Recent content by CrankyOldMan

Not sure if it warrants its own thread, so I'll start in here. There's also a few new products that may be useful, but I'm not sure. I've got the 7500W version of the one linked in post #19. The manual includes a diagram for a remote line-level thermostat on page 9. It only switches the fan...

Thanks for the quick response. I looked through the first page or two of search results before posting but didn't see anything related. I'll take a look again and see what I can find. Thanks!

I'm trying to get my garage door to seal properly so I can start heating it. The hinges don't look like anything I've found online, so I may have to replace them completely when they wear out. Any ideas on where to find these? The door has Overhead Door branding stickers but a Wayne Dalton...

I just did one on a generator company website. Only showed 55A (13.3 kW) for the house, so that's not as big of an issue as I thought. I still want more than the 50A that the old sub panel will support and if I'm going to add a new panel in the garage, I might as well do the upgrade while...

They're mostly gas, actually, but the original problem is that there's only a 6-3 NM cable feeding the sub panel in the garage. I want to have enough overhead to run more than 40A at once since I anticipate running a welder, compressor and a few hand tools at some point during racecar build...

The new panel is going on the other side of the wall from the meter, so it's only a few feet. The existing run of cable will just be pulled into the new panel.

Been a while, figured I'd come back with an update on the project. I went and looked at the main disconnect for the house. It's only 100A! So the plan now is to have the service upgraded to 200A in the garage but keep the existing 100A panel in the basement and have a 100A breaker in the new...

Picked up a pretty beefy machinist vise at an auction recently, curious about where it came from since there's no info on it. Anyone familiar with this one? Thanks!

Aaah, much better! It's an ugly spaghetti mess, but I may need the extra length when I move the panel to the surface. The smaller ground wires weren't even screwed in, just wedged in behind the neutral bar and held in by some spring clips. Is that an approved practice??

Ok, looked over the sticky on 3- vs 4-wire. Makes sense. There's a grounding kit available for my panel, gonna see if the local hardware store has it. If not, off to the big box store. The only place I can see in the panel to mount it is on the two dimples in the middle of the left side...

Wow, thank you all for the quick feedback! Looks like I made some incorrect observations/assumptions about the setup. That's what I get for trying to post on lunch at work from memory. I went back this evening and actually inspected things. The cable is NM-B 6/3G. I didn't see the ground...

I have an existing 100A sub panel in my garage supplied by 3-wire NM cable (haven't verified the AWG yet but it's big). The neutrals and grounds are all mingled in the sub panel, which is OK from what I've read elsewhere since it's a 3-wire supply. I want to change the 240V outlet on that sub...

I recently picked up one of these as well, but haven't done anything with it yet. It really would be great if all of the old photobucket pictures could be restored. I'm dying to see what all the upgrades were!

You've got the missing half from my DP-600! To the right buyer (and I may be just that person) it could be worth a decent chunk of change. I saw the front gearbox (the part you're missing) on eBay around the time I bought mine this summer, but they wanted a kidney and spleen for it. You didn't...

Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents. I've been thinking about getting a press for some time now and this thread was an AWESOME source of info on what to look for. The first HF I went to only had the welded upper assembly and the floor model was SUPER SKETCHY. The upper channels were actually...