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I think I’ll stick to working with the cutting head. I was curious however on ACT tank size I have. It measures about 25in to the top of tank (not including valve) so I think that is a #1? If so, I’ve read that you can only flow 1/7 cfh of the tank vol. That would mean max flow rate would...

I appreciate all the thoughts and suggestion! Thanks

Hi, I'm a novice hobbyist. Bought an acetylene tank/torch from a guy who said he was shutting down his welding business a few years ago. I've "cut" (that is, melted/managed stuff apart) but mostly have used it for heating and bending metal. The torch works fine for this for small stuff with...

I started off by attempting to hold square in corner and measure but the corners are ~rounded and couldn't get the square into corner. I couldn't get the measurements this way repeatable. The back walls are pretty flat but the side walls aren't great. I made a "angle measure" by screwing...

I agreed to make my daughter some floating shelfs which look like pic. She has a similar alcove next to her fireplace. I'm not a great woodworker but good enough to make these. I fab'd some custom support hardware to mount them and happy with that. The problem I have is getting the shelf...

So, it appears that Karcher K4 and K5 series have water cooled brushless motors and washers are made in Italy or somewhere in Europe. The lower end models have "standard" motors and are made in China with some controller parts made in Germany apparently. It's a bit fuzzy. I tried to look at...

Thanks - first thought I had was 20 years is a long time ago, I wonder who owns the Karcher brand and where are they manufacturing now? That said, it appears they are still the same company and they manufacture different models in Germany, Italy, and China. It seems Karcher, like most manuf...

@Wubicon - I could not agree more. I am in exactly same boat, came to forum to look for advice and found your thread. My needs are similar. Some small clean up of stuff around the house and maybe wash the car if I'm not too lazy. Easy path is to get something from HF, Lowes, or HD. What bugs...

The cables don't appear to be in a conduit but I can't tell for sure. There is an electrical box cemented into the top of the wall on which the lamp is fixed and the electrical connections/wire nuts are made. The wire comes up from below the box thru a plastic grommet or strain relief. Either...

The wall encloses the back yard attached to the house. The light is on part of wall separated from the part touching the house by a gate. I assume they ran a wire underground somewhere to the wall where the light is as I don't see any conduit anywhere. Regardless, that wire is OK as the first...

Thanks - I did 1) and then 3) & 4). 3) was open, no measurable resistance. 4) read 28ohms and I realized something in wires were bad. Where I got confused was I thought I should still be able to measure 120V on the 2nd lamp side when everything was connected together and power was on as...

Sorry my description was not very clear. The first fixture has a hot & neutral from the light switch in the house. The power hot/neutral, the wires to the lamp + another hot/neutral running to the 2nd lamp are all connected with wire nuts at the first lamp. At the 2nd lamp - ditto to the 3rd...

Thanks, after thinking about it a bit more I realized that if there was a short to ground somewhere in the wall on order of 6-8ohms it wouldn't trip a 15amp circuit breaker but would be the path to ground where the voltage drops as it's much less than resistance thru the loop. So I wouldn't...

Hi, I'm trying to understand the problem with some exterior lights in a block wall. One light, closest to the house works. Two more about 100 ft away don't. The wires apparently run thru the block wall. The fixture closest to house is where power comes in is a 2 wire + ground romex looking...

just fyi if anyone searches for same in the future. I bought a Makita 10in segmented diamond blade at HomeDepot. It's significantly thicker than the diamond continuous blade I was using. It cuts perfectly straight without any wandering on my wet saw. thanks again for responses