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Hello, I have a tank mounted radiant double heater in my shop for auxiliary heat. Last year it worked fine, but now after it runs a while, it makes a screeching sound and there is a blue flame coming up out of the noisy side. I can turn it off and let it cool and then it works ok for a while...

I have a couple of older craftsman toolboxes. Being a machinist, they are loaded with tooling. Some of the deeper drawers are falling off of the slides. The slide mount on the box have been straightened before, and are now broken off. Have any of you put the 100 pound rated bearing slides...

I have a neighbor that is selling a bunch of these 'siding' panels. I'm adding onto my shop and was thinking about using these for the walls. My question is : why couldn't I use these for the roof? Start at the peak, and have them going left to right. Overlap them by one rib ( bottom under...

Mine is about 13 years old. It heats my machine shop every day in winter ( about 7-8 months around here. Usually a clean up, and blow it out with air hose every year, and it works. This year it will light, but only the top burner tube. I can light the 2nd tube, and then all of them light and...

I think my flame sensor is dirty or bad. How is the easiest way to remove it? I can see it, but the screws are from the other side. I don't want to take it too far apart, and there be an easy way to remove it. Thanks, Jack

Sometimes it lights normally. Other times only the top burner lights and it takes 2 or 3 times to light. Then, it ignites loud. A large whoof! Is there something I need to clean? Thermocouple, ignitor, etc. Thanks, Jack

I see a lot of pole barns with metal poles and trusses. Then they have the purlins wood. Does anybody here have a horror story about a building like this with termites getting into the wooden parts? thanks, Jack

I am in the process of designing a new shop 30 x 60 x 12 ft side walls. My thoughts are to put on a Gambrel style roof, to gain some upstairs storage space. How hard is it to put metal roofing on a roof of this shape? Do you put the upright/side roof on, then the top/flat roof last? What...

I remember looking at some shop buildings that had steel trusses and posts. It was like a chicken house in that aspect, but was a pole barn style in the wood framing. The trusses were angle iron and round bar, as well as the support posts/ legs. The purlins and everything else was wood. It...

Hello, I am helping a buddy install a small hot water heater in his trailer. It is all plumbed with 1/2" id copper. ( 5/8" od.) We went to Lowes to get some compression fittings and all they had were PEX and solder fittings. I asked one of the young guys working there and he showed me this...

I have a quonset hut building that has sheets of 1/2" foam board inside it for insulation. This stuff was put up with glue and has furring strips to hold it against the building. It seems ok, but I would like to fill the cavities with blow in insulation. Where the seams meet on the sheets...

I have a Big Maxx 75k propane heater. It has been working great for about a year and a half. I noticed the other day that where the flames come out of the manifold, there is a lot of yellow in them. Do I need to blow it out with an air hose or set the air gap on the burner or something...

Hello, I am new here, and this seems like to place to get an answer. Whenever I search google it directs me to this site. :thumbup: I have ordered a Big Maxx 75k propane heater for my machine shop. My idea on venting it is to go over about 5 ft horizontal (with the correct 1/4" per ft. up & out...