Recent content by mike in tucson

A long time ago, I ate at a restaurant in Georgia that had a system to trickle water down the roof continuously. It was too humid there for a swamp cooler so they simply used the cool well water for conduction cooling.... seemed to work reasonably well. Of course, they had a well so the water...

Timely thread..... just this week we had three of our 4 big units down at the house...... one had a mouse commit suicide on a starting capacitor.... an easy find. The other two acted somewhat erratic and, upon inspection, there was animal hair that had gotten past the pair of 25x25x5 filters on...

Two tips: 1. We carry two spares...since we can hit debris and take out two tires on the same side. 2. Buy a stencil so you can paint your state and license number on the roof...makes trailer easier to find from the air. We used 15" high letters/numbers. Dont use cheap **** paint, sun will...

One day, I was at Tractor Supply and saw a monster 1000 lb capacity two wheel dolly. It was only $125 so I bought it for fun. A month later, I needed to move one of our Kaser compressors and a pallet jack would not work to get it into the trailer.....the monster two wheeler worked great!

A couple of more considerations: 1. Don't put anything on the common wall between the garage and the bedroom... stuff like circ pumps, a compressor, etc. The vibration/noise will keep the bedroom occupants awake. 2. Plan your driveway and arc to get into each garage bay. Straight shot at...

Several reasons to not use air: 1. cylinder size: notice the air lift at the gas station is a cylinder oriented vertically? Hard to locate a 14 inch dia cylinder horizontally under a lift 2. not everyone has the compressor that pumps enough volume to lift a pneumatic lift quickly.... buyers...

Re: Post your cat here CATS VS KIDS: 1. you don't have to send them to college, that frees up $$ for hobbies 2. kids do a poor job keeping your house mouse-free, cats kill everything that wiggles 3. cats keep your feet warm in winter 4. cats don't hate you when they turn 13 5. when you toss the...

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For my house in Dallas, I received a lien notice a year after I moved in. Upon investigation, a half assed roofer (who did not work on my house) used several houses in the neighborhood as destinations for shingles he bought. My house had shingles that the shingle supplier did not sell. I...

Good security is something that makes a noise.... like the thief screaming when he loses a finger trying to steal the pump.....

Last year, a guy was caught running the UPC change scam. He would go to HD, buy a cheap item (say a garbage disposal). Then, he copied the UPC bar code and made a sticker out of it. The sticker went to the store and got placed onto a high-dollar garbage disposal. The self checkout didn't...

I experienced this same scenario a while back....in a rent house that was built in 1959. I ran out of garage storage so I figured that I would put the lighter stuff in the attic up thru a 24" X 24" access hole. First up was the lighter stuff like car interior parts, car wiring harnesses, etc...

Well, Snap On has apparently discontinued the E709BCG cutters....as I said earlier. Snap On removed the part number from their web site. Gone.... Does anyone know who makes the Snap On cutters? All the replacements **** big time...if you cut wire all day, the cutter really does make a...

A couple of items: 1. For really good pricing on reman tools (with full warranty) go to CPOMILWAUKEE.com or CPODewalt.com, etc 2. I talked to a Dewalt factory field guy about batteries. He said the battery has about 700 "charges"..... if you use a battery for 10 seconds and put it back on the...

glazier1..... another solution is to put a light outside that hits the window at a low angle from below....kinda like those lights that illuminate a flagpole.