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Unless you have some mega-BTU commercial stove that you are going to run six burners and two ovens simultaneously, you will be fine.

This happened to me a couple of months ago on a 3-tool M12 fuel kit that included the right-angle die grinder tool that I really wanted. When I went to order it from Home Depot, it was no longer $239 or something close to that, and had jumped up to over $400. I could have sold the two other...

On a 10-year-old mower? They haven't used points in mower engines since the 1980s.

I think it's a fantastic idea! I have yet to implement it. Also, and this dates me as old, but many vintage secretary desks had a swing-up platform that the typewriter was bolted onto that operated in a similar fashion. I have long thought of implementing something like this in my shop to...

Besides set-too-lean and infernal-choke-issue Honda carburetors, this is my biggest gripe with them - you just can't do everything well with one mower design. My daily-driver mower is an alloy-deck Jacobson/Homelite (and then still sold by Echo up into the late 1990s) Super Bagger that is from...

Regardless of the brand, as with any chainsaw but especially with battery-powered ones, a sharp chain is an absolute must! Touch one rock or a nail or fencing embedded in the wood and you are done with that chain. Best to have a spare sharp chain on hand with the wrench. Also, another issue I...

If it can be demonstrated to run, has a single-phase motor, the pump oil looks clean (not like a mocha), and the tank drains out just water and not mocha; and from zero psi at startup, the pump is quiet (without any pressure against the piston with zero pressure in the tank, if you have a worn...

This will be an endless argument (air vs. cordless) but as somebody who has just purchased a rough-terrain forklift that lives out in the woods 100 miles away from me, I have started looking at a 1" cordless impact gun since having to bring with me an air compressor large enough to run a...

Thanks for sharing the pictures, it looks awesome! Good to see another Wisconsin-Robin engine live on.

I'd pass on it as well . . . if I'm going to spend $ on a non-functional compressor, it had better be a quality pump.

What everybody else said above. Move your filter/regulator to the shop. The low section of hose in the ground will fill up with condensate and you have no way to drain it. As air moves through this section of the line it will pick up previously-condensed water which the downstream separator...

If I were king, most buried utilities would be done in this manner. In my area, all of the underground AC power cables are direct-buried underneath the sidewalks. They are approaching 45-55 years old now and have had the magic silicone-injection life extension treatments done at least once...

It all depends upon how grippy the rubber plug insert is inside your spark plug socket. Some of them really hold on tight! One solution for this is to only use the spark plug socket to remove the plugs, and then use a straightened section of rubber hose to insert the plug and get it started -...

I also use a very light coating of it, not only on the studs but on the hub in order to keep the brake drum, rotor, and wheel from seizing to it. I have been doing this for the past 35 years on dozens of vehicles with no ill effects.

Another factor which nobody has yet mentioned - what is the actual user duty cycle? In other words, how many times per hour does the compressor start and stop? If you read the ratings, the motor is probably only rated for 3-5 starts per hour else it will overheat the windings which will cause...

I would suggest looking at a mower having a commercial or "prosumer" engine that has more power, the Kawasaki FC180V engine comes to mind. If that engine on a walk-behind mower with a sharp blade won't cut it, then you really have a jungle there.

Is the crankcase vent near the top of the bearing on the back of the pump, by any chance?

I just did a web search, and boy oh boy have these become much harder to find: a flymo hover mower. They had two-cycle models that were touted as perfect for mowing steep slopes such as around stormwater ponds. I've always wanted one for my collection ever since I first saw the TV ads for...

Lazy. My 60 gallon vertical compressor, purchased new in August of 1990, has been moved four times since then, and the last 24 years it has sat in the corner of my garage on the original shipping pallet. Plus the pallet has a wider base than the feet so it makes it more stable. It also raises...

Can you tell us what the pump speed is? If it’s over 800 rpm it’s going to be fairly loud. Also, if the pump is aluminum it will be louder than a cast iron pump. The easiest way to reduce the noise is to either add an intake muffler or a remote air intake. There are hundreds of threads on...