Recent content by 2011laramie

Part of me wants to clean in up and paint it. Other part of me doesn't want to pay for paint

Well I picked up a trailer load yesterday. Shop had sold and was selling for a great price. load shifted on the rough gravel road a few miles from home.

Pallet forks on tractor or excavator

It will be kinda difficult, but it's stuff I don't use very often. It should realistically be sold hahahah

The guy that's selling it has 12 and 13ft beams.

I sketched up a couple ideas for what I'm thinking. It will be anchored to the wall to prevent sway. I need to store tires, totes, miscellaneous junk lol. Snowmobile maybe(pending layout decision). Table saw, router table. Nothing extremely heavy, just stuff I don't use week to week. any...

Finally got around to taking this apart. The one bearing was/is shot. I managed to get it lubricated up with some electrical motor oil. Reassembled everything and it starts on low speed now nicely. I will order some new bearings and get it swapped out. Thanks for all very good responses. Much...

So if I start the fan on setting 3 and let it spool up, then drop it down to 1 or 2 it will stay running. So what's up with that?

I'm troubleshooting the exhaust fan in the kitchen. It quit working a while ago and I finally got a chance to dig into it. The fan has 4 speeds and only 3 years old. Speeds 1 and 2 quit working. The motor will kinda attempt to start on settings 1 and 2, the squirrel cage might twitch 1/8" of an...

Weil mclain cast iron that I picked up for 400 dollars. Brand new never used but seen some abuse over the years. 55 gallon buffer tank. Rosemex unit heater I picked up for cheap and painted. There's an aquastat on the buffer tank that is the only control for calling for heat on the boiler. It...

R28 ROXUL in the walls. R12 or 16 garage doors R60 cellulose in the ceiling

Still havnt got the shops boiler system fired up. Soon though. The only source of heat is the solar system currently. I bought a temperature logger for the recent cold snap we had. The outside temp is temp 1 The inside temp is temp 2 The coldest the inside of the shop got was -9°C, the low...

It currently has a shade tarp over it. Ill pull it off next month. But last winter it worked fantastic

Id stay away from drywall just cause it damages easily. And i dont know how to mud and tape. The reason for the plywood on the bottom was simply cause i wasnt smart enough to hit every electrical outlet inbetween the ribs of the tin. I personally wouldnt do icf either. Kinda tough to poke a...

Made a bit of progress this late summer. Hoping to be done all the interior tin this month