Recent content by The Thin Man

Hi Everyone. It's been three months since this topic had activity and I finally have an update on my Craftsman pressure washer. I cherry picked advice from a number of your posts. Today, I smeared some silicon grease on the pressure hose connections, added fresh gasoline with a little Seafoam to...

As always, the sound advice just keeps coming. Thanks to everyone's replies as I'm feeling quite confident in getting this beast running. One thing I wanted to point out was a blurb from the owners manual regarding the pump and oil. Maybe since this is a simple, idiot-proof (sorta) home model...

Good suggestions, Cgrutt. I didn't even look at the pump and its oil needs. Hopefully finding the dipstick isn't difficult. Also, is there a good way to drain the oil in the engine? I'm not sure I see an easy way to do that other than... dump it over?

I've been slowly tinkering with the pressure washer and so far, everything has been looking very good. The pump holds water and the gasoline was tipped out easily. After cleaning the unit and pulling off the air filter, I was looking at the choke linkage. I see from pulling the choke lever, it...

Thank you, @nbpt100!

Despite the trove of incredibly good information you have all provided me, this bit was worth the price of admission alone! I did not know that about pressure washers but will certainly abide by the rule. I'm certain the pump has been in freezing conditions so this is first on my list. Also...

Hi Gang, The little old lady across my street is moving on and to my surprise, she wheeled over a Craftsman pressure washer, with a 158cc Briggs & Stratton, 550 Engine Series (model 580.750901) motor on it. Apparently, it's got 2,200 max psi and looks just like this one. Not a bad score! The...

Those are actually a pretty nice option. Not as much as I expected either. I've seen the clip style in action before that are thin enough to go under joists. Pretty impressive! Thanks for the lead.

Thanks Cybrdyke and Stuart. Both good bits of information.

Thanks for running a Google search for me, JDM. So, going back to question in #6, "Just to be clear, do these types of domes work for all cans or are there some that simply cannot be covered?" I'm going to go with the answer of it depends on the cover as the product JDM lists above states...

"Change those out to modern LED type that can have insulation behind them or build a box to cover them and then cover the box in insulation." Right. That's what I'm here to find out. Can I cover them.

Thanks, everyone. I was hoping the data I pulled off the cans was enough to tell the story but it sounds like the IC information isn't conveyed. Although, I did zoom in on the side panel information and attached it below. That doesn't seem to mention IC rating so I suppose I may have to take a...

Hi Everyone, At some point within the last decade or so, my house had a kitchen remodel. Someone put all new canned lights above but moved all of the insulation away from the kitchen and distributed it above other rooms. If I wanted to move the insulation back, would it be safe to do so or...

I was actually looking for metal boxes as they look better, last longer and have less environmental impact but I wasn't finding anything sized appropriately for the materials I had. Plan B (above) wasn't so bad, especially since I can easily see through them so I know what's inside, but I'd...

As an update and to put some closure to the thread, realizing that the ultimate home for these taps/dies was to live inside my tool chest, I wanted something able to be closed up and tucked away. It didn't need to be fancy and wasn't public facing. So, thanks to suggestions from the posts above...