Recent content by Nitpicker

The crack is on the face and all the way down one side. It's as if someone put an oversize tool in the hardy and really pounded the daylights out of it while wedged in. I get the feeling a good whack could break the whole heel away. This one is my problem as selling is not in the near future...

Farm sale. 147 acres in Marcellus shale country. Very hilly but close to interstate highway access to city, and a lake. Most acreage hasn't been worked for years. The owner was barely subsisting. Sold to Range Resources for $5000 an acre mineral rights and one million five hundred thousand to a...

The bell hangs by the ring and nests nicely in the open scroll at the end of the bracket. The ring is an old cast iron mooring ring from the Annapolis docks. In thought it would isolate the (cylinder) bell so it could ring louder. The clapper hangs inside the bell and is rung by pulling on a...

Is there some way (other than time) for determining how much of a load can be hung from a steel bracket? I have this fire extinguisher cylinder "bell" to be hung from the loop at the top of the picture, outside the shop . The bell and clapper weighs in at 16 pounds. The bracket is 1"x 1/8 bar...

You can have a checkerboard black and white floor for show, or a high traffic ceramic, multi colored floor for all you do. PICK ONE. Not only dirt, but grit, scratches with just a turn of the steering wheel. Graphite is seriously slippery when wet. If considering, scuff it and seal it. Talk...

Precisely what I was looking for. Thanks.

Is there a way to locate my past posts. Some time ago I got some good advice but now can't find my post or the reply. How do I find me without going through hundreds of other peoples posts?

Instead of pegboard, consider a French cleat system. It looks better, is more easily customized, can be changed quickly, modular, is inexpensive and doable given your woodworking skills. Granted pegboard is quicker, but it looks amateurish. I bet you could knock one off quickly. Also, the...

While viewing Pinterest I ran across a garage hoist picture for getting stuff to storage above garage ceiling, Winch attached to trusses and lifting platform on cable made of wood. The caption stated that the source was Garage Journal but no name, category, or date. Is there a way to locate...

Platonic, A civil reply. You are correct. Inverse square applies. I should have considered that. My error.

Oh boy! A good old fashioned clash of thought. I may have made things a bit difficult with my reference to lumens, but I stick by the conclusion. Lumens is what I work with, Do your own conversion to foot candles if it pleases you. Drivel as you put it, it ain’t. You can pick any of these...

From Architectural standards Light required. Get a light meter that reads in lumens. Get readings for the task to be performed there. With 16 foot ceilings you are way too low in lumens at the work surface and probably have shadows to boot. Standards: Floors: 20 Lumens per Square Foot...

Loose cable is an option. Not ideal, but would work. Trying to noodle this out. Maybe arranging equipment so wouldn't need all that length. Still like a reel (out of the way) idea if possible though.

Say I use 10Ga . Cannot machine plugs be switched out to a different plug mate? If not that, different configured adapters? For the reel, only one machine at a time in use.

Small Lincoln 180 dual voltage welder, plasma cutter, small forge, possibly woodworking planer and/or drum sander on my list.