The Armour Archive

I'm not an employee of princess auto just addicted to shopping there.

Anyway here's what's good.

Rod bender. $35 good for making baskethilts bargrills etc.
18" metal bender 16ga capacity. It's a brake good for starting creases in things that don't have complex curves. Things like the front of a greathelm for example. You'd probably still need to sharpen the bend over a stake. I'm gonna pick one of these up $35
There's a crapload of hammers on sale starting at about $3
Gas saver $80
mig welder $300
couplea shop presses 20 and 50 tons.
7" angle grinder $45
air shear $35 not very usefull but nicer then aviation snips if you've got the compressor for it.

That's about it unless you count the couple compressors they've got but they're pretty big bucks.

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The budding mid 14th century German Transitional guy.
Mad Matt's Armory

I picked up the autobody kit for 10$ and was looking at the metal brake but money is short right now... Hopefuly it'll be on sale again soon. Hopefully the flap disks will go on sale soon too, my 40grit is wearing down and the cheapest I can find it localy is 7.50$

Wish I had the 300$ for the mig welder too, mine is just plain crappy I find, the drivewheel doesn't drve worth S#$%...

I've now decided to put aside some of my profits to go towards tools instead of jsut waiting till I had a few bucks set aside for whatnots, that way I can see the progress as I sell stuff instead of just here and there.

I've never even seen them have the brake before.

You don't really need it it just makes things a little quicker and easier. You can sorta brake the metal by hand over a hunk of angle iron or a t stake.

If the drive wheel isn't working properly on your welder you might be using the wrong one or you might not have enough pressure on it. Or you might have something wrong with your liner.

Just as a note the welder that's on sale isn't the one I've got. I got mine on sale but it's regular price is $600 the one on sale is smaller.

They've had that big angle grinder on sale several times.
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The budding mid 14th century German Transitional guy.
Mad Matt's Armory

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