Recent content by pistolpete

Do yourself a favour and never ever actually follow through with this plan... if you have any love for them don't let them "fight it out". My grandfather when he went into a retirement home had the same opinion, and it has taken a long time for certain family members to be in the same...

A friend of a friend did something similar. He took some heavy poly (may suggest something a little more flame/spark retardent) he sandwiched the sheet between a 2x4 and the ceiling and made a similar c-shape as described above. Then took another 2x4 and attached it to the bottom of the sheet...

Just for future reference.... a real basic calculator. http://www.gates.com/industrial/pressure/airFlow.cfm

Can you both keep it down if the Mrs hears this I am in trouble. I sold the Jeep back in July and have been trying to convince her that since the garage is empty (vehicle wise) that I need to reorganize before anything can go back in. Tryi to convince her that it will take the whole winter so...

From what I remember from building code classes, a fire separation of 1 hour is needed between a garage and a living space. So if your wall on one side is you kitchen the the other the garage you need 5/8" (or two layers of 1/2" ship lapped). If your bedroom is above the garage you need also...

The use of a granular material under a concrete slab is more of a concern in a location that will see frost. The granular layer allows water to drain away from the bottom of the slab. This helps to avoid any water freezing directly under the slab and causing upheave and/or cracking. Or...

^ I did it the same way, but I ripped some 2" wide strips of 1/2" plywood and used them to space the peg board out from the wall.

Not admitting to being a yuppie... but had a Jetta just after I finished college. The g/f wanted a palm tree type plant so she bought one. The only way we could get it home was sticking it through the sunroof. So there we are driving down the road with a freakin palm tree through the roof...

Back a couple years ago I was headed up to a buddies place, and truned off one highway and merging onto another I see a car with something odd on the roof, but in the rearview mirror I can't tell what it is at all. They finally catch up to us and its a early 90's honda civic, with the head of a...

At about 53 seconds in you can see it fall, then at about 57 seconds it comes to rest dead centre of the screen right beside what it was he was working on on the floor before he got up. Damn lucky...

No **** makes my 3/8" plate seem like paper...

You got me curious and I had to calculate it... somewhere in the neighborhood of 1700 lbs. Top plate alone is nearly 1000lbs.

There isn't much you do to "get it started". Basically put food scraps in there, no dairy, no meat, no bread products, let the bugs at it and thats about it, or thats all I have ever done with ours. The air piping isn't a bad idea at all. ^W KY - Water isnt a bad thing at all, as it will...

I actually just picked up the 180C myself, was debating 180T (from CT) for the cost savings, but figured for the fine tuning ability with the 180C it was the better option. I was told when I was looking that I should be buying the biggest one I can. I figured with it welding 5/16" with solid...

Thanks again MP&C