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I bought a Dewalt 12 volt 3/8" impact a few months ago, and Saturday while I was working on my Nova it fell to the floor and broke the latch on the 5AH battery pack. I tried to fix it with epoxy, but it wouldn't adhere to the latch plastic. So this afternoon I tried to find a replacement latch...

Every time I have to remove and remount a tire/sheel on the front of my BX I curse them for using bolts instead of studs. So, I bought a 12" piece of 9/16" X18 threaded rod and lug nuts to replace them. I cut the rod into eight 1 1/2" long pieces and cleaned up the threads on the ends and made...

I saw a couple of items on Amazon that were knobs/extensions to attach to the valve on a hydraulic jack that obviate the need to use a slotted handle or such to tighten and loosen the valve, and Saturday I made my own with a knob I had in my collection, a piece of 3/4" bar stock and a little...

Since my JD430 has been relegated to snow blower duty, I decided that I would make an adapter to mount the blade on my BX. The blade is almost like new, has only been used three times, twice for snow and once to level a couple loads of base material for my shop drive. That was in '84 and the...

I noticed soon after I bought my BX that there was an 1/8" male threaded fitting on the air filter housing, and I wondered about connecting a restriction gauge to monitor the health of the air filter. I have a restriction filter on my Yanmar powered genset, but finding a place to mount one on...

Conservative (not a political one) value is $2 billion. All are waiting on chips.

Ran across this video of a tractor with four extra wheels for more ground clearance. Looks like it's in Italy.

Here in northern Indiana a line of pretty violent storms went through the area around 1:00-1:30PM. Had lots of wind for 20-30 minutes and about an inch of rain over an hours. And the power went out. Seems like a big tree next to SR15 blew over onto the power lines on the other side of the road...

After breaking another one of the Kubota stabilizer links this spring, I decided to build a set of telescoping stabilizers that would be stronger. I had a little over two feet of material left from a telescoping drive shaft I bought to make a shaft for the snow blower on my 430 John Deere. The...

I don't think this turned out quite like the guy thought it would. Looks like a Darwin Award winner. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ohio-man-allegedly-making-bombs-to-pay-for-lawnmower-dies-in-explosion/

After I finished up building the Yanmat 3TNA72 powered generator I have been working on for 20 years, I took it all back apart and took the frame work to the local fab shop and got it powder coated Kubota ROPS gray. I picked it up yesterday and it looks great. Today I started putting it back...

For years I have had several bags of cable ties of varying sizes hanging on the back of my toolbox. It was always a pain to dig a few out of the bags without the hook that they hung from ending up on the floor. Sooo, I drew up a six tubed holder in Tinkercad and 3D printed it and a hook that...

So often when I'm working on some project in the shop, I need to look something up, order a part, bolts, nuts or whatever. Looking it up on a cell phone sucks and I hate doing that. If I don't make a note and take it with me to the house, I'll likely forget it. I decided to run a buried ethernet...

I have a Craftsman 17" 1.5 hp floor standing drill press I bought probably 15-20 years ago. It's been trouble free, but as I do a lot of different projects requiring drilling steel, aluminum, plastic and wood, changing the speeds by moving the belts around gets to be a pain in the derriere. So a...

Since I have had the interlock kit, the cables, circuit breaker and outside receptacle for over a year now, and having to plug extension cords into wall sockets to get the generator connected to the house after the power went out due to an ice storm, I finally got it installed ready for the next...

So my GF found this tool in a junk pile on her property in the U.P. Asked me what it was, but I have no idea. Since it was found in a junk pile on what was a farm years ago, I though it was maybe a tool used in butchering or maybe iron working. Any old farm hands recognize it?

I have been wanting to put some flashing LEDs on the rear of my BX for visibility when I'm picking up trash or just working near the road. I bought a set of four amber LEDs from Amazon that have twenty some flashing modes for $26.99. Link...

I ran across this video of a 150 hp Case steam tractor replica. The owner built it from scratch from the original 1907 prints. He even had all new castings created to build it. Only 9 were built by case and all have been scrapped. The video shows the 70,000# tractor pulling a lash-up of JD...

I finally took the time to fabricate and install mounts for a pair of LED lights I have had for over a year. I used my metal bender to bend some 2" X 1/4" strap to the shape I wanted, trimmed it to fit and (GASP) welded it to the ROPS. I drilled holes and fished a 16ga. wire across the top to...

Don't know if these have been mentioned here before, but a while back I purchased a couple of sets of stainless steel stencils to use with my plasma cutter. One set for circles from 1/2" to 3", the other set is squares from 1/4" to 2". They are really handy for cutting holes with a plasma...