Recent content by Sherk

This! My dad gave me his old, tired Sanborn 2HP 10 gallon unit that the tank had rusted out on. I was also given an 11 gallon tank that the oilless compressor had failed on by a friend. When I cobbled the two together, it initially took about 11 minutes to fill. When I took apart the head, I...

I'm in

You may or may not be SOL. Call Duke and/or local AHJ. Both should give you the same answer.

Domestic plywood especially that in big box stores has gone way downhill in the last 5 years. Menards used to stock AC that was beautiful on the face with almost no patches. 9ish plies for ~$40 a sheet. Now the "same" stuff is 5 ply, much lighter, and patched out the wazoo. It warps easier...

It's rather lightweight with thick, light cores with lots of voids. The veneer chips easily when cutting compared to better grades of plywood. I used to be a big box store plywood guy but I've recently moved on to Baltic birch for everything. Not a ton more expensive from a couple places...

The big boot print would bother me more than the discoloration...

@Bakafish Any progress reports to make? I have been reading the entire thread over the past week or so after having seen a post about the Festool LR 32 Makita mods. I have a Milwaukee router that I want to get working with a Festool FS32 which is what I originally searched for. I'm also...

This is super awesome. The lurker is in!

Unless there's an earthquake of significant magnitude, that won't happen (unfortunately). Things creep me out.

My wife's grandparents' ashes. In urns, in a paper shopping bag, on a shelf. Forced on us by my father-in-law, awesome. My wife doesn't want to get rid of them either.

You don't say how big the footers need to be, but columns alone is 30 cubic feet (or 1.11 cubic yards). There's a handy calculator at: https://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/howmuch/calculator.htm Some places have a tow behind rentable cart that you can get that is about a cubic yard...

Having torn out multiple (3 now) sets of built-ins, I hate the idea. I would much rather put in something that a future owner can use or easily take down. Ala pallet racking, etc. If it's your forever home it's one thing, if it's not don't be a...

I have a 24k unit heating an 864 sq ft (10ft walls) barn in SW MI. This barn has R10 insulation under the 4" slab, R30 in the walls and R50+ in the ceiling. It had been sufficient for the past 2 years without issues, keeping the building at 46 (freeze protect mode) unless I'm out there on the...

Be thankful you have a decent cast iron pump and haven't had to replace that yet with how much it's running. I had to replace several pumps at my old house before I finally got out of there, although at the end my constantly was actually almost never cycling off... with 2 3/4 HP pumps. House...

A bigger bandsaw than my current 14" 1HP, and a bigger jointer.