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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 14, 2024, 04:41:38 pm »

🦉 A gentleman would rescue a man trapped in a well, but he would not jump in himself. He is not perfect, but he is not stupid, either. – Confucius, Spring and Autumn Period

October 14, 2024



Is 50% Relative Humidity The Right Amount?

The Harvard School of Public Health is recommending that we maintain interior relative humidity between 40 and 60 percent during the winter. 🤔 I’m not arguing with the health science basis for this, just the building science basis for this: Relative humidities this 😕 high in houses are going to be a killer 👀 in cold places where we have winter. Yes, bad pun…


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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: August 18, 2022, 03:38:45 pm »

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rick m
Aug 17, 2022 at 9:04 pm
Every tool brand you’re likely to see in an orange or blue building box store originates with a tool group that owns or licences the well-known names. Techtronics (TTI) LTD of Hong Kong owns Milwaukee Electric Tool Co, which sells more cordless tools in North America than anyone else as of 2016. They are not made in Milwaukee.

They also license the Ryobi name and make badged Ryobi tools sold exclusively at Home Depot.

They also license the Ridgid name from Emerson Electric, and make all those orange Ridgid tools, also exclusively for HD.
Ridgid “red” tools are made by a subsidiary of Emerson for the professional plumbing and electrical/HVAC trades, and are sold at wholesale supply houses.

Hilti and Makita are about the only independent power tool makers that cater to general contractors. Not for sale at Lowes or home Depot. A vendor has to jump through purchasing hoops to get shelf in those stores.

Quality in general has taken a beating. Three TOTL DeWalt (owned by Stanley Black and Decker, as is Craftsman) power miter boxes are being recalled because the blade safety guard can fly off and hit the operator. Now the safety features are out to get you.

Digger Dave
Aug 18, 2022 at 6:04 am
Harbor Freight has a place.
When you need a throw away tool or you’ve forgotten something on a job site and the HF is closer than where the real tool got left.

Most contractors in my area use DeWalt or Milwaukee. I used to run Makita way back when they were battery tool pioneers. Now they’re too hard to find, so it’s Dewalt now with a few specially Milwaukee tools that just work better than anything DeWalt makes.

Makita is great for a general contractor but not enough specialty tools for most trades. I know some finish carpenters that use Festool.

I actually have some Ryobi tools too – nothing I would really bring on a job, mostly around the house tools that get used too infrequently to justify quality ones.

The general hardware quality at HD is what is just awful now.

rick m
Aug 18, 2022 at 8:29 am
I’ve noticed bad steel in fasteners of all sorts. Heads that twist off of screws too easily, finish nails you can’t drive into old wood at all, etc. They’ve lost interest in what builders think of them and their products because they’re too busy chasing market share and pleasing the financial types instead. The fit and finish of their hardware is mediocre. I miss real hardware stores, we had the world’s best. Now we have Nailmart.

robert
Aug 18, 2022 at 10:26 am
rick m,
I used to buy literally billions of fasteners, made in North America. Then years ago all the suppliers started sourcing from the Orient. Over there the idea is that in manufacturing, you screw the fastener in once, on the assembly line, with the force set just right. Whether for local use or export there was no difference in quality.

I used to buy injection molds and dies from over there too; at that time they asked you if you wanted ‘Hong Kong’ grade or American grade. The difference of course was if you had to run an HK grade mold or tool over here it would squash in the machine unless you had ‘the touch’.

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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: August 14, 2022, 04:38:59 pm »

Backyard Garden Shed Built With Salvaged Materials 🤠

By falkconstructionmadison
About: Woodworker, gardener, retired engineer

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As an avid gardener, I’ve always wanted a dedicated space to store garden tools and supplies. Not content with the prefab sheds found at the big box stores, I decided that I could build one myself with more architectural appeal and that would fit more naturally into my backyard garden space. This 11x18 garden shed is the result. To save money (and to reduce my carbon footprint), I try to use reclaimed and salvaged materials in my home building projects. This garden shed is a perfect example of that. While not built 100% from salvaged materials, the design evolved around the use of some vintage windows and doors I salvaged from a 1920’s home that was being torn down. It also incorporates salvaged plywood as well as a tin roof reclaimed from an old barn.

Full instructions with step by step pictures and explanations:
https://www.instructables.com/Backyard-Garden-Shed-Built-With-Salvaged-Materials

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: May 08, 2022, 01:03:32 pm »

What Happens If You Put A Giant Propeller On A Bike?


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I dive into my old collection of Popular Mechanics magazines and get inspired to build something! I found Ernest Winter’s air screw bicycle, so I tried to build it. He claims it is able to hit 20 miles per hour, will I be able to match his speed? How will I build the propeller? How can I power it with my feet? Will it go fast enough to fly? How does it compare to a giant fan? I go on the journey to test it and more!
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: May 08, 2022, 12:59:55 pm »

13 Surprising Uses for Dental Floss Around the House.
1. Fix a Noisy Faucet. Can’t stand that noisy faucet? For a quick fix, tie floss around the spout so that it hangs down into the sink. Instead of nosily plopping on the bowl of the sink, the water will just crawl down the floss.

2. Hang Pictures. Sturdy dental floss is a great alternative to regular string or wire when it comes to hanging pictures.

3. Remove Stuck-On Photos. Don’t risk damaging your priceless photos. To remove photos that are stuck into albums, use a piece of floss to slowly coax them out.

4. Prevent Rope From Fraying. This is an old Boy Scout’s trick: to “whip” a rope, or prevent it from fraying, tightly loop the floss around the rope. Detailed instructions can be found here.

5. Give Plants Some Support. Climbing plants often need a little support. That’s where dental floss comes in — it’s a great material for tying plants to a trellis.
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Food.

6. Slice Cake, Cheesecake and Cinnamon Rolls. Cut your cakes with magazine photo-perfect precision by using an unwaxed and unflavored piece of floss.

7. Precisely Slice Soft Cheese.  Believe it or not, floss is often better at slicing soft cheese than a fancy cheese knife.

8. Lift Cookies off a Baking Tray. To transfer your still-warm cookies to a plate without them crumbling, carefully work a piece of floss under the cookie and painlessly lift them off.

9. Use as Kitchen Twine. Unflavored and unwaxed dental floss is a perfectly fine replacement for kitchen twine.
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Fashion.

10. Re-String Broken Jewelry. Because it’s just so sturdy, dental floss is a really great substitute for jewelry string or wire.

11. Sew Better. Floss is a much sturdier fiber than thread is. So, if you really want your button to stay firmly in place, a little floss will really do the trick. It’s not just buttons, either, floss can easily repair tents, backpacks, and other heavy-duty outdoor stuff.

12. Fix a Broken Umbrella. Don’t throw out that broken umbrella — fix it with floss! You don’t even need to sew anything (though that certainly would help) to fix it: simply tying the metal spines and the material together will work well, too.

13. Remove a Too-Tight Ring. It got on your finger, but how are you going to get it off?! Well, one good method is to tightly wrap your finger in floss, and then slip the ring right off. 

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/13-surprising-uses-for-dental-floss.html#ixzz2lWrTY400