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I brought in a weldor to do some quickie welds. Looks like that garage sale deal on a bottle of argon wasn’t that great a deal. How did they contaminate a 2500psi cylinder of argon!? If I am going to do more aluminum in the future, I will need more tools.

I spent all morning fitting new floorboards into my free boat. The old boards were almost compost. After a quick swim with the dogs, I coated said floorboards with a salvaged gallon of old-school solvent-based Thompsons water seal and baked them in the sun. Then I two-posted the boat off the...

My property predates the adjacent HOA by twenty years, so we are not subject to their covenants or permits. The neighbors are two-thirds of the HOA board. They seem to thrive on confrontation, and in my experience, they are fluent in it. The prior owner of my home stirred up a significant...

I wonder what they are doing today? I could hear a grinder again, too.

My daughter gave me a 14’ aluminum boat and trailer after she bought a pair of boats and trailers. It has been collecting leaves and filth for a decade before I finally found the time to go through it. First was a coupler and a pair of this century’s tires so I could haul it out of the woods and...

If you slope the exhaust to the outside, you can get sizable stalagmites. But water out the exhaust is nowhere near the amount of water that condenses and drains from the heater.

Is this it? We don’t need AC up here, but my 95% eff shop furnace and house boiler can each make 4+ gallons/day of condensate when it’s really cold.

If a 4” is big enough for you GET IT NOW

I found this schematic on the Journal here years ago and don’t know whom to attribute. It appears your “light switch” is in series with the pressure switch and probably has 120v (to ground!) through it. I can’t tell if you have a jumper on the coil terminals or not; you may have to unscrew the...

On the subject of the lake: I had been planning to build a gazebo on our beach for the last decade, ever since we wanted to have a beach bonfire for our first New Year’s Eve in this house way back in 2015. We were prepared for digging out the fire ring from the two foot of snow, and we had...

I had a bunch of paper back R11 fiberglass batting laying around from the remodel so that’s what I stuffed in the joist bays.

For your mezzanine, I used and recommend these ”staple-up” heat transfer plates. They are supposed to be good for 28 btu/ft which is quadruple what a bare pex tube in a joist bay can do, and you can use the same temperature water as the poured floor so you can maintain the high efficiency of...

I spent the day just outside the shop, investigating the condition of a pair of free flathead marine engines from the 1940’s and gleaning some spares from them for my 1954 Chris Craft. The starboard engine didn’t fight me at all, while the port side took every opportunity to be obstinate. It’s...

I have at least one of all three sizes, plus other ladders. Can confirm they are heavier but they are more versatile.