You guys are making this so complicated. Look at the size of the fastener you want to turn. Look at the socket necessary to turn it. Look at the diameter of that little 1/4 inch hex shaft If something is grossly out of scale to the others than unless it is made of some ungodly expensive...
Yea the wrong tool for the job, I have the Milwaukee compact 3/8 square drive impact but more often than not I put an adapter in my fuel hydraulic drive and throw on a 3/8 adapter. I have broken more of the adapters than I would like to think of and even had to resort to extreme measures to...
I bought Sylvania dimmable LED cans with adjustable color temperature from menards. Bought matching Leviton switches. When turning the lights on, 12 of them they all start at different times and some flicker on startup for about 2 seconds it looks like a fireworks show. None have burned out...
Years ago at work we had a big job making some giant cages to be used in a photo shoot. Most of it was welding 1/2 or 3/4 square tubing to a flat plate 1/4 thick. We were short on experienced welders so a half dozen carpenters were given a quick walk through and went about "welding" these...
Bike is a 2019 xcaliber 9 29er. I am convincing myself Its time for a dropper seat post. Local bike places have little interest in me unless they install it. Frame is set up for it. I want reliable with no constant fiddling and bike gets rained on during the summer while on carrier.. What...
My cousins grew up in Dolton, in the 60's and 70's it was as perfect a place to grow up as Mayberry. We spent days in open fields riding our bikes and shooting BB guns. It was growing like crazy as the fields were being built into subdivisions. Like a lightswitch my Aunt and Uncle had to get...
In South Lake County yesterday had a Robin knock itself out for a few minutes on a picture window before flying away and flocks of Sandhill every 45 minutes today
I don't want to derail the thread but I frequently ride my mountain bike around wolf lake and go past that plant and then under the tollway with lots of great riding on the Illinois side. That plant is the only place that is still on Wolf lake that you have to ride around. Im not a tree hugger...