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My body hammer rack has been running out of room, so I've been spending time lately cleaning up some of my extras and selling them through my IG account. One of the guys who just bought one of the hammers had seen my modified tight access hammer and asked if I could make one for him. Since I...

We’ve been working on stainless trim lately and we use 6” Trizact to prep before polishing. As pricey as the Trizact is, I thought perhaps a 5” sander would work well and we could trim off the edges of those pads when the edge starts to wear and thus get more life out of them. Looking online...

A good friend of mine has a powder coat business and has been restoring a Kent model KMX850 bmx bike. The bike was found in the woods and was brought to him for repairs, with many of the obsolete parts being sourced from other style bikes and scooters. Here is where he has it thus far...

The embedded videos in my wagon thread seem to not function where they did a couple days ago??? Is this a permanent thing ie: do I need to make these links instead?

Lowered price and offered shipping... Year end sale, last chance for a tax deduction for the year. Diacro 16-24 MANUAL press brake, 8 ton, SN J-1500. Comes with the home-made stand you see it on, and the dies that are installed. This one has the fully functioning back gauge, a must have for...

Got two press brakes in the shop available if anyone needs to do last minute Christmas shopping for the wife/girlfriend.. ;) Brake #1 is Diacro 16-24 MANUAL press brake, 8 ton, SN J-1500. Comes with the home-made stand you see it on, and the dies that are installed. This one has the fully...

A while back I picked up some used body tools, including this bumper puller/straightener (red handle). The rubber pad was about falling off, with exposed rivets, but since I was just hanging it up as wall art, didn't think much past that.. Fast forward to last weekend, and a square body 4WD...

Some basic stuff here, making a vent bracket for under the dash using a hammer and piece of pipe. Excuse the audio quality at the start, what you get for filming with an iPhone 6S. S stands for SUCKS... apparently the phone gets confused as to which of 3 microphones to use. We filmed the...

Scott from Kahiko Customs in Charles City VA showed up early yesterday with two doors for a Model A. 90 years or so of carnage has taken it's toll and we were collaborating with him to make some new door skins. Given that we opted to go ahead and make both door skins to have a more...

So yeah, we work on just about anything. File this one away under "everything's a tool". You need to be able to look at the problem, and figure out what you have readily available as a solution (especially when working weekends) Vince is still milking the media blast job.. Another of the...

Had a visitor in the shop yesterday, collaborating with Cody Walls of Traditional Metalcraft (Milton, DE) on adding some louvers to an Austin Healey project he has in his shop. We got the bonnet done yesterday, and I had to modify my radius fixture for the boot as it had too much crown to simply...

No really.... welding and hammer forming!! Found a shelf casualty on the new winch we bought for the car trailer, appears the box was dropped at some point or this controller connector is just garbage. Being a Sunday with little open to fix this, lets see what we can do...

One of my former classmates from high school caught up with me a few months back, and had some work he wanted done on a hood for his Tubbed V8 Plymouth Arrow. Still has the same car from HS almost 4 decades later.. He said he wanted a more professional job over what was done back then.. He...

We’re using HOK Organic Green KBC to spray the wagon, as shown in the sprayout sample in the video. This is intended to be sprayed over a black. Our sample was sprayed over black SPI epoxy. Would I see better results/matching/etc by spraying over a black urethane or base coat instead of...

I normally use epoxy on all panels before putting two panels together for a plug weld. This video shows Flattening and backfacing a drill bit to clean paint off the adjacent panel in a plug weld hole... .

Had a slight distraction yesterday, a couple hood sides for a 37 Ford showed up. The owner wanted to remove the side "grille", and add a tapered recess pan with clamshell louvers. Here's what we started with... Some cutoff wheel action later.... In an attempt to keep as much...

Got a new addition to the shop, this Meco came from TM Technologies, or TinManTech. I got it hooked up last night and ran a couple passes. Let me start by saying I am not a gas welder. I have a Henrob torch that I have found awkward to use, likely the operator, so I have always used...

My wife's cousin JB, who works at Interiors by Shannon, contacted me the other day about making him a dimpling punch and die for installing door panel fasteners.. There's always room for improvement, so I thought I'd add a flat to one side of the lower die so it could be clamped in a...

Been going through too many sanding discs lately so I decided to pony up for the ceramic ones by 3M (especially since Jegs has them on sale...and free shipping over $100). The sanding discs I was getting locally were about $0.95 each and I would have used about three doing what I did tonight...

We found a flat spot in the drip rail that needed to match the rest, found a suitable worn jaw pair of Vise grips that was ripe for modification.