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My wife has a cheap amish built playhouse in the woods behind our house that she uses as a kitschy writing cabin for her sermons. It will soon be getting a power line run to it so that she can have lights and also a mini-split to serve as heat and cooling to extend its use a bit in...

I was watching a recent diagnosis video and the issue ended up being a pin fitment issue on the throttle actuator motor. The technician had a gage set of different pins that he could stick into each socket of a connector and then gage the resistance to see if the socket and pin were indeed...

I bought a vintage golf cart recently and I would like to utilize the original mounted charger in it. The charger uses a twist lock cord and I would like to change the cord receptacle but I cannot seem to identify it as a standard NEMA. The key difference is that it does not have any L shaped...

I'm contemplating running electricity to a cabin that on our lot that my wife uses as a quiet place to write her sermons. It will give me a bit of a reason to own my mini excavator. If I do this I am planning a couple of runs of PVC conduit. One for electricity and one for future proofing (or...

Picked up this homemade pizza peel at Goodwill for a few bucks. Appears to be made of ash and fairly well. But the slot is throwing me for a loop. What possible purpose could it serve?

This switch is in the basement of my wife's parsonage. Off is on and on is off. It's wired to interrupt just the hot from a bulb containing source power. The switch has continuity with the lever in the down position marked as off. I originally thought it might've been a case where someone...

I've got a work project that involves welding some strips of A36 to a piece of hardish something on a large metal cart. The cart was originally used to move around injecting molding tools. The top of the cart is a piece of 1/2" thick plate. I know the top is hard because when someone welded...

I come from a family with sleep issues. Compound on top of that a night work schedule and a wife who left me and seems to want to just live separate lives while pretending it's healthy and I find myself trying to get back to sleep a lot after the initial 4 or 5 hours. In talking with my doctor...

I noticed this voltage spec on a piece of automation equipment tonight. Am I correct in assuming that since we are looking at 200 and not 220/240 that this equipment is expected to be wired in using a wild leg of a 240V 3phase?

I've always hated how tall most of the mtx shifters are in cars from the 2000s. It feels super high to me almost like you're driving a truck. Right after I bought my 2008 Mazda 3 I cut out 2 inches of shifter shaft and welded it back together. This week it was finally time to be brave enough to...

I know a bit more about pressure washers than the average chap but this one is a new one on me. I picked up this Karcher washer cheap. I was told that it wouldn't build pressure. The gun had obviously froze with water in it and cracked the tube so I changed that out with a spare I have on...

A while back I inquired about hard jaw covers as the vise here at work has a set of soft aluminum V jaws that I machined installed and I know eventually some gorilla is going to come along and damage them with some big hunk of random steel that they want to beat on. Nothing seemed readily...

Every now and then I have a repair application come up where the best method of repair would be to inject glue or epoxy either into a small space or through a small hole and then to clamp in place as the pieces cannot be opened up. In this particular case the rubber lamination is coming off the...

The people who built our house installed white grout in the kitchen, dining and master bathroom. That grout is of course now a nice chocolate brown. We went after it once with scrub brushes and grout cleaner and it was better but the effort faded fast. I'm not opposed to purchasing special...

I just machined and installed some replacement aluminum jaws for our 8" vise at work. This vise mostly holds the drive end of a molding machine screw so they need to be aluminum in order to not do damage and the V profile will help them hold the screw's cantilevered leverage. However, every...

My new to me Sheldon lathe has a L00 spindle. The 5C collet closer chuck purchased for it is mounted to a backplate that was turned on the lathe and in my opinion it appears to have additive runout. The back plate has .0004" of runout, the outboard edge of the chuck mounting surface has...

I have an older Ranger tire machine that came with a rectangular lube bucket that apparently no one else in the industry used as I can't even find a reference to it let alone a place to purchase a replacement. I'm one of those guys who hates ugly repairs. When I bought the machine it had a...

It has always been my plan to have a lathe with a collet system. I much prefer that to a 3 jaw or 4 jaw chuck because of it's speed, low rotational mass and lack of part damage. To that end a few years ago I bought a 15pc 5C collet set from Amazon that has been sitting in a drawer for a while...

We just can't have nice things at work. Not all that long ago I bought a cheap but nice keyless drill chuck for the mill in our maintenance shop. I came in one day to find that one of my coworkers was apparently too lazy to switch collets when he switched cuttters and he had been chucking...

This came in a bin of auction tooling. Has a small insert on either end. Appears adjustable via tiny spanner. Guessing that I am missing a holder or arbor of some kind.