Recent content by FatBeagle

Fire rated drywall may be necessary for insurance reasons, but I'm not sure yet. I want to avoid putting something up and then some bean counter says I have to re-do it.

I am in the process of building a gun bluing business in my garage. I recently completed the framing and exterior walls of an enclosed room in one corner. The exterior is OSB and I plan to hang fire rated sheet rock on the inside. There will be decent ventilation and a hood system over the...

Started on my gun bluing room. I don't know why pics taken with my phone upright end up sideways...

I'm asking here because many here have more experience with this stuff than I do. My expertise is in a different field than electrical. I'm really not sure why the snarky response was necessary.

I am working on getting other quotes. One guy sounded so old that he could have been working with Edison back in the day. Left a message with another guy and waiting to hear back on a revised quote from the first place. I'm obviously no expert or I'd do it myself, but I don't see how this...

^ I agree

I may be looking into doing it myself. I have a couple electrician friends but they aren't close by anymore. Or I need to **** it up and save some more money.

The run through the conduit is 15'-20' max. He wants to put the panel right where it comes in which is fine. The garage is totally open. Studs. Nothing to work around. I wanted the compressor and welder plugs on the other side of the 24' garage but if it's cheaper, they can be right by the sub...

So I got a quote for some electrical work in my detached garage. The work is as follows: Proposal: $1,791.00 (One Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety-One Dollars):scared: For this amount (name of contractor withheld) will provide all labor and material to install a new 20 circuit panel in garage...

It's at least brass plated if not solid brass. It isn't magnetic anyway. I haven't examined it too closely yet.

I use the true hot caustic method. I'll also be doing parkerizing and eventually cerakote painting. I don't really specialize in a certain genre, but I try to encourage customers to only have "working guns" done. Having a well worn hunting gun reblued is a good idea. Having an antique...

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm itching to tear that vise apart especially.

Wow! Nice work.

These things belonged to my grandfather who died a couple years ago. My grandmother told me to take basically whatever I wanted that was his. The bell was from their dairy farm they owned when my mom was growing up. The Baldor grinder and the #3 Record vise (real) were in the garage of the house...

I recently got a similar bell with a nearly identical story. Was originally on my grandparent's farm where my mom grew up. There was a belfry sort of structure on their lawn that we think came from a former church down the road. Mine is brass though. To me, restoring a family item that you...