The best mower is a cheap Snapper you bought off of Craigslist. Easy to fix when it breaks, relatively cheap parts, and lots of excuses to sit out in the shop and tinker while you sip a beverage. Con
explode industrial It may take some age and strain, and you may never push it past that point to where it will fail. But if it does (and the chances of it failing are better than the chances of black
compressor Of course, different activities require different levels of dryness...but I wonder how humid the air is, despite it's non-condensing tendencies... I'm too lazy to perform the theoretical c
I see your cart, and raise you a picnic table: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROYA12tQH4 It probably wouldn't be much use at the junkyard, though. Jeff Scarbrough Corrosion Acres, Ga
Not advice, per se, but thoughts... I'd use a hard backerboard, and I'd put the thinset down. Your goal should be to make a surface that doesn't flex; so you need the gap-filling of the thinset to ma
coil half Back in the day, when I was a professional schmieraffe, we used to have VWs come in all the time with a popped spark plug. The cheap fix was to grease up the tap to catch the chips, cut new
You'll be using a power tool in your shop, right? How about a drill? McMaster-Carr, for instance, has many long-length, small diameter drills. Their # 2986A51 is a 1/8" by 12" drill...you would need
Not specifically, but I would caution you to not send all the film in one bunch... In my case, I found a company 60 miles away that does conversion on-site. Though I haven't used them yet, I can go l
shop I built mine 24x 26, and have had 3 LBCs and two Volkswagen Busses in it, plus all the tools. But there wasn't room for me then. The county wouldn't let me build bigger, so I've wised up and sol
My completely uninformed thoughts on the matter are that they contain something to disperse water, and an oily substance that is immiscible in gasoline and also less dense, sealing the lighter fracti
Forgive the waste of bandwidth...I'm having trouble (I think) posting a message about air compressors. Is there a way to search the archives? Jeff Scarbrough Corrosion Acres, Ga.
Hello and Happy Festivus! Santa has graciously allowed me to pick out an air compressor for my Christmas gift. However, he claims to not know too much about various brands. After telling me my budget
We bought a few Kubota GL series generators some years back, and tortured the heck out of 'em. Ran them constantly for two or three weeks at a time, shutting down only long enough to change the oil.
o.d. McMaster-Carr lists some thin-wall Stainless Steel pipe. Something there might be close...go to mcmaster.com and search for Thin-Wall Stainless Steel Unthreaded Pipe... Jeff Scarbrough Corrosion
I'm not sure how good of an idea that would be. The cable in question is part of a critical system, especially in a car with a single-cylinder brake system. When you have your service brake fail, the
So, here's a shop-related question...My shop is some distance from the house, and in a semi-rural location. I'd like to switch off the porch light over the shop steps, but have it remain illuminated
Of all the suggestions, I think this is the one I favor, from Bill Rabel and others: Kind of pricey, but offers the advantage of keeping the light on steadily, so that visitors will feel welcome, and