Recent content by cleason

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    Breaker keeps tripping! Have checked a bunch, what am I missing?

    Garbage electric for the last thirty years(ge). I found out new gfis won’t hold refrigerators. Don’t know about door openers, used to be didn’t have to be on gfi. Only problem I have is when lighting strikes near my house. Half my gfi recep. trip. Also in the old days cutler hammer gfi breakers...
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    Dan Smith's Dream Shop

    dust collection could be under slab, seen that before. wouldn't want to ruin the timber frame look with duct work.
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    What did you do "IN" your garage today?

    hiding from my wife, laid off, shes running a day care in the house
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    DIY Carriage Doors

    used 1x6 barn siding, hd,1x3 for styles and rails, z brace in back for structure. built them 10 yrs ago
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    Stanley Black & Decker buys Craftsman

    black and decker industrial tool back, in the day were good, home owner stuff ****.doesn't stanley still own mac?
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    oil change with lift catching the oil

    my buddy keep putting his used oil in a 55 gallon drum. forgot about how he was going to empty it. he was fun to laugh at.
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    Collection of questions and methods to wire my shop

    i broke so many of those reamers, i use my kliens.
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    What did you do "IN" your garage today?

    put new brake pads on my 2011ss,replaced the rear sway bar bushings and links,(energy suspension) replaced the front sway bar frame bushings. with the poly bushings i can feel a slight difference. poor mans way to beef up handling. the brembo brakes are by far the easiest to work on. learned...
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    Lets see your vintage shop work lights

    ive got asome pictures of mine. the porcelin reflectors are from the 20s.the school house fixtures are from the 40s.the snap-on lighted display not sure.the strip light is from the 60s, has been retrofited with t-8. all of these came from schools. i have the globes for the school house...
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    Collection of questions and methods to wire my shop

    u a electrician charles?
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    Collection of questions and methods to wire my shop

    pull the ground its safer, romex is not rated for conduit except to sleve for protection from physical damage.outside outlets are required on the front and back of dwellings.i myself pipe every thing surface, easier to change. 30 + years as a union electrician,34 years as a master electrician...
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    Odd vintage Klein pliers used for ?

    these are my electrical tools, less hack saw. battery bandsaws are the new norm on site.
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    Lets see your vintage shop work lights

    i thought u said shop lights, these look like desk lamps.
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    Odd vintage Klein pliers used for ?

    we dont use c-clips in electrical work, they may be a pair of needle nose that were modified.u bend ur wires with strippers.30+ years as a union electrician.
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