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Once again I'm going to turn to this forum for a "not quite" garage question. My house has a radon system with an issue with condensation. Since moving into this house I have to disassemble a part of my radon system perhaps once a week during the cold, wet months to drain condensation out of...

I'm asking based on seeing something in this led light ad about hard wiring the light presumably into a box. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DNPL2VC/?tag=atomicindus08-20 It The ad appears to suggest a buyer cut the included cord then attach it to the wires in the box that would otherwise...

This is one of those questions where I figured someone here might know. My house came with a low buck projector setup in the basement. The can lights were incandescent when I moved in and, like any incandescent, could dim between 0% and 100%. I've since replaced those with LED floods. That...

OK, asking for a sibling. I've done a bit of web searching which suggests this might be a thing so I thought I would ask here. I'm describing what has been described to me so forgive me if details aren't there. My brother asked about a circuit that was having trouble with breakers tripping...

My house, built about 90 years ago, has a small "room" under the front porch. It's about 8'x6' square with a perhaps 4.5' height. One side has what you might call cabinet doors that open into the rest of the basement. The space is cold and humid, great for storing things that like to mildew...

We are sadly losing a great neighbor. He and his wife are moving out of state and the neighborhood will miss him. As the tool person in the neighborhood (other than him) I was offered some tools he figures he won't need in the future. One of those was a Craftsman worm drive circular saw...

Well that no longer blows :( hole in my compressor tank So recently I was happy to finally get my "big" compressor back. My big compressor was a 20 gallon belt drive like this one: For various reasons it was largely living with other people for the past decade and I was excited to finally...

A few years back I took advantage of the plummeting prices of the Craftsman Nextec line. My first Nextec purchase was the drill and right angle impact driver set for $50. Later my local Sears outlet had the drill, circular saw, sander, and flashlight set for a similar price. I picked that up...

I know this isn't a garage question but this place has the knowledge. My house has a side room, about 10x16, that was added on by a previous owner well after the original house was built. While the old house is built over a basement, that room is built over a crawl space that is accessible via...

I was whining to a co-worker that short of running a new power line to my garage I'm never going to get 240V power. Currently the garage power is supplied by a 12/3 line with one 20A breaker per leg. That gives me two 120V circuits, 240V apart. It was suggested that I could wire a 240 outlet...

8 gallon CAT-8010 California Air Tools compressor, $143 https://www.homedepot.com/p/California-Air-Tools-8-0-Gal-1-0-HP-Ultra-Quiet-and-Oil-Free-Electric-Air-Compressor-8010/206087284 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WM1VPKE/?tag=atomicindus08-20 Looks like some price matching between Amazon and...

This is a socket set that I've long recommend from Amazon. Home Depot has it for $30. There best part is it's just sockets, no BS fillers like bit drivers. The range of deep 1/4 and 3/8 drives is really nice complained to most sets...

Short version: 1970s Thermopride gas furnace with later addition AC. Fan limit switch constantly hits upper limit. I suspect the problem is too little airflow but fan hardware is either original or mfr specified replacements. Opening up blower intake side of furnace box doesn't solve flow...

I've had great luck fixing a number of compressors but I figured I would ask about this one just in case I'm just overlooking the obvious. Backdrop: I saw this 4.5 gallon, oil lube, twin tank Campbell Hausfeld compressor locally for $10. The seller said oil would come out the fill port on...

This isn't a garage question but I figure the people here would be knowledgeable. My current house is a 1935 brick structure. The attic is good sized but when I moved in there wasn't easy access. Recently I had a set of drop stairs installed so part 1 is done. Next I need to create some...

My wife doesn't get this but I figure people here will. I've been having fun with compressors. Last spring a buddy of mine moved his construction company into a new (to him) shop. The previous tenants had left quite a bit of junk in the place including 3 lower end 80 gallon air compressors...

Today I helped a friend with a newly acquired air compressor, a low buck Husky 8 gallon oil free model. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-8-Gal-Portable-Oil-Free-Electric-Air-Compressor-0300813A/206470729 I think these were going for $90 around Christmas last year. A search of ebay shows they...

I know this isn't garage related but I thought I would ask the AC experts here hoping this would save me some digging. Short version: Old gas central air system. Fan seems to work correct fine on heat cycle but does not turn on when I try the fan only (no heat or AC) nor when I use the AC...

I just had an air compressor score... that I might not be able to personally use. So a good friend of mine is relocating his company to an old warehouse space. That space wasn't really empty when he moved in. A decent amount of junk was included. Three items caught my eye, two Coleman...

Soon I'm going to be doing some minor carpentry work on my house. For this job I'm going to need to rip some 2x10s to size. I figured this is a good excuse to buy a table saw. For space reasons I need to consider something that can be folded up/put away. This is also a tool that will get...