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    Sealey Retro toolbox (in UK)

    It's really a neat looking box, but I'd have greasy dirty fingerprints all over that nice paint job.
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    Post your water well and pump questions

    "Are you talking about a yard hydrant? or like old school pump up and down?" Hi KJ It's just a well casing in the middle of the yard now, with no electricity there. I thought it would be nice to be able to use it to get a drink or water a garden - and would look cool too. I guess it would be...
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    Post your water well and pump questions

    If you haven't gotten burned out with people asking stuff - what would be involved in putting in a hand pump in an extra well I have. I think it's sort of shallow, like it hits water at 20 or 30 feet. There is a well casing sticking up about 3 feet above the ground now, it used to be in the milk...
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    found a jar of mercury?

    Well no wonder Ford quit making them!
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    What are you paying for electric?

    $.16 per kwh - our power is generated with coal brought in by train
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    found a jar of mercury?

    I found a penny a few years ago that was real silvery looking - like a dime. Now I know what that was, someone put mercury on it. I gave it to my brother in law, so no damage can come of it. He's already crazy.
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    Air compressor in unheated outbuilding?

    I have a heated shop built adjacent to my unheated garage. The compressor is in the unheated part and piped into the shop. It works just fine - winter and summer. I'm in Wisconsin, so it gets cold out there -especially last winter!
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    Pallet jacks with tilted forks?

    Brings back old memories - I'm glad I'm retired! 3/4 inch isn't so bad, it will lift what you need and be handy to have. A little wear in each pivot point can add up - a little material off the load wheels maybe. The red ones were Falcon brand usually. The big wheels are right I think, 8 inch...
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    Pallet jacks with tilted forks?

    If the frame was in good shape except for the holes being oblong, it wouldn't be so hard to weld inside the hole and file it to get the pin to fit again. If the frame is bent too, junk it. The trouble is, none of them are made very good. They are ment to be disposable I guess. Most companies...
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    Pallet jacks with tilted forks?

    If you pump it up and then lay it on it's side and wiggle the load wheels, there will probably be a bunch of slop in the linkage. Most likely the pins and bushings are worn bad, some of the pins are just 5/8 or 3/4 steel pins which can be duplicated easily. Bushings might be a little harder, and...
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    Pallet jack purchase. which one to buy??

    I spent 35 years keeping a fleet of electric lifts trucks running in a warehouse, and saw a LOT of hand pallet jacks come and go. They are so cheap that it is easy to spend more fixing it than a new one would cost. It usually wasn't the pump that was the problem, it was the lift linkage becoming...
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    any PVC pipe as air line blow out proof?

    If you used pvc pipe on a system with an old rusty water heater for the tank, which one would kill you first?
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    The Norwegian one car Volvo garage!

    Your garage would look nice with a 544 or an 1800 parked in there! Volvos are great cars, as you already know.
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    Staining a fence?

    Get Tom Sawyer to help you. He knew how to do this sort of thing.
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    straightening a warped door

    I had an old closet door that was warped bad. I tried getting it out by setting it on blocks, then parking a car on the high point and letting it sit for a couple of weeks. It seemed to get better, so I painted it nice and installed it. Now it's just as bad as it was. I think it's hopeless.
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    Best Weed Torch

    I burned the weeds around my pond a few years ago, in the spring when there was a bunch of dried grass around it. The good part was it cleared the area around the pond. The bad part was having the Johnsonville Fire Dept. come put out the rest of it. The neigbor kids thought it was just great -...
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    What kwh are you paying?

    Mine comes to 13 cents per kwh here in Wisconsin
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    A little math help please?

    The area of a circle is pi * radius squared - volume is area times length 3.14 times 1 squared is 3.14 3.14 times 100 is 314 cubic feet for the pipe volume for the ditch is height times width times length 2.5 times 2.5 times 100 is 625 cubic feet 625 cubic feet minus 314 cubic feet is 311...
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    62 to 69 in 2 hours 15 minutes--Typical

    The exhaust on mine (up here in Sheboygan Falls) got a whole bunch of ice and frost built up on the outlet a few days ago. Make sure both the inlet and exhaust are nice and clear.
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