Lol you're absolutely right. I spent 2 years living in Indiana and loved it! - Dave On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 6:37 AM, D J <djohn14296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yea, but the draw back to living there is, it is still New Jersey, lol. > > DJ > From: Afterhours Fabrication <afterhoursfab@xxxxxxxxx> > To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 5:29 PM > Subject: Re: tools questions > > 1) Any 14" cutoff saw I've seen does miters. The go-to saw is the > Dewalt, by far the best quality and still cheap. I wouldnt use a wood > saw for cutting metal, it will wreck the bearings quick and the motor > really isnt up to the task. > > 2) I have the HF tubing notcher, works great but kinda sloppy and had > to shim it a bit to center it up. I use it for odd angles or notches > in tube that is near a bend. Otherwise I use a Bridgeport mill for > notches. JD2 makes a nice notcher but quite a bit more than HF. > > 3) I have a JD2 Model 3 tubing bender, works great with nice smooth > bends. I also have a HF pipe bender that I use for schedule pipe, not > to be confused with tubing. You can get all the dies including square > for the Model 3, just don't use it often enough for pipe to warrant > the cost. Protools also makes a nice unit, about the same. Id get > manual unless you plan on using it often, youll also want to make a > stand and mount it on the floor with some cement lags. > > 4) Like you said, drill presses can be had cheap. A decent one will be > older, as long as it doesnt have a lot of runout (wobble) it will be > ok. Walker-Turner brand pops up a lot by me. I use my mill for > drilling operations but have had a W-T in the past. > > 5) Plasmas were mentioned, I run Hypertherm and love it, plus they > make almost all the torches for other brands so might as well buy from > the source! TIGs I run Miller Syncrowave and MIG I run Millermatic > except for my little 110 unit thats a Lincoln MIG-PAK. > > PS. I tried to think of something, anything, that costs $125 a month > out here (NJ) and couldn't think of a single thing. 40x60 building > will cost you at least $3000 a month if its on a dead end street in > the ghetto, I'm currently sharing a 1800sqft building that's $3200 a > month on a main road. > > PPS. There are at least 4 Harbor Freights within 15 minutes of my > location. That's whats good about living here, you don't ever have to > go far for anything. > > - Dave > > -- > -- > -- > Please address private email -- email of interest to only one person -- > directly to that person. That is, email your parts/car transactions and > negotiations, as well as other personal messages, only to the intended > recipient. Do not just press "reply" and send your email to everyone using > the general '62-'65 Clubhouse public email address. 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