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Inside the main panel we have: Stand by generator backfeeding main panel through a 50 amp breaker. Unused 60 amp breaker in main panel from a long-gone hot tub. Eaton ultra surge protector wired into a 50 amp breaker. The generator breaker failed so I swapped parts around and now the surge...

This is an optical level you set up on a tripod and look at the crosshairs like a rifle scope. I lent it out and now find that it will only focus on 8 feet away and closer as you turn the zoom knob back and forth. There is evidence it has been dropped on the ground. It looks like you look...

Trying to decide how far to go in securing a castle nut which holds the piston in place inside a hydraulic cylinder. Whilst replacing leaking seals, the nut was too tight for me to loosen so I took it to a hydraulic shop, just to break the nut loose. Its a 55mm castle nut secured with a 8mm...

I have a metal building with the standard 9 inch zee bar purlins about 5 feet spacing. It's a horse barn and the roof sweats and drips occasionally. Gets frost on the underside of the roof sheets, etc. I have a bunch of Greenguard 1.5 insulation board I would like to get out of my...

I have agreed to help a friend construct his horse watering system. I'm learning as much as possible about wells etc but could use some advice for size of pump, wiring, tank etc along with placement. It's a system designed by a soil conservation entity but they leave the pumping plant details...

Blocks need to be around 1 foot by 1 foot. They need to be able to stack or to connect to each other, sort of like a Lego situation. A short male and a shallow female configuration. They will live outside and need to be sort of rugged. They can be hollow and open-ended. They can be round or...

I'm replacing a rusted out trailer floor, originally constructed with square and rectangular tubing. Crossmembers are 2x2x.180" 28 inch centers. 6 feet long I have a good pile of tiny galvanized I beams 1.75x1.875x.25" taken from a fencing demolition job. What issues do I need to consider in...

This is probably a dumb question but is there any reason for me not to rigidly join my freestanding addition to the existing pole building? I built a steel frame barn that is adjacent to and wraps around one side of a pole built shop. I didn't initially tie the two structures together because...

I'm putting up a used red iron building. When it was taken down, they saved the insulation but i think the white vinyl lining is pretty beat up as it was affixed originally with two-sided tape. Trying to decide if its worth trying to reuse this stuff with a new facing installed first...

This is the latest issue on my metal building reconstruction. These are the 3/8 steel rod cross braces used to stiffen up the metal frames. they are threaded at the ends with hillside washers and are tightened to keep things square. They were just cut in the middle when the building was taken...

I'm finally getting around to erecting my donated PEMB. I am using the components in a different layout than it was originally built as. My main frames are more closely spaced on 13 and 14 foot centers rather than the original 20 feet. ( frames are at 0, 13, 27 and 40 feet instead of 0, 20...

This was installed at a sears tire center and used to lift tires from ground floor up to the elevated tire racks. 3 phase motor but could be changed to a single phase if you needed that instead (1.5 HP) Basically a flat platform runs into the angled lifting conveyor part. The lift conveyor...

We signed up with the wrong guy, didn't do our due diligence at the outset. We screwed up. I think we need to move on. What are the proper steps needed going forward? Do we need a lawyer? My main concern is protecting ourselves from him claiming we owe him or others he had do work on the...

Builder asked which way we wanted him to orient the flooring planks. He suggested perpendicular to the hallway walls to make it look less narrow. Its about 7 feet wide. Other consideration is that hallway connects onto a 40 foot catwalk that will need flooring at some point so maybe its...

This taken out of a working bus terminal in a remodeling job. natural gas 150K BTU unit. Convert to propane parts available from RG at $100. Here is the install manual for all the specs etc http://www.rg-cloud.com/RG/manuals/discontinued/vantage.cth2/Vantage_II_1994.pdf

It seems there are two or three types or designs to get the tail down to the ground. Is there a standard nomenclature? Tilt deck vs tilt tongue? I have one that tilts the deck off the tongue and axle frame. I see these called gravity tilt, tilt deck etc. The deck is balanced 50/50 on its...

I picked up a fixer upper trailer. It looks like somebody sort of jack knifed it while backing up so the tongue is warped off center a couple of inches. The frame rails are bowed about an inch as well. The result is that the axles are offset a bit and the trailer deck is dog tracking while...

We moved into a place with heated floors but it came with no operating instructions. It has a Taylor wood furnace outside to heat and circulate the water. There are lines running to the indoor water heater. They are in the same bundle as the main water supply and return from the outside...

I bought an old Stresstel T-Mike UTG. IT works whilst plugged in but came without the internal battery pack. Id like to find a battery pack for it but cant find the specifications for such. The wall wart that powers the thing is marked 5.8v 100mA output. My multimeter says the power supply...

These units came out of a bus terminal remodel and were operational at time of decommission. 2 1/2 ton heat pump indoor and outdoor units $300 two 9000 btu PTAC hotel style heat pumps $75 each 220 volt units not far from Winchester, VA for pick up