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81. Re: Framing nailers, HF or other (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>; Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:49:21 -0500; "PJ McGarvey" <pj_mcgarvey@hotmail.com> wrote... Related subject: As long as you mentioned finish nailers, can you or anyone give any reviews on HF or other low-priced finish nailers? I need to trim; /html/shop-talk/2004-08/msg00181.html (7,789 bytes)
82. Re: Framing nailers, HF or other (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>; Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:18:08 -0500; "Elton Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net> wrote... Try another brand of screws. You don't need to spend big bucks for SS unless you prefer them. I've had boxes of the Chinese screws where the head pops; /html/shop-talk/2004-08/msg00185.html (8,752 bytes)
83. Re: Paint sprayers for latex paint (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:49:11 -0500; Ditto here. And though I otherwise refuse to use Benjamin Moore paint, there's one exception -- their Impervo alkyd enamel is just incredible. Sand the work well before painting and use a nice China; /html/shop-talk/2004-07/msg00026.html (8,105 bytes)
84. Re: Taps & Dies (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:03:11 -0500; What has often ruined work for me has been poor tolerances on hardware-store stuff. In particular, Ace brand (NOT related to the hardware chain AFAIK) taps and dies have tended to cut too much - unde; /html/shop-talk/2004-07/msg00027.html (6,831 bytes)
85. Re: complicated modern cars (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>; Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:51:14 -0500; Getting hydraulic brakes in 1939 cost Ford the rights to his soybean-based synthetic enamel to quickly get hydraulic brakes once he was finally convinced they were essential. He traded with another a; /html/shop-talk/2004-07/msg00088.html (8,646 bytes)
86. Compressor-related motor question (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:05:27 -0500; Thanks, Randall, for your (seems like anyway) annual refresher course in how Sears, C&H, etc. flat lie to people on motor horsepower. The big HP numbers these guys throw around -- even HP numbers for; /html/shop-talk/2004-07/msg00094.html (7,712 bytes)
87. Re: Compressor-related motor question (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:35:17 -0500; OK, thanks. As far as all the assumptions about pulley sizes, I really can't say, as I loaned that particular compressor out 20+ years ago and that guy's still got it (my dentist pal - long story). H; /html/shop-talk/2004-07/msg00096.html (9,490 bytes)
88. Re: Pinstripe removal (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:45:09 -0500; I assume from your post that these are tape stripes. Most adhesives that old are pretty well set, and regular solvents like Goo Gone don't usually do much. I don't know whether the method I used on s; /html/shop-talk/2004-06/msg00129.html (8,364 bytes)
89. Re: GOOD Two-Line Cordless Phones? (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:47:35 -0500; 900 MHz phones seem to perform better than the supposedly superior 2.4 GHz models. And try to get a phone with NiMH or LiIon batteries rather than NiCads. We've had surprisingly good luck with three; /html/shop-talk/2004-05/msg00088.html (8,683 bytes)
90. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:59:20 -0500; Fred Thomas wrote... <snip> Nope - never heard of any around here. Oil Express shops all have pits in this area. I've never seen any ventilators there, and they invite customers down into the pit to; /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00065.html (8,990 bytes)
91. Re: lawn tractor advice needed (looong reply) (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:34:41 -0600; Went through the same decision a couple of years ago. I only have less than 1/2 acre, but the grass grows really fast and I cut every 3 days for much of the season. In the fall, we have lots of leav; /html/shop-talk/2004-03/msg00046.html (17,199 bytes)
92. Re: Spindle speeds (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 06:47:57 -0600; There are old Stewart-Warner hand-held tachs available (cheap !) on eBay almost every day. Karl by 500's... lathe...; /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00047.html (6,974 bytes)
93. Disk brake problem - long and boring !! (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:00:45 -0600; I have an epidemic of disk brake pulsation, with 2 different cars doing it soon after brake jobs. Multiple times in a row. I've been doing this a while - starting in 1965, on my '57 smallmouth TR3. I; /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00122.html (11,292 bytes)
94. Re: Disk brake problem - long and boring !! (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:55:13 -0600; Wow - what an article !! Makes me glad to hear that he too has never seen a warped brake disk. And it makes lots of sense that most disks with decent modern metallurgy WON'T have hard and soft spots; /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00125.html (8,759 bytes)
95. Re: Disk brake problem - long and boring !! (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:18:30 -0600; Michael D. Porter wrote... found low spots--was that done by miking the indicator while the rotors were mounted? Both, but again, I saw maybe a few tenths - not thousandths at all. Wheel bearing play; /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00127.html (11,308 bytes)
96. Re: Disk brake problem - long and boring !! (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:51:43 -0600; Hey - I wasn't disparaging the article one little bit -- I thought it was great. It was impressive even if it HAD been from a dweeb ;-) I immediately forwarded the link to 7 or 8 car and engineering; /html/shop-talk/2004-02/msg00135.html (9,109 bytes)
97. Re: Building my own gas powered compressor (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:29:24 -0600; Compressors used with gas engines, and often high-hp electric compressors as well, use unloader mechanisms. The engine or motor turns the compressor over constantly, but when the system is up to pre; /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00037.html (8,068 bytes)
98. Re: [personal] Re: Building my own gas powered compressor (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:24:31 -0600; My only experience is with compressors designed that way. Given that the valves aren/ as externally accessible on most of the more throw-away (ie Sears, etc.) compressors I've seen, I don't know how; /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00050.html (9,685 bytes)
99. Re: question on floor coatings (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:18:33 -0600; I own a 40,000 square foot industrial building with concrete floors that we coated with 2-part polyurethane in 1963 - and the concrete was old then. We scrubbed it, removed all the oil where equipmen; /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00059.html (8,019 bytes)
100. Re: carry around tool kit. (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:53:11 -0600; Towing insurance can be really cheap if added in with your car insurance. State Farm charges us $3.80 every 6-month policy period. That's per car, so in total for our 3 modern cars we pay $22.80 per; /html/shop-talk/2004-01/msg00128.html (10,121 bytes)

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