Recent content by gorilla

I buy blades from McMaster-carr.

I keep one old belt that's quite long and cut to stretch over shiv's to measure length for a replacement belt.

I'm talking about the 1/2" diameter tube that you attach drip tubes to.

I have tried to use the compression couplings sold in the local orange big box store to repair some existing irrigation lines in my wife's flower beds it's 5/8" tube. I cannot get the tube to go into the coupling any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

After the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco the city rebuilt the water system so that the fire hydrants had a dedicated water supply. I understand that no other city in the country has this.

Those blades are dull, they have four edges you may find an unused set. If not they need to be ground if they have been sharpened a lot you may need to shim under the bottom blade to make it flush with the bed.It's foolish to try to DYI this send it out to a grinding shop.

My drill press has a DC motor and speed controller so I change speed every time I use it. I think that would rather change belts than sharpen burned up drills.

What do you use to test brake fluid and coolant?

I think that the bore diameter and the locating ring dimensions would be good to know. I bought a equivalent spacer here in California for $8.00 brand new

Before we can comment on the capabilities of the DiAcro brake we need the definition of a crisp bend. 16 gage is heavy enough that for a really crisp bend you would need to coin it in a press brake.

It takes a lot of skill to apply heavy metallics like that and not have them look like poop.

You do realize that most of those low rider cars have big wheels and small tires. Kind of ruins a nice car.

How about a brake lathe and a brake shoe grinder only used once.

I don't know what a killowatt hour of electricity costs were you live it's $.35 here in Norcal. I use a 6kw electric heater to heat my 400 sq.ft shop. Works well, no open flames or stink from fuel, the heater was about $300.00 from the internet. Just something for you to consider.

that would be a good idea to adapt to a floor jack or a transmission jack if you don't have enough room around your lift to get a car close.