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Hello everyone and thanks in advance! We have two 50 gallon water tanks in our house. It is a 3,600 house with three showers and five toilets. I think we could get by with one nice newer water tank. One of the tanks just ruptured open over the weekend. I have it unhooked and drained and we...

So I have had this jointer / planer for about ten years and I have loved it. All of the sudden while planing some wood I smelled something like plastic burning. Eventually I looked under the device and a little bit of smoke was coming out of the motor. I dismantled it last night and...

The battery in my truck is going bad and needs replaced. I am looking for a good replacement battery, and a sale/deal if there are any. There are so many different types of batteries with the "CCA", "Group Size" and the "24F" numbers on them, I have no clue what those mean:headscrat:dunno...

WTF! How is this even safely on YouTube? I am reading the messages below the video of so many people supposedly doing this ****. He goes step by step on how to do this, making sure you get two separate breakers. I can't believe this $hit is on there!:eyecrazy:

I have some old wire strippers, Klein Strippers, and they are flat dall and beaten up:mad:. I am might try to sharpen them. I was curious:confused: does anyone here regularly sharpen wire strippers, and other electrical tools, or just throw them away and buy new ones? :confused::dunno:

I just got the gravel setup for our new shed that is coming in a few weeks. I will need to have power in this shed, a few lights and a few power outlets. The shed is going to be two feet from our house. I am curious if I can run the electric wire to it through pipe, about the ground? Does it...

I have a sears 28" Snow Blower, and I love it. However, I can't seem to adjust the height!:headscrat It appears that the "skid Plate" is not adjustable and because of it, the Augers are about an inch off the ground!:confused: It has been like this since I ever got it, but I guess the...

So I login this morning and click on "User CP" like I always do to see if there are any updates on the threads I follow. I follow about 20 or so threads. Well it is now showing me that ,"There are no subscribed threads to display in this folder for this time period." :headscrat I have...

I have my air compressor in the garage, and I an know that it is below 32 degrees in there. All of our beverages in the garage started to freeze. I drained my air compressor a couple of weeks ago, but there is probably some water in it. Will it hurt the compressor to run it while the temp is...

I need to replace my battery powered tool set at home. I have been reading up on this Rigid tool Lifetime service agreement, and it sounds pretty good. I was wondering if anyone here has experience with the Ridgid tools and how well you like them? Has anyone here ever used their "Lifetime...

I have a Jet Jointer/Plainer that I got in an auction several years ago and always wondered why it got sent back to the store, now I know why!:willy_nil So I was getting ready run some wood through it last night and it all of the sudden wouldn't start. I ended up taking it apart to look at the...

I got some new ones and need to store them. I have my old ones hanging from a hook in my garage. I am worried about putting my new nail guns there because of all of the saw dust in the air. So please show me how and where you store your nail guns??:bounce:

My air compress use to stop filling the tank at 150PSI, now it goes all the way up to 165:eyecrazy: I am worried that something might happen. Should I replace this gauge, regulator, or something else?? Or is it just OK to let it go and keep using it?? Thanks guys!:thumbup: :dunno: :dunno:

I put up an outdoor light for my backyard/deck area. I ran the wire from another outdoor lights box that we have in it's area. I used standard 12 gauge outdoor electrical wire. My question is I have a little bit of that wire exposed, about 1 inch. Is this safe? Should I redo it, or is it...

I thought that I would put this on here and share it. This is very scary news story about houses built between 1950 and 1990 with defective circuit breakers. Stab-Lok breakers made by Federal Pacific can cause fires!! Here is the link to the news story. The video is on this page, just...

I was in the top floor of a building I do work in and was looking for something and I ran across these devices. It looks like a power cable going into them from a junction box. What are they???:confused: :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:

I would love to get my father, and me, a Digital Tire Inflator. I was wondering if anyone on here had one so I could get some honest reviews on them? They look like they would be very convenient and speed things up. Here are some pictures/links to some of the ones I found. I would like to...

So my wife and I pulled our camper into our campsite and turned on the air conditioning. Later on in the day we went out to grab some things and came back to the camper. I smelled something burning. Well it turns out up where the air conditioning vent is there is a junction box that takes...

I was plugging a laptop into a power strip that I have on my desk. I had the laptop on and turn the power strip on, and BOOM:scared:!!!!!!!! The power strip made some noises, and made a popping sound! The power light stayed on and I unplugged it. I had to take it a part to see what it looked...

I am putting a ceiling fan in my garage finally:thumbup: Question about mounting it. I originally thought I didn't need a junction box above it, but I asked a friend and he said that I do. Can I just put the junction box below the wood I have up there and mount the fan directly to the...