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General tool and shop talk. Ideas, pics, videos, builds, discussions, and jokes about tools and DIY.

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  1. Videos and GIFs of interesting or unusual machines in action.

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  2. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, wheels/tires, and various kinds of wheeled vehicles. Excludes trains, heavy equipment, wheeled tools, and tracked vehicles.

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  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Thousands of homemade tool plans

    Started by Jon, Feb 26, 2020 12:29 PM
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  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: 173 Best Homemade Tools eBook - FREE

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  1. Metrology high accuracy with Dan Gelbart

    Started by Jon, Sep 12, 2016 11:02 AM
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  2. Japanese joinery animations

    Started by Jon, Oct 5, 2016 03:12 PM
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  3. 1954 Fordson Major trencher with Rotopad tracks

    Started by Jon, Sep 29, 2016 08:38 PM
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  4. manual rock drill

    Started by Jon, Sep 12, 2016 10:42 PM
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  5. working paper engine models

    Started by Jon, Oct 5, 2016 09:27 PM
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  6. drilling shop charts

    Started by Jon, Sep 24, 2016 11:48 AM
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  7. turning a color-changing box out of CD cases.

    Started by Jon, Sep 24, 2016 09:43 PM
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  8. Vintage saw filing treatise

    Started by Jon, Sep 19, 2016 04:46 PM
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  9. power hammer linkages

    Started by Jon, Sep 14, 2016 01:01 PM
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  10. Colonial Williamsburg cabinetmaking shop tour

    Started by Jon, Sep 20, 2016 01:28 PM
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  11. Moved: 1890s J.A. Vance planer/matcher restored

    Started by Jon, Sep 22, 2016 08:00 PM
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  12. Moved: 1900 restored Fowler steam traction engine

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  13. steam-powered tanks

    Started by Jon, Sep 26, 2016 01:19 PM
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  14. turning Fordite on a wood lathe

    Started by Jon, Sep 9, 2016 10:23 AM
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  15. CNC plywood spiral staircase

    Started by Jon, Sep 26, 2016 05:24 PM
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  16. Vantablack, the darkest material made

    Started by Jon, Oct 8, 2016 12:41 PM
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  17. The first tool users in history

    Started by Jon, Sep 27, 2016 01:17 PM
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  18. Japanese puzzle boxes

    Started by Jon, Sep 21, 2016 09:16 PM
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  19. turning a segmented torus

    Started by Jon, Sep 22, 2016 09:38 AM
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