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Saw one like Mridolfo's one above in an estate sale this weekend. Someone had purchased it before I had gotten to the garage and noticed it under a pile of worthless junk. I was examining it since I had never seen one with the aluminum diecast parts before, when the guy who had bought it...

Stopped by an "estate sale" over the weekend and saw an item I let get away since I didn't have room to take it with me and didn't need it, and another big workshop tool some might remember from about 3 decades ago. The first was an early-style Black and Decker Workmate fold-up work table that...

Are you using the crimp rings or cinch clamps for the PEX fittings (or going with SharkBite connectors)? I ended up going with the clamps, which are not as finished-looking where visible, like under the kitchen sink, but I found the ratcheting clamp tool much easier to use in all sorts of tight...

To Lu-Max, the OP, since you're not planning on using the stump itself as a table but only as the support for a wood (or metal table top), then Bill's last option in post #16 is the way to go: [I]"If you get it down below the level needed, and it is rough and uneven, you can just screw 4 long...

Got it. Thanks for the explanation. A picture is, as they say, worth a thousand words. I had recently replaced the wax ring on a toilet for the first time so I figured it was a drain of some type but way too small for a toilet drain flange. I guess I should have deduced it was a shower stall...

I had seen some discussions about fire caulk on the internet but since my two sets of holes are the penetration points in the exterior brick wall under a kitchen window and a ventilated masonite(?) soffit panel, I didn't think it was necessary. It's not as if I'm running the PEX through...

I ended up also calling the Customer/Technical Support line today for Cash Acme, the manufacturer of the "SharkBite" brand of PEX piping, fittings, etc. I asked them for an approved caulking/sealant for my application. The girl I talked to says that "foam-based polyurethane" (expanding foam...

Good tip - thanks! That worked, although it brings up the discussion in a more 1990's layout look. :) But here are two oddities: I had also initially tried to search on "PEX plumbing" here on Garage Journal and still didn't get any hits. A lot of "plumbing" threads but nothing including...

Never thought I'd see it, but I searched on "PEX" and didn't find even one mention of it in the over 4.7 million posts here in the Garage Journal. I know this isn't a forum that deals with too many plumbing-related questions but I thought that surely someone might have run water to their...

With no exterior markings, I have to say it has a sort of nice "purposeful" stealth look to it...

Me, too. I thought he was just posting a photo of a humorous "home made" take-off of the Workmate design until I read his caption about clamping the curtain rods in there.

Even so, you might be interested in this recent thread by a guy looking for advice on a cordless circular saw and really on what battery/tool platform to buy: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=290024& You probably don't want to try cutting any landscape timbers with a cordless...

Not here to talk you out of anything, Mister A, but with any cordless tool set-up you should usually think of getting at least two batteries. Otherwise, what are you going to do when your one and only battery runs out and you're not finished with the job at hand? FWIW, my experience is almost...

ssdave - Can you look and tell me which model you have? My brother-in-law's openers are the "3661-372" (circa 2001) with the wide 5-button wireless wall switch. I might be inclined to think that the later "3663-372" models with the vertically-oriented wall switches might be backwards...