Recent content by ben5243

Sorry, but there's no reasonable expectation of privacy on the front porch of your house. If you're going to staple NM cable to your siding and terminate it into a plug, anyone can contact the AHJ. ANYONE. Extension cords should not be used as permanent wiring and NM cable is only allowed for...

They're actually Kobalt boxes haha. Your brain must have seen the dewalt tools right above the "alt" and just made the connection. I can't find the white ones anymore and every other color appears to be no longer available but it's the same as this one https://low.es/2ogpSst They were a black...

Thanks. I guess this is what I needed to hear. I should have researched more before I built the cart but it was kind of a spur of the moment project and I found hundreds of pictures online of mobile work benches using swivel casters. The mobile base the table saw comes with has casters on a...

Thanks. I had no idea you could really screw up a caster wheel design. I just grabbed what was convenient because I only decided to build this mid-day yesterday and it was supposed to be cheap and simple. I have the stand and saw upside down right now and I'm ready to bolt it together and...

I'm in the middle of building a mobile bench for my table saw and picked up what I thought were nice casters from the Lowes by my house. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Waxman-4-in-Polyolefin-Swivel-Caster/1000293713 They're nice but after putting them on and locking all 4, the swivel lock has a lot...

You can run power to the string of lights first and then a 2 conductor to a single switch. Just like this then splice into the wires attached to the light and run it to the next light. You'll have 6 current carrying conductors going into that box though so make sure you do box size calcs to...

Why would it matter if I installed the doors and openers myself or if I'm just passing along information from an installer I paid? Especially if it helps the OP fix his problem?? I did install everything myself by the way... why would the installer that SOLD me the doors and openers give me...

The installer that sold me my doors and 8500s recommended adding a few degrees of slope to the horizontal tracks. Set a level on your tracks and make sure they slope downward a little. The 8500 can't push the door down like a traditional chain driven opener so it needs to be able to roll...

That is part of the issue, I'll be expanding a bathroom and converting it to a full bath and building a chase around the stove pipe. Because the bathroom is going from 3/4 bath to full bath, I'd like to permit it and I'm concerned about the mechanical inspector looking too closely at the chase...

I looked into that but couldn't find any "prescriptive" examples of how to box out trusses like you would do for joists to install an attic door. The consensus seems to be that engineered trusses are designed to support exactly what they need to and not a bit more. Floor joists you can cut and...

The roof penetration was completely redone with a new boot before installing the new stove pipe because the old one was leaking. We forced the sellers to hold back money in escrow so we could do that and replace the stove pipe. The birds were getting in through the eaves which had already been...

It hasn't fallen yet, but what I think is happening is because there is no longer a connection on the bottom chord (completing the triangle) to handle the tension of that section, the top of the truss is actually being held up via the sheathing of the 2 adjacent trusses and the bottom of the...

Hi all, I apologize as this isn't 100% garage related but I wasn't sure where else to find a collection of folks knowledgeable about these sorts of things... maybe we can just pretend this is in the garage? ;) Bought the house a year ago, first house. This was missed in the home inspection...

First, check if you can still open it manually. It sounds like you need to manually open the door to where it was when you pulled the release. It should re-engage but if you've already removed and taken apart the motor unit you may have a harder time. Check the balance of the door and make...

Sorry, I finally fixed the links. Photobucket is still free but the bandwidth they allow for hosting is basically nothing. I guess GJ threads get a lot of hits and it maxed out my account. I'm infuriated with them, I have a decade of forum posts on various forum sites that link photobucket...