Recent content by DaveMcLain

Today I finished up the moving of the hydraulic power unit outside and I think that it turned out great. It is MUCH quieter when I'm grinding cams and that is nice. Pulling the hydraulic hose through the 2in PVC conduit including the LB was very easy. I used my fish tape and some lube and it...

The system only runs at 200psi and after I've been grinding for an hour or two it gets slightly warm to the touch but never hot. This machine came from Crane and it was modified some time probably back in the early '70's or so to have hydraulics so that it is more like the Berco RAC 1500...

I was wondering if it is permissible to run hydraulic hoses through a wall using electrical conduit? My camshaft grinding machine uses hydraulics for the wheel dresser and for the rapid in and out on the grinding wheel. The power unit is somewhat noisy and I was thinking about building a...

One factor to think about is how crowded the wifi spectrum is in your particular location. My house is in town and my shop is on another lot across the street. When I originally built the shop I extended my network using two Engenius Enstation 2's set up as a PTP link. These used 802.11n and...

If you have the converter idler running along with your other motors on your shear etc will the compressor motor start?

What do they mean by "heat throw" anyway? In my 36x48 building I have an HD 75 mounted to the 10ft ceiling in a corner. When it blows it easily throws heat to the opposite corner and that's 60ft away.

The real secret to getting a waste oil burner to work well is in the preheating of the oil. It needs to be heated to at least 140 degrees for the combustion to work well and be reliable. Lower than that and it can be very erratic. A lot of this also depends on your particular fuel. Oil...

Really? What creates this "surge" and why is it any different if the cable runs from one building to another?

If he runs a cable from one building to another and is powering the AP that's at the end of that cable using a power injector in the first building how is it possible to "fry" anything?

If you can use some direct burial Cat 5e cable make a run from the house and then set up a new AP inside of your building. Give it its own SSID and you can power it using a POE injector from the house. An AP like a TP Link EAP225 is only about 60 bucks on websites like Amazon and it comes with...

I'm not totally sure how significant the ID of the fittings really is when it comes to flow in a PEX system. Each run is supposed to only have 2 fittings(one on each end) and it seems like they would flow as much as the typical fixture that's then attached. Sink, shower head etc. I used a...

I've wondered about the effectiveness of those too. How does it help? Does it keep the post dry? Clean? Or away from oxygen?

Somehow this video popped into my YouTube feed and it shows a really interesting repair system that these guys have developed to repair rotted wooden posts in an existing pole barn. I wonder what it costs per post?

In the 18x48 upstairs room of my barn I have two ceiling cassettes. They're mounted mostly in the middle of the room and having two of them allows the room to be "zoned" somewhat. When my wife is up there working on bookkeeping stuff she likes to run just the one that's far away from her so...

Why would I do anything differently? This isn't dangerous or illegal.