Search results

I just put together a wood platform bed. The manufacturer included a small z-shaped Allen wrench in the hardware package for the bed. It looked like this...

I find myself wiring a bunch of wall outlets 12 inches or so from the floor. When I sit on a chair I’m too high off the ground. When I lay on the floor I‘m too old, fat and stiff to get back up easily. So how do pros do it? Sit? Stand? Make the newbie do it?

i have a 100 amp subpanel in a boathouse. It is fed by a 100 amp GFCI breaker in our cabins main panel. I was relocating some switches and outlets in the boathouse and tripped the GFCI breaker. so I shut off all breakers in the subpanel including the subpanels main shutoff. But with...

Is there such a thing? At our cabin we are required to pump our waste water up a hill using 1.5 inch “redline” water line to where the septic tank is. Otherwise the leach field is too close to the lake. We use a 1.5 inch check valve to prevent back flow from draining back into the macerating...

The recent Channelock thread got me reminiscing. Lots of threads for lots of different types of pliers. But why no love for fencing pliers? Any examples out there? Wish I had one of the Channelocks we had growing up. Very useful. Kept one of them and a handful of used staples on the...

Anyone have any tips for removing metal electrical boxes without destroying drywall?

Horrible fire in New York today. Blamed on a malfunctioning space heater. How do space heater malfunctions cause fires? I can certainly understand fires starting by surrounding heaters with flammable materials, running them on extension cards that are not heavy enough etc. but those are not...

I was wandering through the tool department at the local Menards and saw that it was now carrying Vaughan hammers. Had a nice selection and i picked up a hefty cross peen one. I really dislike steel handled hammers and would probably prefer a good composite material for a handle but the wooden...

I was looking at some Orbis angled needlenose pliers in Menards' electrical department today. Seemed like a nice product. On the label it says that Orbis is a division of Knipex. Any theories on why it's a separate division? Is Orbis a step down in quality? Is it geared to a different...

How good are they? Anyone have a good or bad experience with them?

Is there a way to wire a four way switch so that power goes first to the four way switch? Diagrams I have seen only show the power going first to one of the three way switches or to the light that is controlled by the switches.

Bought a bunch of new appliances at Lowe's and now have a $300.00 Lowe's gift card to blow. What Lowe's cordless tool package would you buy for $400.00 or less? (Thereby allowing me to tell my wife that I bought all this stuff for only $100.00)

I need to install some hardwood flooring but dont have a floor gun. Should I go cheap at HF or spring for a Bostich? No used ones for sale around here. And it will be used at our cabin which means I will have it for about 10 days since there is no rental place there and buying would therefore...

I am searching for high quality screwdrivers. One of my pet peeves, however, is that many (almost all?) Screwdriver sets have the same handle color for all types of screwdrivers (slotted, Phillip's, etc). Is there a high quality manufacturer out there that uses a different color for each...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a sliding head breaker bar compared to a flex head type? What's your preferred type?

In the process of building a combination small shop and boathouse at our cabin in northwest Ontario. I have an old farm sink that I would like to use for a fish cleaning sink. I can't hook it to the plumbing system but it will be right over the lake and I would like to pull water from the lake...

New poster here, but long term reader. This question is similar to the recent post regarding two switches for an air compressor, so apologies for any overlap. The Grand Plan for dust control in my new shop has hit a snag. (As most of my other Grand Plans have also done) I would like to be...