Recent content by Don R

A friend made this one for me.

The air will continue to equalize until one compressor is satisfied and turns off or the load is great enough that they both stay on. An experienced flow technician once explained it to me in an eloquent way. Liquids don't compress but air don't care.

I degreased and vinegar soaked a batch of motorcycle spokes. They came out almost too nice. I wonder if there is any zinc left on them. They looked so good that I did another batch. My bikes will live indoors anyway. I'll give them a soak with nanowax just to help preserve them.

I met too many inspectors that led off with, "what I like to see is" I went toe to toe with a State plumbing inspector once. He had already made the mistake with 2 or 3 other motels and they jackhammered up floors and did what he wanted. We waited a week and called his boss. We were...

40 years ago our city water was very copper hungry. I was a Plumbing apprentice and got one or two service calls every week for pinholes. We had to re-pipe entire houses with L copper. Since then, the city has added something to the water to make it less metal hungry and a pinhole is pretty rare...

I piped five Ingersol Rand screw compressors into a 10" welded air main, we welded in an 8" loop around the plastics dept with 4 inch "ladder rungs" between the loop and 2" drops to each machine. It could have fed the entire factory. They had multiple compressors rooms in different areas and we...

We like ours, it probably uses more electricity than our AC. I didn't realize the home owner builder of our house had blocked a lot of the soffit vents. When I ran it on high, it balooned the ridge vent causing a roof leak. We only run it on low now even though we fixed all of the soffit and...

The blue 1972 CB750 belonged to a friend, behind it under the cover is a Sandcast first year 750. Counting the ones on the shelf there are 15 or so bikes either here, in the other side, or storage. 3 70's, a 71, three 72's, a couple 73's, a 74 one owner, kz100, gl1000, Yamahopper, XR70R Honda, A...

Hello I just joined, I saw a reference to the site at sohc4.net