Recent content by WisJim

I didn't even look yesterday to see if there were any sales nearby, it was miserably hot and humid and air quality was noticably terrible, but today I found 2 listed on CL and I sure wish I had gone to them yesterday. I did get a bunch of files,mostly usable, a Stanley plastic tip 4 oz mallet...

I have good friends who, when they built their new off-grid house, decided to use a rain water and cistern system. They found a stainless steel bulk milk truck tank at a salvage yard and had it buried in their yard. Rainwater from their roofs goes through a strainer system into a 500 gallon...

Our munipal water ran low a couple of days ago, to the point where some parts of town had no water at all, so we are glad we have three of those IBC containers (people call them "totes" around here) and 8 food grade 55 gallon plastic barrels for rain water collection. We normally don't use that...

I found a set of TG100 collets at a local online auction and I'm wondering if they would be useful in my lathe or milling machine. There are other items in the auction lot that I want, but if TG100 collets would be worth getting, that can make a difference in how high I bid. From what I find...

Related to oily rags starting fires--I worked at the local university in building maintenance, and they have a program in hotel management with a commercial kitchen used by students to get experience in the kitchen/dining phase of operations. They had a washer and dryer for laundering dish...

My current building was sized to the maximum allowed on the lot we are on, and is 24x40 overall. One car garage space, a woodworking space, and a metal shop with lathes and mills. A stairway to the upstairs takes 3 feet between the two shop spaces. Upstairs is a room for my wife's looms etc...

I remember working on/adjusting/rebuilding shifting mechanisms on numerous old VW, no buses newer than 1978, though I had Jettas and Rabbits into the mid 1980s that also needed shifter refurbishing. I'm glad I'm not doing that again.

If I was doing this, I would be using some cheap box fans that I see for $10 each at garage sales. Even new, they aren't expensive. For the difference in cost you can make available fans fit the windows. Then you could decide if fancier fans would be worth it or if a window AC unit would be...

One of my son has a granite countertop business, fabricating and installing them, and his policy is "leave the site cleaner than when we started". Or so I've been told by his employee.

A blower door test would tell you where leaks are for sure. Air leaking into the house is probably the problem. Did you have the attic sealed (between the attic and the conditioned space in the house) before the blown-in insulation? And what is "attic foil stuff"?

Looks like my Sun tester has a good new home.

I read a library copy when it first came out, and hadn't since, and **** and Zelazny are among my favorite authors--and all five books were only a dollar total. It was an easy decision to bring them all home, even though I may already have some of the others.

Not much of interest at garage sales around here the last couple of weeks--they mostly look "pink" according to my wife, meaning all baby/childrens stuff and cheap gimcracks and seasonal decor items. But I did get a one dollar shop broom, a D-8 Disston saw, a Disston-Porter 368 hacksaw, 4 Felo...

When I had back surgery and got my set of fancy lag bolts and hardware, I felt miserable for quite awhile. Just looking at the x-rays even now makes me a bit queasy.

We had a area company do my shop and garage building a few years ago, after getting a number of quotes. They did a good job of limiting overspray and then scraped what overspray there was. Some foam expanded through a place in one wall and messed up nearby soffit and they came out and replaced...