cut a 5/8ths hardened bolt in half that was seized in a control arm bushing, and it chewed through it with no problem on one battery. I would not be without one. It's been invaluable during home remodeling as well.
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ionn posted:I would much prefer one with the wider (100mm) belt, as I want to grind the ends of up to 76mm pipe, or various flanges and stuff. Certainly doable on a narrower belt too, but not as easily. Not to mention the usefulness of just having a large sanding area for the occasional wood thing. Also on that kind, I reckon on I can make an extended rest to make it easier to grind the ends of longer things (pipe, square tubing, whatnot) flat at right angles. If it's just flats you want to grind there are large disc sanders that might be better?
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MrDeSaussure posted:It looks cute, but since it takes any full sized sawsall blade, (it just has a shorter stroke than the bigger corded ones) I've absolutely put a 9 inch carbide tipped diablo blade on that specific saw to reach up under a car in a tight space to cut a 5/8ths hardened bolt in half that was seized in a control arm bushing, and it chewed through it with no problem on one battery. I have the m18 one and it has stood up to 6ish years of heavy usage. Its overdue for another disassembly, cleaning, and lubing but still works great. Ive cut up to 6" steel pipe with it no problem.
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cakesmith handyman posted:If it's just flats you want to grind there are large disc sanders that might be better? Not only that, but that is one of the things I want it to accomplish. Never really liked grinding anything but small things on disc sanders, since different parts of the disc moves at different speeds. Want belt.
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Build Matthias wandel's belt sander, he has a real simple one on YouTube you could make 6" wide.
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MrDeSaussure posted:It looks cute, but since it takes any full sized sawsall blade, (it just has a shorter stroke than the bigger corded ones) I've absolutely put a 9 inch carbide tipped diablo blade on that specific saw to reach up under a car in a tight space to cut a 5/8ths hardened bolt in half that was seized in a control arm bushing, and it chewed through it with no problem on one battery. It's the perfect tool for cutting plumbing parts under a sink or in the joist space. I love my m12 version.
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0toShifty posted:I use one of these with a demo blade for cutting tree branches that fall in the back yard. It's so much easier than dragging out the chainsaw for something too tiny for it anyway. It' can cut surprisingly huge branches! I've got the M18. Go get some pruning blades and change your life. Short of actually dropping a tree chainsaws are a waste of time. With the 9.0 Battery from my circular saw I'm pretty sure I could clear cut a rain forest in one charge.
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I have a Makita 18v sawzall, that Milwaukee 12v hackzall looks extremely appealing simply because it would be so much lighter than the full size. I think it's a much better idea than something like the Bosch micro chain saw because replacement sawzall blades are everywhere, I find it difficult to believe the "nano chainsaw" on the Bosch would last very long.
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The 12v impact driver/drill/hackzall is sitting in my Amazon cart but i just can't quite pull the trigger.
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angryrobots posted:The 12v impact driver/drill/hackzall is sitting in my Amazon cart but i just can't quite pull the trigger. Buy it.
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Crotch Fruit posted:I have a Makita 18v sawzall, that Milwaukee 12v hackzall looks extremely appealing simply because it would be so much lighter than the full size. I think it's a much better idea than something like the Bosch micro chain saw because replacement sawzall blades are everywhere, I find it difficult to believe the "nano chainsaw" on the Bosch would last very long. AvE already killed his Bosch, though I'm sure it was fed its share of hot suppers and then some. Agreed on the availability of replacement blades.
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I had a li-ion Bosch reciprocating saw. It got through batteries fast and I killed it entirely in a couple of days. I'd be leery of buying another battery-powered cutter from them.
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IOwnCalculus posted:AvE already killed his Bosch, though I'm sure it was fed its share of hot suppers and then some. Agreed on the availability of replacement blades. InitialDave posted:I had a li-ion Bosch reciprocating saw. It got through batteries fast and I killed it entirely in a couple of days. I'd be leery of buying another battery-powered cutter from them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCwivPC7YzU
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Seminal Flu posted:Buy it. Found a pretty good deal on cpomilwaukee.com.... refurbished M12 3/8 Hammer drill, impact driver, and hackzall with 3 batteries, charger and bag for $208 shipped. But I talked myself out of it - I'll buy it for myself when I get my wife's house sold.
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I have an old multimeter from Radio Shack that still works (I think it's called a micronata), but one of the probes has a loose connection. Any idea of where to get new probes? Or how to fix the ones I have? I'd hate to toss the old meter as it looks basically brand new. A new analog meter is only $10, but I'd rather use this one. (I use this for my unit on electricity and I like having the analog meter so my students also learn how to properly read a scale and such).
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I got an old vise for cheap and took it apart to clean up. What kind of lubricant is preferred for the vise mechanism?
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MrOnBicycle posted:I got an old vise for cheap and took it apart to clean up. What kind of lubricant is preferred for the vise mechanism? Grease. And old vices are best. I got a 1914 6" Reed last year and after a teardown, clean and rebuild, it's like new. Heavy as a motherfucker, too.
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QuarkMartial posted:I have an old multimeter from Radio Shack that still works (I think it's called a micronata), but one of the probes has a loose connection. Any idea of where to get new probes? Or how to fix the ones I have? Hard to say without seeing it, but if you really just need probes, the HarborFreight meter might be worth cannibalizing. They’re just banana plugs with varying shapes of plastic condom. The HF meter is free if you find the right coupon.
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eddiewalker posted:Hard to say without seeing it, but if you really just need probes, the HarborFreight meter might be worth cannibalizing. They’re just banana plugs with varying shapes of plastic condom. The probes use different sized connectors on the meter side, if the Radio Shack and Harbor Freight meters I have are any indication.
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