Recent content by smithbd2

Very cool. I may have to remember this trick.

Picture #2, the push button at the top of the picture. Those are usually in demand. The rest of it, I am not sure about. I would put them on Ebay and see what happens.

Too cool! Awesome job on the clean up/restore. Now you need some old hammers and pliers to restore to go with it.

Your shop is looking good. I had a question on the powder coated shelves. Did you remove any rust and paint, or did the powder coating folks do that for an extra charge? I have some Penco shelves that have a lot of surface rust, and was wondering what was the best way to handle that. Thanks

"here are my rivets.. i only have 50... plus one bigger one. IH riverts, though lol" I think those are for the blades on a sickle mower, but you may have already known that.

My experience has been that Inspectors are lenient on re-models. The panel on the stairs would not pass todays codes. You would need a 3' x 3' platform at the panels. The biggest reasons not to run wire on the bottom of the joists is head clearence and future ceiling in the basment. Drilling...

Here are a few of mine. Shop is 32' wide, 40' long, 12' walls. Carport is 32x30 Lean to on the back is 12x32 Needs a good washing now.

Breakers are supposed to trip at their rated amperage, but they dont always do it. I watched a guy at work trying to find the breaker that fed a certain wire, he grounded the hot to a metal i-beam hoping to trip the breaker, it never did, it just welded the wire to the beam. I was working on an...

Originally Posted by Aceman Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I was trying to say you could use a float to kill the pump before it went dry & lost its prime. It doesn't realy matter what kind of float, it just needs to have normaly open contacts. At work we use what we call "elephant balls", they...

I install septic tank pumps from time to time. They come with a float switch that has a molded plug that you plug into a receptacle then the pump plugs into the float plug. On occasion I have cut off both plugs and direct wired everything, which may be the way you would want to procede. Here is...

sneezer41 may be onto something, I would have said sunlight, but you said metal cover, not clear. Either way, it looks like a very cheap recpt, I would replace it with one that cost more than 59¢.

Use conduit. I am in the middle of re-wiring a house that had a fire (arson) on the first floor and attic, but the inspector pointed out wires in the basement laying on the metal grid for the drop ceiling. I had him come over for an "advisory inspection" before I quoted the job. Luckily I only...

I would have 2 or 3 different licensed electricians look it over and give you an estimate on re-wiring the house and upgrading the service. Hard to tell from here what other issues you may have, that they could point out while giving you an estimate. Just guessing from what little information I...

I put a 200 amp in mine so I would never have a need to upgrade it. Like others have said, it would cost a lot more later. On the other hand, you need to figure in the cost of using bigger wire for the 200 amp panel. At 325 ft the wire cost diffrence will be a lot more than $60. Plus the conduit...

One thought, check all the grounding on the lights. You could have one ground wire on paint and not making a good connection. Roadbeater could be right, you may have a ballast going bad. If all the grounds look good, try powering up one fixture at a time to single out the bad one. Let us know...