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Options: Piece or pieces of unistrut or angle iron or flat bar or wood with attached or embedded neodymium magnets of the desired size, shape, and strength to hold themselves and the sign to the sheet metal wall panels. If the sign is 'thin' material, the desired size, shape, and strength to...

Just put the jack stands on the bottom of the cabinet. What, no hand cut dovetails? 🤣 OK, maybe machine cut dovetails. 😃 Making a box (and a drawer is a box), look into box joints. With a router and some jig(s), bought or shop made, you can make them pretty easily. You can make them...

The HF magnetic hooks are pretty strong, but the hook is small and they are also 3" in diameter. I have two holding up a large paper desk calendar on a freezer door, they don't move unless I REALLY apply some force. Strongest? Neodymium magnets. Those things are VERY strong (for good grade...

I like the colors on my 3350 too. 😁 Got some Foose stuff with mine too, which is somewhere in the helmet bag. Lincoln makes a 'chin flap guard' accessory. Slips onto the front bottom of the helmet. Handy bit of extra protection, especially in awkward or overhead/underneath positions...

Calling @Astro_Pneumatic_Tools. 😁 I've been generally quite happy with my Astro Pneumatic tools. Some air tools, some hand tools, the rechargeable light, etc. See if they have anything that might fit your wants/needs. They do have some 1/4" drive stuff, ratchets and sockets included...

Good point about really not wanting to crack the plaster. You should consider installing temporary support walls underneath the ceiling parallel to the long direction of the hall before cutting the plaster and lath and the existing ceiling structure, close to the area to be cut out. Make your...

Black (usually a darkish Grey when 'new') greasy substance on aluminum power conductors is usually No-Alox antioxidant grease. Necessary and required on aluminum power conductors.

Looks 'older'. Plaster and lath, more rough sawn looking framing lumber. Beware and check for lead paint if you didn't yet do that. Also, some plaster used the 'miracle' fiber called asbestos in some of the plaster undercoats instead of horsehair. Time period for that was from the 1920's...

Don't laugh too hard. I HAVE run across several situations where some #$%%^$ idjit installed the wall switch or receptacle into the box with full length drywall screws. Crooked, of course. Completely stripping out the mounting threads in the wall box and buggering the mounting holes in...

Told you to use gloves. 😆 Good that you did some testing first. Good luck and both of you have fun.

There ARE needle type tips for some hot glue guns. I have some. Not sewing needle tiny, but smaller diameter nozzle orifice than a 'regular' glue gun tip. But hot glue can be messy, during application and the final results. And it is HOT. Insta-burn hot. Not what I would necessarily...

Nah, welding on galvanized fasteners is not best practice. Garage Journal level would be to procure a CNC water jet machining center to avoid or minimize thermal degradation from laser or plasma cutting systems or the broken small diameter drill bits from a CNC milling center. 😆

Look into Loctite 243 threadlock compound. Blue, removable with hand tools (if needed, usually removable), cures 'better' than older formulation 'blue' threadlock (like 242) on inactive metals. Much quicker and easier to use than trying to drill some bolts and nuts for lockwire. And your...

OK, you found markings. Although that PE pipe is marked, and it is marked as rated 250 psi for WATER, it is still NOT rated for use with compressed air. Euro spec PE using PE100 resin is rated for use with compressed air, but still subject to temperature and pressure and environmental...

IME (limited, not running them daily or in a production type environment), the metal cutting carbide-tipped circular saw blades work great until they don't. At which point you replace the blade. If carbide tips are gone, then the blade is no longer a blade. It is breakfast food. AKA toast...

No markings on the PE piping? Then it is NOT usable for a compressed air system. Also, PE (or pretty much any plastic piping or tubing) is NOT sunlight or UV resistant unless it is specifically marked as being UV resistant. In addition to UV considerations, plastic piping may be...

Google says peroxide + white vinegar, mechanically, reverse electrolysis, or special chemical strippers like the Caswell or EPI stuff. EPI https://www.epi.com/products-by-need/metal-strippers.html

Contact the engineer or architect or the truss company about doubling up the floor truss that borders the stairwell opening. As I mentioned, several floor truss companies that I looked up online ALL showed and explicitly called out that the last full length floor truss bordering a stairwell...

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The studs that are under a header and go all the way down to the bottom plate are "jack studs". Sometimes regionally called "Trimmers". The studs right next to the jack studs and bracketing the header and running from the bottom of the top plate all the way down to the top of the bottom plate...