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Requisite background info: So I am in the process of re-plumbing the wood furnace tie in that we inherited from the previous owners. The furnace in question is an Englander 28-3500, manual link here. So the previous/original owners of this place had it plumbed incorrectly from the manual...

Grabbed this feed wheel shaft and hub today at the junkyard. There’s no obvious set screws or pins. There is a single hole, it doesn’t go through to the opposite side, with what appears to be a pin. But I can’t drive it out, can’t see a set screw down inside either. But from the shaft side it’s...

Morning! Ok so I'll try to not make this into a long-winded story.. my wifes 2018 Equinox has 4 small paint bubbles on the front lip of the hood. Being someone who wants to try everything I want to fix it myself. However knowing I'll eff up at least once I went and borrowed an identical hood...

Title says it all.. yesterday I lost the 4th ac unit in 6 years due to refridge leakage. This is so stupid.. pay $500 for something and it lasts 2-3 years and is sealed so can't be serviced (easily). Anyway Im pretty sure I know the answer but wanted to ask anyway to be safe.. any if yall come...

Ahoy! So a dog chewed on the corner of the lid to a Lane hope chest from the early 70’s, I have not been able to identify the type of wood, but it does appear to be laminated and its def a soft wood so logically a pine. Anyway the wife was understandably upset, the way I see it theres two...

Since the original thread started getting heavy, I thought i best to start a new one, especially since the actual question at that time was different than now. Champion genny circa 2006-ish, won't start. It was backfiring but so far today it hasn't. What's been done: Carb, Re-pulled carb...

So yesterday was rolling the driveway with the Cub and a bump mustve dislodged the dipstick.. because I noticed the whole *** end wet. Promptly parked and pulled the drain plug.. maybe a 1/4 cup or so of water preceded the oil. IDK where the pick up tube is inside this unit but I assume some...

I've got a Champion 3500 watt I bought from Lowes back in 2005 in preparation for Katrina. It's been a champ (no pun intended).. so anyway last time it was ran was back in Sept-ish last year and it ran for almost 2 days due to a power outage. Anyway FF to now we've got 1-3" of snow/ice/wintry...

So to be fair I'm not sure of the best place to post this so Ill take a hand slapping if this ones wrong. Yesterday I was trying to increase the tension on my return spring on the DP600 and wasn't paying attention.. the large half of the adjustment screw.. the part that the smaller top screw...

Ok so I have a Cub Cadet 3184 with the front angling kit, who ruptured one of the flex lines a few weeks back. Long story/Short it's been kinked a couple times due to getting caught on the plow mount when I went to turn it full bore the opposite direction. Anyway.. I bought a line from tractor...

According to my j-calcs this elbow I have was worth like 110'. This weekend I added some diy turning vanes to it, 4 of them. I can no way to measure any changes but it's gotta be better. I don't have a ready pic of it re-assembled but you can use the green paint to see, there was a rectangular...

Ok so I've got a Cub cadet 3184.. I believe made right before CC was bought out by MTD. In any case, Kohler CH18 with about 800-ish hours on her. When I got it it had the 42" deck and since then I've upgraded to the 48".. cause 6 more inches is worth it right? right? Sorry bad joke. Anyhoo, a...

So yeah, downstairs we have a pocket door that I need to remove the door itself so I can access the drywall within. Now to paint a more accurate picture here.. the door is a 36x78 solid oak. The opening in trimmed in oak and for whatever reason, the trim is caulked. The old man/previous owner...

So long story short, is the crankcase breather on a small engine basically the same as a pcv on a vehicle engine? Longer version, So after doing some carb work on my CC 3184 recently I decided to fashion a carb space out of a solid block of 3/4" thick ptfe. The 500* melting point is more than...

For the past two years we've had lime scale on everything.. faucets, tub, shower, spigots, etc. I'm not sure how but my brain never made the connection to the softener not doing it's job. I bought it online about 3 years ago.. 48k grains, a single tank Flex 5600 SXT. Maybe 6-8 months later...

Stumbled across this Reddit post and the guy goes into a very detailed and in depth explanation, being a non-pro, about the calculations on a new furnace install and duct re-design. So I started following his steps and thought I could perhaps talk about it here, get some experienced advice even...

So I found a pretty old 1940's era Westinghouse 10" desk fan. The entire thing is in great shape save the motor (go figure). Somewhere in the windings it's shorted. There's nothing burnt so the short likely developed during one of the many years it was out in the elements. Regardless, I wanted...

So I picked up one of these for free from an old guy.. uit's a long story but he basically got it for a replacement motor. So his old motor, the one on this unit needs the bearing kit. Aside from that it's immaculate. All the parts are here, nothings broke or missing. Just wanted to ask...

So at 2:18am yesterday morning we lost power, it didn’t come back until roughly 9pm. We are on a private well, Grundfos pump roughly 4 years old. I can see the pressure gauge on the pressure tank build up and stop when it’s supposed to at roughly 68#. It also kicks on when its supposed to at...

Whether it's the single layer foil, or the double-sided bubble-wrap or foam core... What is the current consensus of putting a barrier underneath vinyl siding? Utterly useless? Are the horizontal pockets of air gap enough?