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    New 200Amp service questions

    For power co line from pole, the trench is going to be much deeper than 18". Price sounds fair, if you don't like it, get more prices.
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    200 amp panel with 100 amp main?

    No, can't do that. Main breaher must be fastened in place in the panal. I think you're out of luck here, I can't think of a panal that will have a holdown for a 100a br
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    Anyone have a garage / shop wrecker?

    Not yet, but I'd love to. My father had 30s, 40s, 50, and 60s wreckers and dump trucks when I was a youngster and I thought they were the coolest things on earth, still do.
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    Any good Electricians here?

    If the windings shorted to the case, the motor is no good anyway. You'll need to take it to a motor shop and have it rewound, you shouldn't just use it with no ground if it's shorted and risk somebody getting shocked
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    Any good Electricians here?

    you can't damage a motor by grounding it
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    No ground wiring

    in 69, they did use grounded RX. I've seen many older homes with geounded RX, but they didn't bring the gr wire into the box, they wrapped it around the outside of the box and connected it there. Loosen one of the RX clamps inside one of you're rec boxes and see if you can pull that RX into the...
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    Any good Electricians here?

    There are no cons to grounding it. Its just a motor, if its not grounded, and there is a short in it, that means the the metal enclosure will be live. If someone touches it, they could be electricuted, simple as that.
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    Any good Electricians here?

    You guys are thinking too much here. Just ground it. If the windings are shorted to the case, let it trip the breaker, because ir you continue to use it with the windings shorted to the case, you're just gonna get knocked on you're **** one of these days when the right conditions present...
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    Bought some garage speakers off of CL.

    Nice speakers!!!!!!!!!!!! I love klipsch speakers
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    Lost a great friend today

    I'm so sorry for you're loss. I lost one of mine a year and a half ago. It's so hard, they're like having toddlers. I can't say enough good things about dogs, or any animal for that matter. They're all unique, nothing but a bundle of pure love. There's a site called rainbows bridge .com you...
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    36 gmc

    That brings back memorys, my father had a 36 chev 1.5 ton dump body I used to love to ride in his old trucks
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    Need a Cart Now, Harbor Freight??

    I've been lusting after that red cart for a while now, gotta get one. Aren't the'rye 2 differant finishes available? A semi gloss vs. a rough finish?
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    Coats 20-20 question

    You don't need a ft pedal, just hookup you're air full pressure while it's blowing lift up on tire when the beads pop, as I remember you'll here two fairly loud pops, one for the lower bead, one for the upper bead, you'll then disconnect he air chuck, you're tire is now seared, just fill to...
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    NO circuit breaker for family room lights???

    Be warned, if you turn you're main br off, it mught not come back on, especialy if its old, I know, the'rye supposed to, but sometimes they don't. If you shut all of the other br off, and just look at the main if you want to see if some idiot tapped off of it, if not, you're good, do what I told...
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    Coats 20-20 question

    Yea, core gets left out, also, for tires that wanna be a *****, where the bottom unseats when you're lifting up to seat the top, we had these fat rubber donuts we slipped between the top of rim and top of tire bead to fill the gap. Fill with air till the bottom seats, then remopve the donut and...
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    Coats 20-20 question

    That was supposed to say yrs ago
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    Coats 20-20 question

    trs ago, I used to use a 10/10, and we had a 6" hose with a fitting on one eng that would screw omto the valvestem, and a fitting on the other end that would connect to an air hose. Would give it full pressure while gently lifting up on the tire from the outer edges, worked great. In fact, I...
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    NO circuit breaker for family room lights???

    I'll tell you what it is. many times, someone who dosen't know what the'yre doing in either wiring something new, or repairing a problem, unknowingly ties into two different circiuts, so you have two circuits on the same phase feeding you're load. You can't turn that load off with one circuit...
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    Looking at Lifts... brand recommendations?

    I have a 10k rotary 2post and love it best tool I ever bought
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    I need a trans jack

    Interested in the ranger RTJ-1, but harborfreight has a central hyd. that looks exactly like the ranger RTJ3000 for 500.00. Anyone have any expeiriance with either one? I want one with the 79" lift hight. Or could suggest something better maybe? I want to stay around 5-6 hundred dollars.
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