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    Question regarding main lugs in 200amp panel

    In my area Duke Energy will install the surge protectors for you at no charge. You have to furnish the surge protectors.
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    How does your Socket top drawer look ?

    Need to straighten it up a little. The deep 1/2" impacts will not stand up, the drawer needs to be at least 1/4" deeper.
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    Best Wire Terminals Crimper Tool ?

    I have the T&B crimper and the Amp ratcheting crimper. Sends like I use the T&B staycon style 9 times out of 10
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    Lesson - Don't buy cheap tool boxes

    When moving to another state my Mac box racked.. Last piece of Mac I bought. And no, it was not the cheaper box but a top of the line box
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    Warranty on HF tap wrench?

    HF tools are famous for making a 30 minute job into an all day job:shocking::shocking:
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    Date on Logo SnapOn small kit box

    Other than the flex head ratchet and the storage box, you set is identical to the one I bought in 1970
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    Snap On Collector Tool Sets

    Speaking from an auctioneers stand point. I don't see any more value that like new tools. Anything that was sold to be a collectible ain't collectible. They flood the market with these things.
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    Advice on new shop?

    I used 5,000# concrete for the strength and it finishes a lot better than 3,000#. Flame producing heating is a NO NO on the floor of a garage. Need to consult with inspections about the required distance from the floor.
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    Snap On 5acp No longer available?

    Piece of advice, based on experience, do not carry them in your hip pocket. They will bite
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    Lincoln "Torpedo" Welder $150

    Burned many a pound of 7018 and carbon arc rods with one of them. Great machine in it's day. Can't afford the power bill today to use one of them.
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    Stihl or Husqvarna?????

    I second these comments. Buy whatever brand that has the best local support
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    Killed a Snap On socket

    I have been buying Snap On since the '50's and have NEVER had a problem with the salesmen. I just had a soft deadblow hammer replaced for free that I have had over 30 years. They have replaced tools that were over 40 years old with obvious signs of being used on impacts without one comment or...
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    Ever do something so stupid you wonder if you should be left unsupervised?

    My in floor lift was installed in 1988. Dumb **** me was walking through the garage last week, brain out of gear or in some other place, and tripped on it and did a face plane. I have bruises on my abdomen in the pattern of the bolts on top of the lift
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    Quincy QR-25 Model 350 refurb/rebuild......

    Following, I am going to have to at least rebuild the valves on mine. It has run almost twenty years with nothing but belts and oil and filter changes.
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    40x56x14 Lighting layout

    Not to comment on the LED's or your layout, but I built my shop 30 years ago and installed lighting to give me 100 fc on the floor. It is not over kill, but very good for doing fine detail work.
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    I think i added too much black

    Metal, fiberglass, black, white, natural, they all make one hell of a mess with a lot of noise when you go over them with a 15' rotary cutter. Been there, done that, got the tee shirt
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    Air compressor advice

    I am not sure that there is a minimum RPM for the compressors. The chart just shows RPM's for rated capacity. Having bought many compressors over the years, I would take the Saylor Beall over the DeVibiliss. I am running a 5 hp SB that I bought new in 1986, many days it never shut off other...
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