I have a very nice DeWalt battery powered drill model DW929K2 that I have been using for ten years. The model number is superfluous after ten years. DeWalt has probably created and sold over a hundred new models since then. My problem is the two 18 volt ni-cad battery packs that it came with are now in their final days. One won’t charge at all. I consider that no shame after all this time. The...
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Trash Talk
Best or Cheapest I just made an investment in a USA made quality product. It is a Dazor (brand) task lighting fixture which is a heavy base desktop fluorescent lamp swing arm type. I am not writing about the desk light per say, but a reflection on why I made this purchase. My cost for this fixture is a little over $250.00. At first I thought, “Wow! That’s a lot of money. That’s not cheap”…...
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The project is a low, slide out work bench. I just finished the build and install stages of creating this new work bench for my shop. Actually it is a work bench attachment that added a low level work area to my old large workbench. I posted the video above to You Tube to show how it works. Here is the link to the actual article I wrote for The Hobbyist’s Workshop as I was...
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I am beginning a new and what may become strong passion for an artistic form of metalworking sometimes referred to as “metalsmithing”. This is far from the machine shop form of metal work I normally do. I have long known artistic metalsmithing existed but denied myself any interest, as it was a fancy-smancy jeweler’s trade. I have found out it is far more interesting and creative than boring holes in a block of aluminum. Well…...
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