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    Mounting ceiling lights in Carolina Carport type buildings

    Hi I am building out my dream shop, it's a Carolina Carport type building (Alan's Factory Outlet, but Carolina Carports really builds them). My question is how have others mounted ceiling lights to the square tube ceiling beams, especially if I want to mount the lights in between the 4' OC...
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    Metal Building Questions

    Hi, I am building a metal building on my property in Central Florida (Carolina Carports through Alan's) and looking for some ideas. Here are the Specs: Concrete slab / stem wall foundation (the rear is about 24" lower than the front corner) 24' x 45' building with 10' walls and a 3/12 pitch...
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    Retaining wall for garage site leveling?

    Hi, so building a 24x50 metal building (garage) in Central Florida. The building will fit, but will be about 3' in front of my well and pressure tank, seen behind the building location(planning on building a "lean to" to protect it from the Sun after the garage is built). The yard slopes about...
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    Planning stage questions

    Hello, I am planning my garage/shop build, I am in Central Florida, it is 24' x 48' x 12, walls (15' overall height). It will be a 150 MPH rated steel building that I will have close cell spray foam insulated and will wall it off to two, 24' square rooms. The rear room will have a mini split...
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    Emglo Compressor rebuild question

    Anyone here ever rebuild an Emglo compressor pump? Looks like the only way to replace the rings is to do it with the connecting rods already attached to the crank and then try to slide the cylinder assembly over the two pistons (it is a 4 cylinder pump)!?? There is no bottom to the pump case...
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    Gas compressor conversion

    Hi, I have an 8HP gas Emglo with a 17 Gal tank and a 4 cyl LU single stage pump, I want to convert it to electric, and looking around it looks like all I really need to do is get a 3HP Compressor Duty motor, remove the pilot valve and route a pipe to a differential pressure switch and wire the...
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    lift with 15' max height?

    Hi all, I have seen some people out there with the same problem I am facing, a 15' max roof ridge height (Cook County, IL). The space I have will probably just fit a 24x24 garage (may have to go 22 wide depending on my ability to get variances for my front and side setback distance and a...
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