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So, I've had this nasty looking framing hammer for years. Picked it up truly decades ago, like leaving college time; someone thought it was mine, but for sure it wasn't . Why look a gift hammer in the mouth? Stanley, steel shaft & rubber handle. Covered in what I think is dried drywall mud...

So, big news in my house. Grown daughter will be starting an electrical apprenticeship on Aug. 1, thru local IBEW. Work for a local company, and do classes mostly Fridays & Saturdays. She's been working in manufacturing, but the company got bought up, new management came in, and the factory...

Wanna pick the brains here, with an idea I've had, and get the real bad news from people who know the code (no armchair code quoters, please). I have a generic power strip, six outlet, grounded, with about 4 ft cord. I want to put it on the wall behind my family room TV, which is mounted above...

Looking for suggestions on replacement for light fixture on top of my mailbox. Simple, right? Not so. Mailbox post is a brick structure about 7 ft tall, 20 in. square, with a tongue sticking out front, about 4 ft tall for the mailbox to sit on. Simple, & brutally solid. Right next to the...

OK, involved question here: We're renovating a downstairs into an apt for our adult daughter (who works full time 2nd shift at a good job, but trying to find a rental at a decent price AND run the risk of roommate lottery - no). Ceiling is standard suspended acoustical tile, and we'll be...

That's the gist of it; house is about 50 years old, stick construction, with 2x ahhh, 10? 12? ceiling joists. Wiring for ceiling lites to 1st floor is of course thru the attic and just laid across joists. Attic is partially floored; 1/2 ply. I'd like to expand the flooring to make more...

Just that; wife blessed me with my very own small air compressor recently, about 6 gallon Porter Cable unit, bundled with a brad nailer, finish nailer & staple gun. And I got this wild hair across my.. nose.. to use the compressor & get a little HF sandblasting kit and tackle the rust on my...

Another puzzle. Have a nice fairly heavy duty extension cord that has a 3-fer head on it. Great, while it lasted, but the jacket separated from the molded head. See pics. Any good ideas on repairing it? I'd really like to keep the 3-fer arrangement and get it back in service.

Made a thing the other day; I took a standard 7/16" open-end wrench, and hit it with the grinding wheel, and made the business end thin; like a tappet wrench. It's for certain type of coaxial cable connectors, and they're made with flats for tightening, but need tappet wrench thickness...

OK, this may be too technical for this forum, but what the heck: I'd like to add some LED strips to my closets; maybe like superbrightleds.com #LBFA-CW24, and wire the appropriate power supply from a standard electrical box. Easiest for me will be to pull from an outlet on the other side of...

About 3 years ago my work department moved out of its existing quarters to a whole new facility. We left behind a lot of workbenches built up against the walls, with double-drawer under bench units. While the supervisor looked the other way I was able to snag about 8 drawers, and put them to...

Soooo, the neighbors moved away, and I got to help clean out the garage. FIL had been a very good mechanic/machinist/all around talented guy. The SIL, not so much; preferred gardening and such and had almost no interest in tools. Among some of the things I snagged are some acetylene tanks, a...

Soooo, it's been decided that we need to do rust removal on a wrought iron porch railing, then paint it. One of us (hint: SWMBO) thinks it'll be enough to grab a couple steel-bristle brushes & have at it for hours & hours, then paint. My prediction: Lots of effort, sweat, swearing, longer than...