Recent content by homemade1487

Agreed. It seems some this is “consuming” my Phillips screwdrivers. I think I buy a six pack of Phillips every year cause they end up walking off.

I used the maxcell. I actually had little problems when pulling in 500’ runs of virgin sometime occupied duct. We always added a breakaway swivel in from the the fiber optical cable we were pulling. Otherwise the the cable will push the twists in the maxcell to the end and wad up. I’d say...

When I did a lot of underground utility construction, I did a lot of what we called, “overblowing”. We would blow pull ropes in occupied ducts all the time. It takes a big air compressor. We used a Ingersall 185. It takes a unique device to feed the rope and blow in air. We mostly sealed off the...

Homemade, slow burn, fusible link. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd say your safe no matter what you do. Lightning never strikes in the same place more then once. ;-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Liner in chimney for a wood stove if you into making wood. I'm not a big fan of pellets because they come with all the mess of wood and it's not much cheaper fuel in terms of making wood vs buying pellets. Put the stove up on a platform off the floor makes it easier to fill with wood and gets...

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That kind of phase converter Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Because i was mainly doing this as a temporary thing. The trailer was in the shop only a few days and I wanted to see if the damn heater even worked. I thought some creative wiring in the panel I could make it work. Or stretching a temporary cord from one box to the next to get it to work. I...

That looks really slick. Push the garage door opener to open the garage door when pulling into the driveway and it turns on all or some of the lights in the garage instead of/ including the two dinky lights built into the opener. I bet this was invented before the small lights on the opener...

Ok. The heater is on a 20 amp 240volt breaker. Not exactly sure the watt draw of the heater. The generator is actually 569kva running 277/480 3phase. It powers a 10kva phase converter to make the single phase power. The transfer switch in the breaker box it switched to shore power. Or the...

A friend of mine who is a master electrician. Whenever it comes to bundling multiple nm conductors, he just uses one staple every 4' and every 6" out of a box. Zip ties the bundle to the staple but no zip ties between the staples. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The generator itself has got to be 100kvw. I'm not sure the exact size but it is ran with a 12 liter cummins. And puts out 480 3phase. We have a phase converter to run the lights and so on when the gen set is running but this is for when we have it in the shop and just plugged into shore power...

Can I make 220 from 110? I am kinda thinking not. We have a generator trailer that runs our crushing equipment. When the generator is not running we can plug the trailer into a regular 110 wall outlet and provide us with lighting and basic hand power tools. We have an electric wall heater...

I just got done doing research on a better way to cut conveyer belting. Obviously it's similar to horse matting but not the same. The blade that works great for us is, a sawzall blade with the teeth ground off to more of a knife blade. And to be honest this will work with any saw. As long as...