Recent content by Vista

Best advice ever: Once your construction and outfitting is complete, you and your wife should go into the shelter, lock the door, and spend 24 hours there. You'll discover what you don't need, and what you should have included...please let us know how it turns out.

Thanks for the prompt answer. I never thought that someone might want to open a beer AND strip a wire at the same time, And with the same tool! However, after further research on the Milwaukee Tool web site, I find that many of their screwdrivers have this wire stripping feature. Now I want...

Standby for a dumb question: OK, here it comes... What is the purpose of that horizontal slot in the upper end of the handle on the Milwaukee bottle opener shown in Post #260 of this thread? It looks like it may have a small vertical blade in the center of the slot. I'm thinking it may be...

Thanks again for the info and advice. After further research on this site, and particularly on a couple of welding sites, I've decided to make a 50-foot extension cord to hook the welder to my clothes dryer receptacle. As you can see from the attached pic, the dryer is just inside the door...

After some breaker-trippin' research, I've discovered that the ganged 25 amp breakers that I thought might be spare, are in fact supplying 230v power to an in wall heat pump A/C unit that was installed 4 or 5 years ago. The breakers were labeled "Heater (wall)" I rarely run that unit, so that...

Thanks for the inputs. You're dealing with an electrical "rookie" here. I've basically rewired my garage, but that was largely extending existing circuits. What I need to know is what type and size of wire is needed, what kinds of boxes and plugs, etc.? Do I need to have a panel or shutoff...

I'm thinking about getting a 230V welder (Hobart 190/Millermatic 180 class) and would like to put a dedicated 230V circuit with two plugs in my garage. One plug would be near my workbench (about 10 feet from the electrical supply panel on the outside corner of the garage); the other plug would...

UPDATE #2: Got a very prompt message from Garage Journal Support saying that my pic file size was probably too large - here's another try, these pics may be too tiny to see... Vista

First post! Hope I can successfully attach some pics, but if they don't fly, I'll try to fully describe my problem. I have a set of steel security doors on my front door. They are the Home Depot/Lowes variety and have a perforated metal screen spot-welded to the backside of a square-tube...