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I have a couple of pipe threading jobs ahead of me and am thinking about buying a pipe vise. I've used yoke type vises before, but never a chain vise. Question for the pipe threader guys.......do you prefer a chain vise or yoke vise, and why?

Interesting. I got my single engine land about 25 years ago and that's about what the local FBO was charging back then. Haven't flown for a long time, but I sure miss it. I recently spent a couple of days in the Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH. Man, what a place. It's like Nirvana for...

Engines always run better on the OEM specific spark plug. I too have removed Autolites, etc, and simply replaced them with the factory plug, and had them run completely different. The reason is that the part numbers you get of the other brands are the best approximate fit in their product line...

I think this is right. I know it's right concerning Napa and O'Reillys. I've installed about half a dozen ATK remans and had problems with every. single. one. of them. Last one was a GM 3100 motor. The documentation had big hollering headlines all over it not to jack with the valve lash, so...

I like to adjust my drums tight enough so they drag just a *tiny* bit. After you've test driven and tromped on the brakes good and hard a time or two they usually are not touching at all any more. You'd be amazed how much higher and firmer the pedal feels if you've been driving around with...

Older car rotors (say, from the 70's and 80's) were thicker than newer cars, so they had plenty of rotor meat which you could machine. You could cut them undersize and they were still beefy enough not to cause any problems, hence the testimonials about abusing Trans Am rotors with no ill...

I never touch exhaust fasteners without heating them up first. Yes, the picture shows a cutting head, but it'll heat up a bolt head (or a nut) fine. Just don't hit the cutting trigger while you're heating. You can actually get a more pin-point heat with a cutting head. You're not spraying...

mm...well, if I thought I was running that close to the ragged edge of the truss strength, I wouldn't do it at all. I'm still having a hard time believing your trusses won't hold up the weight of a garden-variety sheetrocked ceiling. I've personally rocked several small, country fire stations...

Wow, I never knew oxy-acetylene was such a big deal. I've had a pair of bottles chained to my cart, in my attached garage for going on 30 years now, with never a single problem, or even a mild scare. I keep a couple of spare bottles in a separate, small shed away from the house. I also...

1/2" regular rock on 2-foot centers will eventually sag, especially in a more "outdoor" location like a shop. There is a 1/2" fireboard that's stiffer than regular board, but it's also a little heavier. It's not as heavy as 5/8" however.

I'll cautiously call B.S. on that. Guys hang furnaces, chain hoists, lights, piping systems, and all manner of other stuff on trussed structures. I've never heard of one collapsing. Yeah, rock weighs quite a bit, but it would be an evenly spread weight all over the entire ceiling...

Good idea for a thread. McMaster Carr's paper catalog is more fun to browse through than the Sears Christmas Wish Book. I find it to be more useful than the on-line catalog, listing related items in the preceding and following pages you may not have thought of. Problem is, they will. not...

Yes, probably a few bucks extra, for the additional time it'll take to fix it enough to tape it. And maybe a bit of a premium just because it won't be as easy a finishing job as it could have been. I well understand the do-it-yourself mindset though. I'm a rabid DIY-er myself, and have a...

Someone above mentioned Level 3. Level 3 is ONE fill coat over the tape, and that's it. Level 4 is typically what's done inside a finished home-- tape, a fill coat, then a finish coat, then sanded. Level 3 is what you see in a Motel 6-- everything is filled once, then textured. Motel 6...

Gotta love those full cornice returns. It's that kind of detail that makes it "work" so well. Nicely done.