- 41. [Shop-talk] Oil analysis - Blackstone (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:24:24 -0700
- OK, I have a 1986 BMW R80RT (motorcycle) with pushrods and solid lifters. Any recommendations for oil for a vintage engine (I have been using GTX 20W50). Aero oils?
- /html/shop-talk/2011-06/msg00554.html (9,612 bytes)
- 42. [Shop-talk] Fiberglass front door (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:35:36 -0700
- My front door (which for the record is steel) is painted white and faces east...and I have still blown up two tempered glass storm door windows. And I live in Washington State. A piece of polycarb fi
- /html/shop-talk/2011-06/msg00579.html (8,507 bytes)
- 43. [Shop-talk] faucets, mixing valves, and regular valves (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:12:49 -0700
- OK, now things are starting to make sense (to me, anyway). Yeah, it sounds like your easiest route might be just to plumb up two faucets somehow.
- /html/shop-talk/2011-07/msg00173.html (9,407 bytes)
- 44. [Shop-talk] Need to buy a plasma cutter for school (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:30:39 -0700
- My Tech Ed director needs to spend some money this summer and I can use a new plasma cutter for my welding lab. I can probably spend $1000-1500 or so, would prefer single phase 230, but have 3 phase
- /html/shop-talk/2011-07/msg00288.html (7,817 bytes)
- 45. [Shop-talk] How to glue concrete? (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:48:33 -0700
- A while back my wife had (more or less) decorative curbing installed around the driveway, shrubbery beds and the back yard. A couple of weeks ago we had a contractor in to do some dirt work and he dr
- /html/shop-talk/2011-07/msg00328.html (8,220 bytes)
- 46. [Shop-talk] Gutting a cottage and suffering from shipwright's disease / scope creep (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:48:20 -0700
- As far as I'm concerned, HVLP guns are for furniture. If you have to paint a house or walls, rent an airless, or an old school pressure pot system. The house sounds like enough work. I would bulldoze
- /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00188.html (9,355 bytes)
- 47. [Shop-talk] Tunneling drain pipe down a hill? (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:26:59 -0700
- I think what you're looking for is SDR 35 sewer and drain pipe. It's typically used for septic drain fields. Any place that sells irrigation and plumbing supplies should carry it. The Borgs might not
- /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00262.html (8,141 bytes)
- 48. [Shop-talk] Identifying taper and threading attachments on a (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:02:14 -0700
- Not necessarily; chasing or "picking up" an existing thread on a lathe with a threading dial is (or at least was) a pretty straightforward task for the average machinist. You just get the cutting too
- /html/shop-talk/2011-10/msg00182.html (9,004 bytes)
- 49. [Shop-talk] Shipping equipment (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:26:11 -0800
- I'm probably going to purchase a piece of vintage woodworking equipment (shop content), a Millbury tenoner to be exact. It weighs about 450 pounds crated, and it's in West Virginia and I'm in the Pug
- /html/shop-talk/2011-11/msg00149.html (7,819 bytes)
- 50. [Shop-talk] Portable air tanks? (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:35:43 -0800
- I have an old portable propane tank I use for a portable air tank. I did the conversion probably 15 years ago and all I remember is that the valve was really hard to get out and you need to be ingeni
- /html/shop-talk/2011-12/msg00204.html (9,964 bytes)
- 51. [Shop-talk] Buying tires online (or is it Tyres?) (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:33:16 -0800
- And speaking of which, and totally off topic... As Todd and the other PNW members know, Les Schwab is a chain in the Northwest, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana mostly. It's owned by the Schwab
- /html/shop-talk/2011-12/msg00244.html (11,100 bytes)
- 52. [Shop-talk] Insulating a garage door (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:22:27 -0800
- I have a large roll up door on my shop. It's about 12 x 12, regular sectional construction, with an opener. It's also uninsulated. I was thinking of gluing regular 1" foam board insulation (like foun
- /html/shop-talk/2012-01/msg00357.html (7,852 bytes)
- 53. [Shop-talk] Air hose reel opinions (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 19:43:19 -0700
- I have 3 of the generic HF retractable reels in my shop. They've been there for several years with no problems other than one of them springing a leak on the hose that connects the reel to the main a
- /html/shop-talk/2012-05/msg00014.html (9,769 bytes)
- 54. [Shop-talk] keyboard help (score: 149)
- Author: cavanadd at frontier.com (David C.)
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 19:00:29 -0700
- I dunno. I'm right handed but I have been mousing left handed for over 15 years. If I go back to a right handed mouse for any length of time I get tendinitis in my right hand/wrist pretty soon. It dr
- /html/shop-talk/2012-05/msg00030.html (9,102 bytes)
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