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OK, you may not think this belongs here, but it does... The UPS guy drove up with a "special delivery" this afternoon... comes over and hands me a big, heavy box... So I opened it up... And found this. Of course, enticed, I just had to see what was inside... And then, lo and...

My old, old roll around battery charger finally gave up the ghost last night... guess it just got too tired to keep going, and with a couple pops, a square smoke ring, and internal fireworks went out on self-bereavement leave. Kind of sad, because it was about the most useful one I'd seen...

We just had our pressure tank on our well replaced... the plumber was going to cart it away, but I started looking at this thing and thought to myself, Damn, there has to be something I can do with it. Any ideas? I was thinking cut the top off and make a smoker out of it... the bottom flange...

Went to check the generator after it didn't do it's normal 3PM Saturday exercise run, and the controller had some kind of error message on it. Finally searched it down, turned out to be an internal short. I was going to just buy a new board... until I found out they were north of $1000. Ouch...

Every time we travel to the EU (like now), I'm amazed by how fast the counter top water boilers (like for tea, etc.) work over here compared to the USA. Home in the USA, they take 5 minutes+ to work, here, it's like 15-30 seconds, max. I've thought about getting one over here and sending it...

Heres a fun one... Went to preheat my 1946 Monarch electric over wood oven the other night, and saw a pair of sparks from inside the oven. Shut everything off, and the curlicue heating element had burned through at where one end of the element straightens out and goes into a terminal block...

Won a lot at an auction this weekend - had some watchmaking tools (including a full set of stakes and whatnot), a couple vintage watch timers from out of the 60's, and a desk drawer full of assorted "stuff" from this watchmaker's life. The last time I took a timepiece apart was as a kid, when I...

I found nothing offensive about it. In fact it raised some valid points. Found it had been "sequestered" by an admin (while I was posting to said thread, in fact), but I felt it was a valid thread, especially as it was in "free parking". Had it gotten "out of hand" then yes, kill it, but not...

I know it's necessary to close or lock threads at times. The request is this - Once it's locked, could you please post a comment to that thread at the end - nothing long, extravagant, or detailed - why the thread was locked or closed? Otherwise... it looks like someone got a bee in their...

After putting it off for way too long, I took 2 of my old and faithful extinguishers - both 10 pound chemicals, and had them for years - to the FE place to have them tested and charged. Used to get it done at work for free every year (when they did the work ones, they'd let us bring ours in for...

Wow, this forum rocks! Found you guys looking for info on wiring up my new Miller Buzzbox (the "Mighty Midget Miller", eg the 211) in the shop... snd lookd like I fell into a gold mine of info! Thanks for being here. Intro stuff... Up in NE California (foot of Mt Lassen), turned wrenches as a...