- 121. Re: lawn tractor advice needed (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:38:47 -0500 (EST)
- I'm the guy who asked about lawn tractors a while back. Got some great advice... Thanks! We went out and looked at stuff this past weekend. Our criteria were: * 48" deck or bigger * hydrostatic tran
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00054.html (11,340 bytes)
- 122. RE: meek MIG melting aluminum? MJB welder fund (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:17:01 -0500 (EST)
- I'd chip in $10 toward this. There's a condition though... He has to write up a report on it so that I can see if I should get one for myself! Mark
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00103.html (7,986 bytes)
- 123. Re: HF Hydraulic Shop Presses (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:12:39 -0500 (EST)
- I dunno about "getting burned"... $50 around here is an hour of shop time and is often a "minimum" type of thing. Like anything else, if you need special tools that you don't own, you're pretty much
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00122.html (8,407 bytes)
- 124. Building a shop (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:15:55 -0500 (EST)
- So we're in the final stages of figuring out an offer to make on a house in Springfield Township, OH. The house has a well and septic system, along with utility line gas. There is no zoning. At that
- /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00025.html (9,714 bytes)
- 125. Re: Building a shop (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:45:27 -0500 (EST)
- I think actually there are two Springfield Twp's in OH... This one is over near the border of PA/OH, just north east of the first eastern exit on the Ohio Turnpike (I76 on the eastern end). Thanks t
- /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00031.html (9,014 bytes)
- 126. Re: Building a shop (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:03:39 -0500 (EST)
- Ah! Yeah, if you have a particular recommendation for a system, that'd be good to know. That sounds like a decent solution overall though... I'd kinda figured I'd need to put in another septic syste
- /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00036.html (9,100 bytes)
- 127. autobody HVLP spray gun recommendations? (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:41:20 -0500 (EST)
- My dad is interested in a new HVLP spray gun. He's had a couple normal guns along with an HVLP gun now (dunno what kind/type). Apparently he's had some issues with it w/regard to performance and per
- /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00049.html (8,241 bytes)
- 128. Repairing fiberglass tub (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:26:29 -0500 (EST)
- My fiancee's current house has a fiberglass built-in tub/shower unit. It has a "soft spot" in the floor of the tub that flexes when you step on it. Its also starting to show some cracks in the surfa
- /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00088.html (7,869 bytes)
- 129. Done -- was: Repairing fiberglass tub (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:31:08 -0500 (EST)
- So I poked around with this over the weekend... Ended up cutting an access panel into the subfloor underneath the tub. Definately a Monday morning tub or something... There was a 1/2" or so plywood
- /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00101.html (8,236 bytes)
- 130. Re: Disk brake problem - long and boring !! (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:38:01 -0500 (EST)
- I've never understood this, particularly with a rotor on hat design like many cars have these days where the rotor is slipped over the lug studs and is sandwiched between the wheel and hub. How does
- /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00134.html (9,124 bytes)
- 131. Building my own gas powered compressor (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:30:43 -0500 (EST)
- So I have a 6hp/30 gal (I think) single stage direct drive Sears compressor that I'll be upgrading sometime in the near future. I'd like to have a portable gas powered compressor for use when I'm aw
- /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00033.html (7,583 bytes)
- 132. Re: Building my own gas powered compressor (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:18:43 -0500 (EST)
- Interesting! Can unloaders be added to any compressor pump or must the compressor pump have been designed to accept them? Internet searches for air compressor unloaders also get a ton of hits for va
- /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00049.html (8,811 bytes)
- 133. Snow blower tire madness (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:13:27 -0500 (EST)
- Ok, I'd _really_ like to meet whoever thought this one up in a dark alley with a lead pipe in my hand... I just spent 1.5 hours trying to get a god d*mned snowblower tire to take air. Its a Honda sn
- /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00085.html (8,812 bytes)
- 134. RE: Snow blower tire madness (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:57:16 -0500 (EST)
- This seems to be a theme. I can certainly put tubes in there, but see below. I don't think the tire will handle large air pressure. Before I discovered the inner plastic ring that went on the inside
- /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00095.html (8,113 bytes)
- 135. Low speed tire sizes (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:08:43 -0500 (EST)
- Does anyone know how the various low speed tire sizes work? The snowblower tires from hell are 14x4-6 according to the sidewall. Of course, this size doesn't seem to exist in the real world. :-/ is
- /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00099.html (6,379 bytes)
- 136. rivet nuts (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:59:20 -0500 (EST)
- So I've just discovered rivet nuts. http://www.mcmaster.com/param/asp/psearch.asp?FAM=nutinserts&FT_158=7155&session=nutinserts;158=7155 What do home folks use for installing these? I'd like to use
- /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00108.html (7,109 bytes)
- 137. Re: rivet nuts (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:18:29 -0500 (EST)
- Mostly I want metric because all the stuff I work on these days (with the exception of my CP car) uses metric fasteners. I'd prefer not to mix, as it can make stuff difficult in terms of swapping ar
- /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00114.html (7,247 bytes)
- 138. RE: carry around tool kit. (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:19:04 -0500 (EST)
- Does AAA have any restrictions on the 100 mile towing thing? Like only a certain number of times a year or to the nearest dealer up to 100 miles away or whatever? It'd be worth it for insurance to m
- /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00130.html (9,641 bytes)
- 139. rough carpentry materials nowadays... (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:14:01 -0500 (EST)
- So I'm only 33, not that old, but yet I remember when 2x4's were cheap. What's the scoop on rough carpentry materials these days? I'm thinking about what I'll need to do to build a 15x35x16 two floo
- /html/shop-talk/2003-12/msg00036.html (7,166 bytes)
- 140. copper or brass as a backer for weld filling? (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:37:35 -0500 (EST)
- I was talking to a friend yesterday who's a fabricator, and mentioned that I was going to be starting to do some sheet metal patching work in the racecar to fill up some of the various holes in the
- /html/shop-talk/2003-12/msg00049.html (7,997 bytes)
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