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  0 Thread: How To Place Outlets In Fireplace Built-ins?
Post: Re: How To Place Outlets In Fireplace Built-ins?
There is probably and easier way, but what I have done years ago while installing wall paneling is:[br]1) temporarily remove the receptacles.[br]2) install a box extender.[br]3) tape carbon paper, ca...
 BobbtheEE Woodworking 1 1,296 06-22-2016, 09:05 AM
  0 Thread: How can I pull a push mower up a steep hill?
Post: Re: How can I pull a push mower up a steep hill?
I went to college on a hilly campus in upstate New York in the late 1960s. I can remember watching the groundskeepers mowing the slopes. They had older reel push type mowers. They looked heavier tha...
 BobbtheEE Home Improvement 13 12,381 06-20-2016, 09:24 AM
  0 Thread: Drawer Front Install Help
Post: Re: Drawer Front Install Help
I haven't done this but.....align with spacers, while drawers are closed and in place, and use double stick tape to maintain position until fronts are fastened ?
 BobbtheEE Woodworking 6 4,624 06-09-2016, 09:00 AM
  0 Thread: Thoughts from RAS rippers
Post: Re: Thoughts from RAS rippers
My scariest kickback ever happened while ripping a thick board on a RAS, back in the day when it was my only stationary power tool. ( maybe 40 years ago ). There is still a mark on the back wall of t...
 BobbtheEE Woodworking Power Tools 11 9,149 05-26-2016, 09:20 AM
  0 Thread: workbench top
Post: Re: workbench top
40 years ago, when I moved into this house, the first order of business was to build a workbench. I agree with the fellow who said that mass is your friend. My workbench top is premium two by four...
 BobbtheEE Woodworking 13 8,542 05-25-2016, 07:58 AM
  0 Thread: Glass or no Glass? - need help deciding
Post: Re: Glass or no Glass? - need help deciding
I would think that Fort Collins is a fairly dusty environment and that might be factor. Why not try one with a non glare glass for a while, and see how you like it?[br]Bob
 BobbtheEE Woodworking 10 8,063 04-26-2016, 08:44 AM
  0 Thread: Can/how to Refurbish Beatup old woodworking bench top
Post: Re: Can/how to Refurbish Beatup old woodworking be...
+ 1 for the masonite. 40 years ago when I moved into this house I built my bench out of sandwiched 2 by 4's on edge. ( back then you could get a straight 2 by 4 ). Put masonite on top, and every te...
 BobbtheEE Woodworking 10 8,195 04-21-2016, 08:10 AM
  0 Thread: I Love This - Redneck Smoker
Post: Re: I Love This - Redneck Smoker
Wait !!! Is that a satellite dish on the top ??? /ssl_proxy.php?url=/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowlaugh.gif
 BobbtheEE Woodworking 10 8,374 04-15-2016, 08:15 AM
  0 Thread: Pressure washer problems
Post: Re: Pressure washer problems
Joe, I had that problem with mine a few years ago. On the advice of a fellow that repairs them, I started using those little pressurized cans of pump anti freeze/lubricant when I plan to store it f...
 BobbtheEE Home Improvement 2 4,706 04-11-2016, 08:19 AM
  0 Thread: Electric panel feed from meter (hope this is succinct enough)
Post: Re: Electric panel feed from meter (hope this is s...
I have no problem with the "supply side tap" as a mechanical means of establishing the second service from the meter. If it were mine, I would still install a fuse disconnect/circuit breaker as clos...
 BobbtheEE Home Improvement 4 5,453 01-09-2016, 09:35 AM
  0 Thread: Electric panel feed from meter (hope this is succinct enough)
Post: Re: Electric panel feed from meter (hope this is s...
Fred, electrically it's OK. But most residential meter bases will only accommodate one set of cables going in and one going out. But to physically make the connection, you will probably have to in...
 BobbtheEE Home Improvement 4 5,453 01-06-2016, 10:45 AM
  0 Thread: Electric panel feed from meter (hope this is succinct enough)
Post: Re: Electric panel feed from meter (hope this is s...
Fred, in my opinion, if the panel for the garage/shop is more than a few feet ( 5 ?, I don't have a code book here ) from the meter you should install a breaker/fuse disconnect switch near the mete...
 BobbtheEE Home Improvement 4 5,453 01-05-2016, 10:01 AM
  0 Thread: What is this? A clamp?
Post: Re: What is this? A clamp?
As an old engineer, who went to college before pocket calculators were invented, I used to enjoy taking a slide rule into work, and asking a young engineer what it was. They never understood the r...
 BobbtheEE Woodworking 8 5,231 12-12-2015, 09:54 AM
  0 Thread: What is this? A clamp?
Post: Re: What is this? A clamp?
It is gear puller. Also useful for pulling pulleys. ( a pulley puller ). The hooks hold the outside of the gear or pulley that is on shaft, and when you turn the screw against the end of the shaft...
 BobbtheEE Woodworking 8 5,231 12-11-2015, 06:04 PM
  0 Thread: Changing electric panel????
Post: Re: Changing electric panel????
Wiring to difficult to access locations ( center of the ceiling ) can be accomplished with surface wiring products ( i.e. wiremold ) They are not the most attractive things in the world, but when pai...
 BobbtheEE Home Improvement 5 4,583 11-19-2015, 08:52 AM
  0 Thread: There's a critter in my house...
Post: Re: There's a critter in my house...
Could be a bat ? Home to roost during daylight hours.[br]Bob
 BobbtheEE Home Improvement 6 6,389 08-27-2015, 08:22 AM

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