Recent content by johansonp

Good grief, I broke a tap off in a Remington receiver once. The guy had damaged the threads in one of the holes for the scope mount. I thought I would use a thread forming tap to get things squared away. The job was all but done...I just couldn't resist...just a little more...pop. As I...

I bought most of my drills, right and left hand, from MSC. I wanted to know exactly what I was getting. I keep them locked up, and you all know why. Having said that, I also do a lot of business with McMaster Carr, usually in the form of one-off taps, dies, mills, tool bits, and replacement...

Hi guys (and gals). My name's Paul and I've been hanging around for a while and posted once or twice. I live in NC and I've been the plant engineer at the same place for about 25 years. I guess that means I wrench for a living, but not in the same respect as many of you. I avoid the desk as...

You know Charles, I was thinking about that on the way home last night. If I were doing it I would probably install two service disconnect switches at the meter, or even bump the service up to 200A, put a new panel outside, and feed the garage from it. Kapt, if you do that, you would be...

I understood you to mean that the garage panel is not fed from the house panel. They are both fed directly from the meter, correct? The garage panel is then considered service equipment and the grounding equipment conductors, the grounded service conductor, and the panel must all be bonded...

Great Dane. Paul

My home is heated with an electric furnace. The power bill is enough to make me cry. I intend to install a coil downstream from the heaters and set a heatpump on a pad outside. Fortunately the air handler is a horizontal draft unit situated in a finished basement. The electric furnace does...

I'm new around here, but I was an electrical contractor in a previous life so I thought I'd chime in. You can certainly use the conduit as the circuit ground. My personal preference is to run a grounding conductor if possible, but what you are proposing is perfectly fine. You'll just want to...