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    My Garage Brewery

    I am looking at doing something similar with keggles and electric heating elements, I am thinking about using a touch screen and a plc instead of PID controllers, also I will use two pumps to move hot liquor as well as wort.
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    What's your work day?

    6AM to 6PM 12hr shifts, work 4 and then have 4 off, Industrial Maintenance, Ammonia Refrigeration and Steam Boilers.
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    Metal roof ridge vents, worth the $$

    the make a product that is adhesive you stick it to the ridge cap and then screw the ridge cap down, this product allows the air to vent but keeps out insects and snow!
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    Garage door opener recommendations

    I agree with Liftmaster, my 12 X 12 insulated I put a Liftmast commercial duty open on it and have never regretted it.
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    OSB vs. ply roof

    You must not live in snow country, I replaced the roof on my shop this past summer and used 19/32 OSB, it was expensive but the snow load we get in Idaho you have to have it.
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    No Truck - How To Get Wood Home ??

    Really!! Wow, I guess that is why I don't live where somebody that I pay tells me what I can and can't do with my property! And I drive a truck and have since my very first vehicle, I thought that is what guys do! How do you hunt and fish etc without a truck?
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    Purchased big compressor. Can I use pex to run new air lines?

    In the plant that I work in we have ran many hundred of feet of Pex as airlines, we maintain 120 PSI to the plant from 450 HP of screw air compressors, we have never had a failure with the pex. All of the pex lines are in production area's that have daily wash downs. We installed it using...
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    new here from Idaho

    Hey there from 1F idaho
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    Will Snap-On keep Bluepoint....?

    I heard it was Taiwan!
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    Re-furb Rotary 2 post or buy new

    If you going to replace the power pack why not get it in 220 volt single phase, then you will not need the phase converter.
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    Bus Barn - Build Thread

    Where did you get these lights? I am looking for a similar fixture for the front of my shop.
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    Window AC to cool meat locker.

    Hey all, I had a Moose tag a couple of years ago in Idaho, ended up taking a pretty nice bull, 45" about 3/4 palm. The question about the window air cond. being used as refrigeration? I all amounts to the amout of heat that needs to be removed from the space! The evaporator on the window...
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    fluorescent lights

    The T12 and T8 tombstones are the same, but the T12 HO's are different
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    Home Automation Schema?

    Glen I agree with you on the fact that we got off the thread a bit. I'm an industrial guy and have been most of my career, actually I do most of my work anymore in the facilities end of things, Refrigeration, Steam Plant, Plant air etc... I'm not really up on the home automation stuff...
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    Black iron pipe working pressure?

    I agree that pressure is pressure, most of the piping systems that I have seen failed are becuase of system upsets, i.e. something happened in the system to cause a slug of water in a steam line or hydrostatic pressure because liquid refrigerant is trapped, or corrosion in condensate lines...
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    Home Automation Schema?

    John I use the parameter files for a lot of things, so many redundant things in PLC programming makes things much easier especially for HOA controls for motors, valves, pumps etc.
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    Home Automation Schema?

    Amen brother! Or use hidden M-files to pass data to HMI's! Factorytalk is also a huge step foward from the old panelbuilder days! Still not as functional in the ME version as I would like to see but much better than it used to be. The are blurring the lines between the traditional HMI and...
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    Laminate Flooring questions.

    I have installed several laminate floors and have found them to be very durable if they stay moisture free on the bottom side. I would think that the thin foam underlayment that you use with these products would provide some vapor barrier. They go down very easy and quickly. Good luck in...
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    Home Automation Schema?

    AB has always done this as they move forward, once a product becomes "legacy" it gets more expensive. I agree that you will find that contrologix is much more capable in todays world. I have systems running that encompass whole plants, I coax controlnet ring thoughout the entire facility...
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    Steel Tubing versus Pipe

    Or the ammonia refrigeration industry
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