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My shop burned to the ground in December last year and took with it pretty much everything I had. I've been looking at mills and lathes and there sure seems to be a lot available out there in the used market. I found the mill I wanted and have already paid for it but the same guy has several...

I finally got my floor poured and my new building is starting to go up. It was a near perfect day when they poured the floor. It was around 65* and The winds were light and vairable. My plans called for #3 and #4 rebar in the footings but didn't call for wire mesh to be added. I used #4 and #5...

There was this guy standing in his over loaded garage the week before last and stared at this big hunk of junk that his father left him several years before. He didn't know if it even worked as it was all rusted and banged up looking. He didn't want to part with it but his wife pretty much made...

I want to run a circuit over to my big powder coat oven. I have a section of #4 copper in conduit that I want to use. I plan on putting a 100 amp service panel on the oven to use to power it and also to be used as a disconnect. There will be 2) 40 amp breakers 1 for each burner and a 20 amp...

Anybody ever tried to bend a piece of unistrut? I'm building a trolly system from my powder coating dip tanks to my spray booth and there are two 90 degree turns I have to go around to make the journey. I was wondering how much luck I would have trying to make these 90 degree bends without...

I got some new light fixtures that were too good to turn down but you know how that goes. Anyway they were supposed to be for 120V but after I had them all mounted and started to wire them in I found out they were 277V. I had spent a day and a half taking down old fixtures that I wanted to...

I've been playing around with different ways to heat my shop for several years now and have almost got it to where it doing ok but would like to do a few things that would make it better. What I have is a wood stove with a ss tank attached to the top of the stove with the exhaust going out...

I'm finally getting to the point where I can put in my powder coat spray booth. I built my pole barn around this 20' container with hope that one day I would get to this point. I plan on dividing the container in two parts by building a 2x6 wall about in the middle with one side being the paint...

My old compressor was too slow to keep up with the demand so I found a new or newer, Sailor Beall 705 pump that I am mating with my old tank and motor. When I got it the unloader valve on the pump was broken. My pressure switch has one built in so I was wondering if I needed to replace the one...

I sometimes get junk form a plant my son works at. Sometimes the stuff they throw away is brand new but it's been sitting around on a shelf for awhile and one day they clean out a section and everything goes into the dumpster. Every now and then we find out what is about to happen and if we ask...

I'm still trying to get my heating system completed but it looks like every time I take one step forward something happens to drive me backwards. I didn't want to go through another season like last year when I had a leak in a couple of the boiler tubes in the wood heater that I thought I had...

I'm working on putting plans together for my wood burning boiler stove and as usual I want to use materials I have on hand for as much of the build as possible. I have some really nice 316L stainless tube that I want to use as boiler tube. My plan is to cut up the long sections into different...

I have connections at a large plant that lets me know when they are about to scrap medal, parts and old equipment. I told him I would take any kind of medal that if I couldn't use it for something I could pile it up and when I got enough I could just scrap it. You wouldn't believe the stuff they...

I didn't think I would ever do this but last week I was relic hunting and had to wade through 1000 feet of tall swamp grass, several creeks, and knee deep mud to get to the spot we wanted to hunt and some where along the way my phone case got dislodged from my belt and it is now lost forever. My...

I just got my hands on an old wood stove that has a boiler sitting on top of it and was wondering if anyone has ever seen or owned one of these type stoves. There are a few pieces that are missing that I know I'll need before I fire it up and I need to get some information on it but I can't seem...

I getting to the point where I want to make my pole barn all one color and I want to buy a paint spray system. I've looked at wagner and Grayco at lowes and looked at the reviews on several sites and from what I have been seeing is that the wagners seem to be troublesome and the Graycos seem to...

Man! I'm so sorry I didn't get back to you. Right after I posted that message I fell and broke my kneecap into 3 pieces and I have been out of service for awhile. I love my new concrete floor but man is it slick. I was up about 14' and the ladder cut out from under me sending me on a one way...

Today is the day the concrete trucks show up to pour my floor. I can't believe this day has finally come, it has been a long hard road to get to this point and once it is done I might just take a day off. This is what it looks like this morning I'll post back this afternoon with the results...

I'm trying to save a little on wiring in my shop. What I want to do is add a couple small 6 space sub panels in two spots in my shop. I picked up a 70 amp 6 space sub panel yesterday that has no breakers in it. I picked up a ground bar kit also. When I prepared my floor for concrete I laid...

Looks like I have run into another stumbling block. Can you hook up 240V lights controlled by 3 way switches? I have 5 high bay light fixtures that I have already installed in the ceiling of my shop and one of them over my spray booth will be switched at just one location. The others I want to...