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Condenser fan started squealing, so I assumed it was a bearing problem and dumped some oil down the shaft after pulling the motor. Reinstalled it and it was running with no squeal. Ordered a new motor and installed it when it arrived. Am hoping that the old motor can be relubed correctly to...

On vacation we stopped by the Bodie ghost town in eastern CA (middle of nowhere...). Gold was discovered here in he early 1880s and the town grew to 2000 buildings. Two fires and general abandonment have reduced the number to around 100 buildings. This is high desert so the lack of moisture...

Searched a bit and did not find anything about replacing felt drawer liners in machinist's chests Neither my Huot or Craftsman machinist's chests had much in the way of original drawer bottom padding so I thought I would give replacing the felt a try. Found some green self adhesive felt at...

It's 26" long with a fold down front cover. It's in good shape and the Place is asking $65.

A few garage and estate sale tool box and machinist cabinets purchases later I have a few unknown to me tools... I'm sure you guys can ID them all. :) Craftsman 43380 is an adjustable box wrench, but I have no idea where it would be used instead of a combo wrench. One is a circle cutter, but...

I can understand the reasoning behind having the drawers lock in place when the top lid is down (general security lock and stability when moving the chest), but it drives me nuts. Many years ago when I go my first HF chest, the first thing I did was rip the locking bar out by the roots. Felt...

Any ideas on how to plumb another tank to a compressor (4 hp, 20 gallons) to add capacity? Is it as simple as running hose from the outlet of the first compressor to the inlet of the additional tank and moving the outlet plumbing to the new tank? Thanks, Tim

Quickie air tool rack After looking at quite a few not-so-exciting commercial air tool rack offerings, I made up and mounted a a quickie air tool rack today. Had saved the aluminum track from a set of tossed out vertical blinds. The C section should keep most of the dust off of the tops of the...

Some of the HF magnetic tool holders seem to have magnet sets with alternating polarity in the magnet set making them pretty useless for tool holding because the magnetic field is not uniform along the length of the bar. Took one of these defective pieces back today and figured out that the ones...

Hello boys and girls! (Are there any women on his forum?) Been lurking for a while and checking out a few of the threads and all the great ideas people have come up with, but the time has finally come to put up or shut up. The slightly enlarged 2 car garage had gotten to the point of a.) only a...