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Gluing up 2" thick hardwood bench tops is heavy duty wood engineering. If you have not done it before, and try to glue up the whole top all at once, you can end up with a big wasted mess of wood on your hands due to uneven pieces that cannot be trued up with anything less than an industrial...

I have a 120 volt 12-2 circuit coming into my garage that is not being used. It was run along the ceiling of the garage in emt and presently terminates in a metal box on the ceiling. I want to use this circuit to power a couple of new receptacles on the surface of a concrete wall, then go into...

Three steps to get razor edge on wood chisels. Lap the back of the blade on a piece of glass and diminishing grits of sandpaper until you get a mirror finish. Get a good quality honing guide from Veritas or Garrett Wade (they are not expensive). Follow the instructions as far as the two grits...

I forgot about the difficulty of pulling the wire thru the fmc. Thanks.

flexible metal

I have two 120V circuits in my garage that are currently surface mounted in EMT. I want to change their routes. Each new run would be about 40-50 feet long. I have access to a couple hundred feet of free flex conduit, but I want to keep things safe and legal. Am I OK to use flex for the...

Thank you all for responses. I think I'll just cord/plug the heater and plug the one in I want to use. Easy, cheap, fail-safe.

I have a 240 volt 30 amp circuit into my garage that my Dayton heater is hard wired to. I would like to upgrade my 120 volt welder to a 240 volt unit. Can I place a switch between the receptacle that the welder would plug into and the heater so it would not be possible to accidentally run both...

HF portable band saw. $60 out the door; tough, reliable, and accurate.

My Starrett tape is one of the tools that nobody gets to touch but me.