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Glad to hear that - I just picked one up to remove the crank bolt from my Nissan, where I'm about to do the front seal. Hopefully I can use that to get it off. I don't know where I can get a pulley strap wrench from that is strong enough to strap down to the frame. HF has them, but they...

It saves you money. It doesn't save the contractor time or money, and they're often just out to get the check at the most profitable possible means. There are some good contractors, no insult intended to the good ones on this forum. All materials, time, and quality workmanship are nowadays...

I understand your desire to be able to do business with them as you'd like to, in the same HF-you-can-find-your-product easily way. But several people have commented that WE the end-consumer ARE NOT their customers. As long as these companies are doing just fine and making a good profit each...

Very well said - I thought this article explained some of the major reasons quite well: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/17/opinion/eisenbrey-detroit-pensions/index.html?iref=allsearch A few key phrases for those who don't necessarily want to read the article: "Unlike corporations, cities cannot be...

I'd check local restaurant supply and equipment repair houses. They may have secondhand units for not a whole lot, especially if you find one of those old family owned small supply houses instead of a big corporation franchise supply house. They may also know of restaurants closing down too...

Wow.. Can you imagine most any American teenaged kid laying the subfloor for a building that size BY HIMSELF with his SISTER and a neighbor doing some of the nailing? He's so offhand about how various bits were done - I know enough about doing it to realize the hard work that every part of it...

Get em at GoodWill cheap for that purpose too..

How many times has someone tossed it up at the ceiling to see if it'd stick? That's what a bunch of kids did in the high school I used to work at - Tossed handfuls of rare earth magnets up against the ceiling (which was corrugated metal in the shop rooms) Took us over an hour to get them all...

That's an interesting point -- I'll have to check and see if our local taxes figure differently for concrete vs asphalt!

I've seriously thought about it a time or two - and asked about it. Had three different trial lawyers (civil, not criminal) tell me that so long as I didn't use my own name, I was pretty safe. They said that a large corporation (Verizon, etc) might decide to subpoena the records from the forum...

Hi all - I am beginning to put together costs/pros/cons for a new driveway. My current house driveway/parking area/street driveway are all three possibilities- The section from the parking area up to the house is concrete, more than 40 years old, now badly breaking up. The parking area is...

So I'm going to check and see how I can mount the thing onto the base of the lamp. I'd put it inside,but the glass on the lamp would interfere for sure! If I can figure out how to mount the thing, I will also look to see how I can make a shade of sorts out of sheet metal ... This is going to...

Hi everyone - I'm getting ready to install one of the below motion detectors: I'm wanting to wire it into a lamp I have on a rock post at the top of the steps leading up from my parking area. I don't want a dawn to dusk sensor there, I want a motion detection light. Apparently, you cannot buy...

Re: Nut & Bolt Storage I am SO going to copy that one! Unlike a lot of you guys, I don't work in a garage, but I know where to find a ton of those oil containers real quick... any Advance/Autozone/NAPA/CARQUEST ..... they'll have dozens of them in a business day, just need to grab from their...

From what I am given to understand, it's probably true that a nuke power plant has a higher quantity of fissile material, it is of much lower grade quality than that used in weapons. The available material to be thrown around by a FAE blast would be much higher from a power plant just by mass...

You all may or may not (depending upon age and level of space-geek credentials) remember that the skin on the Apollo first and second stages was very very thin to save weight... It's not at all impossible for a falling metal object to penetrate that skin and the tank inside. I think the real...

Some of you guys would get lynched over on OWWM ..... :D But, you're more into 'I have to make a profit with it today" and they're into the "preserve American history and ingenuity" That may or may not be a destroyed machine - A lot of debris and uncleanliness isn't a 100% guarantee that...

I totally agree on this one - Been a ham operator for 30+ years, network engineer for 25, and use analog meters all the time in both. Digital is good for accurate voltage and current readings when you really care about tenths of a volt. But analog absolutely CANNOT be beaten for finding weird...

That almost reminds me of the sound and feel of the engineering space in an old Spruance class at full bells during an anti-air evasion....

Bingo! This is exactly what's wrong with many of the penalties for corporate and white collar crime -- The fines are so miniscule compared to the profits (and sealed court documents and gag orders readily available) that corporations and white-collar executives are nearly always willing to do...