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In order to put up our Photovoltaic system, we had to remove an old pear tree. The tree was exactly in the prime location for the array, and figuring that we could replant an apple tree, which I like apples more than pears, everything would be just fine. I got out the old chain saw, [...] I have been doing quite a bit of metal fabrication lately, prototyping my ideas, working on projects and what not. About 3 months ago, it became apparent that I needed a drill press. I searched high and low for a used 12 to 16 inch floor drill press at a reasonable cost. One would think, [...] When drilling into concrete a hammer drill or rotary hammer is a must. An ordinary drill with a masonry bit will just spin and spin and spin until your arm gets too tired to hold the drill up, then you’ll have to stop and drink a glass of water or something. A Hammer drill is [...] Jay has a good story about soldering (or resoldering) a pipe on his boiler. It seems that there was one little elbow, on the water return side of the boiler, which was leaking. Jay, always the conscientious homeowner, decided to resolder the leaking joint. So far, so good. He drained all the water out of [...] I got this drill set as a Christmas present about ten years ago. It has been a good unit, before I purchased my 18 volt cordless, I used it almost exclusively as my primary drill. There are a few things that it did not do well, such as drilling through concrete, and other heavy work [...] I have owned this saw for about 5 years now. It did all of the rough in work in the bathroom and kitchen, I have used it to do light cutting while making furniture, and for light duty work where the DeWalt reciprocating saw would not fit. I used it to cut out the kitchen [...] The other work horse in the stable, my Ridgid cordless drill. I actually have two cordless drills, a 12V Makita and this one. The 12 Volt Makita is a good all around drill, works for every day use, hanging pictures, putting together kids toys and so on. The Ridgid cordless drill does the heavy lifting, [...] I thought I would do a review of some of my hand tools and power tools. I will start with the work horse, my DeWalt DW304 reciprocating saw. I bought this about 12 years ago and it has taken a beating. I have used it for most of my demolition work, removing walls, sawing [...] Over the years I have managed to collect a fair amount of tools. One night while cleaning up the workbench, I managed to end up with most of my tools on the bench. I did a little more arranging and took this picture: This is a list of tools present on the bench: Dayton [...] This morning I was at the hardware store staring intently at the 1 1/4 inch ball valves thinking to myself that it would be nice to put one of these on the output side of the boiler. Just then a Young Man wearing a ball cap, who was perhaps five years younger than myself, asked: [...] |
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