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Hey sparkys (and others knowledgeable about all thing electrical): What are some of the common electrical code violations you see in DIYer's work? What are the most dangerous ones? ============================ Every time some DIYer posts a thread about something electrical he's doing...

all the post formatting options are greyed out. What gives? edit1: I thought maybe if I'd post something they wouldn't be greyed out any more. Still are though. How do I get the post formatting options back? ===================================================== edit2: I cleared...

I have about a million projects in various states of completion. Okay, that's an exaggeration. Surely I don't have more than 250 uncompleted projects. Here's one partially completed project: I bought an old downtown commercial building that I'm refurbing. The building has great bones...

I used be a big proponent of oil based paints. I still use them some, but often use latex paint these days since it's more readily available where I live and doesn't have noxious fumes like oil based paint. Also, the oil-based paints sold today just don't seem to be as good as the stuff you...

I know some guys here follow Fireball Tool on YouTube. This is a pretty awesome video. I like the way he designs an experiment. He answers the questions: Does twisting a ratchet strap weaken it? Knotting it? Wet ratchet strap?

New to this board and I haven't figured out how some of the posting features work yet. So I started a thread in the Test Section to see if I could embed photos and such. But my thread disappeared. What gives? Isn't that the point of the Test Section?

I put a hardwood floor in the workshop I'm building. In the middle of the floor I built a turntable. (That's an 18" ruler in the photo.) I can set my Kawasaki 1100 up on its center stand on the turntable. This allows me to easily rotate the bike around in my small shop area. The turntable...

New guy here from the edge of Forgottonia. HELLO!