Recent content by hemiallen

Thanks for the suggestions. I got some of the thin pressboard with a slick white coating, Lowes make your own dry erase board that I forgot I had, and gave it a try just laying it on the surface. Seems to work good until I decide what to do long term. I think I will get some 2 part epoxy to...

built a 4' x 5' portable workbench for my vice, as an assembly and worktop, and found a product to harden delaminations and scars/ chips on the crappy subfloor top. It is PC Petrifier, which I am unimpressed with after using it. Plan was to harden the area's pre-patching with PC woody. Then I...

I see a pre-1980 California License plate, my 80 Celica first commute car was 370 ZJK. Might be 1970's? Interesting angled 2x4 running into the peg board, to tie ceiling joists to the wall for structural strength? I've seen them horizontally on the top plates in the corners, never like that...

Thanks Just left a message with Wilsons. My home wifi is 200 feet from the building. Thank you

Hello, searched but didn't find anything. I have ATT service, and most days I don't get signal inside my steel building, but if I roll up a door and place the phone just inside ( usually to get it out of direct sunlight heating it up) I can get a signal. For the winter, this isn't usually a...

My electrician showed me 9 of these mounted in a neighbors new shop, 40' x 60', same design as my shop only smaller, and they looked good. My phone- fc meter shows they are 20% brighter than my James 4' 225 watt lights. ( 255 FC on my James- econolights 311 FC) Both seem to be enough light to my...

Are you going to assemble the building yourself, or subcontract, or have a builder assemble it? I am curious what you are contemplating, Red iron, pole building, etc. I am south of Sacramento and just had a 50x90x20 eve red iron building , used a contractor that won't go as far as Redding, but...

Thanks. I'll give them a try. I hadn't done a craigslist search, Doh!!! Just did Facebook Market and local listings. Thanks

LOL, I have an electric scissor lift they left from installing the mezzanine, just installed 2 4' led lights at 20' height (my eve height) and used it to lift 3 sheets of 3/4" T&G just to see how it will look Monday around noon when they finish. I compressed a disc, old injury, and gladly am...

Thanks Good suggestion on the feet/ wheel removal once set. Yes, I hate paying new, but the 10'8" height of the floor ( 10' step) seems more difficult to find used, so far.

I am laying the flooring in my 10'8" high second story in my steel building, and believe a rolling ladder will work good for my use. I found these https://www.zoro.com/ballymore-safety-rolling-ladder-steel-120-inh-sw1232g/i/G9843635/ to be reasonably priced VS the grainger...

Thank you for the information. It makes sense to me that it would be difficult to see the difference with my eyes, and I agree, the phone was obviously not a good device and my expectations were an A to B ratio, not an accurate number. But surprisingly, when the phone was placed right under the...

Perfect Thank you very much

Thank you. So 165w vs 225w will give 20 more FC at 30" height makes the decision easy, for the same cost, but I am surprised my eye doesn't see the James mounted at 10' as extremely bright VS the HD 165w light. I just stood under each in the dark shop, and I do not see the James being too...

Ok, I purchased a southwire kit with a clamp on meter and inline splitter to calculate watts (Amps x volts) Home Depot 167.88 James 237.84 I still do not visually see that the James light is 20% more light ( based on measured watts) as the HD light, and my phone app using the same distance (...