Recent content by Spud McGee

Yep. It only took 1 welding project before I got tired of swapping different types of wheels on my one angle grinder. And the M18 battery one, even with the largest battery, did not last long enough. I ended up buying several cheap HF ones with AC cords as well as a corded milwaukee one to go...

He could, but how would electronic dance music help in this situation?

Yep, I just did a pin and weld suppressor to avoid making it a 2-stamp gun. All you really need to do is dimple the barrel so the pin drops into it, and weld the pin and that keeps it from spinning. I suggested drilling all the way through mostly out of simplicity. Its easier to whack a roll...

I would have drilled straight through the nut first. Just directly into one of the flat sides. Then install the nut on your screw, and use the hole in the nut as a drill guide to drill the screw. You can go in partially, leaving a blind hole, or drill completely through and out the opposite...

Take it down to your local jiffy lube or other oil charge shop and have them get the threads started for you. That will guarantee that the stupid screw and nut are cross threaded and wont come loose. Otherwise, I'd look to how this sort of issue is handled on large scale production. On...

My westinghouse generator is out in the elements 24/7/356. its faded and showing a little surface rust. But its been 8 years and still doing fine.

100yr old house? Put an ad up. Free old wood. Not those undersized 2x4s you get at the hardware store. Real 2x4s. Free reclaimed flooring (new owner to do the reclaiming)! Free vintage lighting fixtures, door knobs, hinges, etc. Let everybody else pick it apart for you.

1/4" ID, i'd be looking at base guitar strings. if you used ones from a normal guitar, maybe a 7 string, the fat string out of the pack you could fold in half a couple times and still fit in the tube, but maybe not have enough length for what you need. You do want to pick something that fits...

I recently had to unclog a small EGR pressure line. I went to the music store and bought a pack of guitar strings. Cut a section of a fat string off, chuck it up in your drill, flood the line with brake cleaner, and roto rooter it with the guitar string. There's a bit of skill involved...

My little concrete driveway got completely destroyed in the process of building my garage. It was putting up a good fight. A dump truck delivering fill dirt put a little hurting on it. 2 concrete trucks driving over it murdered it. It is what it is. I figured going into it that the trucks...

Yep, make sure the joint fits well before hand. Then cover every bit of the mating surface with a thin layer of glue. Roll it or smear it with something. Clamp it till you get glue squeezing out. You can never use too many clamps. I have even resorted to laying full ammo cans on top of a...

I have some of those style like what's shown in the photo. I have some dewalt and some husky. Its annoying to have to un-stack the **** on the top to get into the stuff on the bottom. I would plan on using them for anything you use fairly often. Milwaukee has partially fixed this with their...

None of the 56" base were available for me. Not in any stores and not on the website. They did have the 56" and 72" top halves available for shipping in several colors. Shipping adds $140 for each item. I bit the bullet and settled for an orange 56" to go on top of my red 72" bottom. The...

Gen2 latches are painfully annoying. The gen3 are supposed to have full width latches.