Recent content by gentzel

Jennifer Lawrence is doing fine, but she's a long way from being a billionaire. But anyway, back to the topic...

This. I use a velcro strip to hold the trigger. It just lives wrapped around the handle when not in use.

Drive end is 1/2". Box end appears, by comparison to a socket, to be 3/4".

Received my order a few days ago. The majority of the order is rather boring (screwdrivers and tongue & groove pliers), but the 2 mystery bags are... mysterious. A large wrench of some sort, and a very neat spring-actuated wrench.

Too late. If you'd just posted asking for recommendations on low-end pole saws, with a comment like "For personal reasons, please leave HF out of the discussion", you'd likely have gotten useful feedback. But you chose "HF *****" for your opener and should have expected some blow-back.

For disposable tapes, I have a pile of free HF ones. Keep a few in the car and give them away whenever I run across someone who needs one (in a craft store, at a hardware store, yard sale, etc.).

Many places carry it (including Amazon).

The 8500W isn't a slipstreamed update, it's a new model (albeit very similar to the 8500) and retails at a higher price. It opens/closes a bit faster, has the battery backup incorporated rather than being an add-on, and has a fancier wall switch (with a display). I believe it also has the...

The 8500 I installed mid-December made it through the extended single-digit weather we've been having without a single hesitation or issue.

Gravity "pushes" the door down. In general, there has to be enough of the lower door section(s) hanging at least partially vertically to give the door the impetus to drop when the shaft starts turning. This can sometimes be a problem for low clearance installations, in which case you have two...