Recent content by tomphot

I started working at 14 peddling a Popsicle cart - I haven't been out of a job since (I'm not on my cart though). I was the first one in my family to go to college and worked the entire time I went to school. I made a couple bad financial decisions early in life and learned my lesson. Since...

I love my 8500. I had it installed in the new garage I just built with a 16x8 high lift door. I bought it during a promo where they gave me 3 cool accessories for free - internet gateway, remote monitor and a wireless light switch. It's very quiet and totally opens up the middle of the ceiling.

I'm totally confused, why are you looking for things on Craigslist if your not looking for deals?? Just go pay full retail.

Just curious.......where do you live?

Which bulbs are you using?

I'm involved in Steel, not stainless, Alum, brass etc. In beams, channels, tube, flat bar etc, in general, there has been a slight increase for the whole year of less than 10% - we do Not anticipate much more with regard to increases for the balance of the year. I work for the steel mills so I'm...

I've worked my entire career in steel business, we are the mill and sell to the distributors. Most large distributors do not want to deal with the walk-in trade, it cost them about $300 to process an order so you can see why. There are a large number of small distributors around, in the Atlanta...

What I find amazing in this is that Anyone on this site would say No big deal about loosing 6" on each side. Glad that wasn't the case.

I'm getting ready to do a 22x30 detached as my second garage. I'm really looking forward to the extra space! I want to fit an Extra Tall 4 post lift in as I'm 6'6" and want to be able to stand underneath a car when working on it. That leaves me with 12' side walls. I see no problems with...

I found this one at a flea market, I just had to get it! I'd really like to know how old it is.

I have Halotron extinguishers in some vintage cars that I own. Expensive but when I factor what a new engine would cost if ruined by a dry chem extinguisher, well worth it. Last month, while racing, had a busted oil line that started a fire, I pulled the cord for the centralized fire...

The instructions show that the 2 copper lines, the condensation line and wires can all be run in the same bundle. The sets that you can buy on line show the same thing. You will need the 220 outside to run the compressor. BTW - LG says you can use stranded or solid for the wires that run...

I'm installing an LG unit now. The instructions are really bad btw. I noticed that it appeared that the 4 wire line between the in and outside units called for 18 guage. This didn't seem correct as that wire is where the inside blower gets it's power. I called LG and they told me that it...