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I have this exterior outlet, it's in a plastic weather box thing. It has this amber LED on, which usually goes on after you press the Test button. No matter how hard I push the Reset button, I cannot get the green LED to illuminate. There is a similar outlet in the kitchen, different circuit...

Testing to see if it happens here

I have an old B&S HM80 flat head engine on the snowblower I've used for 25 years. Being from the late 70s, the whole thing is pretty heavy and did a decent job. After every session, I'd have to put in at least a quart of gas, and heavy sessions I'd sometimes run out. Fast forward to last year...

We have a lake property that gets winterized every year. My plumber disconnects the water meter and feeds compressed air through the pipe that supplies the house. I think he keeps it somewhere around 20 psi. The pipes are PEX if that matters. I'd like to do this myself next fall, and would...

I have a very old DeWalt drill/circular kit. It has those old ni-cad battery packs and weighs a ton. The drill is quite nice, living after being dropped in a lake and getting a gearbox rebuild. Still has plenty of life, and the torque can crank your wrist. It does drilling and driving ok, but I...

Weekend warrior here, and a year after I got my Gearwrench 1/4" and 3/8" socket set, I gave all the pieces a wintertime "spa treatment" to keep them fresh. Same for my Craftsman polished combination wrenches, hand tools, and all my little driver bits. They live in my garage, and with temperature...

This is similar to the couple "ceiling hoist" threads, but my needs are a little different. We have 2 kayaks that are about 14 inches high and about 45 lbs each, that need to go between the open garage door and ceiling, which is about 16". Every rope/pulley system I've seen has head room of...

You know how having the right tool makes the difference? I have occasional situations where I need to drill into metal (usually steel) and end up trying to use a hand held drill. This usually ends up taking a long time, and I lose a lot of accuracy. I'm getting to the point where having a drill...

With the holidays approaching, my family is looking for gift ideas for each other. I don't have an EDC pocketknife and haven't carried one for a VERY long time, and even at that time it was the old Victorinox "Swiss Army" that was about 3 inches long with a tiny blade, or an old Kmart special...

We have a field area that has a lot of prickers. Some are as big around as your thumb, 6-12 feet long, with barbs about 1/2" long. I'd like to attack them this spring and had the following strategy in mind: Person A would hold the pricker upright Person B would use loppers to cut it flush with...

I have all my good tools in the garage, because that's where I do 95% of my work. I have a small basement workshop: 8x2 raised workbench with a 4x8 pegboard. I'm way behind on the basement tool selection, and have cheap HF screwdrivers and an assortment of mismatched hand tools. In order to...

I have a very old can of LPS-2 lubricant, must be from the 60s? The steel can touts being good for missiles! Anyway, it still sprayed and the product was still good, but I ran out. So I bought a new can and have been using it on a few things that need superior lubrication: snowblower parts and a...

I have an older (16 years) oil-less Husky brand air compressor, 26 gallon I believe, and I've noticed moisture/mist coming out of the line sometimes. This appears more frequently when the compressor has been running for a while. I have a manual drain that I open occasionally, but very little...

I'm looking for real-world experience from people who use a laser tachometer. I'm building a turbojet engine and would like to monitor the RPM. There are a lot of digital laser tachometers with varying ratings, as usual, from awesome to junk. It would be great to have a remote probe that can be...

I usually clean my tools, but don't CLEAN them. My OCD kicked in and I decided to check in with GJ on some tactics for the types of tools I'm trying to clean up and preserve. For my combination wrenches, I'm using a q-tip with carb cleaner to clean up the 12-point grooves. Anything with surface...

I've somehow survived all this time with an old Williams branded adjustable wrench that opens just shy of 3/4". After about 20 years of finding myself in situations where I wish I had a larger adjustable, I finally buckled and got the black HF 3-pack laser-etched ones. How do I put this...

I have an older Husky brand 1/2" air impact wrench that came with the oil-less compressor my wife got me about 15 years ago. I had always run it at 100 psi as measured at the compressor, but have brought it to to 120 in the past year because I run it through 15 feet + a 50 foot reel. Lately, it...

I had the pleasure of using an IR 3/8" air impact wrench a couple years ago. This was for a brake job and some suspension work. Having never used one, I found it pretty handy. The HF earthquake model had been $75 forever, then went up to $80 a while back. That brand line is exempt from coupons...

Hi, I asked a few questions about the difficulty of installing a kitchen backsplash here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=387041. I believe this is something I can tackle. As far as wet saws, I see an inexpensive HF model, and this one from Ryobi...