- 41. Re: [Shop-talk] generac generator won't start ??? (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:10:51 -0700
- Could still be a bad battery. I have had situations where the battery showed full voltage but still wouldn't provide the current for starting. I'd try a different battery (or maybe a jump start?) bef
- /html/shop-talk/2011-06/msg00259.html (9,586 bytes)
- 42. Re: [Shop-talk] Fiberglass front door (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:35:36 -0700
- My front door (which for the record is steel) is painted white and faces east...and I have still blown up two tempered glass storm door windows. And I live in Washington State. A piece of polycarb fi
- /html/shop-talk/2011-06/msg00282.html (7,595 bytes)
- 43. Re: [Shop-talk] faucets, mixing valves, and regular valves (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:12:49 -0700
- OK, now things are starting to make sense (to me, anyway). Yeah, it sounds like your easiest route might be just to plumb up two faucets somehow. _______________________________________________ Shop-
- /html/shop-talk/2011-07/msg00005.html (7,638 bytes)
- 44. Re: [Shop-talk] Water testing (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:51:03 -0700
- County health department? County AG extension agent might also have some ideas. _______________________________________________ Shop-talk@autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Sugges
- /html/shop-talk/2011-07/msg00090.html (8,658 bytes)
- 45. Re: [Shop-talk] Parts solvent (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:08:15 -0700
- I prefer solvent based cleaners. Kerosene will work but it's smelly and oily. Likewise diesel. I prefer regular mineral spirits/paint thinner/stoddard solvent. If you're feeling wealthy, you can use
- /html/shop-talk/2011-07/msg00103.html (7,851 bytes)
- 46. [Shop-talk] Need to buy a plasma cutter for school (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:30:39 -0700
- My Tech Ed director needs to spend some money this summer and I can use a new plasma cutter for my welding lab. I can probably spend $1000-1500 or so, would prefer single phase 230, but have 3 phase
- /html/shop-talk/2011-07/msg00120.html (6,705 bytes)
- 47. [Shop-talk] How to glue concrete? (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:48:33 -0700
- A while back my wife had (more or less) decorative curbing installed around the driveway, shrubbery beds and the back yard. A couple of weeks ago we had a contractor in to do some dirt work and he dr
- /html/shop-talk/2011-07/msg00160.html (7,230 bytes)
- 48. Re: [Shop-talk] Window a/c unit for the garage (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:04:08 -0700
- If you're looking for a heat pump I would think a split system would be the way to go; all the advantages already mentioned by the others. You'll probably need a contractor to install it, though, and
- /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00027.html (11,504 bytes)
- 49. Re: [Shop-talk] Sears Atlas lathe (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:27:15 -0700
- If it has flat ways, pass. If it has V ways, maybe. Other things you want is a quick change gear box, back gears, threading dial and as much tooling as possible. Hopefully a QC tool post. ___________
- /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00053.html (8,650 bytes)
- 50. Re: [Shop-talk] Gutting a cottage and suffering from shipwright's (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:48:20 -0700
- As far as I'm concerned, HVLP guns are for furniture. If you have to paint a house or walls, rent an airless, or an old school pressure pot system. The house sounds like enough work. I would bulldoze
- /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00066.html (8,431 bytes)
- 51. Re: [Shop-talk] Spray foam (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:33:09 -0700
- Actually I haven't seen it on TV, because I don't watch TV, but I think you're talking about spray polyurethane foam. You could probably talk to an industrial roofing contractor or roofing supplier a
- /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00121.html (7,840 bytes)
- 52. Re: [Shop-talk] Next question, large area outdoor lights (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:33:10 -0800
- MV lights are old tech and as someone else pointed out, high pressure sodium are more efficient. However, I went with a couple of CFL floods to illuminate the area in front of my shop and I'm pretty
- /html/shop-talk/2011-11/msg00022.html (9,527 bytes)
- 53. [Shop-talk] Shipping equipment (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:26:11 -0800
- I'm probably going to purchase a piece of vintage woodworking equipment (shop content), a Millbury tenoner to be exact. It weighs about 450 pounds crated, and it's in West Virginia and I'm in the Pug
- /html/shop-talk/2011-11/msg00036.html (7,255 bytes)
- 54. Re: [Shop-talk] Portable air tanks? (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:35:43 -0800
- I have an old portable propane tank I use for a portable air tank. I did the conversion probably 15 years ago and all I remember is that the valve was really hard to get out and you need to be ingeni
- /html/shop-talk/2011-12/msg00030.html (8,126 bytes)
- 55. Re: [Shop-talk] Buying tires online (or is it Tyres?) (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:33:16 -0800
- And speaking of which, and totally off topic... As Todd and the other PNW members know, Les Schwab is a chain in the Northwest, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana mostly. It's owned by the Schwab
- /html/shop-talk/2011-12/msg00070.html (9,914 bytes)
- 56. Re: [Shop-talk] Didn't get what you want for Xmas? (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:39:56 -0800
- No Bridgeport? Pass. _______________________________________________ Shop-talk@autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $12.96 Archive: http://www.team.net/arc
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00046.html (7,830 bytes)
- 57. Re: [Shop-talk] Rebuilding car batteries (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:31:23 -0800
- To do it yourself, here ya go: You can read it on line, download it to your Kindle, or buy a copy from Lindsay Publications (I have a copy on the shelf). My grandfather had a fairly thriving automoti
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00065.html (9,595 bytes)
- 58. Re: [Shop-talk] question about cheap air compressors (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:44:51 -0800
- I only have one blue PVC air hose and it's a PITA to use at anything much below 55 degrees or so. It's a huge pain to use with air tools so it's been left in the garage for inflating purposes only. _
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00066.html (8,992 bytes)
- 59. [Shop-talk] Insulating a garage door (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:22:27 -0800
- I have a large roll up door on my shop. It's about 12 x 12, regular sectional construction, with an opener. It's also uninsulated. I was thinking of gluing regular 1" foam board insulation (like foun
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00144.html (6,649 bytes)
- 60. Re: [Shop-talk] Insulating a garage door (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@frontier.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:39:45 -0800
- Spray foam is essentially the same thing as Gorilla Glue and that stuff sticks to everything, apparently forever. I have some on my brief case that is nearly 20 years old. Another member sent me a no
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00146.html (8,005 bytes)
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