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Phase converters are very easy to build. All you need is a 3 phase motor and a bunch of capacitors. There is just a ton of info about building them on the internet. Lot cheaper than buying one.

My shop is on the same transformer but with its own meter and a different splice for the ground wire so we had no problem. The Workman said the splice connector was an older style that could get water inside and when it froze would expand thus loosening the connection. --Live and learn -- they...

Thanks for the answers. The only thing we lost was an alarm clock and my son was holding it at the when it just smoked and it was dead. No wonder they came right out. Like you all said it could have been a lot worse.

For a couple of days the lights would be dim or later REAL bright and the micro wave would cook real slow or real fast.So we called the power co and two guys came right away with lots of equipment. Any way they checked the meter voltage and found one leg around 155 volts and the other leg about...

From what I read if you think your getting American made with the Craftsman think again:bounce:

The single LADY running the sale :thumbup:

I checked my laser level ($9) against the highway workers transit and I was different by 1/8" in 70 ft. Good enough for any thing we did building our new shop:thumbup:

Word of caution. If you go to a Doctor with poison ivy the latest remidy they use is Prednazone (spelled wrong) I should have listened to the 3 drugests that told me that if you take that stuff I had better know where the nearest emergency room is -- they were right -- I almost died of the cure...

I own 5 different welders but the one I use the most is my Miller 135 MIG in 120 volt running .023" wire. I can take it to any house and plug it in any where even with a 100 foot cord and run it full blast. If I need to weld some thing rather thick I go with stick because of the wide selection...

I run a business out of our "garage" and my Son smokes in here which is actually illegel because we are a business. I am sure most of you know smokers that just cant understand why every one doesent smoke:headscrat

I took a look at the small ones they sell for motorcycles and desided to make my own. It is 30" wide and 48" long with 4" dia steel swivel wheels on all 4 corners works off a 6 ton hyd jack and lifts a 1500 Wing 20". I wanted something I could sit on a 5 gal pail and work from and not have any...

Teaching my 11 yr old Grandson how to MIG weld:)

I used an 1/8" sheet of Aluminum -- if I spill something nasty I can scrape it with no problem in my case it might be Epoxy that leaked over night and hardened. I also weld nearly every day and with top conductive the whole thing is ground -- easy place to lay out some weird shape. Yes my shop...

Might help if the government didnt have agencys that make new rules all the time and force businesses over seas:mad:

Hi The sound is actually dead BUT We have very heavy insulation in the walls and celling right up against the sheet metal and I think that dampens the noise There is a lot of shelving around the walls and the room is FULL of machinery. We have 2 TVs in there that we watch when we are running...

Something to think about. I recently built a new shop and desided to use what looks like galv. steel siding only it is thinner. It weighs 1/10 of sheetrock and has the same "R" value (none) and it is fire proof. You dont have to tape or paint it and you can wash it with a pressure washer. It...

I must agree that putting the posts below frost level would be great but in a winter with no snow our frost has been known to go more than 8'. I think code calls for frost footings to go 4' or more which would take care of a normal winter. In the late 50s I put up signs and remember in parking...

My shop and garage for 2 motorcycles is a 32X40 pole building. The poles are set right in the ground and here in the north the frost lifts the poles about 1/8" to 1/2" in the winter so the walls lift off the concrete floor around the edges and lets the winter wind in. We heat the building...