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Welcome from a former Atlanta area guy who got out alive. I am a 285 veteran and know downtown about as well as a taxi driver... never to be used again. I expect Bartow is still civilized.

My wife once complained that her bathroom outlet was out (normal outlet, older house) no breakers were tripped. I looked all over hell and gone for the problem. Then called an electrician and HE looked... still nada.... then realized that the downstairs bathroom was also out and IT had a...

Here you go . Not beautiful but should work.

Update... I took it to a buddy who has a little DC wire welder. He must have had the right wire in it. We preheated it and he welded the break all the way around. The part appears sound and will go back on the drill press today. I was surprised that it welded that easy but it looks like...

Today a friend and I moved a floor model drill press from an overcrowded garage to a workshed out back. Things were going great until we hit an uneven spot on the path and the drill press rolled sideways off the cart we were moving it with. It didn't fall far but just enough to break the...

An electrician I know told me just this week that he only mentions whole house surge protectors to people who are close friends or good customers because they tend to reduce the amount of repair work he gets to do for that customer. He said that they are great for the customer but bad for the...

When I was a kid I watched an old semi retired blacksmith make a knife out of an old cross-cut saw blade. He said it was an ideal material for the purpose and he had several old broken cross cut blades that he kept for material. That old man was so strong that he could cut the rough blade out...

I think we need to get behind a national movement to require all deer to have insurance. As a fellow victim of an uninsured deer I think we need to fix this dreadful situation in our national nanny state coverage. Close the deer loophole now!

Suggest using a neon tester at the point where power is supposed to exit the breaker for that circuit. First cycle the breaker. Sometimes they are tripped and do not look tripped... Then see if power is present on the switch side of the breaker. If so then it is either a connection (likely )...

I really liked the trick with the two pieces of angle bracket to center the router on the ceiling joist. Simple but very creative as is the entire build. Will follow the story with interest.