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Schlage is very reputable door lock. I believe it is much better than many other brands out there.

This is what I am referring to. As you can see one is more substantial in thickness than the other.

The latch I am referring to has a serrated front piece with a thinner piece of rectangular sheet, not like yours. Your latch seems quite beefier like some of the older ones without the removable facade. But yes you get the idea. Chances are you may have purchased a better quality handle than...

Hi TT_ Vert. I believe that the doors you purchased are machined for the newer handles on the market. The newer handles have a latch system which can be used in 2 different ways. One way is to use it with the cylindrical latch press fit into the door or you can add the facade which is a...

Wow that is smart route246 so this way at the end of the job there is no need to carry all 3 totes to the truck. So replanning my totes is in order. I used to like to carry all my "in case something happens tools with me" Now i am rethinking the whole situation.

Usually older valves are easily rebuilt. It is actually very simple technology, once you take it apart look for washer which may have to be changed, possibly O rings and packing under the nut that holds the handle down. Sometimes if you cannot find the proper packing that goes between the nut...

Just as I suspected another Italian like myself. Buon giorno e benvenuto. Io mi chiamo Pasquale. Ho dimenticato di domandarti, ma di dove sei in Italia. Ciao alla prossima.

I like the blow moulded cases for tools that are carried around from one repair site to another. It is much easier to stack than the bags. If the tool companies absolutely want to sell tools with a plastic case then the only thing that I believe would be better than the plastic cases is a...

Just a thought. "The more I age, the more I learn. The more I learn , the more I realize how little I know." P.S. Only the people that know very little think they know it all. The old saying goes that there are a hundred ways to skin a( insert animal here). So just because you haven't seen it...

Just because it is not common practice doesn't mean it is wrong! Craftsmen are dieing off and the art of the trades is being lost, all of the knowledge accumulated and passed on through apprenticeships is no longer the case. The new generation with the "I know it all" attitude looks for...

I wish to remind some members to never say never. I have seen different setups even one where there was a rabbet in the bottom of the door to accomodate a sill plate that had a iron strip from one end to the other. On the bottom of the door there was some weather stripping, don't ask me what...

Or you can shop the craiglist for mitre saws with defective motors. A want ad may help.

Sometimes the old model number is no longer supported but the saw may have been replaced by a newer slightly modified model which may be very similar and therefore maybe you can used the part from the newer model. I had purchased a fifty or sixty year old drill and discovered that the model I...

From experience wet grinding is tricky. As you said before too much water and the grinder does not grind efficiently, but if you can find the right combination it will grind just fine and keep the dust down. As for the slurry a squeegee and a wet/dry vac simplifies cleanup. If you attach a hose...

The button under the spring arm, is it rubber or black metal? Does the upper slide door open? Is there any voltage in this contraption?

I think you are over-simplifying things. A multitool has its' place like any other tool in the toolbox. I use mine if I want to cut into drywall as I hate to use a sawzall on a wall with electrical wires running in it or anything of the sort, confined spaces as you mentioned and other uses...

Maybe you should take an old sawzall blade and modify it so that you have more of a knife blade rather than a sawzall blade. Notice the hooks on the blade, that is what I believe catches the material and shakes it back and forth. In other words grind down the teeth so that it resembles a knife.

It looks like a spreader to me. But for what, this I don't know. Maybe to set tension on a belt and pulley system where a motor may be set on a slide table.

Thank you jhelrey. I will look at the latch closely and as for the springs in the latch, they are not broken. I will try to post some pics in a few days.

It is probably less time consuming to protect each stud than having to measure if your are over or under 1.25 inches. I install them whenever a wire goes through a 2x4. You just never know when hanging something heavy and someone or myself put in a longer screw. It is also cheaper than...