Recent content by Tim in Indiana

I used to go to the Chicago location every month or two. I loved shopping the discount or clearance area. You could buy returns for pennies on the dollar. When MSC finally shut them down they moved truckloads of old Enco warehouse stock to the Mishawaka location and had a big "garage sale". I...

I had a problem with mice getting into some vidmars. They were coming in from the bottom through the holes you lag them to the floor or each other with. I used electrical panel knock plugs to cover the holes. I think 1" conduit size if I remember correctly. They snap right in and completely...

Welcome to dealing with Northern Wisconsin contractors. Call 10, maybe 3 will reply, maybe one actually gives you a quote. You're really lucky if one shows up to do the work.

Yep, I've done it several times. A small diamond cutoff wheel on a dremel will easily cut the scale.

I always called it inside corner cove or some variation of that. Menards has it but you may not have Menards local to you. Home Depot has it and calls it Cove Molding. Home Depot Link

Used to be that people would take a long pipe and put big guys on it to get big torque. Now, the safety people in most businesses would have a cow if saw something like that happen. Today you would either use a hydraulic wrench (Enerpac, Hytorc, Rapidtork, etc,) that turns the nut one tooth at...

About 20 years ago I made 14 double ended threaded studs and matching nuts for a large gravel processor. They were 6" diameter, around 24" long and I can't remember the thread pitch but it was a fairly fine thread. The nuts were close to the 10" hex mentioned above. Big, heavy and very expensive.

Did you get that out of White Pine?

Had two T size tanks filled in early January. One Argon, one C25 and the cost was less than $265 total. And they simply swapped empty tanks for full as they have for 40 years.

That is very cool. In all my years I've only seen one dauber left in a lathe and it was rusted in tight.

It has jumped 6.7 Fords with no issues. I use the

I've had this happen several times over the last couple years. The "free" battery comes in a separate shipment, not packaged with the tool. Maybe because the shipping regulations are different for li-on batteries than a tool alone. Maybe it comes from a different location. Just happened a...

Not sure if this will help, but it may. I have one of the Noco lithium motorcycle batteries in one of my sleds. I bought it a couple years ago on a Black Friday sale at a very reduced price. I did a little research before buying and talked with Noco about how it would perform in cold weather...

I have several Noco jump boxes, smallest is a GB40 that I carry in my sled bag, the largest is a GB150 which is supposed to be 4000 amps. Any of them have been capable of starting anything I threw at them. I've used the smallest on the largest diesels I have with good success. I also have...

FYI, With most door companies you don't have to stick to even foot increments. Most offer sections that are 18" 21" or 24" and you can combine them into whatever height you need. A couple months ago I installed a CHI 90" door (5-18" sections to make a 7-1/2' height) with a low headroom track...