Recent content by wingfootedgodhead

I second the comment that you need these as angle wrenches to get at hydraulic fittings. Sunex has a set of 26mm through 32mm angle wrenches on Amazon. That’s a good start. It’s common to encounter 34mm and 36mm on some excavators, those need to be purchased separately and they are rather...

For what it's worth, years of experience wiring then rewiring my 80 x 40 x 16 pole barn Start with a plan, consider that you will initially WAY OVERSIZE your initial requirements. Consider future high output lighting, compressor, post lift and welder as well as general electrical requirements...

Such a nice space there. It is inevitable that your wants will soon outrun a Romex installation. Then you'll revert to tearing out all the Romex and running conduit. Why not save the time and trouble and do it right the first time ?

Alternately you could use the metal conduit as ground as long as it is tied back to ground on the breaker box and to the ground terminal on the fixture and switches. However, it is not that big a deal to just run a dedicated ground wire through the conduit. Will you feed your light fixtures...

Where are going next with covering the walls and ceilings ? OSB ? Plywood ?

Started with Romex, hated it, tore it all out, put in EMT and kicked myself in the **** for wasting time/money with the Romex attempt.

+1 on EMT. Bending 1/2" or 3/4" EMT is not that big of a deal and a good skill to have in your arsenal.

+1 on T5HO fixtures - the cat's meow

It's a 80 x 40' machine shed, the trusses are spaced 10 feet apart and the lights are fourteen foot apart on the width of the shed. Around the garage doors I went to twenty feet apart to avoid interference with an open door.

Isuzu 13kw 1800 rpm diesel here. Bought it from Hardy Diesel about two years ago and only test runs made so far.

I've got a seep zone on my property not 200 feet from the proposed new build home site. Last week I went out there and used my auger to drill a 5 foot deep hole into the muck. Next I put a remote temperature probe at the -5 feet level at the bottom of the hole and waited a couple of hours...

Thanks for the encouragement. I literally started with one incandescent bulb dangling off a piece of romex. Covering the walls - dying to get the time to go OSB on the walls - it's a big project though. The added benefit is that it saves the existing bat insulation, which is slowly...

at 54W per bulb, the shop T5HO lights in this setup are drawing over 3000 watts. Putting the circuit on 120V would mean 25 amps --- and #8 AWG wire. It would be difficult, time consuming and costly to work with #8 due to size and stiffness.

Remotely activated 12V valves: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/electric-ball-valve Dont know if I would want to trust the cheaper ones Seems easier just to turn off the power to the compressor

The app I use is eKeypad interfaced to a Elk M1 panel - which has a myriad of other uses. See the Aple app store for eKeypad.