Recent content by Steve from Socal

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    Experience with equipment skates?

    Drill presses and pedestal grinders are NOT good items to move with skates. A heavy duty handtruck would be far more useful with a back stand idealy.
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    TG-100 collets--are they useful compared to others?

    I have and use TG100 collets, as mentioned above they are geared to high capacity. My lowest HP machine is 5HP. Cat50 or Cat40 they are great, R8 maybe too bulky?
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    Cooling my 6 Car Non-Insulated Garage

    Swamp cooler MAY work OK on dry days, not that common in KC. Insulate the south exposure at least?
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    Cooling my 6 Car Non-Insulated Garage

    I have similar issue on a largr scale. I have a metal building WITH some insulation but nowhere near enough. I put in two 60" 5 HP exhaust fans in the peak of my building. In the late evening when it cools down I will help, days with hot sun they are ineffective. My building has...
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    Always a 'fun' day when you get to put on the extra layers

    It may be part of an induction weld or heat treat line?
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    Sizing a mini split for an RV

    It is going to be a traveling show. The idea is to be off grid for extened time
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    Sizing a mini split for an RV

    While a 'road warrior' may be best served by a roof mount inverter I am not that. The vibration issue is something I had not considered and flex hoses would be the solution. I want to do a full roof solar array on the Kountry Aire and that requires ditching the roof mounts. The solar...
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    Sizing a mini split for an RV

    The Teton and Newmars of the vintage I have were the 'New Horizon' of that era. They were designed as full time living from the start, insulation is one of their main features.
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    Sizing a mini split for an RV

    It is a Newmar Kountry Aire 37 KSCS it is just shy of 40' it has about 380? Sq ft As to what I plan to do with is LIVE in it. I have Teton that I live in at my shop, the Kountry Aire is a get out of Dodge or in this case Hutch mobile. The Teton would take lots of work just to get...
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    Sizing a mini split for an RV

    I have been thinking about nose mounting it like a refer unit! The nose cap tapers from the base back as it goes up. That was an aero design for towing with a pick up. I tow with a Peterbilt 387 high roof truck the truck is a few inches taller than the trailer. The condenser...
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    Sizing a mini split for an RV

    This is an older premimum 5th wheel designed for ful time living in both cold and hot weather. It gets about as hot in central Kansas as Texas, mid 90's to 100 teens with moderate humidity. We do get much colder winters, as far as heat, a heat pump mini and a couple of electric space...
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    Sizing a mini split for an RV

    The RV is well insulated for an RV R-25 roof and floor, R-15 walls. This is not wired as a standard RV, I have the original 50 amp RV plug and a 50 amp 240 plug and panel for electric stove, water heater and Mini? The mini would be a two zone so one wall unit in the bed and one in the main...
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    Sizing a mini split for an RV

    I want to get rid of the roof mount AC units on my 5th wheel. The area is divided into a main area kitchen, living etc and bedroom/bath. The main area is roughly 25X12X8' with the slides extended. The bedroom/bath is 15X10X7' slide out. There are two 15K BTU roof mount AC units both...
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    Welding mild steel to hard mystery plate

    AR will dull a carbide tool that is not fed with consistant moderate pressure,
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