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I have my air compressor draining out the side of my garage. I just learned today that the noise is driving my neighbor nuts and scaring his dog. Is there a sensible way to muffle it? Especially one that won't cause too much back-pressure (it's connected with flexible vinyl hose and the nub...

I have one of these regulators installed after the water separator and coalescing filter on my new Saylor Beall air compressor. https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/80074016 Bringing it all up to pressure, everything is working great, and the 88-series is regulating pressure just fine...

I just received my brand new splash-lubricated Saylor-Beall compressor, 60 gallons, 3hp, single-phase. Model 730-60. You can see the specs here: https://www.saylor-beall.com/products/splash-lubricated-air-compressors/ 100% made in USA. Even the pump was cast and ground in the USA. She is...

I need compressed air in my basement wood shop, mostly for a blow gun to clean the HEPA filter on my Oneida dust system. They recommend blasting it from the outside periodically with compressed air, to knock the dust off inside and let it fall in the dust bin attached to the bottom of the...

I have a Bosch hammer drill with Bosch bits.... cuts like butter. In my basement woodshop, I'm mounting various brackets and things on the concrete walls quite often. When something has more than a few holes, I often run into trouble where at least ONE of the holes drifts enough to affect...

My house came with a big air compressor in the garage that the previous owner installed. He copper plumbed air pipe around the perimeter of the garage (with several outlets) and up to the ceiling where there's a retracting hose reel. I attach extension hoses as-needed, and I can reach most of...

There are times when I'm trying to drill a hole up through the basement ceiling through the first floor, and I have to go to great lengths measuring the locations of various pipes and things to figure out exactly where the hole will come out through the floor, like to align the hole with a wall...

I use a kit of Setup Blocks all the time, for lots of things in the shop, specifically one of these kits: https://www.woodpeck.com/setup-blocks.html One of the things I use these for is for setting the depth on a drill press, to drill a hole to a specific depth in a piece of wood. But the...

I've been limping along for years with this cheapo Husky 6pt 72-tooth socket set: I suppose it has served me well, but it gives me that cheapo feeling, and it isn't a tool that I'd want to proudly pass down to my great grand children. Also, the "case" is kinda wearing out, and the larger...

First, I should say that I'm one of the world's biggest Woodpeckers fans. I love Made in USA stuff, and absolutely everything that I've bought from them (up until now) has been of exceptional quality. On the rare occasions when I needed customer support (like for a missing part, or a...

I'm setting up a signal siren with a Federal Signal 24V DC speaker, triggered by a Sensaphone 800, which has a switching relay rated for 30V max. If the Sensaphone senses water in the basement, it will make the siren go off. So I need to convert my residential 120V AC to 24V DC. And given that...

I'm considering Euro-style auto-adjusting wire strippers, like the Knipex Precistrip 16, the Weidmuller Stripax, or the Pressmaster Embla. It looks like these work like magic on PVC-coated stranded wire, and also maybe very fine solid wire, like Cat6 Ethernet. But I don't see many examples of...

I'm looking at Bauer ladders (apparently the last USA-made ladder company, Wooster Ohio). They offer two different types of leveling legs: 1. Jershon Level-Eze automatic levelers attached to both legs 2. Levelok, with exclusive (to Bauer) low-profile KeyLok brackets attached to both legs, and...