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Was chatting with my dad who mentioned he would put a "flag" of electrical tape on the wire supplying power to a workbox in his homes. Dad was not an electrician but his father (my grandfather) was for decades with Canadian Fisheries. I was just curious if there's a standard or common practice...

I picked up a HuskyPro 60 gallon compressor that has no cord on it. I have a 12/2 run into the tool room on a 15A double pole breaker. I started mocking it up with BX but I don't see anyone else using BX but SOW or SOOW. I do have SOOW on hand but is there any reason not to use BX? Is...

I'm putting together my hobby shop and need air lines out to the work bench on the opposite corner about 70' of pipe away. Compressor will be in the tool room (expected 60 gallon & at least 8CFM @ 90psi). There will be a tire machine (4 CFM) and road-force balancer (4 CFM) at the far end of...

Background; Personal 30x40 workshop w/6" insulation, sliding 12x12 barn door thats not well sealed, 13' ceilings, shallow pitch roof. Metal siding inside and out. I grabbed a functional take-out hanging furnace from a garage sale thats 80k BTU, 80% eff, pilot and slung it up 2' from my...

I was given a 120v 2000lb winch connected to a I-beam trolley from a buddy. He found it in a store he's leased, tells me it was used to lift product from the ground floor up a 12' mezzanine where it could be stored. It's now mounted on the I-beam in my hobby shop and I need to control this...

I'm bringing home a large 240v 5HP Willson lathe from a friend next week. My shop has a 6/3 run from the panel to a 6-50 outlet that's about 10' away, and I plan for a knee mill in the future that'll be 5' on the other side of this current outlet. What's the best way to install these two to...

I need to hang a NG furnace I bought for my shop and Superstrut was the recommended method. Looking online it's easily found in the US @ $35 (~45 CDN) for a 10' piece. But here in Canada the thinner 14ga is going for $82 bucks? Does anyone know why they're hosing us on such a generic piece...

We repainted the kitchen & dining room this year and I during that I replaced the 3 old hanging fixtures & fitted them with "edison" style LED bulbs. Since then I've noticed my kitchen lights will flicker when the washing machine is running in certain cycles. The dining room does not with the...

I've been working through the mess of electrical in a pole barn on my new property. Honestly the guy went way overboard in most cases, such as every single outlet is on it's own circuit. Lots of cost cutting too like a recycled Federal panel and many two pole breakers but each side feeding a...

Quick and easy one; I used 10/2 BX for a water heater connection. It's a 240 circuit so black & red are used (it's a 10/3 feed, neutral is capped). For marking the white wire that's now being used on the 'other' leg do I need to do anything more than wrap red tape on both ends?

Short version is I'm pretty sure I've got frozen water in my NG line. Everything is privately owned. The line is ~300', rise of 15', underground. I'm losing pressure when I run any gas appliances. I have an installed gauge showing 8" WC on the house manifold when everything is off in the...

I'm trying to identify the exact model of my Siemens panel. Is there a visual reference site out there? It's from ~2007 (that's when major renos were done and there's an ESA inspection letter with it). It has the stickers and numbers inside but nothing I type in has the main breaker in the...

Recently moved, basement is empty and I need to build in some sound control between floors. Rockwool was $62-66 bucks Canadian a bag six months ago. Go to look today and it's 90 freaking dollars a bag? That's 50% increase when the "pandemic" supply issues are supposed to be winding down...

As the title says, I've got an old pole barn converted to a 2 car garage. There's NM-b in it from a small sub panel. There's no lighting, just a plug and the garage door opener and a circuit for the pool pump. Is there any reason I can't use NM-b in an enclosed pole barn safely?

I've recently moved into a new house on a couple acres and I'm figuring out the electrical situation. There's 100A service in the house, 200A in the shop, and the meter is located on a pole in the middle of my yard. The meter has it's own conduit from the top of the pole but it does not carry...

I've bought a property outside of town with my first real, detached shop (yay!). Can anyone identify what kind of breakers these are? It's a 200A panel. Sorry for the bad picture, seems I forgot to take a real photo so this just came off my walk-through video. I have to confirm they're...

Closed on a house recently on a couple acres (with a shop!! but that's a different thread). As posted its a ways back from the road & I have to pay for the trenching for a fiber line due to the distance. I would love to have an IP camera out near the entrance of the driveway. My current...

I have a King Canada 12k/9k generator as a home backup power source, with a 100' 14-30 SJTW RV cord to connect the generator to the inlet box. Recently we had a significant power outage and I found (by experimenting with the AC + dehumidifier) the 30A breaker on the generator will open before...

Just purchased a lightly-used "Max Jack" portable 2-post lift for my home garage. I need to purchase new anchors for it. They use drop-in anchors from the factory, kit shown here. That's option 1 but it's pricey and the bolts they supply aren't as long as they could be. Is there other...

I'd like to ask for opinions of the group about buying my first lathe. I haven't done any machining since high school but I do a fair bit of functional fabrication. I'd like to be able to shorten drill bits, make adapters for exhaust systems, and be able to do single point threading...