Recent content by rich_kildow

That's a very good perspective on the danger we may or may not have been in. The intact paint really does show how little heat there actually was and your explanation of why the breaker did not trip helps put my mind at ease. I'm tempted to do an experiment: get a 50 amp GFCI and put it in...

You're not wrong at all. I like electric as I only heat when I need to work out there. As soon as I hit the $1000+ mark, thinks like Reznor or Modine propane heaters are suddenly more competitive. I'm not at all opposed to spending money, just want to make the best choice for my dollar...

I will be sending some emails and making calls tomorrow. I'll keep this thread up to speed with what I hear.

I've been doing some shopping around and you're right, I think these boxed coil heaters are pretty much all the same. Is there anything besides King that's of good quality and has an electric in the 7.5 to 10Kw range? I'd love to put a King unit in, but that's some next level pricing. Comfort...

To be clear, the white powder is remnants of the fire extinguisher my wife hit it with, and those slats are missing because I just broke them off to get better pictures. The heater is well maintained and clean. I make a point to blow it out every fall before the heating season.

Thank you for all the replies. It appears that the short started at the very bottom of the free end of the front heating element. All the other heating elements look fine. I can see the discoloration and chime where the Sparks were thrown, and according to my wife and dad's descriptions, it had...

I was gone teaching snowmobile safety with my daughter and checked my phone to find a series of frantic texts from my wife. Long story short, my garage heater (Dura Heat EWH9615 10k garage heater) shorted it's heating element. The heater is less than 10 years old and I blow it out every fall...

I actually forgot to add that the 3M accuspray was on the short list. I feel like I could get a better "mainstream" gun, and I have a tough time getting my head around it not being a gimmick, but it sure seems like a slick system.

I am getting ready to refinish my Bolens Diablo Rouge snowmobile and and would like to spray it with an automotive style HVLP or LVLP gun. I have a 60 gallon Puma compressor with 50ft of 1" pipe before it goes out to the lines, as well as a dessicant dryer I can plumb in, so clean/dry air is not...

I have a WeldPak 100 HD that we have runs many 10lb spools through over the last 10 years or so. It has never so much as hiccuped and has been running MIG the last 2 years after being flux core for quite a while before that. When it was all we had, my brother built an entire exoskeleton for...

I have the HF one and was able to compare it to a real calibration unit at my brother's work...within 1% of their machine. One the miscalibration note, I had a Craftsman torque wrench that had been in a guys toolbox that he hadn't touched for 10+ years. When I bought it from him, it was set...