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I started buying tools in the early sixties with my paper route money, mostly Craftsman of course. Over the past 20 or more years I have bought a lot of Snap-on tools, both from their online store and from ebay, both new and used. I have a couple of broken items I would like to have...

My house is almost a quarter mile from the road and I am considering installing a gate with operator. One of my wells is less than 100 feet from where the gate will be. I can get the Liftmaster operator that runs on 240 so first question is whether I can tap off that for the operator? I...

This is not a garage or workshop issue but probably more experts here than anywhere else. I have a rental house where we had a sewage backup onto a bedroom with carpet on a slab. Had to have all carpet removed and area sanitized. Have had a dehumidifier running since it happened about 10...

Short form is I need to get 4 gauge THHN from surface mounted conduit into a flush mounted panel. Long form: I am installing a second EVSE into a vacation home. This one will be hardwired and will have 4 gauge THHN in 50 feet of surface mounted 1 inch rigid PVC conduit. My plan at present...

I installed a walk-in cooler here on our farm. It is a split system with the compressor outside of the building. I have installed HVAC and have a 608 certification but since I haven't dealt that much with refrigeration I had a pro with 30 years experience come hook it up and charge it. He...

I have installed a single head Mini-split in the past and everything went well but I am now in the process of installing a 3 head unit and I have two questions. The outside unit has the 3 high and low fittings for each of the 3 inside units as expected but there is also another service port on...

I got an email today from Nepros introducing their gold colored tooling. I love my Nepros chrome tools but I don't really need more wrenches or ratchets. But these look beatiful so maybe want but not need. Has anyone asked for pricing yet? He explains how to aske for a quote but I thought...

Like most of us, I kept my things like spray lubes, brake clean, etc. in a cabinet which means they were like 4 rows deep. I decided to make a cabinet that would make them more convenient by being one can deep and have shelves in the door also. I made my shop cabinets out of gray melamine...

I have quite a few tools that mean something to me. Starting with some Craftsman tools I bought with my paper route money while in junior high school in the early sixties. I also inherited a partial set of SnapOn Ferret socket sets from my father. I heard he won them in a poker game while in...

I have a 20" Grizzly disc sander that has gone on the blink. It has a 2 hp induction motor with built in brake. It is a few months over a year old so out of warranty. It will start to run but a few seconds afterward it shuts down. I hear a click in the switch when it does. The points are...

I was just trying to post an 8 second video of an electric motor that was shutting off and I needed help with. It is about 7.5 mb and is a .mov format I think. It said upload failed and I tried a few times. I uploaded it to Imgur but the link didn't work either, just left a question mark...

I was using my old Mac dwell/rpm meter when it fell off onto the floor. The needle now doesn't work. The cylinder cancellation still works so I think it is in the needle hub. All wires are still intact, etc. too. These d'arsonval meter movements are like working on a watch and I have no idea...

I bought this Sears engine analyzer new in the mid 70s and it has served me well. I have been restoring my air cooled bug and finally got it running. Warmed it up yesterday and needed to check dwell and timing. This instrument worked a few weeks ago but now the needle pegs all the way left...

My air compressor is in the basement of my shop which has worked out well for noise, etc. When I was building the shop I had the foresight to run 14 ga wire from a switch by the front door down to the compressor site, planning on installing a contactor/relay to be able to turn the compressor off...

My air compressor is in the basement of my shop which has worked out well for noise, etc. When I was building the shop I had the foresight to run 14 ga wire from a switch by the front door down to the compressor site, planning on installing a contactor/relay to be able to turn the compressor...

I placed an online order from this company (may also be listed as Alamo Hose) on August 5. I got an email acknowledgement right away but have never heard a word since. I have emailed them twice since and tried calling them 3 times and had to leave a voicemail message since no one answered...

I will be installing air lines in my new shop in a few months and am planning on upgrading the couplers when I do. Prevost has a bewildering array of choices and I didn't see anything on their website on helping you choose which ones you need...

My new shop being built is 350 ft. from my house. I have read several of the topics on getting Wifi to the shop but is there a way to get cable TV signal to the shop. I think I would like to be able to have a football game on while working there on weekends. I can put up an antenna for the...

Been looking at explosion proof exhaust fans for my new shop. Most of them in larger sizes have a single speed and I would really like to have variable speed if possible. I have read that 3 phase motors can sometimes be speed controlled with a VFD. I will only have single phase power in the...

I'm in final stages of shop plans. I want to install concrete anchors when we pour the slab but only want female connectors so I don't have studs sticking up. Since I don't know exactly where my benches will be and want to anchor my metal bender only when I need to use it, I will place quite...