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One of the great advantages of a
radial-arm saw is the ease with
which you can make cuts on long pieces
of material. But this feature is like a
seed: You must nurture it to make it
wholly operational. You must provide a
long enough platform for work support.
Contractors, who use machines outdoors
and have no space limitations, do this by
adding roller-type [...]

Hacksaw like Hacksaw Jim Duggan with this homebuilt power hacksaw that will make all your manual hacksawing problems disappear.
HACKSAWING is the one onerous
shop job for which there is no
inexpensive and readily available
power tool to ease the sweat. Commercially
made power hacksaws are costly and aren’t
found in most home shops.
Here, however, is a new answer. After
several years [...]

With a little help from this homemade metal bender you can bend metal just like Superman! HERE’S A METAL SHAPER FOR YOUR SHOP.
If you are sick and tired of looking around your shop and seeing a lot of straight metal, then stick it in this swell bending machine from 1955 and you can BEND IT [...]

Do you like gadgets? Do you like building gadgets?
If sears or harbor freight tools just aren’t good enough for you, then get your machine shop skills ON and build a custom lathe like it’s 1942 again and the Japanese just bombed Pearl Harbor. If you fell asleep in shop class these plans might be a [...]

Check out this old school electric engraver diy project kit.
You can easily—and safely—put electrochemistry
to work “branding” your name
on tools, or decorating aluminum sheets.
The stencil pad consists of a metal plate
(copper, aluminum—even a scrap of tin
can) covered with felt that’s saturated
with a solution of table salt (or with
liquid Sani-Flush).
Over this pad you smooth a section of
an [...]

THERE are many uses for an electric
oven of the industrial type in small
shop and laboratories, where moderate
baking temperatures, accurately controlled,
are necessary. Small parts, Which
have been painted or lacquered often require
baking. Damp or wet pieces of equipment
may require drying out. Windings,
after dipping in insulating varnish, need a
certain amount of baking. Then too, an
oven may be required [...]

THERE’S a secret to boring up to 1-in. dia.
holes through steel with a ½-in. capacity drill
press. You reduce the speed of the drill bit
and increase the torque with a speed-reducer.
The speed-reducer is simply a jack-shaft consisting
of a mandrel with a 4-step cone pulley on
one end and a 12-in. pulley on the the other end. This [...]

An car mounted arc welder powered by the car’s motor!
SMALL ENOUGH to be hidden beneath
the hood of a passenger car, yet powerful
enough to handle electrodes up to 3/16-
in. dia., this 200-amp. welder is powered
by the engine of the car in which it is
installed, and can be taken anywhere that
an automobile can be driven.
The main [...]