- 1. Re: I need to make a deadman (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:29:02 -0500
- This is a slightly different application, but at my old cottage, I kept my boat on the waters edge on the trailer, and needed a solid point to anchor the winch to to roll the trailer in and out of th
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00043.html (7,817 bytes)
- 2. Re: Custom Garage Door Tracks? (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:54:29 -0500
- Do you care about weatherproofing? With many doors, the last bit of travel makes the top part of the door "jam" forward and seal the door. If the door was vertical the first few feet, you likely woul
- /html/shop-talk/2006-01/msg00008.html (7,558 bytes)
- 3. Re: Wind buffer thingie (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:55:29 -0500
- You might want to think about how it will affect your gas mileage. I read a test a while ago where those little bug deflectors that go above the leading edge of the bonnet cost a test vehicle 2 mpg.
- /html/shop-talk/2006-01/msg00013.html (7,040 bytes)
- 4. Re: winding garage door springs (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:00:38 -0500
- Pretty much yes. Some notes: Be careful. Lots of force involved. Have a buddy with you, if you drop the wrench when holding the rods, you are screwed. Works well to have one person working the rods,
- /html/shop-talk/2006-01/msg00038.html (9,308 bytes)
- 5. Re: Pulse chargers / parasitic voltage loss (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:08:51 -0500 (EST)
- If it's a gel-cell (I thought I read that it was?) then it might be ok. I had a friend leave a door open on my wife's Miata when he was using it and we were away. When I returned, the battery was at
- /html/shop-talk/2006-01/msg00070.html (8,206 bytes)
- 6. Re: How do I stop this madness? (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:32:10 -0500
- Although I agree with you on that one... This one is caused by Eric's mail setup. His outgoing mail has it's headers munged from the machine he sends it from, which is at megageek. So when Eric gets
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00104.html (8,828 bytes)
- 7. RE: How do I stop this madness? (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:19:27 -0500 (EST)
- I agree that it is not the mail list software, but again, not to point fingers, but it must be said, it is caused by users that are handling their mail through gateways that are munging headers. It
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00117.html (8,768 bytes)
- 8. Re: How do I stop this madness? (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:52:55 -0500 (EST)
- Hehehehe... The thread has wandered a bit, but the very initial post was about a misdirected post going to megageek. The headers of the message you just sent don't have that configuration, but your
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00119.html (9,298 bytes)
- 9. Re: Battery Buddy? (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:51:18 -0500 (EST)
- The local battery shop here (Total Battery) restored a car battery for me that my normal $50 charger would not bring back. I don't know what they used, but it was obviously a little fancier than jus
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00126.html (7,548 bytes)
- 10. Re: Shop heater (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:51:49 -0500
- I live in Ottawa, where we know cold... Natural gas is by far the preferred fuel where available, with oil the slight leader where not available, some propane, and some with pellet stoves or high eff
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00188.html (7,830 bytes)
- 11. RE: Furnace Settings (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:32:21 -0500 (EST)
- Am I missing something? My fan timing is controlled by my thermostat, as in "the digital control thing that lives upstairs". Lots of settings in it to compensate for various furnace types and person
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00202.html (7,918 bytes)
- 12. Re: Furnace Settings (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:17:02 -0500 (EST)
- I guess I'm still asking "why should they matter"? The jobs they were describing the limit switches as doing are done on mine by the thermostat... as in "delaying fan start until a settable period a
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00205.html (8,006 bytes)
- 13. RE: Furnace Settings (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:32:40 -0500 (EST)
- Natural gas forced air. I would expect there to be safety devices in place to protect this, although I am really just guessing. However this is a relatively modern unit. I guess what I originally no
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00207.html (8,316 bytes)
- 14. Re: Parking Lifts (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:12:53 -0500 (EST)
- My hydra-lift four post lift uses regular construction I beams in the corners. (8 inch or so?) The bottoms must be secured to the floor, and then the carriage is hung from a plate on top of the beam
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00213.html (8,846 bytes)
- 15. Re: Parking Lifts (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:52:57 -0500
- Buy some of that fake spray can window frost you use for Christmas decorating, and spray it on her windows secretly every night. Be careful though, if you use too much you'll cause global warming and
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00220.html (8,702 bytes)
- 16. RE: Parking Lifts (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:43:26 -0500 (EST)
- Nice. I did drop my wife's 626 doing brakes one time with a cheap floor jack. I use jack stands and proper safety precautions, so there was no chance of personal injury, but it did to some damage to
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00224.html (9,823 bytes)
- 17. Re: Parking Lifts (score: 1)
- Author: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:18:50 -0500 (EST)
- You can get a used commercial lift very very cheaply with a few phone calls. I turned down a few commercial lifts for around $1500cdn locally, ended up paying $5000cdn for the one I bought. The prob
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00230.html (8,548 bytes)
- 18. Re: Parking Lifts (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:27:34 -0500
- For what it's worth, I moved my four post across town for about $75. Call a few towing companies, they do it often enough that one will probably say "yah, we'll send out Joey, he does this all the ti
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00233.html (9,060 bytes)
- 19. Re: Parking Lifts: Starting to get serious (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:32:01 -0500
- I made some brackets for mine, it was a bit hairy to get the Midget on there. The inside of the wheels ran along the inside of the ramps, so the margin of error was about half a tire! If anybody need
- /html/shop-talk/2005-12/msg00253.html (8,004 bytes)
- 20. Re: Tornado air swirling thingies (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:07:39 -0500
- shop-talk supported in part by Fat Chance Garage http://fatchancegarage.com Sounds to me like something that would have to be extensively tuned for each application. Not impossible that Mercedes migh
- /html/shop-talk/2005-11/msg00053.html (9,751 bytes)
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