Recent content by tontruck

I replaced a fuse panel in a womans house with a new 200A panel, I noticed that all the fuses had been replaced with pieces of copper tubing. I asked her who and what the hell? She said her son did it because he was tired or changing fuses for her. I sent him the bill and gave him a serious...

I think your help is working he's winning by a big margin.

Does the light change colors after being on and warming up or does it just go out completely and come back on? If it doesn't change colors or flicker then you need to check your capacitor, if it does the before mentioned it's usually the bulb.

I wish I would have put 12' x 8' door on my 30' side instead of the 16' x 8'. I didn't have the funds for the extra door or the extra patience to wait for the doors to be ordered, they had the 12 footer in stock.

get an NEC (national electric code) book, look for the section called "load calculation". You can follow the formula and determine how many amps your house is using. Figure out what you will have in your garage (outlets, heat, lighting circuits,.....) then do a load calc. on it. Add the two...

With your skills, you're crazy to even think of buying anything made of metal.

You could make a pigtail adapter that way you could use the plug for other things. You would need a female cord end for 3 wires and a male cord end for 4 wires. Just make sure you use 3 wire cord for you pigtail, and make very sure you have your neutral and ground on the correct prongs on the...

a bunch of biker buddies help keep my neighbors away:beer:

Hell yeah Hoopty do it the country boy way!!!

It matters to the inspectors here in KY, they want all the grounds on one buss and the neutrals on another buss. It might be a local code becuase I couldn't find it in the code book when I tried to argue it with him.

I'm in Kentucky and the inspector can make you bring the wiring up to code, he can also have to provider shut off your power until it is completed. I put another service on my shop because it was going to be way to big of a head ache to upgrade to a 400 A on my house. I would have to wait on...

Ask Wolverine, he seems to be a great source on floor epoxy's. Maybe he'll give a discount to ya.

I used the pretty weather to clean up some of those damn trees today, by the way nice looking place you've got there.

Hey Chevyman, I'm in McLean County. A bunch of guys I work with stayed home during that mess, said they were scared to get on the roads.

I agree with IGN except I'd put one outside with in use covers by my over head doors. You never know when you'll want to do some work outside, I've got one by my roll up door and it's been very handy.