Recent content by Pingel85

After a 2 year hiatus on here I’ve finally caught back up on your thread. Love the progress. Sorry about all the troubles you been having with your Ender, I actually had the same fan issue on mine, luckily I found it before I melted any pins 🤣. But keep up the great work, I know how difficult...

Nick- Quick question, I see the shop vac hose you have hanging to hook up to your tools. Do you happen to know what brand it is and do you like it? Replacing my worn out ridgid hose and would like something better Thanks

Due to the below zero temps I usually don’t spend time in the garage, but needed to out of necessity this week. We had some snow roll through Friday, and when I tried to snowblow before work, I had issues with it running. I could get it to fire, then it would die off. Out came the shovel :mad...

Update from the weekend-Managed to swing by HD and pick up paint to repaint the fireplace wall before setting the surround. Turns out the paint we picked out nearly 10 years ago (Martha Stewart brand) has been discontinued for a while, but luckily I still had the original can, and had them...

So between my full time job, and 2 young children, I still try to get some stuff done. Here's a quick synopsis of where I'm currently at with some projects: Late last year, my wife told me she wanted a fireplace in the house. So took out a window, framed in a bumpout, and here's were we stand...

And then starting work on the garage. I re-enclosed and sided the side that was attached to the house, added a paver patio on the corner (and my rain rock), and added a bumpout on the back so the motor of the boat could fit with no issues. Then this last summer, I got around and...

This left us with some cleanup to do, along with some major work. You can see the growth just on the yard light There were so many vines, I found an entire riding lawnmower in the weeds. Luckily I didnt find it with my chainsaw first. Besides the cleanup, we found the barn had some...

Hello All- After a couple years of lurking and getting ideas and motivation from other's threads, I thought it was finally time to start my own. A little background -My wife and I bought the house about 10 years ago, but it only had a single stall attached, which is dedicated for the wife's...

Nick- just finished your thread. Amazing work on all accounts. Never started my own thread because I always thought it wouldn’t be “garagey” enough, but after reading yours and MR Robotos and how you’ve incorporated home projects, it might be the motivation to get one going. Thanks for the...

Agreed, I would look for an open neutral

I have a older porter cable random orbit. Looking at your picture, plenty of flat space for the RO to work, you might just have to hand finish in the inside corners. I’ve rebuilt/repaired this RO multiple times, so I can’t justify buying a Bosch yet. Look for a used one on cL or fb. Using...

I’m happy with my harbor freight one. Yup, get a good blade, get your setup dialed in, and it’ll cut.

I thought this was going to be a thread about a whole set of 3/8 drive 10mm sockets. Deep, shallow, 6,8,12 point, hi vis, chrome, and impact rated. Like 30 sockets in all, all 10mm so you can’t lose them all. But congrats on getting the actual sockets you’ve wanted

4 gauge wire and larger requires a plastic bushing. So your 14s and 12s are good to go.

Couple options- 1. Buy box grounding pigtails, has the screw on a wire so it doesn’t come apart. Most expensive. 2. Use staycon* forks (crimp connectors). Easiest to use, but more time consuming. 3. What I usually do is strip about an 1” of wire. Then I will strip another 1/8” and slide that...