Recent content by 4xdog

I can barely see a thread sometimes with multiple pop ups and in-line ads. Thanks for working on this, @Ryan!

That's a seriously tight fit! I'm impressed wiith how you shoehorned the columns into place. Here's a question for ya, @zkdiesel. I'm sure you've thought about this and can educate a guy... The next door neighbor at my now-sold parents' home worked for one of the bigger Pierce fire apparatus...

I converted two hard-wired pendant fixtures to outlets in my library/studio earlier this year. The previous owners used the pendant spotlights when it was a painting studio. I needed to use two ancient 48" fixtures I converted to LED. I wanted to keep plug-in rather than hard wire them, so...

Welcome above the waterline, Don, from another Ohio native, and another Don, too! I’m happy to now be in northern New Mexico, where my cars don’t rust and I see mountains looking out the windows!

SmugMug has worked beautifully for me for many years as an online archive and an easy route to sharing photographs. I have many tens of thousands of images from the last 50+ years of my photography and 150+ years of family photography in many dozens of galleries under my account. I can often...

I've shopped at Daiso for many years, mainly in San Diego, and was happy to have a store open in Santa Fe almost two years ago. I'm a fan. Note that stock changes fast at Daiso, and while some things can be counted on, for the most part if you think you're gonna like it, get it now 'cause...

I got this one yesterday from the dealer I use in Albuquerque. Might be a little better than their normal internet discount, but it's in the same range as what one can get everyday online from some dealerships, including American Toyota.

The Toyota dealerships I used for years living in Saint Louis and now for the last three in New Mexico almost always have more or less 30% off list for online ordering snd counter pickup.

I put a two-zone, roof-mounted, ducted minisplit system with Mitsubishi HyperHeat heat pumps in my house last autumn. It’s absolutely dead quiet. Perfect control around set points either heating or cooling. I loathe the Mitsubishi thermostats, and fear what aggravates me the most is an...

Yep, that's what you've got! A gravid rodent's gonna chew. It almost doesn't matter what. (That whole urban myth around epoxidized soy oil in PVC insulation is a red herring. :D )

I’m in. Although TBH, I’ve never won anything in a giveaway in my life, so I’m not holding out a lot of hope here either.

I bought what appears to be exactly that box, plus a coupe of it's smaller and bigger brothers, in the mid 1980s.

I have a fairly heavy sorta flat extension cord that I think was on a fridge when I bought this house. Some kind of appliance cord, I believe. It’s not ”flat”, but the three conductors are side-by-side so it’s not as bulky as round cord. The wall plug is also kind of flush with a 90°...

I wasn't quite carrying this one, but I did use it today. A custom Field-Master knife made through a collaboration between overland travel writer, explorer, and trainer Jonathan Hanson of Exploring Overland & Exploration Quarterly magazine and knifemaker Elias Fedorowski of Exploro. They made...

And possibly why it's in near-mint condition, too.