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Understood. I'll have to add extensions to the wires and add connectors. Hopefully the new capacitor fits inside the existing cap, otherwise I'll have to come up with some type of custom cover to protect the exposed connections.

I'm overhauling the electric motor on my old new-to-me atlas bandsaw. The motor was squealing so I purchased new bearings, and eventually started to just hum and not turn over. Assuming the start capacitor, I ordered one from a local electronics store. The capacitor is permanently wired...

Got real tired of trying to find a source of paper. I use kindling and a propane torch. A bottle lasts forever, takes less than 60 seconds, and no more finding, storing, or wadding paper anymore. Dry kindling of course. There is an engineered truss shop a half mile from my house that sells...

I'm looking at planning the wiring in my pole barn and wondering how I can get around the main support posts. The girts and siding are actually offset by 1.5" from the poles to the outside, leaving a 1.5" gap between the posts and siding. There are spacers nailed to the posts that offset the...

In all honesty, here in Oregon calling 811 is pointless as far as my experience has gone other than to say that I complied with the law. I'm not sure the legalities of it all and how it works here. All I can say is I have called 811 twice. Both times I received automated emails two days later...

Other than the two access points in the basement under the toilets, there is not one visible in the sewer scope. The plumber started the sewer scope in the basement cleanout that was not the furthest out, its possible that there is another one buried in the back yard that was missed. He did...

Buzzworth - no vent stack, no markers of any kind, and no cleanouts with the exception of those in the house. Negative on the hail mary for google earth, imagery is too old and rough. I would have thought that with the sewer scope I would have got close but I couldn't find anything with my ball...

Craigstu - You're partially right, I can use the sewer scope to take the measurements from where the 90deg corners are on the scope, compare it to where the tie-in is, and get close. I don't have a lot of faith in the measurements though, it was showing 7ft when the scope was pulled from the...

Attached is a layout of the property. Yes, there are two sewer lines leaving the house from the back, then it wraps around the house, under the shop, and heads to the street. If that drain is a straight vertical shot from where it ties in, then I think I can use the measurements off the sewer...

Jek, just watched that the other day here in Salem. Employee at the edge of the parking lot at HD "Sir! Did you pay for that? Can you show me the receipt?!?" Man gets in his car and drives off...

Tinyrobotman, I think your money is being siphoned off to build all those homeless camps around your place. Pass some of that my way too would ya?

As I was reading your first post I was thinking to myself "This guy is either in hell or Portland, Oregon" I laughed sitting at my desk when I found out where you were at. Labor rates around here are unethical. I was quoted almost $900 to get my chimney cleaned, which I was told would take 1/2...

The junction is about 56ft down the line from the nearest cleanout for the sewer snake and its a tee into the main line, I wouldn't have anything to run up against to hear a noise. Its about 3.5ft underground. The temp gun sounds like it may work, I'm not sure if it would work that far away...

The shop on the property I purchased was not finished, its a pole barn style construction with a poured slab. I was told by the previous owner that a toilet drain was roughed in and was just under the surface of the concrete. I would like to get the toilet installed in there. He suggested I look...

It's not going to matter where you put it if the space is an open shop. The main concerns would be if your space is sealed, the unit is sized for the space, air flow is adequate, and you don't have a constant source of moisture. The moisture in the air will diffuse evenly throughout. The water...

I agree on not making the shop a calendar model, but as you said, wait until the problems get in the way. The doors are all out of square already and the one set of double doors in back are a half inch off relative to each other so that the door doesn't latch at all. I can't install a bay door...

Thanks for the confirmation, I won't be in a position where it will be cool and overly dry on the inside and hot and humid on the outside. Humidity never gets that bad here. Plastic wrap is available but I was debating on its usefulness. I'm going for the unfaced insulation and plywood. I can...

I am looking to insulate my pole barn shop. The building is currently sheathed on the outside with T-111 and no barrier of any kind but the ceiling is already insulated. Here in the mid-valley of Oregon, I believe that the vapor barrier is to be applied on the inner side of an outside wall...

I've attached a few more pics so that you can see what is happening. The gravel base is sliding out from under the slab, causing the outer perimeter of the floor to sink and be high-centered in the middle of the building. From the interior pics, you can see that the concrete has not moved...

Thanks for the welcome. I've got a single pic while the move is still happening. Since there is no bay door yet, I had to take down a wall and put it back up to get the cutlass body in before the rains came. I'll be putting a bay door in the wall just behind the cutlass body. Insulation will be...