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I have a zerk on my bobcat tilt pivot that won’t accept grease. Milwaukee m18 gun almost stalls before lock’n’lube squirts our grease at base of zerk. I tried using the oil filled zerk clearing tool that you hit with a hammer. Just produces a cloud of atomized oil at the zerk Removed the...

I am putting in a 350A electrical service at my new shop and plan to feed power from the shop down to the house. But since I will battery backed solar at the shop, I want to run utility power as well as auxiliary power down to the house. My original plan was to replace an existing 100A meter...

I need to get power to a number of highbay lights hanging from Z purlins in a metal building. Since the ceiling is 20+ ft up, I think my cost effective cable to get from the eaves to the junction boxes at the lights would be romex, but I'm wondering what the bests support means is for romex...

I am considering insulating under my slab with spray foam - the installed price equals the cost of foam sheets and in theory it would save lots of labor vs installing sheet foam and a vapor barrier. I'm just wondering if anyone has used spray foam under a hydronically heated slab and if there...

I have a "horizontal" ABS sewer line sloped at just over 1/2" per foot as needed to follow ground slope to a septic tank. What is the correct way to connect that pipe to a vertical drain stack? Seems like the options are: 1) force fit the pipe into the fitting, which might preclude getting the...

I know rain is not recommended for just about any electric tool, but has anyone used an m12 hex impact driver in the rain with success? I have to get a project done in rain and im just wondering how likely it is that I need a new impact driver afterwards.

I normally use a Miller 252 mig machine but have been using a Miller 140 for a project far from the garage where all I have is a 20A 110v circuit. I didnt have a lot of mileage on the 140 and because it had strange knobs for wire speed and voltage (not inches per minute or volts) I had only...

I just paid my $50 but dont see how I can take advantage of alliance discount vendors. They all seem to want discount codes at checkout. What did I miss?

I'm getting ready to put in my garage footings and slab. The total job is nearly 200 yds of concrete and I'm wondering if that is enough that I should be getting a volume discount from the concrete company. I know contractors all get discounts but concrete companies dont like to discount for...

A question for the electrically inclined: I am about to submit permit docs for a pre-engineered metal building. I need to install the grounding system when the footings are poured. The code is pretty clear that splices in the grounding conductor need to be mechanical, irreversible and I have...

A question for the metal building experts: It looks like building kit prices will be increasing, but what isnt clear to me is how much of the price of the typical kit is engineering vs metal fabrication vs raw material cost. With a 25% tariff kicking in, how much should the price of a metal...

I am hoping to build a 50' x 70' metal building at 5400 ft elevation. The site is a bit remote (30 miles west of Truckee) and snow loads are high (315 psf design load). Thus far I have found a couple of online metal building dealers willing to ship a kit, but it appears that many dealers dont...