Recent content by eljefino

I drained my plow truck through the dipstick tube b/c the drain plug is super buggered. Took 4 days using aquarium tubing. I didn't vac it, just sucked to get it going.

I've got shelves inside my naked stud cavities, and it's a downer when I lean a bottle of motor oil against my sheathing and it gets poked by a nail. ;)

If you run 12 ga wiring for something like a fridge you might in a few hundred years see energy savings from less line losses. Same with it being dedicated. If "it was always here" it meets code at the time it "became here", whenever that was. You'd want wire dated "back then" if you're...

I'd go with something like this. Assuming garage door on the left. Flourescents spilling down the sides of any car parked in there. The two yellow dots I'd make cheap CFLs on edison bases, so you can flick on "dim lights" just running through there to grab something. The middle yellow dot is...

I have that exact set (got for the same price post Xmas) and it's pretty nice though I'd like an 11 and 19mm even though there are SAE equivalents. I like the compact carrier, not a lot of needless blow-molded-ness. Good trunk set.

So the extensions don't roll if you jerk the drawer open?

Torque wrenches and breaker/ pry bars fit diagonally in the 27" boxes, but great idea!

What are y'all putting in this top deep drawer? (link) I just picked one up yesterday (black friday) and have most of the drawers figured out. Wrenches and sockets in the middle, shallow drawers. Angle grinders in the lowest, deep drawer to the right, and drills to the left. But the top...

If your generator is sized for the light a "standard" model will make as much noise as an inverter one. I had a 3000 watt generator with a 220/ 15 amp plug, looked like a 110 outlet but with "squinty eyes". How much work would it be to re-bulb the searchlight for 110? Seems like something...

I have two woodsheds, a two bay garage, and half of a basement (on a hill.) Two kids. Wife gets a bay in the garage in the winter but parks outside all summer, when the kids' bikes and cultch take over. My bay stays open and I use it. Around thanksgiving the bikes get moved into the...

How do the pumps sound running off the inverter vs off shore power? A non perfect sine wave (if your inverter supplies it) will manifest itself in motors just sounding "off" and or running a little hotter-- hard to detect with water cooling.

Someone was talking about running surface conduit; you need another box on top of (underneath, really) the box that's set into the ceiling that the conduit then goes into. This is called an extension box. Done right you'll have two, open face boxes facing each other. I'd get some single-bulb...

Brought in a 15/64" Kobalt ignition wrench that was filler in one of those umpteen piece kits. Two people worked diligently to process it and the Kobalt name went into the computer, presumably for some internal survey. So know matter how lousy the wrench is, if it's a brand name, you have a...

Just brought some home. The point about chrome was a good one; there's a stiff square "bar" as part of the handle with sharp chrome that would dig into one's hands over very little time. The open and box ends actually seem tolerably finished, so as far as the most basic job of not rounding...

The passive return is probably so you can hook up a cable modem and have its uplink/ backhaul make it through the amp and go to the cable company. I would get a "decent" amp... 12 to 20 dB is plenty... and hook it up "nearish" to the receiving antenna so it doesn't amplify line noise. After...