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https://coatscompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1400_1500_1600-Wheel-Balancer-Manual.pdf

Or, it could need some sort of repair. The manual you can download at Coats does cover calibration, at least. The difficulty in balancers is two-fold: Measuring the force, and then calculating how much weight to put on to cancel that force out. The calculation depends totally on the...

Well, I guess I have said what I need to say. The solution is now obvious. that was built by a pretty smart person.

That is interesting (and weird about the thin walls). We've been forced to make a lot of assumptions in this thread. If we are supporting the 2nd floor from "itself" it doesn't matter what the first floor is doing except at two spots; what is under the ends of the wall/beam?

"Shouldn't this be something standard". - no, it was custom made. According to the really poor installation instructions, that thing is ported internally to get hot water from the left, over to the mixing valve on the right, and back to your lift up diverter valve on the left.

Here's an answer to another question. "what is this called" is a ridge board but I already said "ridge pole" in this thread. It is just a nailer. In your case it's been bent by events elsewhere in the roof. It was not supposed to be under any stress except in hip roof cases, where it can be...

P.S. I would love to answer all your picture questions, but 10 other people will post, and then you'll start jabbering with them, and I never know if you even read what I wrote. It certainly does not appear that you read what I wrote the first time. Here, I'll start. Picture 1 questions: 1...

There are plenty of people who could just look up in there for 5 minutes and explain it all to you for free. If you are a neighbor of mine I'd do that for you. Regardless of what people here say, you know there are just a few trusses, mostly rafters. I only see one truss, but it looks like...

I've only ever seen one leak in my life. When that happened I asked in the dedicated HVAC forum what the format is, and none of the HVAC pros in this forum had a clue. So evidently they don't get changed much. For the person who asked how you know they're leaking, spit is excellent for the...

Absolutely. Plywood is all you need to stiffen it, but you'll need some blocking to pick up the load with the cables. That's important. If you were doing this on purpose you might not choose cables but they're there. The cables are supporting a point. You only need points of temporary...

Outside sewer seems great to me, but your water line probably needs a little bit of frost protection in parts of Florida.

Love it!

Good idea. If somebody wanted to copy that, I think could be made more secure, but it would be a lot more work. Probably pretty strong as it is. Upside down cleats is also a good idea here.

Whoever built that barn wasn't fooling around.

Honestly, every house is pretty much the same in this way. I can guess without looking what you should find down there. If there's a problem on the first floor, that's important, but there's no way to physically connect the two problems now. Support for the 2nd floor is the real problem now.