An Actual Use For The Harbor Freight Pipe Kinker

Yes, it is another CNC machine, but I probably will not be making molds with it.  Its a gantry style CNC machine sometimes called a bridge mill.  Its less about the rigidity required for efficiently machining metal, and more about the larger foot print for machining sheet goods.  This one has a working envelope of…

As I’ve posted before my dad had a lot of stuff which I am tasked with using, repurposing, or getting rid of. Things like a couple similar size generators side by side that both started on the first or second pull and ran appropriately with a load. (No, I didn’t scope them.) I have just…