Recent content by scout80

It did make me think to grab the P100 respirator pronto, just in case..

Makes me feel a bit better knowing it wasn't just me...:LOL:

Being from Michigan many years back, I've seen my fair share of undercoats...and I've never seen one that looks like thin paint. This just looked like it was spray painted black. Even the stuff Ziebart sprayed inside doors and panels was more of a waxy coating than paint. Maybe something...

Pulled a bunch of steel from years of "farmer fixes" off my old International truck...truck is a '59, the steel bits were from a half-arsed flatbed install ...flatbed looks like a 70s era bed, no idea when it was added. Some of it has some kind of black paint on it, or at least it looked like...

Some time ago I picked up one of the Chinesium gas powered wood chipper/shredders to handle the overgrowth on my property, and after forgetting to check the oil level this year...I ended up with a nifty 5HP paperweight :sad: Like many, I picked up one of the HF Predator engines to replace it...

I can't picture how these single plane flex heads are supposed to work, as opposed to a fixed head speeder. Or were they intended to pull double duty as a speeder and a breaker bar? Because I know my breaker bars don't work to spin fasteners on/off unless the bar in lined up straight with the...

Laid some cheap Lowes porcelain tile down on my main workbench over the weekend....cheapest stuff they had in a straight bright white color. This was the 1st tiling job I've ever done, and just wanted something that was bright and wouldn't allow dirt/grease/oil/metal chips, etc to embed into...

That "good" part was/is the difficult part, at least around here, since I'm not exactly in farming country. As I said earlier, few people even knew the USDA Guaranteed loans existed, including in those offices that were listed on the USDA website as "approved lenders". Even the lender I...

That thread on trying to get a mortgage on the empty land for shop purposes got me thinking about my situation again. I bought my current house on a bit over an acre of land, 3 years ago, via a USDA Guaranteed loan. I now want to put up a shop building, and wondering if anyone else has done...

Been thinking about finally putting AC in the garage, but I'm choking a bit on the prices of the larger through wall units. I live just outside of Phoenix, AZ, and I can deal with the dry heat in the summer just fine, but when it gets humid, my **** gets kicked pretty fast. Plus, the bugs pile...

About a year ago I moved out from the city to a rural area on just over an acre of open desert property. The only concrete on the property is the slab under my house, and the floor in the 2 car garage. The rest is basically open scrub desert. I'm starting to tear into my old International...

Well hell, that's not a bad idea at all...don't know why I didn't think it of first, and I probably already have some heavy wall square tube sitting in the scrap pile and I know I have the NPT taps, lol.

I'm SURE these things are out there, and I'm probably just not using the proper search terms to find them. What I'm looking for is a 4-way manifold/splitter for the compressor, as in 1 input, 4 outputs (perhaps it's a 5 way, depending on how you look at it?). More outputs wouldn't be an...

Well....turned out to be a dismal failure, lol. I ran into a time crunch, between the owner of the last house I was in telling me I had 24 hours to get my '62 out of his yard or it's going to scrap, and new appliances getting delivered this morning... I tossed down some Behr paint stripper...

The PO had a ton of spray paint over spray on the floor that I wanted to get up before sealing the floor. I poured down some Behr concrete paint stripper, and after rinsing it off, I'm left with what looks like etched concrete in the same pattern as my scrub brush.... I rubbed it with my...