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What Cobbler said. As close to the floor as you are, the drain side of tee will have to almost parallel to floor. Slightly turned down.

Some years ago I fabbed a large C-clamp with 1” all thread and welded nut so I could run it up with air gun. Large pads,no tire damage. I can change out tpms sensors without removing tire/wheel from vehicle. Just Jack it up and spin up c-clamp. Think I posted a picture of it here some years ago...

I learned to weld in the middle fifties. Learned to stick weld aluminum in the early sixties. Still welding when the need arises. Have all the machines, stick, mig, tig, spool gun, and etc. Tig, to me, is tedious and expensive. I have a little vibrating stick rod holder that you attach to your...

There was a guy, in the small town where I grew up, that would set a 12 lb. sledge by his right foot, handle came up to just above his knee. He would grasp the end of handle with right hand, swing sledge up, touch his nose with sledge, then slowly lower sledge to floor. He worked on the...

Thanks to Google, I now know what CMU and ICF mean.

Lots of railroad tankers buried around here for fire fighting water. Don't know what they’re going for now. I bought one in the eighties for scrap price. Think it was 4-5 cents a pound and weighed around 15,000 lbs. 20 -22 thousand gallons. Had some kind of liner in it if I remember correctly

I buy 5 gallons parts washer solvent at AG store and use an air powered siphon gun. You can buy acetone in gallon can, but it’s expensive. Or course gasoline is the best cleaner with a siphon gun, but can’t suggest that here.

The house we’ve lived in for forty years, has always had 110-125 psi water pressure. No problems. All copper construction, 65 years old. I do have a pressure regulator on our stand alone 175 lb/day ice maker. The whole town ( now over 100,00) has that pressure. No one complains, most don’t...

Very easy to fabricate. Made mine 30+ years ago. Steel wheels, 3” ,2 1/2”, 2” pipe, and a little angle. I used a couple of 16” pickup wheels I had laying around. You can make a variety of attachments to slide in top for bottle jacks, hooks, scaffolding, and etc. I torch cut the adjustment...

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I have 3 mig welders. Miller, Lincoln, and Hobart. All 200+ amp. Miller is my go to, though I mostly stick weld or aluminum spool gun.

Are you in oil field country? Used tubing and drill pipe can put up economical sturdy building.

I might add that a gauge line has about a 2 lb brass weight on it. Obviously, you need some kind of weight on whatever line used.

We use to change out valves on oilfield tanks full of fluid. The more fluid, the better. The valves were usually 3” or 4” gate valves. Wrapped a ball of rags tightly with good string and attached to a gauge line ( which is just a measuring tape to check tank level). Make rag ball about twice the...

A couple of 1/2” chain links welded on a plate. Choose your own size of fasteners and thickness of plate.

Pull drywall off walls. Gain 3.5” of storage between studs. Will fill up amazing fast.

I keep a spray bottle of acetone on shelf in shop. Acetone won’t destroy spray pump. spray rattle can tips when done. No clogs. Silicone tubes and etc. many times small spray to clean something small rather than a 1/4 can blast of brake cleaner.

Looks like rust jacking to me. Not necessarily water freezing, but definitely water intrusion on bare metal. Rust jacking is an amazingly powerful force

Old semi trailer/truck brake drum works for me. I had one in the shop that I anchored with a couple of chain links bolted to floor and hooks welded on drum. Easy to unhook and move. Could bounce up and down on four foot cheater with set up.

chain your hoist to the beam. Attach hoist to the back of the boat trailer. See what beam looks like when lifting boat and trailer. This will give you an idea of a safety factor.