There’s no reason to use a hacksaw in a modern farm shop. Cutting metal on a farm often used to involve either an oxy-acetylene torch, a hacksaw or tin snips. If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have ...

Reading socket sizes can be an exercise in frustration and steel hand tools are often terribly labeled—save for the brand name that is usually quite prominent. You can solve this problem by metal ...

It doesn’t matter if you are just getting into your first Jeep or fabricating a frame for your tenth, we all need some way to cut metal for our projects. Choosing the right tool for the job is ...

*Click here for more metal forming machinery. A plasma cutter isn’t exactly a tool that sheet metal workers can carry around in their pockets — as nice as this model from Advance Cutting Systems is.

How many times have you wanted to fabricate something (like a transmission tunnel cover or inner fender panel) out of sheetmetal but didn't have the proper tools to do the job? Well, don't feel like ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the mid-16th century, the residents of a regional capital called ...