- 381. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:19:38 -0400
- I've got this ratchet: http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&tool=&item_ID=81186&group_ID=20864&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog (I've actually got a set of three, one each drive size). It has a
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- 382. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:28:44 -0400
- Kobalt is Lowes's brand. They shop it around, like Sears does with craftsman. It's my understanding that it's mostly no longer made by Williams, who are owned *by* Snap-On[1], not the other way aroun
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00246.html (8,937 bytes)
- 383. Re: [Shop-talk] air fttings (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:15:03 -0400
- Another thing to consider is that 3/8 fittings aren't supposed be undone under pressure. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://w
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00021.html (8,556 bytes)
- 384. Re: [Shop-talk] air fttings (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 13:07:37 -0400
- page 36 of the current Milton catalog has a nice chart, with full-sized drawings of all those difrerent plugs http://www.miltonindustries.com/uploads/Page_36_Milton_Catalog.pdf When I ran a shop, one
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00028.html (11,331 bytes)
- 385. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:16:23 -0400
- They're all part of the stanley works, for better or worse. I think all the current blackhawk stuff is proto stuff, intended for a different sales channel. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com ______
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- 386. Re: [Shop-talk] 6 volts (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:55:32 -0400
- The 8V battery was a pretty common jalopy fix for a slow turning starter. Easier to slap one in, give the voltage regulator a couple twists of a screwdriver (They're mechanical, and can often be adju
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00040.html (8,894 bytes)
- 387. Re: [Shop-talk] Dryer vents? (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:24:55 -0400
- With a dryer that's not in a fixed position, with access to the back, it's pretty tough to use only a rigid pipe. Use as short a piece of flexible hose as you can, and use a good quality hose. -- Dav
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00090.html (8,942 bytes)
- 388. Re: [Shop-talk] Dryer vents? (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:22:54 -0400
- The problem is that the exhaust loses energy as moves around the bends and lengths of the pipe. Until a few months ago, our dryer was against the west side of an interior wall. The vent was a piece o
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00094.html (8,852 bytes)
- 389. Re: [Shop-talk] recessed triangular screw heads (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:59:43 -0400
- Got an industrial fastener place around? I got to say, though, I've seen lots of weird heads, but never one like that. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com ___________________________________________
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00098.html (8,428 bytes)
- 390. Re: [Shop-talk] smoking 1993 El Dorado (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:35:53 -0400
- Sweet smell is coolant. It's very hard for coolant to get into the oil in the Northstar engine (it's a design feature.), so it's not likely you'd be able to see it. Northstar engines, particularly th
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00117.html (8,921 bytes)
- 391. Re: [Shop-talk] smoking 1993 El Dorado (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:01:34 -0400
- If I remember right (been years since I've worked on one of these), there isn't one. The factory sealant is a tablet-like thing that goes into the upper radiator hose. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmai
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00119.html (8,287 bytes)
- 392. Re: [Shop-talk] coil spring isolators (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:01:58 -0400
- Was the shop you talked to a car shop, or a truck shop? You want a good truck shop. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.te
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00131.html (8,224 bytes)
- 393. Re: [Shop-talk] 6 volts DC (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:01:36 -0400
- Is there a reason you don't go buy a six volt battery? If there's a farm supply place around, you'll be able to pick one up for 40 bucks or so. Lots of old tractors still running 6V electrical system
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00144.html (7,662 bytes)
- 394. Re: [Shop-talk] Cheap vs. name tools (was: Levels) (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:32:04 -0400
- do that, and presumably make a profit at it, with me You'll notice the price of your light is now $3, which is 50% hike in 10 months. So, yeah, chinese tool prices are going up. Shipping prices from
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00186.html (9,097 bytes)
- 395. Re: [Shop-talk] Cheap vs. name tools (was: Levels) (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:41:39 -0400
- In fact, China has a labor *shortage*, and wages are rising rapidly. High-labor, low-skill jobs are leaving China, and going elsewhere, where it's cheaper. (Mostly to Vietnam, at the moment, some pla
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00189.html (9,188 bytes)
- 396. Re: [Shop-talk] Levels (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:30:13 -0400
- I had one of those (not from HF, but similar level of quality and price). I bought it to do spring bushings on my Land-Rover. It did one. On the second, the threads came right off the threaded rod. W
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00192.html (10,547 bytes)
- 397. Re: [Shop-talk] Heat Pumps? (part 2 of 2) (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:58:37 -0400
- Okay. It's *not* "about 55F" all the time. Ground temperature below a couple meters is not about 55F. It's, very roughly, the average yearly air temperature. That's 50 to 60 in much of the country, b
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00250.html (7,736 bytes)
- 398. Re: [Shop-talk] Antennae (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:31:38 -0400
- Since he got decent reception before he put foil on the roof, it's pretty likely he'll do just fine, even with a directional antenna pointed the wrong way. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com ______
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00262.html (7,718 bytes)
- 399. Re: [Shop-talk] MIG welding Aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:33:15 -0400
- Attachments to the list don't get through. Maybe. If he's using pure CO2, he's got a CGA-320 regulator. Argon, and mixed gas tanks have CGA-580 fittings. The regulator may, or may not, work with an a
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00270.html (8,102 bytes)
- 400. Re: [Shop-talk] Partial roof repair? (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:57:18 -0400
- I spent a bunch of time starting at a roof from my stopped train yesterday. It had clearly been shingled with leftovers from a few dozen jobs. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com ___________________
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00281.html (8,181 bytes)
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