Chuck sent in some gems from “The Week in Tools”… – “This week we checked out some beautiful handmade French rasps that transcend functionality to become art. (Their irregularly cut and spaced teeth cut better, too.) If you have a grinder in your shop, you could probably use a tool rest, which helps you control […]
Tim shows you how to make these handy clamps via Platt Monfort’s technique – making your own from plastic pipe… – Link.
This pretty clever, a magnetic wrist band for holding parts, tools, anything that can stick to magnets… you could make a DIY version, but $6.50 ain’t such a bad deal either… Super Strong with 6 neodymium magnets! Rated to hold 6 pounds of steel parts. Saves time by keeping steel parts close at hand. Ends […]
Neat, I love what this Digg user wrote about PDFpad! – “Use it to plan your next project submission to MAKE magazine. Stumbled on this one at work. Allows you to print 7 types of graph paper in the comfort of your home home (Cartesian, Logarithmic, Engineering, Polar, Isometric, Hexagonal(for you AD&D folks), Probability) with […]
Pat writes – “Need an almost free machine shop to fit in your closet or even one that fills your garage? Need a free hand drill to make 1” holes in hardened steel? Need some simple castings with a tensile strength near that of cast iron? Need 75 cent bearings to replace $5000 roller bearings? […]
Planning out your workshop usually means a lot of moving stuff around and trial/error, here’s another approach, make a miniature model… Pfred1 writes – “I used the architectural scale 1/4 inch to the foot as my scale. Heck, after a while it was sort of fun to make scale models of all of my junk. […]
Awhile back we posted up some color changing / heat reactive paint from eclipse, and now there are some tiles that do the same thing from Moving Color, neato… [via] – Link. Related: Heat activated color changing paint – Link.
