Recent content by wolfhawk73

I know you asked about convertible trimmers for edging, but here's what I've done, because I don't know when to hush. I bought a Milwaukee trimmer (Quik Lok system) 3 years ago and haven't looked back. It's light enough that holding it at an awkward angle for edging along flower beds and other...

I am very sorry for your loss and am familiar with your dilemma. I went through this with Dad's passing a little over 3 years ago. I took what I didn't want or already have to Habitat or gave items to friends that needed them. That still left a ton of stuff to go through. The only items I...

Good thinking. I remember reading in, I think, Popular Mechanics years ago about something similar that happened. Farmer parked his combine/massive capacitor overnight under some high voltage power lines. The next day he grabbed the door handle, and the current went through him and blew out...

I'll add to post #2. When I install new towel bars, hand towel hangers, or TP holders, I always use a 1/8" spring-loaded wing toggle on the top bracket hole and the manufacturer-supplied plastic anchor on the lower hole. The toggle is for strength, and the anchor is to keep the bracket from...

Third vote for this route. I started doing it last year when I bought my first cordless blower.

Thanks, @sansbury, I'll give that a shot. I recently brought home a stack of scrap Baltic birch from work that I plan to use for shop cabinets.

I ran into that little trick a couple of years ago when I was looking for casters. Four of the SAME dang wheels sold loose are cheaper if they're attached to the freakin' furniture dolly.

My wife and I met when we were in college. She started working for her dad after college, but we weren't married yet, just dating. She was working for him when we got married, and, unfortunately, the company went out of business 7 years after we got married. I woo'd her with my mechanicing. :)

Dupe.

Nice! I'm not familiar with anything past AVL, but LeClerc sounds awfully familiar. I became her loom mechanic when she started working for her dad. She worked from home while we dated and a few years after we were married.

Very nice! I could have sold you my wife's warping board. :) Is that an AVL loom? My wife used to hand-weave fabric samples on a 16-harness AVL with a CompuDobby for the customers of her dad's company. They were a contract drapery mill that wove fire retardant fabrics for industrial use...

That's a neat lamp. Can't say I've ever seen one like it. I saw that coaster and thought you had to be on the east coast. My grandmother had a set of the same ones along with the placements. She had me frame the placemats. She loved lighthouses.

I could have used one of these a couple of weeks ago. Our lights started to flicker when I was at work. Thankfully my bride was home and called me. Said we had a power strip burn up. I broke out my meter and was getting 90V on one side and up to 150V on the other when appliances were cycling...

I had to plumb a test system at work that had over 600 threaded stainless joints (fittings made in China) from 1/2" to 3". Our engineer said to use some soft-set garbage and no tape. I argued, but he was adamant, so half of the joints leaked. I told him to go away and let me fix it. I spent...

I had a transmission lose all its fluid on a brand spanking new concrete driveway. I soaked it up with rags and doused the entire area with a full bottle of regular Dawn and let it sit for a couple of days. Then I hosed it off. The stain disappeared when the concrete was dry, but you could...