- 21. RE: Fixing my Spa (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:55:57 -0700
- Disconnect the motor leads from the GFCI (all 3 of them), then use an ohmmeter to check for leakage between the ground and neutral. Use the highest scale you've got ... IMO anything less than a mego
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00034.html (7,832 bytes)
- 22. RE: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:36:30 -0700
- Interesting link, but doesn't seem relevant to me. The opening into Fred's pit is a whole lot bigger than 3' by 3' and it's never closed. Randall
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00064.html (7,865 bytes)
- 23. RE: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:37:05 -0700
- Come to think of it, the muffler shop that put a new muffler on my TR3A for me a few weeks ago has a 3-wide pit. Fellow welds down there and everything. No idea how long the shop has been there, but
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00069.html (8,146 bytes)
- 24. RE: It's the pits (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:34:41 -0700
- Or if your sanitary sewer isn't that deep (mine certainly isn't), leave room in the sump for a pump and bring out a sanitary trap and air break for the pump to empty into. Randall
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00077.html (6,716 bytes)
- 25. RE: Battery Voltages (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:34:06 -0700
- Reasonable assumption : by "conventional" he meant carbon-zinc. These are "flashlight" battery sizes after all ... and for both carbon zinc and alkaline battery chemistries, no load voltage is a fai
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00078.html (8,590 bytes)
- 26. RE: Forwarded: recycle gas? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:22:37 -0700
- Around here, it would have to go to the "household hazardous waste roundup" that my city holds twice a year. However, I've had good luck with diluting it about 4:1 with fresh gas and burning it in th
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00085.html (6,935 bytes)
- 27. RE: Battery Voltages (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:30:41 -0700
- Well, I can't speak for others, but my daughter has a habit of taking batteries out and leaving them laying around the house. When I find them, I can't figure out if they're laying out because they
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00086.html (8,568 bytes)
- 28. RE: Battery Voltages (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:40:26 -0700
- I tried that ... must've been the _only_ time _ever_ she actually threw away a run-down battery ... <G> And of course not at home, so I couldn't dig them back out of the trash either. So, I just buy
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00090.html (7,819 bytes)
- 29. RE: Gantry cranes....a follow-up (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:48:21 -0700
- I didn't work there, but I believe the answer is 'Yes', they have a special deal with a shipping company. Large items take a long time to get to you, so I'm guessing they go on a "space available" b
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00095.html (7,842 bytes)
- 30. RE: e machine shop (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:02:41 -0700
- Not sure I understand the question ... but there is a metalworking FAQ at http://w3.uwyo.edu/~metal/ that has a lot of info in it and links to more. Randall
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00096.html (6,871 bytes)
- 31. RE: Welding smarts, was Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:10:22 -0700
- Why not ? You're already suffering from a fatal disease ...
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00101.html (7,056 bytes)
- 32. RE: Carbide vs. HSS (black oxide?) rotary burrs? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:38:15 -0700
- Mike, I can't really answer your question, but I've got a set of cheap carbide burrs (ISTR I paid under $30 for the set of 6 in a nice wood box, either from Enco or HF) and they last a lot longer th
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00107.html (7,825 bytes)
- 33. RE: Sludge removal in gas tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:20:41 -0700
- I doubt it. In spite of their similar appearance, rust and varnish are very different things. Randall
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00119.html (7,776 bytes)
- 34. RE: Sludge removal in gas tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:27:11 -0700
- Look for the stuff with the warning about methylene chloride on the can. It works a lot better than Gumout brand ... but be careful about getting it on your hands (esp under your fingernails). Haven
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00120.html (7,837 bytes)
- 35. RE: Tool inventory (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:12:54 -0800
- Not sure this is right ... but it seems to me that you should record the actual price you paid and the condition of the tool (new, used, broken, whatever). Since you do have replacement value insura
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00008.html (8,355 bytes)
- 36. RE: Florescent lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:33:58 -0800
- Wayne, perhaps I'm missing something. Why can't you just replace the ballasts with electronic ballasts ? It's not the bulbs making the noise, it's the magnetic ballasts (and whatever else they can r
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00011.html (7,818 bytes)
- 37. RE: Florescent lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:36:37 -0800
- To the best of my knowledge ... nothing. The amount of mercury is small (all kinds of fluorescent bulbs account for only about 1% of mercury released into the environment each year) and so far no on
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00012.html (7,965 bytes)
- 38. RE: Florescent lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:30:03 -0800
- Home Despot had electronic ballasts for two F96T12 single-pin bulbs last time I looked. As someone else said, they weren't much cheaper than the entire fixture (maybe even a bit more than a fixture
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00017.html (7,848 bytes)
- 39. RE: new parts washer pump says no solvent? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:11:27 -0800
- When I bought mine, it came without any such warnings, and in fact came with 5 gallons of solvent. About a year later, the pump was a mass of goo, the solvent had attacked both the seals and the imp
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00021.html (7,299 bytes)
- 40. RE: new parts washer pump says no solvent? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:50:31 -0800
- One very good reason is to reduce evaporation. My parts cleaner was no where near air-tight, and most of the solvent evaporated during the couple of years I didn't use it (and before I discovered th
- /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00024.html (7,095 bytes)
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