Recent content by elsberry

You need a specific type of tube to be able to rewire the light to bypass the ballast. I haven’t used these specific bulbs but have a set of bulbs that work with an existing ballast that were awful. Not bright at all and I took them out immediately. Put in bypass tubes and life is good.

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Personal opinion - I would skate right around that slab. Assuming your trench is to code, I'd trench around the slab instead of under it. Then when I got to the edge, to the right in the photo, I'd come up the wall with conduit and make a left 90 over to the existing hole in the wall. I'd...

Good point! It is a pea green, so your memory is correct. It is lighter in comparison to the older SK color, even inside where the surfaces are untouched.

I would like some photos if you don't mind. This seems to be a lighter than the SK Green than the SK Wayne era, and it's a hammered finish. Any ideas how to get a hammered paint custom mixed??

That's a beautiful Waterloo chest Biscuit! No date stamps that I can find, but the box is quite dirty and needs cleaned up just to assess it's condition fully. Thanks for the info though. 1975 would be about right I'm guessing. Do you know if the pulls are available from Waterloo? These are...

This weekend I went to GA to visit my father who is 83. He insisted that I bring home his rolling tool chest as it was deteriorating and he knew I would restore it and take care of it. So... I thought I would share. It is from the Dresser Industries era from the label but it is so filthy and...

I have a similar arrangement. We have a two car attached garage, but also a 25 x 20 garage that is detached off to the side of the house that I use for my work from home office / toy storage / cave. I have Cat 6 cable buried between the house and the detached garage, then run an access point...

They are called ribbon gauge, and are are usually 12" long, tempered steel. Enco has them listed under feeler gauges, if you filter by the length of feeler gauge you want. You're supposed to use them with an inch/pound gauge pulling them via the hole in the top edge to measure a specified...