Search results

Like the title says: I am looking for a good soldering gun or iron. I do very little soldering but just recently my piece of **** soldering gun showed how poor it is.

I don’t know how this works but it appears all of my post are marked as reported. Please explain. I may have said something that has offended someone in the past, but I make a point to steer clear of political stuff. Do I have an enemy?

I was a mechanic for many years. Now part of my job involves VFDs. I do not work on them but around them and could use some knowledge. Please correct me if I am wrong. I realize I don’t know enough and I do not touch. They vary the frequency to speed up and slow down an electric motor.?? Do...

For sale: MAC tools toolboxes. MB9100 top box. MB9200 bottom MB5290 side cab. Would like to sell complete, but may separate. Good used condition not great or new.

Who's got one and what do you use it for?? What brands do you like? I have an upcoming job I think one would be useful for and know nothing about them. Cutting 2x lumber into a blind corner is what I will be needing.

I put central air in the house last summer. It does a great job of cooling the house off. The problem is when we go to bed at night, the master bedroom is upstairs. The downstairs where the tstat is stays cool but the upstairs warms up and we wake up in the middle of the night hot. But the a/c...

The wife and I are thinking about building a new house. I am a pretty capable guy and do some electrical work. I have built my own garage including wiring, overseen by a master electrician. So, the question is how much wire goes into a 1500 sq.ft. ranch? I know there are hundreds of variables...

We are thinking of building a house and would like to put in floor heat in the basement slab and ground floor. What are the pro/cons of putting the pex under the subfloor (staple up with heat plates) vs anything else (overpour)? Also, I am thinking boiler with a separate on demand hot water...

I have a Lennox G32Q3-75-3 furnace in my home. It is @ 15 years old. It has done a good job of keeping us warm for most of those years (not all as I had a corn burning add-on for 7 of those years). Last summer I added a 4 ton A coil into the duct work above the furnace. In the fall when I first...

So I wanted to up grade to 200 amp service in our house. A good friend is an electrician and will be happy to advise. I got a permit and went to work. I have the panel and meter socket wired and ready to go. Called my buddy the electrician over, he stops in and says yep looks good to him. Called...

I have been given free of charge a Lennox 10ACB48-5P condensing unit and A-coil. Yes, I know this is an older unit and yes I know it is not very efficient. It is however the correct size for my home according to the heating and cooling calculations I have researched on the internet. Did I...

I currently have a 60 amp box with a 40 amp box next to it. I would like to replace both with a 200 amp box but place it about 10 feet away. What is the accepted practice for extending the wiring for the circuits in the house? I plan on running new 2/0 cable to the meter and head for the...

I am a fleet mechanic not an electrician. Where I work I am the only mechanical person so I end up wearing many hats, sometimes I work on electrical things. End of disclaimer We have pallet wrapper on site. It is old and breaks down from time to time. the problem that it is having lately is the...

Like the title, we are planning a full gut job on our house and I wanted to learn more about hard wired smoke and CO detectors. I am not sure of the local codes and will be checking into that before I purchase and start install. I am looking for some general advice and possible product suggestions.

I am building a shed/garage/wood shop. I have a set of T12 lights that I got free from a take out years ago. I thought I would use those and not have to buy lights. So I install and turn the switch on and 1 out of 4 works so I decide must be ballasts and as long as I'm changing might as well...

Another build thread not really a garage though. The plan is to build a garage. Use it as a woodworking shop for a year to build new kitchen cabinets. then, store our furniture in it while we do a complete gut job on our house. then, use it for shop and to store our boat. We'll see how the...

I am building a garage 14 x 26, 8 foot walls. I will be installing a small (30 gal.) water heater and would like to know the proper venting. I would like to build any venting into the structure before it is finished. I also would like to avoid a power vent unit due to price nad replacement cost...

I am getting ready to pour the new garage floor. Graded the subgrade, set the foam, laid out the pex, and I needed fittings for the test manifold. But hey, mom and dad are over by Menards' right now I'll call them. Dad picked up galvanized fittings. Set up for pressure test fill her up to 80 psi...

My father built a new shop about 10 years ago. And 3 years ago when his employer of 50 years closed he started working full time in his shop(tractor repair). At that time I installed a cell phone booster, as we were always dropping calls inside the metal building, and an exterior FM antenea...