- 81. Rodents..... (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 13:20:27 -0500
- OK listers, here's your chance to give me a lot of good advice. I just bought a Rusty Red Pickup Truck to use at, and leave at our Little House on the Prairie. I plan to leave it unused for at least
- /html/shop-talk/2000-02/msg00009.html (7,594 bytes)
- 82. The Rodent Report...... (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:41:49 -0500
- A few weeks ago I asked this group for ideas to discourage rodents from taking up residence in my rusty red pickup truck when I store it for 6 months or so at our Little House on the Prairie. Well, i
- /html/shop-talk/2000-02/msg00101.html (8,455 bytes)
- 83. RE: Setting up air lines in the shop (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:25:58 -0500
- The cheapest way is steel pipe. If you want to do plastic pipe to be free from rust, be sure you don't use plastic plumbing pipe, either schedule 40 or schedule 80. Under the kind of air pressure you
- /html/shop-talk/2000-01/msg00018.html (8,214 bytes)
- 84. RE: AN Bolts & Nuts (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:40:05 -0500
- In case you've never dealt with them before, a very interesting place is: THE DILLSBURG AEROPLANE WORKS 114 SAWMILL ROAD DILLSBURG, PA 17019 1-717-432-4589 In addition to AN hardware they also sell n
- /html/shop-talk/2000-01/msg00033.html (7,450 bytes)
- 85. RE: Important safety tip (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:59:51 -0500
- There is one other cold weather concern for an air compressor in an unheated shop. Be sure to drain it often in freezing weather after you have been using it. If water freezes in the safety valve, it
- /html/shop-talk/2000-01/msg00089.html (6,871 bytes)
- 86. Impart Ltd. (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:57:45 -0500
- Imparts Ltd. in St. Louis no longer has an 800 #. Does anybody know if they have gone out of business or been bought out by somebody?
- /html/shop-talk/2000-01/msg00117.html (6,406 bytes)
- 87. Impart is dead....long live molybdenum! (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:31:15 -0500
- Thanks everybody for your help trying to find Imparts which was my source of a molybdenum oil additive. Now that they are gone, I need a new supplier. Do any of you worth folks know where I can order
- /html/shop-talk/2000-01/msg00125.html (7,047 bytes)
- 88. RE: Safety question (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 07:46:30 -0500
- Gordon if you are using a "proper" solvent in your tank, like Safety Clean, you shouldn't have to worry. You can plunge a lit match in it and it will put the match out. Be careful not to keep a propa
- /html/shop-talk/1999-12/msg00260.html (7,491 bytes)
- 89. RE: Painting small parts (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:33:43 -0500
- Use a Buzz Bomb (aerosol cans) One other thing I do for painting small parts is to paint them in an old card board box. I hook the shop vac hose up at the back to make positive air flow. Also, you ca
- /html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00011.html (7,823 bytes)
- 90. RE: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:16:07 -0500
- I had just such symptoms and everything I tried failed. I finally resorted to calling a plumber who repeated all of the steps I had taken with the same negative results. He finally took a drain snake
- /html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00045.html (8,105 bytes)
- 91. RE: icemaker woes (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:59:12 -0500
- Was your power off for a while? One time after a power outage I had a similar problem. Water was getting to the solenoid and through the tube from solenoid to the back of the ice maker and everything
- /html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00102.html (6,742 bytes)
- 92. RE: icemaker woes - part duex (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:43:14 -0500
- "What tells the solonoid valve to open and fill the tray ??? What tells it to stop ???"..........maybe it is the little guy who turns the light on and off.... 0;-)
- /html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00105.html (6,599 bytes)
- 93. RE: Morse/Jacobs taper care (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:24:47 -0500
- The best care and feeding of a taper fit is to keep them clean and free of chips, grit and grime. I clean mine with a Scotchbrite pad. The external of course is easy, and the Scotchbrite pad is stiff
- /html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00254.html (6,894 bytes)
- 94. Information wanted..... (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:23:32 -0400
- I just acquired an old AMMCO 6" metal shaper. The name plate shows it was manufactured in North Chicago, Il. No Zip code so that gives one clue as to age, but no postal zone either. If I were to gues
- /html/shop-talk/1999-10/msg00004.html (7,115 bytes)
- 95. RE: refurbished chain saw (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:58:56 -0400
- I bought a factory reconditioned McCullough from Harbor Freight once. The price was ridiculously low and I expected to get something that had been used by the US Forest Service for a few years. Inste
- /html/shop-talk/1999-10/msg00022.html (6,773 bytes)
- 96. RE: got a Harbor Freight catalog? please help! (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:46:38 -0400
- Nice to know,,,with all I order from HF.
- /html/shop-talk/1999-10/msg00037.html (7,636 bytes)
- 97. RE: For emergency use only (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 21:47:00 -0400
- Chuck, the best stuff for getting the resin and fuzz off of your hands is acetone......not sure what it does to the body, but I've used it for years and haven't grown any extra appendages. Also my of
- /html/shop-talk/1999-10/msg00069.html (6,996 bytes)
- 98. RE: Gasket sealers (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:03:17 -0400
- I'd vote for Permatex Aviation gasket goo. It is that stuff that you paint on and looks like tar. I use it on VW case halves and never have any leaks there. The reason I prefer it over RTV's is that
- /html/shop-talk/1999-09/msg00044.html (7,093 bytes)
- 99. RE: From: "Gerald Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net> (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:18:44 -0400
- Why not borrow a leak-down tester and do the job right. You can tell the health of each cylinder and identify whether it is intake, exhaust or rings. The leakdown tester has a fitting for the spark p
- /html/shop-talk/1999-08/msg00023.html (6,207 bytes)
- 100. RE: Cryogenic :-) Dent Repair? (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:48:07 -0400
- It's worth a try. When you have bare metal you are trying to shrink you heat a rather large area, and the area you want to shrink hotter and then cool the area to be shrunk with a wet cold rag. I wra
- /html/shop-talk/1999-08/msg00081.html (6,928 bytes)
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