Recent content by Taildragger

Not an electrician, but I was under the impression that SER was used from the service entrance to the meter socket on the POWCO side.

The job isn't done until you clean up your tools and PUT THEM BACK! Boy, was that pounded into me. I learned it fast too because he had some awesome tools and I didn't want to be banned from them! Also, if one man built it another man can fix it.

Wow, 140 views and no one has guess? I have stumped the GJ band!

Picked this one up at a a garage sale last weekend and cant find a thing on this model. It is a twin cylinder (not dual stage) 3 3/8 x 3 1/2 bore/stroke Tag says 8010 512 Tank has a leak so i am trashing it. It has a decent Marathon 3 HP single phase motor with a magnetic starter. It has 4...

Thant could have been bad! Better check the rest out top to bottom after finding that..

Vacuum tube? Is that the thing they use at the drive-up at the bank?

"She does understand I can fix/build stuff in the garage/house/barn/property. She is not sure why I need 4 tool boxes though..." Yes, mine understood the need for a tool box, but when the second and third showed up she was shaking her head.. Hey! Tools are what separate us from the animals!

My neighbor (in the country) built a dream shop with upstairs living quarters and didn't like it. You need to have two separate HVAC systems or all your paint fumes, dust, etc. end up in your living quarters.

I almost beat you on that one. I was drilling a piece of sheet metal on my lap. ( smart guy huh?) Went through the metal, jeans, and boxers. luckily the drill had reversing, and I GINGERLY backed the bit up. Immediately dropped trou to survey the damage. Whew, the bunching up of the jeans and...

Tiling the kitchen floor. I was being Super careful about getting my lines straight. Got it all done it looked awesome! Next morning about half of them popped back up. Payed lots of attention to being straight, not enough to making sure I pressed them down. D'oh!

It was a new (to me) Maxima. I was thrilled with this thing cause it was getting fantastic mileage. Until it got down to a quarter of a tank. (you can already see where this is going) Worked on it for half a day before finally condemning the fuel pump. Pulled the seat and pump out. You guessed...

Is there any way to repair an arc like that? Fill it with a welder, and have it surface ground?

Merlin tool kit, those would be Whitworth maybe?

Be aware that some of the newer car fasteners need to be torqued to "X" foot-pounds, then plus "Y" degrees, when looking for a torque wrench. I believe they are called torque to yield..

Nice find! I have been looking for a non-Chinese belt sander, and they don't seem to come up on CL around here.