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Not the network provider, but a device being offered N/C by State Farm. Plugs into an outlet & monitors electrical anomalies. Requires an app on your phone. So far Ive determined it will throw up a phone alarm when using a MIG or stick. In this age of ludicrous HO rates & policy cancellations...

See the shorter ground wire. Compared to the hot & common & the load grounds it looks smaller AWG. The timer went out on the electric water heater. In the act of replacing it w/ a non-digital Intermatic timer I noticed the line feed has 10Awg on both common & hot, but looks to be 14AWG ground...

Installing a range hood. Came w/ typical power cord. Can I locate the GFCI receptacle on the kitchen wall inside the fake chimney? Would look ugly & red neck to have the cord floating outside of the unit.

Headed to a buddy’s shop tomorrow. He lost a dedicated 20A circuit to the garage. Plugged in the compressor and the GFCI outlet went up in flames as well the breaker. I saw the outlet was back stabbed & thought perhaps the starting surge from the compressor caused the minimal physical contact to...

Scored a corded Ryobi JM 80 biscuit joiner for $15.00 including a bag of size 20 biscuits. To date I’ve been using dowels & mortise & tenon. Impressed w/ the accuracy, ease & simplicity of the joiner, but the slots are pretty loose on the biscuits. Can wiggle them up & down on the thickness...

New 1/2 horse submersible, new pressure tank, new pressure switch. This is neighbors well, only down 20’ into a 35’ water column. Old & new pumps run and push water, but will only build pressure to around 47#. Never gets to the cut off of 60#, just keeps running. Shut off the water line at the...

Need to address a roof issue created by the original builder. He added the large gable roofed addition in 76. Design created a 12’ flat valley w/ the smaller gable to the left. Lived here since 77 & my bandaid repair had it adequately flashed & sealed for all these years. Of course that was...

Got a reroof coming up. Gathered Ice & Water shield etc. This is an ancient double course of asphalt shingles overlaid with Propanel. Obviously need a shingle ripper. My version vs. Amazon. Must have taken 45 minutes.

My normal day in the garage making do w/ what’s here now! For fabricators this is child’s play, but not all minds think alike. Needed a 1/2” NC coupling & a couple rough protective sleeves or bushings. 4 nuts & a mig = a coupling. EMT & an angle grinder = a sleeved pass thru. Vise gets no luv...

Just replace a garage tall window with a 3 x5 unit. All done except matching the sheet rock finish. Without a gun I’m stumped. Need to duplicate what looks like a splatter and slight knock down. Already tried various course sponges. whisk brush. Sure would welcome other ideas.

Not my garage, but the home. Old carport was closed in. This exterior wall is slab poured around piers. Gap is a multiple issue, but can’t have wood in contact w/ soil (termites). Mice & snakes love to over winter under the slab. Weed whacker damages the paint & siding. My first thought is...

Already invested in both the 40V as well as 1 plus set ups. Might pop for this. Breaking out my electric PW involves running power & hose to the job. Set up & break down time takes longer than the job itself. Would be convenient to park the mowers and clean the decks w/o all the rigamarole...

Irwin bar clamp. Has served me well for a few years albeit not used everyday. Aligning body panels can get fidgety and on this truck the radiator frame pivots sloppily on big bushings. Front to back position referenced to the firewall comes into play. If you knock out the roll pin on the...

Just started to restore another tool I stashed during my working years. This is a Harrah farm jack circa 50’s/60’s before they were called high lift. Searched the net to find the function of the toothed cam attached to the nose, no luck. Any ideas out there? Just dawned on me that it might work...

Bought these in decrepit state yrs ago at garage sales. Done prepping for winter & cleaned em up. Sand blasted all cast pieces. Polished all internals w/ emery cloth. Paint is not exactly original but close. The jack has an amazing roller bearing base, patent in 1915. A few yrs back I found a...

OK, so ya caught me snoozing after lunch in front of the garage solar glazing. Glanced over at my Haybudd anvil & noticed for the first time stamped numbers on the base and a square hole that tapers inwards on the base under the horn. Does any one have knowledge of the purpose of this hole or...

Had a functional foyer light inside the garage double man door. Set up on an external photocell. It has always been intermittent. Tried to add an exterior LED security to the same circuit. No light on either now. Traced the circuits and finding the common tie to the foyer light reads only 37...

I’ve not been able to determine the make/ model of my third hand. 4.375 jaws, 3 1/4 throat, 4” open. Only mark on it is large #4 on both sides of the movable jaw. Researched the Vintage Vice spreadsheet. Only Athol Starret has a 4.375 jaw width, but it’s not one of those. Looks like original...

Should have posted this prior to Xmas. Holiday decoration that the young can get involved in. You’ll need food coloring and ice cycles. Place a drop near the top of the ice. If it’s really cold just speed up the color run w/ a touch from a propane torch. I see a lot of the food colorings are gel...

Lots of discussions on organizing and labeling sockets. Came up w/ this recently & now its my habit. instead of spending time trying to create a visible size indicator on sockets I trained myself to insert my pinky into the socket and know immediately what size it is. Similar to knowing the...