Recent content by BikingEngineer

I started with a Dustopper, and have since replaced it with an actual Dust Deputy due to some issues I had with the Dustopper design. The Dustopper works fine with the fine dust from circular saw cutting and even smaller planer shavings, but chokes and clogs constantly when I'm cleaning up hand...

You probably do need winter tires year round if you're up in Alaska. Actual summer tires harden up considerably in lower temperatures and feel horrible in the cold, and can even crack in some extreme cases (200-TW autocross tires can if driven below freezing). Something like a studless winter...

I had an extension spring break, and just used the opportunity to switch over to a torsion spring. The failure mode is quite a bit less scary in a worst-case scenario, and ended up being quite a bit quieter than the extension springs ever were as a bonus.

A handheld UT thickness meter isn't going to have the resolution to properly measure a small area wall loss like the pinhole you'd be worried about, and the angle of the sound wave won't work for measuring wall loss. In a pipeline application you'd use a phased array UT set up specifically for...

With that sort of long-term installation I would bet that there's some sort of active corrosion protection installed, and that post is an electrode.

99% of the time I'll do it myself, but occasionally call someone if I don't have time or really don't want to do the job. I recently hired out changing my garage door over to a torsion spring setup (poorly installed extension springs were previously there). It would have eaten up an entire...