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Motor is a capstart and it doesn't hum, even tapping on it with a mallet doesn't work. Once it quites running it never started agian until it was dissasembled and put back together then it ran for couple months and has now been dissabled for 2 months. Motor's not hot, no smell of windings. When...

I replaced the motor on my 60 gal. 2 stage compressor about a year and a half ago and I noticed recntly it wasn't comming on. I checked the power all the way up to the back side of the motor and it was good. An electrician friend check it out and couldn't find anything wrong, everything checked...

I've mentioned this on here before, not sure if it's the best way but eliminated me building additional wall inside against the existing girts like some of my friends wanted. My insulation will run horizontally. The 2" x 4"s on edge were screwed in from the outside before the James Hardie...

When they poured my floor they poured around my posts but did mention they are starting to use plastic pipe sections 4" high split down the back and fit around the post. They weren't able to contact me before the truck showed to ask if I wanted that but they said the corners of the post...

Built my 1300 sq. ft building after I had the 6 x 6 posts put in, had to constantly stop to figure out how to do things which cost me a lot of time (never built anything like this before). Most of the time didn't have any help so I had to figure out how to do some things on my own which cost me...

Having problems downloading the bifold door plans and I have adode acrobat reader 10.

I like the idea of framming the wall and then brick, or using fake brick that looks better than the old "Z" Brick.

Thanks guys, looks like bricks are out. Was just looking for something besides a framed wall to divide the garage from the woodshop, wanted a little atmosphere in the woodshop. I'm covering the walls in the woodshop with weathered 1" x 12" cedar but didn't have enough to cover this wall.

My shop is a standard pole building with a 24 x 32 garage and a 24 x 22 wood shop off the side. The floor is 4" concrete on top of a gravel base, i want to put a old brick ( no holes) wall between the garage and wood shop that would be 22' long by 10' high with a 6' opening in the center for a...

My friend has a 30x50 building with an on grade poured floor 4" thick. They used a vapor barier and fiber in the concrete. It has been 16 years and has only 1 hairline crack. I had a 24x32 floor poured using fiber in the concrete 6" at the back 24x8 and 4 " in the rest. I laid down a vapor...

I put 2x4 girts on the outside of my 6x6 posts. On the inside I put 2x4s horizontally on edge in the middle of each girt between the 6x6s and screwd them in from the outside. This will allow me to run my insulation horizontally instead of building an additional wall inside to run my insulation...

Possum, 2 x 4s were the standard size used by most people I talked to and to me the way I did it I think I used less lumber but maybe not. I will have 1 1/2 " of the 6 x 6 on the inside of my building which makes it look more like an old barn.

I did alot of my building myself including putting some of my 18' long steel roof panels up on a 5:12 pitch roof and putting up 2 32' and 1 22' truss by my self, the 32's were tough. Its amazing what you can figure out when you can't get help.

I built a standard pole building putting 2" x 4" girts horizontally around the outside every 2' then put my siding on the outside of the girts. This left me a space between the siding and the 6" x 6" posts to run my wiring. Before I put my siding on I screwed 2" x 4"s on edge horizontally on the...

I'll have 16 30" x 58" windows, 1 every 8' 44" off the floor to allow room for benches and equipment. They are double pane tempered glass plus I have a 15 lite single walkin door. My 22' x 24' wood shop has the 15 lite door and 7 windows, the 24' x 32' garage part will have 9 windows and there...