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Good for you man...That was probably the best thing that has happened to him in a long time!

Ive got (6) 8'-0" T8 fixtures in my 30x40x14 shop. They are very bright, but kill the radio signal with RFI. Got mine from Lowes.

Friday afternoon bought a new Ingersoll-Rand 3hp 60gallon aircompressor. Saturday I cut up a live oak tree that had fallen down. I believe it got weakend during Hurrican Ike, and half of it broke off and fell down in Feb. from high winds. Let me tell you the half that broke off was huge. It...

I'm 5-8, and I built my workbench & fab table to 36". My FIL built his to 40", and it's too high for me.

I always get a kick out of you KY guys. I went up there on a shutdown a few years ago. I walked into the apartment building the first day, and the lady that ran it said "Welcome to the South". I laughed at her and said, thank you Ma'am, but I just drove 1600 miles NORTH. Where I came from...

x2 on the fixtures....

Grounding question: My 6 fixtures are on one circuit. I tied the bare ground wire, in my 3 wire romex, to the green ground screw of each fixture. This bare wire goes back to the panel and ties into the ground bus. I keep reading about everyone saying "properly grouned", and I am wondering if...

Metal building (6) 8' long 4-bulb T8 fixtures. I have RFI. I cant listen to the radio with the lights on. Brand: Cooper/Metalux from Lowes.

From what I have read, it is from cheaply made electronic ballasts. I am trying to figure out what to do becuase my radio is always on, and I am running out of CD's....... I am not sure what to look for! I wish I knew. BTW,,,,the lights work great! they are really bright! I have 6 in my...

One thing that has plagued me is the Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) that I get when using my 8' T8 fixutes from Lowes. Turn them on, and the radio goes to static.....***** big time.

I built a 30'x40' shop with 14'-6" eaves, with 20'x40' lean-to's on each side. The lean-to's are accessed by 8'x10' sliding doors. You dont want to have to walk outside your building to access your lean-to's. I put in 14'x14' roll up doors on each end of my shop area. This way i can get...

Mine is 16'. The top is five 16'-0" long 2x6's bolted down to 2" angle iron base. These where some of the form boards from a concrete job. I sanded them down real smooth with a belt sander. Turned out real nice. I need to take some pics....

I have the 8' fixtures with 4-4' bulbs. Electronic ballasts. When I flip them on, the radio goes to static. The light is excellent though. I hear allot about RFI filters, and what not, but I have no idea what size to buy, or where to buy them. I do a google search on an RFI filter, and you...

Down here is south east Texas, if you dont put a vapor barrier down, then you will have a nasty, wet, slippery floor when the humidity get high. It is terrible. I put one down for my shop, but the my dads 30 yr old shop doesnt have one, and it is always wet and nasty. Whereas my floor is...

My only complaint is that I can listen to the radio with the the T-8's on. Too much RFI.

x2 *****!!!! I have XM in my truck. I use the RoadyXT, which is an FM modulator. So, I can get my truck close to my shop (withing 15'), and dial in the same fm station on my shop radio, and get XM thru it. As far as my radio goes, I am using a 10 yr old (or more) walmart special boom box.

Dont do anything to it. Just use it.

On a 220V welding outlet you need 3 wires. 2 hots & 1 ground. The hots connect to the breaker (the 2 pole breaker has 2 lugs. 1 hot wire in each), and the ground connects to the grounding bar in your panel. I just wired mine up last weekend. Easy-Peazy. Do you need me to take a picture of...

Ford/Dole Dang, you are old...LOL.

Bigger is always better when it comes to shops! Build the biggest you can afford.