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I have a 2 quart aluminum Wilkerson dessicant dryer that I bought used about a year ago. When I got it, it had some corrosion inside, the white powdery stuff. I cleaned it and put new beads in it when I got it but it appears I may not have been keeping on top of checking the beads because I...

I need 8 only, M10 x 1.25 (fine thread) JIS hex head bolts. I don't care about the length because I can cut them to suit but the shoulder length needs to be min. 19 mm and can be up to maybe 21, 22 mm. These are for use in a drum to disc brake conversion and the shoulder length is needed...

I bought a Dremel 3000 kit new about a year or so ago. I've been using it a lot for restoring a car body and use a 1" cutoff wheel on it. I use it for cutting a slot in the metal before using a body saw and trimming small pieces but use it mostly for knocking down some mig welds closer after...

Am restoring a 60 year old car starting from a total strip down. I'm not sure what finish to put on suspension and other parts under the car. I'm thinking items under the car would be more exposed to dirt/grit & air flow which could damage some types of paint and maybe wear it away?. Take...

Just bolting on the ancilleries and misc. bits and pieces to an old engine & ****** that have been rebuilt. It's been a long time since I disassembled it all. It just occurred to me I don't know what type of washers to use and where. Same question will apply to putting everything else on the...

I have a couple of cars I'm restoring and will need to zinc plate various nuts/bolts and parts & pieces. I know it's been discussed on this forum a lot. Doing some googling also, I find all sorts of pros/cons, cautions, recommendations and that make it kinda like trying to nail jello to a...

Had a transmission completely disassembled and rebuilt with all new parts at a shop in CA a year ago. Had it shipped back home without the bellhousing attached to make the crate smaller. The shop used a gasket sealer that is dark brown and it's still tacky a year later. The bellhousing and...

I built an 11 'x 14' x 8'H enclosed room around our hot tub and am now finishing the interior. We needed better privacy so my wife decided she wanted it to be totally enclosed. It's got 7 openable windows all around on 3 sides and it would be a nuisance to open & close them all the time and...

Spent most of last week media blasting a car shell in the last of this year's decent weather. What a fun job that was (not)... My garage is evenly heated to about 72F (in-slab hydronic). I have a jug of Ospho but am somewhat hesitant to use it due to many reports of problems with adhesion of...

Grinder wheels must have been talked about to death here and elsewhere but am not quite sure what to do based on what I've read on the internet. Have had my 6"x3/4" bench grinder for something like 30+ years and have hardly used it in that time. Has survived a divorce and many moves. It's...

Bit of a long shot maybe - looking for a wastewater eng. or tech. or perhaps someone can point me to a wastewater forum somewhere to find some answers on RV holding tank chemicals. Been into RV-ing for a number of years now and one of the things you've gotta learn to deal with is the holding...

Rented a roto hammer today mostly to break up some old concrete and make a couple of big holes in a catch basin. Last thing was drilling a couple of quick holes in the top of our driveway gate columns that have a concrete core and concrete "lid" on the top. Columns and lid are re-enforced with...

About to start building a steel double swinging driveway gate that has two 7' halves and will have electric openers. I can't seem to find a site anywhere with detail info. on the fabrication. Some of the things I want to know is how far apart should the sections be with gate closed? Should...

Had a hydraulic hose blow on our skid steer loader recently. Now I have real mess to clean up... What to do? Had a big pile of approx. 2-3 truck loads of rocks of mixed sizes from around 1" to a foot in dia. that I had gathered from around our acreage after years of clearing the land &...

Went to a local bodyshop supplier a few days ago to get some epoxy primer. When I asked if theirs had any isocyanate in it they said any catalyst for epoxy primer has it. I'm positive this is wrong. Maybe only the stuff they sell does? The only other supplier nearby, White & Peters (used to...

Need to buy some steel tubing to make a driveway gate. I want the outer frame to look like it is made from 2x4 or 2x6 (nominal dim.) wood and would like to get an actual dimension of 1 1/2" and the only thing I can get here is 2". I'd also like to get a thinner wall to make the gate sections...

Wondering what to use for doing wire edging on fenders. I was thinking of using some 1/8" welding rod as being copper plated would be a good thing except that standard lengths are only 36" and I need about 32". Don't think I want a splice part way in the edge as it could make folding the edge...

Something I've been wanting to do for a long time is have a blog so I can post photos, stories, info. etc on various interests, things I've made, about me, family history, etc. and am finally going to do it but not sure what to look for. I figure there's many here who are into blogging and...

Feel kinda dumb to be asking this but I'm feeling kinda bummed... I want a couple of aluminized exhaust pipe reducers (aka adapter) for a custom exhaust system I'm building and want 16 ga., not the typical 18 ga. ones that are everywhere on the internet. Checked all the manufacturers I could...

I will be needing a short piece round bar that requires an M8 left hand thread on one end and right hand on the other. Only needs to be threaded about 1" or so on each end and will have spherical rod ends (a LH and a RH) so I can adjust the length. Will be about 12" long and is for a strut rod...