Recent content by DeltaWye

Thanks for updating the thread and especially for posting the pictures. The last person to send me a PM with their email address was sbush in April. Everyone since then posted in the thread asking me to send them what I had but with no way to do so. :eyecrazy: I still haven't gotten around...

Meh, I'd love a house with a shop but around here a small house without a shop is about a million dollars. In fact, I've come to accept that I'll probably never own a house in my lifetime because I made the mistake of not buying one when I was in high school when they were last affordable. I'm...

I'm back. I don't come here often anymore but I did subscribe to this thread so that I would get an email notification if anyone replied. I'm happy to email people copies of the manual when they request them and in return I ask that they update this thread with things like pictures or...

Hey, I just saw your PM but you never included an email address. No idea about the oil level, sorry, I still haven't got to this thing. :sad:

1. Have 2 monitors so you can have Sketchup open on one and have a tutorial on the other. 2. Use the tutorials in the program or on Youtube. I haven't used it in a while, I'm more of a pencil and paper kind of guy, but it came in very handy for a project I did a few years ago. I remember...

I thought it was really good when I got a sheared off 3/8" bolt with a broken drill bit inside out of the machine I was working on. The piece of drill bit wasn't very long - maybe 1/4" - but it prevented me from drilling on-center - until I created a nice valley with a diamond burr which was...

Yeah, it's annoying that they haven't fixed this yet. I give the rivet a quick crush using the corner of my bench vise to tighten it up. Then it stays open until you close it.

A little off the topic, but I was wondering what your user name alludes to. :p I use to watch Ave until he advocated for the cheap labour agenda. It's been at least a year and youtube still tries to push it on me. They obviously don't know me as well as they think. :lol:

They know most people won't check. I know I used to fall into that trap. For instance, I needed some sheet metal screws and they were $5.** for a box of 100 at HD. They were garbage, the screws wouldn't stay on the #2 Robertson bit and they took forever to pierce. Went to Ontario Heating on...

It sounds like all his refrigerant escaped already anyhow. I'd be looking for a replacement coil and just changing that. If the compressor dies? Sure, change the whole system. But the evap coil? I see them for sale all the time on kijiji (like craigslist, which we also have) and usually...

If your motor and the fan you want to use are both 240 volt, single phase then you could tap off the load side of the starter. Just add a fuse or circuit breaker ahead of the fan. If the voltage is different and if your starter has a normally open auxiliary contact, then it's simply a matter...

This only applies for stranded wire. You're still wrapping the wire around the screw 'clockwise', the way you'd do it intuitively. Before you form the 'hook' in the end of the wire, you take the strands and rotate them counterclockwise, first until they become straight and then continue until...

I think you're referring to me: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6639145#post6639145 Glad it helped. One of those many tricks I'd never have known about if I hadn't been shown it by someone in the trade. :beer:

Build an enclosure around it and line the inside with fiberglass. Just make sure to allow for the heat it gives off by making it bigger or venting it indirectly somewhere. The bare walls and floor certainly aren't helping since the sound will bounce around for ages before being absorbed.

I don't remember, it was ages ago. They're all basically the same. Like ard says, unless you're putting down at least a couple of inches it will be weak where it thins out. I'd go with the removing material method, just make sure you cover everything within 2 miles that you don't want covered...