Recent content by Northerndave

I wish they were the same but these are pretty unique to these brakes.

I've been looking for one of these old brakes for several years now. This one popped up on a sell n swap site about 350 miles from me, I hooked up the trailer and headed that way. the seller had a large skid loader, it was barely enough to lift the 2800 lb brake onto the trailer. When I got...

Alright, lol. I was gonna try buy the goofy ones off ya if they came in a kit and you didn't have use. lol

Do you do some metal shaping?

I can totally follow what the apparently experienced and educated folks are saying about the fiber being for the green stages. That makes total sense to me. I've got rebar and saw cuts in both of my current business buildings, one has the county fair fun house finish with it's roley hills...

I've had 3 pours done with fiber with crews that boast about the best finishing practices with laser screed etc and I've had 3 done with no fiber but more focus on a strong mix with enough portland, not too wet, nice sand and aggregate mix. They set pipes off stakes to carry the screed in the...

thanks, I've been looking at those as well, particularly SK. I'll check the link you suggested.

I'm not a fiber fan. The fiber fan boys will beat me up over it but I think you could just as well pour an assload of dry oatmeal in your mix. If they give you a good strong mix you are good to go. I'm also a rebar fan, that's my preference, hold the fiber, give me enough powder in the mix and...

Is there still hope for putting together a USA williams set or has that ship sailed... to china-taiwan?

I would also add that if we like the new hand tools better than our USA craftsman we would probably use them in reassembly and kick the craftsman out to the rust busting duties. Thanks for the input yarpo.

We are a classic car restoration shop, almost all of our tool requirements are inch sizes. We are adding a building for disassembly of project cars, mechanical work, metal repair, welding etc. All of the metal working tools and equipment are already in place, I have one tool box filled with USA...

Everyone has covered the pex and thickened concrete areas. I'll talk more about the lifts. I would suggest a 10k 2 post in symmetric config. For the 12' ceiling and with the symmetric config I would look at rotary. I have one right now and I'm adding a second one soon. The distance between...

is that squeaky or sneaky? What are you asking about? openers? You might have to run a side mount jackshaft opener.

I have a couple of C-Aire 5 hp units with 60 gal tanks, the pump speed is 755. I like those 2 units, one of them is around 10 yrs old, the other is about 5 yrs old. I think I'm going to move them both into our new building and get a castair 7.5 hp unit, 80 gal tank, pump runs at 585 rpm...

#2 and add some safety hoist stands for anything more ambitious than an oil change. (some will say for oil change too and I will never argue) also remain aware of how you are effecting the balance of the car with your work. If you are balance at initial lift but you drop out the rear axle...