Category Archive: Hack of the Week, Metal Fabrication, TECH, Tech Stories, Tools, Videos
Can You Build A Simple DIY CNC Plasma Table INCLUDING THE Plasma Cutter For $600 Off Amazon?.
If you haven’t once said that you wished you had a CNC plasma cutting table, then you aren’t a car builder. I realize that not everyone can have one, I certainly don’t, but that...
Building A Custom Center Console For a Classic Truck, Including All The Upholstery
Sometimes building custom parts for the interior of your classic car or truck can be fun, and other times it can be so daunting because we make it into something bigger than it really is. The...
Big Tire Garage Car Trailer Rebuild: Increasing The Load Capacity Of Your Car Trailer
Ian Johnson’s Big Tire Garage is always a great place to learn stuff and see cool projects, but he’s also good for the kind of stories that save you money. As someone who’s got an...
Halfass Kustoms Shop Fire: Brent And Esther Are Okay, But The Shop Is A Total Loss
We’ve shared Halfass Kustoms videos with you for the past couple of years here on BANGshift and I truly look forward to watching Brent work in the shop each and every week. He’s...
Spinning Wheel Stud & Seized Lug? What Would You Do?
So here’s the scenario… You go to rotate the tires on your car, or truck, or your wife’s car or truck, and you find that one lug nut won’t come off. Like any good mechanic,...
Build a Metal Shaping POWER HAMMER From Scrap Metal: Part 2-Making Thumbnail Shrinking Dies
In Part 2 of the Power Hammer build, Karl gets his fabrication on building the dies for his new power hammer build. If you missed Part 1, use the link below to check it out too! He’s an expert...
How-To Build a Metal Shaping POWER HAMMER From Scrap Metal / Pull Max /Nibbler With Karl From Make It Kustom
In this episode of Make It Kustom, Karl gets his fabrication on but this time it is building a tool for the shop, not a part for a car. He’s an expert in metal shaping, spends tons of time...
Building A Simple Homemade Rotisserie For Your Project – DIY Tilt, Roll, Tip Over, Car Jig
Rotisseries have been used for restorations for a very long time and if you have a small car they can sometimes be relatively simple and easy to build. But if you have an American muscle car, or full...
FORGOTTEN 1968 Pontiac Bonneville – Will It RUN AND DRIVE After A Decade?
Well, he’s back at it folks, taking cars that have been sitting forever and seeing if they will run and drive. In some cases there isn’t much to making some of this old stuff run, but...
Halfass Kustoms 1935 Dodge Coupe Project: Part 7 – Chopping The Top And Converting To A Three Window
In this next installment of the three-window coupe build, Brent is chopping the top and doing the conversion to a three-window, which takes a bunch of sheet metal work. It looks exhausting and yet...
How To Make A No-Sew Mexican Blanket Seat Cover For Your Hot Rod
Mexican blanket seat covers, or upholstery, are super cool in the right hot rod or custom and we dig them. In this cool video from Jefferson at Red Dirt Rodz, he’s going to show us how to make...
The Vice Grip Garage NASCAR Truck Gets Electrical, Bumpers, and a BODY! SO MUCH TUBING!
Well, it got the big block and the turbo 400, and now it needs electrical, bumpers, and some kind of body. Man this thing is ugly. I mean ugly. But it does have a big block in it. That’s not what...
Making Old Car Parts Into Car Art For Your Shop Or House! Check This Out!
If you’ve ever seen a tailgate hanging on a wall, or the nose of a car, or have seen someone make a trunk into a couch, you’ve undoubtedly thought about how cool it would be to...
