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I'm the Plant Manager at a small regional brewery. That means: Keep it going and/or fix it. Yesterday, I noticed water leakage around our propane steam boiler. This is not good. We have a leak where the flue goes through the roof, but it hasn't rained or snowed in several days.... I pulled the...

I went to use our old (like thirty-plus-years) Makita metal saw the other day, and discovered that its get-up-and-go had largely gotten-up-and-gone. I trued to cut a piece of RR rail through a thermite weld a while back and had noticed a little bit of its smoke escaping, so it must be time...

Bacon... the gateway meat. 'Nuff said?

Is anyone else bothered by a vise that's left with the jaws open when not in use? Does anyone else not feel good about closing the jaws tight when at rest? Inquiring minds want to know.

Here's something I've never run across before: The one on the right is a regular righty, the one on the left..... I spent too much time this morning figuring out why the hose clamp wouldn't tighten--it was in a hard to see area. Finally figured it out. I'm certain this was an assembly...

Bosses say we don't have room to store this stuff: There are four of these: https://www.grainger.com/product/45MZ08?gucid=N:N:PS:Paid:GGL:CSM-2295:7Q8R4W:20500801:APZ_1&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1um-BhDtARIsABjU5x7k2a2keTyY1TNv4L6cJWq-1DyOqTmXLI7cYCJH7gmYJivFpLofZUEaAsI8EALw_wcB...

Anyone here do HRV systems? I have a problem--well, several, but let's just address this one: We have a fermenter hall here at the brewery. Fermenters generate a LOT of CO2 gas during fermentation, which vents into the ferm. hall. Currently, we use an evacuation fan to keep the CO2 below OSHA...

I had a request a couple of years ago to make a couple of bike racks for a bicycle fest we were hosting at the pub. We'd recently gotten a large piece of equipment that came in a very large wood crate, and I had some salvaged keg stems and valves, so.... I'd made a rack a decade or so back...

This is the cap and screw only. Produced from 1876 (77?) to 1918, this is fairly early, with the scalloped, Japanned screw. The cap is 2" wide and just a hair over 3" long. Someone needs this to complete their early Stanley #4 or #104! Aside from a light cleaning to remove dirt and a...

I've used my old Millermatic 120 w/brand new gun and cable for some light stainless welding in the past, and had horrible problems with wire feed using .030 ER 308 wire. If the cable wasn't perfectly straight, I'd get a bird's nest in the case--and often enough when the cable was perfectly...

I need to better secure the handle of this brand: The brand is brass, while the handle is steel. It seems the extreme heat cycling is destroying the threaded hole of the brand--plus, I need to "rock" it to get a good impression, which ain't helping. I'm thinking the nut needs to stay on to...

A few years back, the Powers That Be at the brewery decided our iconic wood tap handles, which we've been using for so long, our customers refer to our beers as "The Stick", needed some sprucing up. I've made a few simple jigs for this simple (but tedious) job to ease things along. We buy the...

I had to purchase a new step drill yesterday. I guess I'd forgotten how expensive they are! Anyhow, that gives me incentive to figure out how to sharpen my dull ones, or find somewhere to have it done if DIY isn't practical. Suggestions?

"Hey" says the boss "can you just install another faucet in the side of the old cooler?" Never use the word just in a job description. Three hours, a half-pint of blood and sweat and about $150 in broken and new tools later: Tools used: Tools broken: Ouch! Mine was a cheap MIC...

...are the answer! A $15 dollar valve--that I have to order to replace--the brewers brought me today "'cause it broke". A piece of 1/4" brass pipe busted off in the threads. We need that valve--today, not next week. A spiral-flute extractor--even after being driven in--just spun and pulled...

Seems you don't see that warning as much these days. I guess someone has figured out that no "User" is going to try to fix anything, anymore, anyway. Except me, and, I'm sure, some of you all. I bought this Wagner Furno 500 heat gun a little over a year ago. As the old, black one I'd been...

From the brewery shop. I'd read a lot of good comments about this stuff here at GJ, so decided to give it a try. My god, does it stink! I applied it to the tools that live in the brewery, as they're pretty much always wet. Now I have to figure out what dissolves it as no one can stand the...

I've found mention of these in several other threads, but not a thread dedicated to them. If I missed it, please, mods, move this! I picked up this tiny clamp today: P/N 401. Scale on the mat is 1 cm. I'm not sure just how "vintage" these are, but his one is stamped Pat. App, so...

The humble file handle--it's always there when you need it. Here are a few I've accumulated over the years. These are all vintage, just some are of a more recent vintage: Lutz File & Tool Co. long-ferrule: Lutz seems to dominate the industry still. Best I can tell, they began in Cincinnati...

My loss is your gain! Boss says this stuff has to go. Mostly a mix of Cutler-Hammer and Square D enclosures, lock-outs, fuse boxes, contactors, etc. There are six of the three-phase motor controller/protector boxes, mostly complete. Take all or nothing. You pick up. Pallet is...