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I'll try to make a long story short. In the 55 and older community where my in-laws live several residence are having GFCI tripping issues including my in-laws. A local electrician, who is actually licensed, (not sure about insured) is going around an charging an exorbitant fee to "fix" the...

A disappearing garage...

So on Thanksgiving my buddy calls me in a semi-panic. He has a well and no water and wonders if I'll stop by and take a look at it. I tell him to check the usual things like the beaker, tap on the pressure switch, and such before I come out. Everything checked out so off I went. I arrive...

Long story short, I bought a new service truck and I am mounting one of those 48" LED light bars over the back doors for those times when I am working later in the evening or loading the truck and night. It will have a dedicated circuit & switch inside the door but I am now thinking that it...

So I had a call over the weekend to look at a central air system. The homeowner has a service contract with UGI (the local gas company in this area). They experienced a brown out and blew a capacitor in their outdoor unit. Now it was working fine up until the brown out. The service tech told...

I am a general contractor by trade and have been working with a client on and off for several years now. The homeowner lives out of State and bought a house for his two children to live in while they both attend Lehigh University. One of his daughters has earned a full ride scholarship for...

I am was not planning to treat my garage floor any time soon but I found Quickcrete Brand Epoxy floor coating for cheap and I was wondering if it is a decent product. I can get it for about $32.00 per one car garage and I'll need at least 5 kits... Also what is the shelf life of new in box...

A friend of mine had her washing machine drain hose blow out and cause water damage to the living room ceiling below and other damages. There is a floor vent near the washer that took in a lot of the water. I am sure it traveled down the duct work to the furnace. I am going to have a HVAC guy...

More server error or tons of traffic I guess! Took forever to upload a recent post on another thread.

While letting my dogs run this morning I snapped a few pictures of the first rays of sun as they hit my shop. First day of sping and I'm getting that fever!!! :p

cool I just added speech recognition from Google for free and it works! Hot dog

Does anybody have any good clamp storage ideas? Anyone have a decent clamp rack they built or maybe an under bench storage system? Unfortunately I am out of wall space so I cannot make a wall rack. Anyhow if you guys wouldn't mind posting a few pictures of what you have... The pictures below...

I am just wondering if I can post this picture?

I have recently received a couple PM's asking if I would share how I added a Router table insert to my Ridgid TS2400LS portable table saw so I thought I would just post my answer up here. I have the older Ridgid portable table saw: My modifications started with my fixing a problem with the...

Was trolling my local craigslist and found a tool auction in Skippack, PA. I have no idea where that is but it must be somewhere in Eastern, PA. I'm not affiliated with these people and since funds are tight, I probably won't go, but maybe some of you in the area might be interested... Here...

I have one mounted over one of my work benches. I wanted to make it work but couldn't find an electronic controller. I'm not really into electronics and didn't want to design my own. Then I came up with an idea to make it work. I went real old school mechanical by utilizing an old barbecue...

I have been rebuilding an old American Kellogg model 340TV compressor. It initially had a 7.5 hp 3-phase motor but since I only have single phase I've mounted 5 horse 1-phase motor as a replacement. This motor is a bit undersized for this model pump but it was all I could find at the time...

I researched & built a Thien Separator when I was on restricted movement after having emergency surgery a few years back and thought I would share my thoughts about it. First what is a Thien Separator? Read this: http://www.cgallery.com/jpthien/cy.htm My opinion about it? Simply amazing! I...

I had a buddy over last night, showing him the work I've been doing on the back part of my shop. He told me I should patent some of the things I have created in my garage over the years. That got me thinking that I bet a lot of folks here have some neat stuff they have built to make their...

Anybody ever repaint a steel pole barn? I would like to change the roof color of my 20 + year old pole barn and fix a few leaks while I'm at it. The original roof is a nasty beige with mildew stains throughout. This roof was originally nailed down and the rubber washers are very tired. I am...