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Painting your house with a paint sprayer is a fantastic increase in speed. You can lay down paint at a terrific rate. You have to get used to it or you will get drips. I down side is that it does not push the paint into all the blemishes on your house the way a brush can. I combined both...

I have these pliers with no marking. They are likely quite old as they came from my father's workshop. They are well made and the jaws fit together nicely. They don't seem strong enough for metalwork.

Any special consideration for the occasional very heavy vehicle. How about 1 or 2 times a year with a 8 ton motor home? Or 1 or 2 times a year for a 4 ton boat on a 5 ton trailer?

Do you do wood working in your basement? Or anything dusty? Out of interest I installed a pressure difference gauge in the air ducts measuring the pressure drop across my filter. I record the pressure daily. I don't do wood work often but when I did the pressure drop doubled in one day...

Be aware when moving a surface grinder that the table is often not held in place. It simply rests in the ways. You can pick the table up and walk away (on the smaller machines at least). Be sure to tie the table down to prevent it from sliding off onto the road as you drive along. On...

A thought before you pour your concrete: might you need a sump pump? Depending on your local water table might your lift hole fill with water? When I was little my father built a garage with a pit. It was generally filled with water and he could never use it. The water table was just too...