Recent content by jimkaniki

Thank you for all the responses.

I have a new air ratchet and a new air impact gun. What's the best way to lubricate them? A few drops in the air inlet now and then? What if I have a whip hose with one of those swivel fittings? Do I put a few drops in the inlet of the whip hose? I don't want to unscrew the whip hose everytime...

Set the poles, then fill. That way you know that your poles are set in good soil, not fill. If the filling and grading is done with any level of care at all, there will be no danger of the perma columns shifting, so long as they are set in the proper depth of undisturbed soil. I built a 20'...

Good point on the sealed pressure vessel issue. I will avoid doing anything like that.

I am installing a black iron compressed air system in my garage. I intend to mimic the system shown on the TP Tools website - https://cached.tptools.com/Images/airline-piping-diagram.pdf I notice that their system has a pressure relief valve in the piping system. Do I need that? I have a new...

I could not disagree more.

Ask the service department at a Ford dealer. I think Ford pays them to fix those recalls, so they have no incentive to cover up. I took my truck to the local Ford dealer for some work. They called to tell me that there was an unrelated recall and that they would fix it for free if I said...

The reason, I'll bet, is money. To each his own, but Japanese bikes are the coolest machines on the road these days, IMHO.

Right. I built a 20x30 run-in shed for horses with no ridge board at all. I built a second shed almost identical to the first. I used a ridge board on the second one because it made for a neater job. The board has no structural purpose at all. A ridge beam is a different animal all...

I know nothing about concrete, but my sense is that the $750 is money well spent. I have two reasons: The pump truck will make the work easier for the laborers and will therefore improve the quality of the job. If you nickle-and-dime the GC on this issue, then he will nickle-and-dime you back...

I have seen a few threads that discuss the building sizes that make best use of standard sizes of lumber and other materials. I can't seem to find those threads this morning. I would appreciate either a link to one of those threads or your collective thoughts on which building sizes make the...

Ditto that. The whole reason trusses work is that they have triangles made of relatively slender boards oriented in a vertical plan. If you mess up the vertical plane, there's no telling how the truss will react. If you were assured that the forces imposed by the lift would be entirely...

I got a cordless LED worklight from the Carquest store. Very handy, but not as bright as I would like. Where a lot of light in a cramped place is needed, the compact florescent work light works best, but for 90% of the jobs the cordless light is the one I grab.

The county doesn't appear to have a problem with the size of his building. The dispute concerns the manner in which he proposes to build it. The building code has different requirements for buildings over a certain size. Architorture, it appears, has figured it out.

I don't know why you say he missed the point. The office he identified can probably steer you to a copy of the applicable code or to another office who can tell you where to find a copy of the code. I would not expect a zoning ordinance to cover your structural issue. Where I live, that sort...