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I am working on a Japanese piece of heavy equipment. All the fasteners are metric. I have some bolts I need to remove that are very tight and I am going to have to hit them with the 1” impact. I have limited metric tools in larger sizes. A 1-3/4” wrench won’t fit, I don’t have a 1-13/16” to...

I recently upgraded the main panel to 200 amp and feeder wires to 3/0 in my shop. The meter is right next to, about a foot away, from the transformer pedestal. While I had the meter can open hooking up the wires I noticed they were feeding the meter with #2. I called the electric company about...

I just setup a 5 ton gas furnace in my 50x50x14 steel building with spray foam insulation. I have a wifi thermostat I can adjust from my phone. When I first turned it on the temps in the shop went from 42 to 60 in about three hours with an outside temp of about 30. Working in the winter I...

I have two shops about 15’ apart and they are both on the same meter which is just for the shops. One is for storage and just has two light fixtures, two outlets, and my air compressor. It also has a water well connected to it. The shop has 4ga wire feeding it and the length is less than ten...

I have a 50x50x14 steel building that has closed cell spray foam insulation. We have had the building ten years with no heat or AC but I want to add for sure heat and maybe AC. I am in the Texas Panhandle. It gets cold, but not super cold. The shop has a restroom with a toilet and sink and...

I need to regulate compressed nitrogen down to about 750psi. Do they make a fixed regulator that will do this? I have been using $500 victor adjustable regulators similar to what is on a cutting torch but larger and am having problems with them breaking or getting out of adjustment due to the...

I ordered some dusk to dawn lights that have a mounting bracket like pictured below. I want to mount two of them on the corners of my shop where pictured. Another picture shows the inside of the corner with the I-beam and spray foam. I can't figure out how to best mount these. I can't go...

I ordered a few of these lights to mount on the outside of my R panel steel building. Bolting them up is no problem nor is the electrical connections but I assume the wires will run through the 1.5” tube and exit out the bottom? I am not sure what is the proper way to go from the bottom of this...

I have had my 50x50x14 shop 8 years and have always kept a big 30’ long 10’ tall enclosed trailer in one bay. If I am home it is there and never moves. I am redoing my 20 lights which are basically evenly spaced across the entire ceiling in four rows of five lights. I am replacing the...

I have a 15 amp circuit with 14ga wire. I know 15 amps at 120volts is 1800 watts and if I recall you aren’t supposed to put over 80% continuously on it so 1440 watts max? Would it be wise to put 14 100 watt LED’s on a single circuit or would I be pushing my luck? The wires are already there and...

https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/202734/STONE-GGL50.html My shop is a 50x50x14. It has a total of 20 standard E26 sockets spaced evenly across the ceiling (5 rows of 4). I currently have some huge CFLs ( no reflectors)in there that were installed around 8 years ago. I was pleased with them...

We pound 3/8" stainless steel stakes about 10" in the ground for geological testing. Thousands of them a week. We also have to dig small holes maybe 4" in diameter and just a couple inches deep. We have been doing this with 2lb sledges. Most the crew hits the stakes in with the hammer turned...

Who here has a large air tank set up? My compressor has an 80 gallon tank and I have a 3 phase 120 gallon compressor that I can't use because I don't have the power here for it so I plumbed the tanks together and now have 200 gallons. It definitely cut down on the cycling and doesn't take too...

I have a 50x50 shop. I have drawn and attached a sketch of it. It basically has three bays each with a 12' door. The left side houses a mobile office type trailer, the back of the middle has my lift, and the right side stores a rubber tracked machine in the back and the front is my welding...

My shop is a 50x50 and I ran 3/4" copper all the way around the walls with a total of 5 drops. It works good but I really want one more in the middle of the shop particularly by the front of my lift which is in the center. My thoughts are to tap into the copper line on the wall farthest from...

This set of six Plomb wrenches were given to me by mom. These belonged to my great grandpa and what I was told was he went to Kansas City and took a course in automotive repair and worked at the Ford garage - this would have been in the early 1900's. These were the only tools of his that were...

I just bought three sets. 1/2 metric, 1/2 standard, and 3/8 combo with the swivel sockets. They seem very nice. I have never owned any of this brand before but they seemed like the best bang for the buck.

My shop (50x50x14) has 20 light sockets evenly spaced on the ceiling. I have had these large CFL's in there for about seven years and they have worked fine. Lately they seem to more sluggish in the cold than I remember them when I bought them and a couple make a buzzing sound. The bulbs are 85...

I have a roll around drain with an air evacuation that I use for vehicles on my lift but I bought a metal 20 gallon roll around floor drain pan for my tractor, semi, backhoe, and dump truck. It works great to drain into but I am striking out on finding a pump to get the oil from it into my 275...

I have the older 44" US General wrinkle finish roller cabinet and top box in perfect shape. No dents, scratches or stickers. I just got a new SO box and want to sell the old stuff here locally. Obviously to bulky to ship. What should it be worth? I think these can be bought new for $600 plus...