Recent content by Jim in Wis

It's really a neat looking box, but I'd have greasy dirty fingerprints all over that nice paint job.

"Are you talking about a yard hydrant? or like old school pump up and down?" Hi KJ It's just a well casing in the middle of the yard now, with no electricity there. I thought it would be nice to be able to use it to get a drink or water a garden - and would look cool too. I guess it would be...

If you haven't gotten burned out with people asking stuff - what would be involved in putting in a hand pump in an extra well I have. I think it's sort of shallow, like it hits water at 20 or 30 feet. There is a well casing sticking up about 3 feet above the ground now, it used to be in the milk...

Well no wonder Ford quit making them!

$.16 per kwh - our power is generated with coal brought in by train

I found a penny a few years ago that was real silvery looking - like a dime. Now I know what that was, someone put mercury on it. I gave it to my brother in law, so no damage can come of it. He's already crazy.

I have a heated shop built adjacent to my unheated garage. The compressor is in the unheated part and piped into the shop. It works just fine - winter and summer. I'm in Wisconsin, so it gets cold out there -especially last winter!

Brings back old memories - I'm glad I'm retired! 3/4 inch isn't so bad, it will lift what you need and be handy to have. A little wear in each pivot point can add up - a little material off the load wheels maybe. The red ones were Falcon brand usually. The big wheels are right I think, 8 inch...

If the frame was in good shape except for the holes being oblong, it wouldn't be so hard to weld inside the hole and file it to get the pin to fit again. If the frame is bent too, junk it. The trouble is, none of them are made very good. They are ment to be disposable I guess. Most companies...

If you pump it up and then lay it on it's side and wiggle the load wheels, there will probably be a bunch of slop in the linkage. Most likely the pins and bushings are worn bad, some of the pins are just 5/8 or 3/4 steel pins which can be duplicated easily. Bushings might be a little harder, and...

I spent 35 years keeping a fleet of electric lifts trucks running in a warehouse, and saw a LOT of hand pallet jacks come and go. They are so cheap that it is easy to spend more fixing it than a new one would cost. It usually wasn't the pump that was the problem, it was the lift linkage becoming...

If you used pvc pipe on a system with an old rusty water heater for the tank, which one would kill you first?

Your garage would look nice with a 544 or an 1800 parked in there! Volvos are great cars, as you already know.

Get Tom Sawyer to help you. He knew how to do this sort of thing.

I had an old closet door that was warped bad. I tried getting it out by setting it on blocks, then parking a car on the high point and letting it sit for a couple of weeks. It seemed to get better, so I painted it nice and installed it. Now it's just as bad as it was. I think it's hopeless.