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The toolbox idea is not a good one. That lathe isn’t some small bench top lathe. It’s 1100lbs and if you want to do any sort of precision work with you you are going to need more than a sheetmetal toolbox to hold it solid. The lathe itself is a decent one but for $7500 and no tooling I would...

Nothing wrong with buying a used transit. They still work just as good as new fancy lasers and computers. If it’s a short enough area a water level made with two sticks and some clear tubing works great as well. I used one to dig and level an area for an above ground pool.

Capabilities are not the same. Research and look at the duty cycle for each. Yes they will both cut the same thickness plate but the cheaper ones have a very low duty cycle and will burn themselves out quickly if you go over it too often. If you just occasionally want to cut off a piece of...

Leverage.

Im not a fan of yellow. The Dewalt cordless drill I bought had a chuck that would never hold anything tight and after a year of occasional homeowner use something self disintegrated inside and I now have a $99 drill that can no longer be used at all.

Very thin layer of RTV and a piece of dental floss embedded in it like you would with an engine case half.

For the home garage there are five major types of welding. Keep in mind that the comments below are very generic. There are people who can make beautiful welds on a tin can with a stick welder and those that blow 1/2" diameter holes in seconds through the material using a TIG machine. Just...

Are you the “guy who built the shop”? If not then why isn’t he paying to have the floor epoxied?

Why not just use a piece of shrink tube over a connector instead. This seems like an overly complex and expensive solution to a problem that rarely exists.

They are good for additional heat but are not known as something you sit arpund and enjoy like a fireplace. It sounds like a gas fireplace or a set of gas logs in a stove would suit your purpose better with less mess and less to break.

When we built our barn the person doing the excavation ran 3” conduit in a trench between the house and barn. In both the house and barn it goes under the footer and comes up through the cement floor inside 20’ from where the house panel is. I want to put a 60 amp sub panel in the barn but...

Sometimes you have no choice. I ended up doing a front wheel hub in a 4wd pickup this summer in an autozone parking lot. I was 1100 miles from home, it was a Sunday so no repair shops were open and after passing through the beat up roads in Chicago the bearing disintegrated just over the...

Unless you have money to hire a lawyer to sue anyone who uses your design there isn’t anything you can do to prevent it. That’s the dirty secret about patents. They don’t actually protect anything. They only give you precedent to sue others that infringe on your patent. Patents also become...

They only sell eaton gfci spa panels at both big box stores plus I already have a disconnect installed with conduit and wires already in place. I only have the panel left to wire. I would really like to put a GE GFCI breaker in if I could actually find one for sale somewhere.

I'm working on wiring up a hot tub and ran into a snag I wasn't expecting. I need a 50 amp gfci breaker that fits a GE load center. The problem is that 50 amp GE branded GFCI breakers just do t seem to exist. Either nobody carries them or they have been out of stock for months. Even amazon...

Are you sure it’s an electric fence? There are many high tensile and coated wire fences that look like they are an electric fence but are not. There should also be an energizing box somewhere along the fence that the wire runs into. If you can see the box you can see if it’s turned on or not...

Even if you could get one, how are you going to.have enough strength/power to tighten or losen it?

Tell your installer to grind it off and start over. Why is this your problem to deal with?

I'm in the middle of replacing a stuck AFM lifter on a 5.3 motor and am tired of busting my hands up trying to swing a regular ratchet an 1/8 turn at a time in tight spaces. I have one of those cheap $20 air ratchets but the thing has absolutely no torque and is pretty much useless so its sat...