Recent content by rsuarez

Hi, just wanted to update you on what I did. Finally I decided to get the Husky tool boxes and replaced the casters with some leveling ones. since its a car garage it was important to have the possibility to level the tool box to eliminate the floor angle. I mounted them in 2x4 wood blocks and...

Thanks to all. Luc, that's a very nice shop and certainly very nice machines. Wizard, I understand your points. I already had a similar setup in my previous home and it was never a problem to work standing up right by the tool boxes. Height is more of a concerting as I am not very tall (or...

Hi, I don't post much but come very often to read about the great projects here. I just moved home and I could not bring my old lathe stand with me. Just machines followed me. Now I need to buy a new stand for both my, 8.5x20 LMS lathe and my 3990 mill. Because of the room configuration...

Thanks Carbuilder, very valuable point of view. Even if I have decided to go for separate machines, I still think there is a very practical use outside of submarines.

Good advice on the blasting cabinet. I did not think of the powder flying around and reaching the machines. One of the mods I had planed is to install rollers in the cabinet. Given that the access door is on its right, it would be imposible to open because the garage door is right there. With...

Well, I agree. I would not go for a trike myself. I guess that when the time comes I will just hang the helmet and focus on something else. Hopefully by that time my memories are good enough to bring me joy and hopefully I reach 86... 86 still working on my shop would be a dream to me. So...

Thanks Bazmak, thats the way I will go. I don't want to be the noob that wants everything already peeled but since we are already here I will ask. For the lathe and the mill what would you recommend as "starter kit" accessories/tools? Hey, I bought that bike around a year and a half ago...

Gracias Señor Norman. I guess you represent what many of us aspire to. Retirement with a nice shop and time to go over different projects. I wish I could reach your age and still work on my stuff... There is white smoke already. I will go with a Sieg SC4 and a mini mill. It's smaller than...

Hi Rhynardt, no I work for an american tech company overseeing their Latin-American business. Bazmak, I guess that yes, I do have space, but my concern is that I must leave free working space since not all my projects are mini. Look at this one... Then I needed space for the chasis, the tank...

Well you see, in part one of my thoughts about getting some of those 3 in 1 I proposed was that since they have actual milling towers I could eventually detach them if I found more convenient to have two machines. I still see logic in this, but there are such amount of negative opinions in 3 in...

Hey, thanks to all... very good information. Even though I wrote that this was a space driven decision and to please restrain from suggesting separate machines, we ended up there. I guess that if here, and in any other forum, all 3 in 1 threads end into separate machines suggestions there...

Hey all, First post here… I’ve read a lot and it’s just now that I’ve decided to get some help on deciding which machine to get. A little bit of me. My name is Ramon and I live some time in Mexico City and I say some time because I travel through Latin-America for business 3 out of 4...