- 1. Re: Garage Door Balance (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:04:55 -0800
- With all due respect to the serious nature of the garage door question, this type of tool-purchase question galls me. Do you have a legitimate (not contrived) use for a drill press? If so, go get on
- /html/shop-talk/1998-03/msg00082.html (9,202 bytes)
- 2. Re: lubrication (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 18:49:19 -0800
- With the exception of graphite, none of those listed are water-soluble and therefore shouldn't be used on condoms. I, personally, wouldn't use graphite, either. andy banta@abingdon.sun.com
- /html/shop-talk/1997-12/msg00050.html (6,813 bytes)
- 3. Re: Mobil 1 Synthetic Oil makes HORSEPOWER!! (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:52:12 -0800
- Infinite. The diffence between running the two when at 300F oil temp is easily noticable. I have the pictures. andy banta@abingdon.sun.com
- /html/shop-talk/1997-11/msg00020.html (6,976 bytes)
- 4. Re: Dial Indicator (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 13:54:51 -0700
- Can someone explain how you read the graduations on this device? The markings seem to be repetitive and I have little faith it's calibrated properly. andy banta@abingdon.sun.com
- /html/shop-talk/1997-09/msg00028.html (7,925 bytes)
- 5. When to Say When (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 14:19:33 -0700
- I wrote this as a column for a newsletter, but thought the readers here might enjoy it. andy The Tool Trap My desire to compete in motorsports went hand-in-hand with my desire to wrench on cars. Whil
- /html/shop-talk/1997-05/msg00071.html (11,694 bytes)
- 6. Re: Steel buildings for shop (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:51:22 -0700
- Provided they're *heated*, they're as warm as a conventional building. I have a 40' x 60' insulated shop, and while the temperature inside probably doesn't vary more than 10 degrees on any given day
- /html/shop-talk/1996-04/msg00015.html (8,946 bytes)
- 7. Re: Dream Shops (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 10:19:41 -0700
- For automotive-related shops, I'd think just the opposite would be desirable: a "clean" room for engine and precision machine work assembly. That's exactly what I've done. It's a fairly small room w
- /html/shop-talk/1996-04/msg00023.html (7,776 bytes)
- 8. Tool purchase advice (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:37:54 -0700
- This is long and entertaining with almost no relevant content. I pulled it off the 'net. Original attributions are at the bottom. andy banta@abingdon.sun.com ABSOLUTE TRUE AND UNEMBELLISHED TALE OF B
- /html/shop-talk/1996-04/msg00042.html (14,231 bytes)
- 9. Re: light - was benches (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:18:47 -0800
- Most shops I've been in have fluorescent (note spelling) lights and haven't had a problem. I have a bigger problem with incandescents casting shadows on the work I'm dealing with. I have fluorescent
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00087.html (8,533 bytes)
- 10. Re: benches (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:27:44 -0800
- Around here, the building supply places *always* have a collection of damaged stuff out in front of the store. More often than not, there'll be a chunk of formica countertop at some ridiculously low
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00088.html (9,852 bytes)
- 11. Re: light - was benches (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 08:06:47 -0800
- I've never ripped into one to the "workshop" lights I pick up, but they're far too light to have a ballast in them. I always assumed they had some funky little circuit that didn't put out decent-eno
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00102.html (8,003 bytes)
- 12. Re: light - was benches (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:26:14 -0800
- I pulled apart one of the lights I have over the weekend. Rather than the usual sized ballast, this had two separate transformers, one for each bulb, roughly an inch or so cube. They're noisy, but p
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00122.html (8,203 bytes)
- 13. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:28:23 -0800
- I don't know what you mean by "along the ceiling," but I'd probably build a smallish box section to hide numerous runs of flexible conduit. Flexible conduit is far easier to play with than bending E
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00138.html (10,505 bytes)
- 14. Phase converters (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:59:02 -0800
- Despite living deep in cattle country, three phase power wasn't available to me when I moved into my new shop. This was a pretty tough break, since my mill had a three phase motor on it. Rutland (the
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00139.html (8,685 bytes)
- 15. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:00:27 -0800
- A recommendation that should be heeded as much as anything our government tells us. :-) An overused breaker will invariably trip to the fault of caution. I don't mean to sound careless to any extent
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00141.html (9,039 bytes)
- 16. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:37:41 -0800
- You can get some GFCI *outlets* that allow some daisy chaining. This may solve your shared neutral problem and the half-size breakers. andy
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00162.html (8,942 bytes)
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