Recent content by tlc1976

My old house had iron sludge in the water. 14 on the hardness scale. Culligan was quick to put in a softener, and it did help things, but not totally. I don't remember what size softener, but it wasn't that big, it just barely fit in the crawl space between the floor joists, about 40" tall...

I'm in the same predicament, and looking for what to do this coming summer. Last 2 years I've found that the snow won't slide off like it used to 10 years ago. Last year I went through $60 of diesel in the torpedo heater to make it move about 1-2"/hour over 3 days, and that was when it was...

My vehicles make it simple, as in they have a solid rear axle. First thing I do is the camber. I cut a board with parallel sides, so it sits squarely on the wheel weight ledge. For a convex wheel I cut out an area in the middle for clearance. Check for plumb on both front wheels, noting how...

That sounds about right. Considering how thick it was at 80F, it'd probably be difficult to spread or even get out the tube in winter temps. And like you said it stuck to everything (which is what I wanted) and was tricky to spread when it started building up on tools. Hadn't thought of using...

I'm a DIYer and been doing brakes for 20 years, replaced/rebuilt many calipers. That's just my experience anyway, YMMV. Depends on the caliper, like some of them with the parking brake built in took a lot of encouraging the air out. I helped another guy who was ready to give up and this was...

Sealing patches of metal roofing, and some neoprene. It worked so nice on the other house, I had to go around a vent pipe. I cut a neoprene square with a hole a bit smaller than the pipe, slid it down, and caulked all the way around. And around the pipe. It was thick and smooth, and I could...

New or rebuilt calipers can be a real pain to get all the air out. Lots of places for air bubbles to lodge. What I do is repeatedly smack the caliper with a block of wood between openings of the bleeder valve. You'll probably continue to get tiny bubbles out and might have to do this for...

Thanks, I'll have to check these out. She said she got it from Home Depot (that was where I asked the guy with 16 year tenure) but I hadn't thought of RV supplies. That sounds more common to its use anyway. It wouldn't be a temperature issue. Completely different texture. And the thick...

About 7 years ago I used this roof caulk that was unlike others I've used. It came out in a nice thick smooth solid bead and looked like butyl tape. Very nice. Only thing is it was something my mom brought over when she helped me with my roof, and we don't know what kind it was. I've been to...

Pretty sure they were Huntsman spiders. Light tan, huge and flat. The ones we had were about 4" but I've been told of bigger ones. They moved extremely fast and their feet were like tap shoes as they scurried across the floor, sometimes banging into the legs of the kitchen table and chairs...

I'm not one to treat the whole yard for spiders. They can occupy the acreage, I don't care. I realize they eat a lot of bugs and keeping the mosquitoes down is good. There are wolf spider holes in the yard. I just want them out of the house and garage. Never did have a fly problem before or...

I live in an area with lots and lots of spiders. It borders the woods just like the old place did, but way more spiders here. Last summer the garage was so choked with spiders and webs that I didn't even want to go out there. Wolf spiders, and those little dark spiders about the size of a...

When I was young and dumb I moved into a neighborhood in the boonies with decent sized lots and a lenient HOA. I got along with them great. After several years the ownership started changing hands and they started making new rules and making my life more difficult. For example no longer being...

This weekend I finally welded up my Craftsman 42" mower deck. It had so many holes and thin spots that it was almost in 2 pieces. Nice and strong now. Appliance skins come in handy for so many things.

Got my slides from Waterloo today. They fit just like said they would, and are the length he said they were. Perfect.