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    Stuff around the shop... Cisterns.

    I have a tote for water. Up until this year I had it up on top of a trailer, about 16' up. That worked great for gravity feed. This year it's on the ground and I'm using a sprinkler pump to create pressure. I will have to add a filter like Olli suggests because I plan on using it for my pressure...
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    Paint Can Shakers

    I use the short 3" tube and a rag in the air paint shaker for the spray cans. But making one strictly for spray cans is a good idea. Next time I have 20 minutes I'm making one. And my shaker is screwed into a 4x8x3/4" ply on sawhorses. Doesn't walk...
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    Paint Can Shakers

    I have the Canadian version of harborfreights air operated paint shaker. It works.
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    I'm 62 and my shop needs serious work.

    If you sold your present living quarters, what would that give you? Then either fix by yourself, or hire out the living quarters first. Do you really need that big shop heated? Could you build a smaller insulated shop on the property to do your work in and use the big for storage?
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    Steel Building Trim Question

    Yes, pics please.
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    Shed doors, better than quick and dirty?

    Trace a line 3/4" above your current top trim board and down the sides. When you replace the door cut at that line and put in drip cap so it's 3/4" below the cut. You don't want the bottom edge of the siding to touch the drip cap and soak up water. Bend the ends of the drip cap up at 90° to stop...
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    Any suggestions for a portable garage which could survive in Alberta winters and cost less than $500?

    greenhouse pthe... What is?
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    Any suggestions for a portable garage which could survive in Alberta winters and cost less than $500?

    I have a 12 by 20 frame given to me. I strapped it with 1x6 approximately 3' on center then I temporary stapled some 12mil heat shrink fire resistant poly over that then permanently attached some lath over top. Then I shrunk the poly. That has held up for 4 years so far. 2 sides are tied to a...
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    Trying to use dead space

    The cleats installed upside down would work too. At least in my head...
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    Does anyone have a 3” copper pipe cap lying around?

    1.66"
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    Collection of Greenfield taps and dies. Don’t need these and No idea how to value them.

    I picked up a similar set of taps, no die, including 5 pipe taps for C$50.00 15 years ago. Yours look to be all sae so maybe not much of a market. I'd probably start at 150 to 200 and drop from there as time passes. And then 10 years ago I bought a set of machinists tool boxes for C$100.00. It...
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    exhaust manifold studs stripped - best way to remove?

    The way heating a bolt or stud works: Once the part is heated to near red hot the stud wants to expand. The only direction it can go is longitudinal. When it shrinks back down the diameter is slightly less. This makes for less friction and easier removal. Map torch is unlikely to make it hot...
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    Big Greenlee slick

    What is a slick?
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    Get a hook into it!

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    Odd hoe/adze thing: Anybody have any guesses what it is?

    Maybe made for a child?
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