- 81. Re: [Shop-talk] Check engine light on a 2003 HD2500 (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:58:56 -0400
- No specific help for your truck, but I've seen a very similar problem on a couple of different diesel Volkswagens. In the VWs, the first step is to check the resistance of all of the glow plugs. The
- /html/shop-talk/2011-04/msg00184.html (8,198 bytes)
- 82. Re: [Shop-talk] Modular wall-mount storage rails? (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 19:11:30 -0400
- I bought one of the FastTrack hangers for another project and it was very poorly cast junk. It broke before I could even hang a tool on it. I may have gotten a bad one, but I'd evaluate it closely be
- /html/shop-talk/2011-05/msg00028.html (8,702 bytes)
- 83. Re: [Shop-talk] John Deere LX188 Carb Removal (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 16:13:49 -0400
- Thanks for the tips Jeff. Right after I sent that email I thought, "It can't really be that hard." and went back out to the garage. I gave it a pretty thorough look-over and the part that was confusi
- /html/shop-talk/2011-05/msg00170.html (8,964 bytes)
- 84. Re: [Shop-talk] Repair for polycarbonate suitcase (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Parkanzky" <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 12:41:35 -0400
- I would think that any of the stronger, low-polarity solvents would do just fine. I'd probably use Dichloromethane (AKA Methylene Chloride or DCM). What you'll be doing is exactly the same thing you
- /html/shop-talk/2011-05/msg00198.html (9,246 bytes)
- 85. Re: [Shop-talk] PEX plumbing (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Parkanzky" <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 15:12:43 -0400
- I recently finished my basement, adding a bathroom and wet bar in the process. I did all of the plumbing with PEX (and used copper stub-outs at the wall to finish it out. I love PEX plumbing. My fath
- /html/shop-talk/2011-05/msg00201.html (9,705 bytes)
- 86. Re: [Shop-talk] pex piping question (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Parkanzky" <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 15:55:11 -0400
- This stuff gets buried all the time for those outdoor wood furnace installs. It's incredibly easy to work with. You can't make a very small radius turn, but otherwise it installs about like garden ho
- /html/shop-talk/2011-05/msg00203.html (8,099 bytes)
- 87. Re: [Shop-talk] HIGH pressure compressed air? (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Parkanzky" <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:19:57 -0400
- It's the same way you can run your air tools off of a 3000 PSI tank of Nitrogen at the track. You regulate it down to the working pressure of the gun. The paintball never sees 5000 PSI, it gets whate
- /html/shop-talk/2011-05/msg00235.html (10,058 bytes)
- 88. Re: [Shop-talk] gps to find the shop (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Parkanzky" <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:31:54 -0400
- What features do you care about? We have two Mio Digiwalker C310's that we bought for ~$125 around five years ago and we loved them. The power cord failed on one of them (and the batteries gave up th
- /html/shop-talk/2011-06/msg00079.html (10,367 bytes)
- 89. Re: [Shop-talk] gps stuff (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:11:18 -0400
- One more important issue with using a smartphone as a GPS is that it gets the maps over cellular data (They're usually not stored on the phone). That means that you lose your maps when you don't have
- /html/shop-talk/2011-06/msg00110.html (9,584 bytes)
- 90. Re: [Shop-talk] quiet compressor (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Parkanzky" <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:29:22 -0400
- We went through similar here at work. We bought an oil-less pancake compressor to provide air to laboratory instruments when the house air was shut down over the weekend (GC FIDs, in case we're tryin
- /html/shop-talk/2011-06/msg00216.html (8,687 bytes)
- 91. Re: [Shop-talk] radiator cooling fan for a test stand (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Parkanzky" <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:58:06 -0500
- Did the Caddy you got the radiator from have an electric fan? Otherwise, do you have any You-Pull-It style yards in your area? If you do, you could walk the yard until you come across a setup that is
- /html/shop-talk/2011-12/msg00124.html (9,109 bytes)
- 92. Re: [Shop-talk] Can steel cable be welded? (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:14:04 -0500
- Can you just wrap the cable around something small and secure it so that you've effectively shortened it an inch without removing any cable? I'm thinking you'd wrap it around a small bolt with a nut
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00125.html (9,685 bytes)
- 93. Re: [Shop-talk] Battery minders? (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Parkanzky" <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:12 -0500
- I'll just chime in with advice on what _not_ to buy. I had a Black & Decker float charger and had nothing but problems with it. A couple of times I would go to drive my car (Also an '05 Elise) and th
- /html/shop-talk/2012-02/msg00059.html (10,436 bytes)
- 94. Re: [Shop-talk] Repairing a clasp--could be shop-related (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:59:12 -0400
- Does the strap ever need to come off the purse? A couple dabs of epoxy and you can solve the problem by permanently closing the clasp. If you are careful you can inject it into the mechanism without
- /html/shop-talk/2011-10/msg00085.html (11,778 bytes)
- 95. [Shop-talk] Tim Mullen (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:36:30 -0400
- All, This message was relayed on a British car forum where Tim and I have both been active: Hello everyone, This is Tim Mullen's wife. Tim had a massive episode of what we don't really know, but put
- /html/shop-talk/2012-04/msg00120.html (11,125 bytes)
- 96. Re: [Shop-talk] Fw: Tim Mullen (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:53:31 -0400
- Eric, I'm afraid that I don't have any more a direct line to Tim than you do. I can, however, pass along some great news from the forums: --From the Forums (Not My Writing)-- My wife Debbie & I went
- /html/shop-talk/2012-04/msg00134.html (15,178 bytes)
- 97. Re: [Shop-talk] Bio diesel question. (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 16:45:26 -0400
- I used to work for a company that made baby oil and would occasionally run my diesel car (a '00 TDI Jetta) on "scrap." Baby oil is almost pure light mineral oil with a trace of perfume and/or a bit o
- /html/shop-talk/2012-05/msg00188.html (12,884 bytes)
- 98. Re: [Shop-talk] OT hep with ants PLEASE (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:13:30 -0400
- I'm a big believer in Terro ant killer. Anytime we have ants I put a couple of caps full out and they're all gone in a few days. -Paul several rather large anthills in the front yard. I happened to h
- /html/shop-talk/2012-05/msg00205.html (18,578 bytes)
- 99. Re: [Shop-talk] Ford Explorer Brake Line Repair (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:42:21 -0400
- It wasn't long ago that we expected an eight or nine year old vehicle to be held together by hope and zip ties. Now, a piece fails and you're ready to call the lawyers? Cars have come a long way in t
- /html/shop-talk/2012-08/msg00033.html (11,234 bytes)
- 100. Re: [Shop-talk] New PC (was Dead PC) (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:27:00 -0700
- I'm friends with the IT manager at my previous employer. He always said that If you buy a Dell to get one of their business machines, because the support on that side is great while the consumer-side
- /html/shop-talk/2012-08/msg00158.html (11,054 bytes)
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