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I have to be the SO Zealot here and not rule them out. No, don't walk onto that truck if you even have one drive to your location. Used SO Mid-Length is an option probably. Just an example, I have a rack of SO mid-length sockets with 3 missing, I had to engrave them due to the job at the time...

It's cute! Could keep some chickens in there too :D

Lemme try something: Is the physical location of the water heater the closest to the outlet you'd think is first? Is the piping the closest given the footage of the actual piping run? What race track are you giving it? I've seen it while crawling under a rental where it runs all over the place...

I'd get a lawyer for blowing a local transformer with a common generator. The harm is the thought of why the power is out. In most of the US the power is out because a power line is down and is actively on the ground for the public to access or their are others working on that line. The other...

Check the prices. They exist but the ones for the motorcycles are itty bitty and run $180 per. The common household won't buy a $300 battery to start up their daily driver because it's light. LiPO4 has it's faults too.

Redneck in me says "Paint them red", but the redneck in me also says "I know others like me" >:) Paint won't physically stop someone, but would stop me or at least make me think twice why my finger is on the switch painted red. Loose fingers bug me so I like contraptions over all like that...

"what is DIM". I think we need to again correct and adjust. "DIM" means the LED indicator that the headlights are in "ON mode" or "HIGH mode". High Beam Head lights have this LED in SUPER BRIGHT mode and DIM mode have this indicator glowing DIM. So my post here is what everyone in the world...

I don't think any hard, full metal lock will make it impossible to activate if you really wanted to de-energize the circuit. However, it should alert anyone to just not randomly turn that one circuit off or on; Lock or not. If you want to deter someone to not turn a circuit off, the LOTO breaker...

Thanks Wyliesdisels, I was quickly pointed to that APC that did kind of what I think I would want, but I seemed to have hijacked the OP's desires to have a generator not connected to the main breaker box, which only leads back to 1) Suicide plug in the garage and breaker play up at the mains...

It's all a drug, and we all want a new one. Sing it Huey! I come aboard playing the Ice Cream Truck song on the phone knowing what I'm getting into at least.

So it's basically the same snapshot of Wix vs Fram vs everyone else at any given time. That's why I brought up the old motorcycle battery deep dive about how, at the time, one piece was breaking ruining the entire pretty decent battery package. It's too many variables for filters, batteries, or...

while posting I just read MongoTA's APC $600 fix, you da man! Thank you so much. Seems so simple since we had load-shedding transfer stuff in the Navy probably designed in the 50's. I'm looking into that APC right now and see if there's a way for the OP to get something like that working from...

Perspective and thoughts, I'm trying to grasp this too: I passed code in California with a generator feed plug meant for a suicide line hook up in 2015 or so. Everyone signed off on it, including SDG&E, basically telling me "you better know how this works". As a an ex-lineman in another state...

I agree that when on low beam it's still slightly lit at all is a wiring issue. It should be in O-F-F mode. To me 12v is 12v, a switch is a switch, and an LED is a Diode that needs forward bias voltage so I'm a bit perplexed. I remember blue LED's demanded 5V while all the others were much...

Scotty Kilmer is a wackjob IMO. He's my vehicle information version of Alex Jones, but Alex is more correct than Scotty to put it in perspective. Just my opinion. AGM are still just lead acid batteries so they're not "Better" really, they both die at the same rate given the same-for-same. It's...

Lockout/tag out locks, just turned over so that they're locked on instead of off. https://www.grainger.com/category/safety/lockout-tagout/electrical-lockouts/circuit-breaker-lockouts Residential Electricians should chime in here. Does the breaker lever need to be free to actually trip? Ripping...

Watch that battery if you didn't toss it BlakeTheCarGuy! I really banged one around on a fairly long drop, didn't work and was just carrying it around until I could get back to the shop to toss it in the battery bin. It started to smoke and caught on fire around lunch and had to toss a hot...

Tossing my 2-cents in here seeing the big 6.6lb 1/2" Milwaukee thought. Being DeWalt invested, I needed a monster to remove rusted bolts on steam pipes and such. Picked up the DCF899B that claims 700 ft-lbs of max torque and 1200 ft-lbs of max breakaway torque and a caseling hard-case ...

Kind of my thought, but why not both pegboard and tool chests/drawers? I think we're all a little OCD with tools in our own way and some may need to be on a wall in front of us, some get stored in a drawer. It's all how we personally use the tools I'd think. Pegboard seems like a visual thing...

I was kinda being snarky. Saying that they aren't made with the Hi-Viz hard handle when I see it just fine on the Snap-On website but on back-order isn't cool. I don't think ALL of Tekton products are made in the States. In a long interview they stated that they try to make the wrenches and...