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meant to say taps. large taps made in USA vintage taps. I sell on ebay al the time on certain items like old machinery yeah i dont...

location is california bay area. And I would keep it but I have a small garage so I wouldnt want a total project if it is going to need...

I am thinking if I built these on the rafters that have nothing on them (they are just rafters) no truss built that that could beef it...

is it trying to be a web truss? do those supposed to pass load only to the two opposing walls and not sag in the middle at all?

Still think they are trusses with no weight on the bottom chords ?

Such an AWESOME video. Those dudes drive nails so incredibly fast and effective. cool that they had fun editing back then too to make it...

see if those make better sense and i will watch the video for sure thanks

People are telling me these are trusses but I am at a loss. Garage roof California no snow load everything built with 2x4’s and the...

Well where those joist hangers are where someone had cut the lower rafter tie and toe nailed it into another 2x4 running perpendicular...

so far i only found one stud in the kitchen to garage framing that was eaten pretty well through then it stops in both directions. old...

However it is laid out right now is exactly how they built it to code in the 50s. Or someone else came in and did some stuff but all the...

Can you just walk me through it. And yeah home made trusses makes sense now. But hte bottom piece of the truss is a 20ft long 2x4 that...

so ive done a lot of termite work before and ive been treating by drilling holes in anything that looked suspicious but i havent found...

roofing material is single layer composite shingles that are probably 10 years old in decent shape. You could probably get away with...

There is a lot of tooling. Was looking on ebay and it seemed like some of the chucks sell for $200 or so each. Some of the random dies i...