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Probaly has been on topic before here but I'll just refresh the newbies electrical curiosty here. .. I was doing some rewiring a while back in my home that was built in 1968. I took a old metal outlet box out of the wall with the 1968 vintage old 12-2 nm/g romex in it. The #12 conductor seemed...

I have a problem at work I need help from the members on here in solving. I have a curved, steep asphalt driveway about 100 feet long, that is shared by both delivery trucks and employees. ... The fluid spills from the trucks and even in really hot weather or after a rain, the drive gets...

Well, after 30 years of using multiple smaller Craftsman roll/chest tool boxes that had seen their better days, last week I bought the 13 drawer unit from Harbor Freight. A nice young man bought the old Craftsman boxes from me yesterday, via Craigslist .. After reading the reviews on here from...

I needed just 75 ft of #12 THNN solid yesterday for a small project. I went to Home Depot and they now have the wire on baby spools with just a 100ft. on them and the spools are built just like the 500 ft. spools. Way cool for DIYer's.....

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I am looking in to buying a Hobart 190 mig welder 220 volt unit. Sometimes I need to go out away from my power source though. ... I have a 5500 watt portable Generac Wheelhorse generator with a 6500 peak capacity. The gen has a 220 volt 30 amp receptacle on it. ... Do you think this mig...

Does a forum user have to have a certain amount of posts to join the Alliance ? .. I click the green " join" bar and it redirects me to sign in, although I am already signed in to all of the forums. So I sign in again, hit the "join" bar again and it bumps me to sign in again. Over and over...

I have a gas furnace with the room t-stat located in the living room, mounted on the wall 55 inches above a baseboard return air intake grill.... Does the t-stat always have to be located close to a return air intake ? I would like to move it to a more central location point of our tri-level...

My driveway is currently asphalt and in need of replacement. I know concrete is the best product to use for longevity ( 15 cu.yds needed at 3.5 in. deep ) but I am pulled toward asphalt as a replacement... Asphalt should be less expensive to get installed than concrete, is that a correct...

People need to know what they are working with sometimes... Tell us about your experience while working with electricity to where that you got shocked sooo bad, that you thought you were going to, " Give up the ghost ". . I'll start with mine. It was 1970 and I was 18 y.o., and just out of...

After reading the garage gun thread here, it brought to memory a bulletin the neighborhood association sent us last week..... There is a theft ring working our city now that has a person driving around and taking pics of the inside of garages whenever the owner leaves the overhead door(s)...

Hi All ! Just joined this great site ! I thought I knew something about the tool/building trades but you guys/gals make me humble ! Greg