Recent content by Yankeefarmer

How many GJ’ers’ shops look as clean and neat as those pictured in this thread? No disrespect toward any who posted photos here, but they all look to me like a newly set up shop, not one in which work is regularly performed on multiple projects. Workbenches are too clear, etc.

I have a 4 post lift because I was finding it increasingly difficult to get up off the creeper and floor when working on vehicles, so the thought of positioning multiple lift arms with a 2 post was not appealing. The disadvantage of having to use a bridge jack is, IMO, offset by the ability to...

If you want 74 at night, have you tried just setting it at 74 and leaving it there for a few days?

A caution to everyone running Kawasaki engines on their zero turns: heed the manufacturer’s recommendation to pull the engine shroud (I think it’s every 200 hrs.) to ensure that there is no grass/debris buildup on the cylinder head cooling fins. Neighbor asked me to fix his Gravely/Kawasaki that...

Years ago I did one using C25 gas. The nitrogen regulator uses the same cylinder connection as the C25.

The beauty of the laser level is that it is so much more than a level. Used it today for the second day framing walls. It replaces a level, plum bob, chalk line and a square. I didn’t appreciate that until I used the darn thing.

Thank you for this recommendation. Last night I decided it would be worth rolling the dice on this;Amazon delivered it at 5 a.m. Put a quick charge on the battery, and tried it out on the project at 9:30 a.m. To a guy like me who never had one of these, it is a gamechanger. Worked like a champ...

In my RC days, I used a Group 24 size deep cycle battery in a plastic battery case with a battery maintainer bolted to it. At home, it was always plugged in. At the field, it recharged the RC batteries without fear of running my truck battery down.

I have been known to do it! :) Mostly after mixing and applying body filler. When I remove the gloves, they naturally turn inside out. Leave them on the bench that way, after a bit they’re dry, and perfectly useable for a second batch. After that, though, they have too much filler on the outside...

Thanks, Kay. I use some Leviton smart plugs to control a variety of things, mostly low voltage outdoor lighting. I never thought to use one to control my 3d printer, which is out in my shop!

40+ years ago I installed an 18’ above ground pool in our sloping side yard. Got many compliments and questions about how dead nuts level the waterline was. I had leveled the site using a home made water level. Didn’t think to use a valve on it though; had to be careful when moving it! Now that...

I’m gonna be helping my nephew install a drop ceiling in his basement. Room will be about 12’ x 50.’ What’s a good laser level to facilitate leveling the grid?

I’m currently using the Home Depot ones that are black outside, orange in. Sufficiently satisfied that I feel no need to find an alternative.

Our house had an oil-fired furnace when we bought it. I installed an add-on wood furnace that I ducted into the oil furnace's discharge plenum. Per the wood furnace's instructions, I also wired it to run the oil furnace's blower whenever the wood furnace's blower was running. ( I assume this was...

The problem with counting on overnight ventilation to cool the building is that there often is not enough temperature difference to extract the heat from the structure and its contents in the hours before daytime heating takes over again. The ventilation will give cooler air, but not cooler...