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I have never seen a meter or regulator indoor, is this done for snow load and making it easier on the meter reader? seems like a real pain to try to get inside to read the meter.

that meter is good for about 500,000btu. a tankless hot water heater is about 200,000. its by far the largest gas drawing appliance you have. street pressure may exceed 100 psi, the max I usually see going to the meter is 14psi. Thats a white face meter, area behind the dials is white. its a...

y'all must be out in Mountain Brook? I'm in Vestavia would love to see the pictures.

I have never seen a Torsen rear differential, very interesting idea. I wonder how well it wears? also what about high torque seems like a lot of stress can be put on that worm gear in a shock load situation. Also aren't most differentials "electronically" controlled now days, the just put the...

the filter is called an air dryer and its expensive and lots of maintenance. use copper (from the HVAC guy) its very easy to work with and fast. no threads= no leaks.

im not a structural engineer but I'm thinking those uprights would hold up the world and that I-Beam is weak compared to the uprights. hugely overbuilt, I like it.

I do HVAC for a living, we install the tankless hot water heaters all the time, were in alabama, the ground water hear is a constant 65 to 70 degrees. the amount of electricity your going to need to heat water at a decent flow rate from what i would assume your winter water temps are in the low...

So my thought process on this is my work truck for example, its a 4x4 with an all heavy steel work body, bumpers, 3500 with chains and a garage to build momentum. if driven every day then i should be pushing all the snow back into the road from the night. My wives car wouldn't work out so well...

This I'm sure this is a very naive question, but why do you have to remove the snow from your driveway? why can't you just drive through it? my work truck has huge steel bumpers on the front and back couldn't you just run it over? Does it turn to ice if you run it over a lot? here we don't get...

these aren't as stout as a traditional 5 gallon bucket, they won't hold me up flipped upside down. I'm heavy probably 235.

will it stop lifting if it weights too much? does it have a fail safe?

maybe im the only person who drives trucks that weigh more then 6000lbs. My big truck weights more then 9000lbs ready to work (with the bed empty).

Rustoleum Professional, Painted the hood on my van with it, its white so its a match scraped the entire thing, sanded primed and painted, 9 very light coats looks factory and has for 2 years, and 40000 miles. lot better then the factory paint did.

Do yall use hammer drills? I have an sds plus and a regular hammering cordless drill I have never had one of these screws strip, I do HVAC for a living and use them at least once a week. These will literally rip the brick out of the wall before the fastener pulls out. Never put them in the...

Home depot was offering there "special buy" at black friday or around Christmas It was there 2- 4AH batteries for $99. Today i purchased the 2 pack of 4Ah batteries for $50.00 they normally retail for $99ea. No idea if this was only my store it was the Home depot at the Galleria Birmingham Al...