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I learned something yesterday. Soffit vents get dirty. In fact they get so dirty they get clogged up. A little background. I have a 2 story Colonial house. About 25 years old. Outside dimensions are apx 25 x 45 feet. As built, it hade four 16 x 4 soffit vents on both the front and back sides...

My son has just bought into a pier and dock repair and install business. Major equipment is a big steel barge with a hydraulic crane. On occasion he need 100 VAC for drills, saws, and such. So he got one of those construction site generators. My concern is grounding the thing when he is out on...

I finally got one. $51.00 and a 200 mile round trip. I have been out bid a number of times on one of these. It is a data card file. Usually called “IBM cards,” but this one if from their one time competitor Remington Rand. 11 drawers, each drawer has 2 removable trays. The drawers are fully...

I came across this while staying up too late the other night. It should help a lot with the basic questions. It is a 39 page PDF file. http://www.scribd.com/doc/22534360/Residential-Electrical-Wiring-Guide?autodown=pdf You will have to create an account, but it is free. BTW, this site is a...

Do we have one? Should we start one? We have a lot of the same questions come up that have been answered before, often with good supporting documentation from sites that no longer exist or are restricted in some way. I am talking good, researched, verifiable data. Codes, standard practices...

I don’t know how many of you are auction junkies. I am. At our last county equipment auction, where they get rid of stuff they no longer need or want to store, or want to fool with, there were a bunch of what were listed as “Map Cabinets” They were about 40 inches wide, 40 inches high, and had...

We have done a lot of talk here about garage doors. So I went out the other day and checked mine out. I had just paid a guy $175.00 to replace a broken spring, so I knew the basics were there. But I had always had a problem in the winter with the top of the door not fitting tight. I had thought...