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    How to remove striped recessed Torx bolt without damaging ratchet

    Hey all, hope this is the correction section of the forum to post this. I have this dual 80 snap on ratchet I bought new sealed on ebay. It had quite a lot of anvil endplay so I tightented the backing plate down and it improved some. I bought a rebuild kit to see if it would help the endplay...
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    Heat Pump in Northeast

    Been house shopping and see a few houses and condos listed as Heat Pump and they look like they have forced air vents from the pictures. It gets below freezing quite often in CT and sometimes below zero. Would a heat pump be capable of heating that low efficiently? I think our electric rates...
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    Rebuilding old NiCd battery packs

    Any good resources for rebuilding old drill/driver battery packs? Is it possible to switch them over to lithium? Have a couple of older oddball drills that don't have knockoffs available. I can solder but don't have a lot of electronics experience. Or are there any good places that do this...
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    Oil furnace rumbling and sputtering

    Have an oil furnace with a carlin oil burner used for hydro hot air and hot water that has been rumbling and sputtering for over a year. We've had the furnace since house purchase 13 years ago, this is the first issue with sputtering and rumbling we've had. We have it maintenance once a year...
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    Basement Dampness / moisture

    TLDR: Where is the line drawn for Moisture and dampness being a problem in a basement? Shopping for first house, have never had a basement, lived in on slab raised ranches my whole life. Current raised ranch I'm in, my parents had to do a french drain on the side that was half under ground...
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    Retrofitting Radiant Floor Heating

    Saw some videos on youtube that make it look easy but ... Does retrofitting radiant floor heat work out well in the existing 1st floor of houses with unfinished basements? House shopping in the 1500-2000sqft range in the northeast and a lot of these old house have really old furnaces and some...
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    School me on Tankless combo systems

    Currently shopping for a duplex or single family house and recently ran across a Natural Gas Navien boiler/hot water tankless combo setup in a home. Not familiar with these. Do they work well heating 2000 sq ft homes in cold areas like New England? Are they as efficient as traditional NG boilers?
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    Propane or Electric?

    Hi All, I have a 20ft x 20ft insulated attached garage (with insulated but drafty doors) I'd like to heat every once in a while to work in. Just enough to take the chill off, and only probably a few times a month for a couple of hours. It's usually around 40F in there all winter (Northeast)...
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