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    Insulation: Steel building as a home.

    Ok here is what I did to install the r25 batts in my living space I used 1/4" cold rolled rods to hold the batts up until I built the inner walls. I drilled holes into the stem wall and also into the girts, after the wall was erected I pulled out the rods. On this wall ( with out the...
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    Snap-On PBC34 Hydro Pressure Blast Cabinet

    I have the model 42 and it has a square sump for the heater and also another set of fixed jets that you can switch to from the hand held hose to allow you to use it like a dish washer. They take a powdered detergent that you can get from snap-on. On mine the pump puts out about 400 psi if I...
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    Compressor pressure regulators

    Well I don't know about that, I just looked through Wilkerson's catalog and all of their stand alone regulators are rated at least 250psi and most are rated @ 300psi Sounds like you just want to use a 3/4" regulator :) The 3/4" regulator ( as pointed out above) operates like all regulators...
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    Compressor pressure regulators

    You can use the 3/8" regulator, it will work just fine, and it will flow many times the output of you compressor. In one word DISTANCE As you can see from the ratings of the regulators even the 3/8" stuff flows a lot of air! But it does it over a short distance,in the case of a regulator, only...
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    8' T5HO fixtures at HomeDepo - Anyone using them

    Thanks Charles, That's just the information/conformation I was looking for! At the price of the fixtures from HD I think I will get 3 of them and gut them for the ballasts and the bulb sockets. I need to make a 6' fixture for my fish tank and could use 8 bulbs in that. With the switching of...
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    8' T5HO fixtures at HomeDepo - Anyone using them

    Charles can you verify if the ballast in that fixture is the same as listed in the link above ie. a Sylvania Quicktronic 49160 Thanks William....
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    Southern California machine shop

    I don't know how close Anaheim is to your location, but you might check out Cummins Aerospace Division of Yeager Manufacturing Corp. 2200 East Orangethorpe Ave., Anaheim, CA 92806 Phone: (714) 879-2800 Cumminsaerospace.com William...
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    Air compressor tank bushing

    This is a TOTAL waste of time!!! Use that 3/8"fitting and install a short ****** in it, and up size it to 1/2" right after the ******. That small distance at 3/8" will not make ANY difference at all on that machine. It will flow WAY more than 100 cfm at almost ZERO pressure drop! A good 1/4"...
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    My Shop AKA the obsession

    Thanks I'm sure I wasted more time "fixing it" but some times my cheap side wins over my non-existent practical side! Sorry, I keep missing the replies to the thread and so it seems to take me a long time to get back to it at times I need to post some more of the table saw rebuild, but I'm...
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    whats a 30hp motor worth?

    There is a glut of new non energy eff. motors getting sold off surplus now, as they can no longer be sold by the normal channels. I would assume thats trashing the used motor market too. I just got a new in the box "surplus" baldor 10hp for $110.00 I wouldn't pay more than 1-200 for a used...
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    Wiring a bead blaster?!?

    Hey long time no see!! I can't tell for sure but it looks like the outlet might be wired wrong. BTW I thought that you fell in the well and we were going to have to send lassie to look for ya! Can you plug some thing else into the outlet and see it it too shorts out?? Later William....
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    Gantry build (planing stages)

    I made a copy of the Wallace 3 ton gantry crane ( the old design that used square tubing like the newer 5+ ton models do) It adjusts in span, height, and footprint. It was a lot of work to make it but I did save some $$ on it. The only thing I would have done different if I were to make it...
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    Does anyone de-bounce their contactor coil's?

    Ok Your not Why bother ??? Lets assume your not switching high voltage here, as this is not the Electrical substation journal! Even a **** contactor's ( SqD, GE, etc.) contacts are good for over 50k cycles at their rated capacity. I supose there are some cheep china made contactors that...
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    has anyone installed there own well pump?

    I installed mine @ 240' in my 490' well. It can be done with out too much trouble, there are more pictures in my build thread below. 22 sections of 20' drop pipe later I made this drop pipe clamp, and it made the install go smoothly. I purchased the drop pipe and threaded it myself...
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    How should I wire ceiling lights on steel ceiling?

    Your correct it's rather "wonky" :headscrat I started out with the setup on the wall, and should have come out of the box on the side but my thought was "going up" so come out of the top of the box. That of course made much harder bends than needed. The addtional offset was another (over...
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    How should I wire ceiling lights on steel ceiling?

    Well here is what I have at the moment. The passage into the fixture is just through the normal knockout hole ( I don't know if I punched it or if it was there in the fixture as I did it a while ago. This install was unfortunately an after thought and I mounted the fixtures other places on the...
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    How should I wire ceiling lights on steel ceiling?

    With the panel profile he is running ( looks like menards pro-panel), he can attach the box to the pan of the panel and with 1/2" conduit it will run to the boxes just fine and he will not need to bend any offsets as the ribs are only 3/4" high. I can attach a picture of some I ran the other...
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    Electrical Cart Idea

    Here is the cart I put together for my wire needs. it folds up some, for storage. William....
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    Gen 5 Bead Roller

    Looks like you used semi trailer landing gear jacks for the speed reducers?? Clever idea! William....
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    Ebay Disappoinment, S/O CT4850

    I would either leave him none or positive as he made the sale "ok" by refunding some of your $$. In this case I normally just forget the feedback and move on... William...
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