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Thank you to everyone who commented -- every reply is helpful. I'll check the poles using the hammer method, and if they pass the test, I'll treat with CuNap. Ben

Glad I live in South Carolina now...

Hello all, I have an existing lean-to on one side of my shop. One side of the structure is supported by the side wall of the shop, while the other is held up by 3 old, repurposed utility poles. The lean-to is at least 40 years old, and those three poles are showing their age a bit -- but they...

Absolutely true... and the proper crimpers are usually not cheap (I haven't priced the Molex hand crimper for the common hardware store barrel-type connectors in a while but I think it was around $300 in 1998).

True -- in an automotive or aerospace environment, it's best to use proper crimp connectors without solder. The crimping alone (if done correctly) is enough to form a permanent, gas-tight connection. If you crimp and then solder, or just solder terminations onto wires, the solder tends to wick...

Nice barn and house. The barn is definitely worth renovating -- it has great potential.

Re: what did you do in your garage today? That's a very cool idea, Nigel. Looks great!

Looks great!

Very cool.

I've used their paint -- the color match is excellent for some vehicles, but for one of mine, it's nowhere close. There are no variants for that particular color; their formula was just the wrong tint. However, I've noticed that the exact same color code may be different shades depending on...

I was helping a guy clean the engine bay of his jeep to prepare it for sale. He told me to use straight Purple Power for cleaning everything under the hood, including painted surfaces. I was amazed at the speed with which it ate into the paint! Didn't take it to bare metal, but it definitely...

Wow... nice space. I have run my own business, and I can tell that you're serious about making things happen. If one-quarter of the younger generation were as driven as you, we'd have almost NO problems left unsolved in this country!

A little off-topic, but I don't have a TV in the garage. My current house TV is a 13" Sony CRT made in 1994. My computer monitor is bigger than that (20" CRT)! Can you tell that I don't watch much TV...? Now, don't get the wrong idea -- I'm not living in a shack lit by kerosene lamps; I...

I have had some luck with heating small parts in the oven once the paint is sprayed onto them. I've had better luck with preheating the parts a bit (perhaps to 100 - 110F) before painting. Sometimes heating after painting has caused wrinkling. I'm not a fan of Rustoleum in aerosol cans -- it...

I like it! I've seen a very nice shop constructed of two prefab sheds, end-to-end, with a covered entrance between them. It contained a complete metal-working shop on one side, and a woodworking shop on the other. Connected the end of the woodworking shop was a storage area that was enclosed...