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  0 Thread: Generator Questions
Post: RE: Generator Questions
fredhargis Wrote: (04-13-2025, 10:42 AM) -- Mark, I'm just curious about what your plan is? Has any of this made you re-think your approach? I'm not pimping one way or another...just curious. -- Fr...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 40 4,591 04-13-2025, 02:18 PM
  0 Thread: Generator Questions
Post: RE: Generator Questions
blackhat Wrote: (04-12-2025, 08:59 PM) -- A $20k generator install?  That’s easy. You need an outdoor rated 200 amp transfer switch instead of a 100 amp interior rated one. Setbacks and clearances me...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 40 4,591 04-13-2025, 11:42 AM
  0 Thread: Generator Questions
Post: RE: Generator Questions
Thanks for the replies.  They help to improve the logic.   Here are some additional comments and clarifications. 1. I'm not planning for a 12 day outage.  I'm assuming (fingers crossed) that Hel...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 40 4,591 04-11-2025, 07:44 AM
  0 Thread: Generator Questions
Post: Generator Questions
Folks, Last year we were without power for 12 days post Helene, so I am finally motivated to get a generator.  I would love any advice you can share. House is all electric.  I assume this mandat...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 40 4,591 04-10-2025, 03:32 PM
  0 Thread: Another Clock
Post: RE: Another Clock
jteneyck Wrote: (09-04-2024, 08:30 PM) -- I thought I'd had enough clock making for a while, but then I found the design for this one from a guy in Germany and just had to build it. https://lh3.go...
 MarkSLSmith Woodworking 9 1,894 09-04-2024, 08:53 PM
  0 Thread: 115V to 230V Capacitor Advice
Post: RE: 115V to 230V Capacitor Advice
Alan S Wrote: (08-13-2024, 10:36 AM) -- It can be that the saw has more power when wired for 240v, but that would indicate your wiring was inadequate to deliver sufficient power at 120v.  That's why ...
 MarkSLSmith Woodworking Power Tools 21 4,994 08-13-2024, 01:48 PM
  0 Thread: DIY Garden Trailer
Post: RE: DIY Garden Trailer
ajkoontz Wrote: (07-16-2024, 06:02 PM) -- Facebook Marketplace?? I do hate to discourage any sort of DIY project, but I just wanted to throw that option out there. This is exactly the kind of thing y...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 7 2,941 07-16-2024, 06:37 PM
  0 Thread: DIY Garden Trailer
Post: RE: DIY Garden Trailer
srv52761 Wrote: (07-16-2024, 02:39 PM) -- Don't think you will like having a set of wheels that rotate in conjunction with each other.  They will skid anytime you make a turn.  Better to have a stati...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 7 2,941 07-16-2024, 06:35 PM
  0 Thread: DIY Garden Trailer
Post: DIY Garden Trailer
I've been shopping for a trailer to pull behind my lawn mower.  I haven't seen any new ones that seemed good to me; either they have a $150 delivery charge or reviewers post pictures of bent axles aft...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 7 2,941 07-13-2024, 03:06 PM
  0 Thread: All you might want to know about sole "flatness"
Post: RE: All you might want to know about sole "flatnes...
Here's my take on the subject.  I'm probably too old to learn to scrape, but I think I understand sandpaper. https://youtu.be/4__IqvahgNM?si=LJGIaNO-1s5h7mWN Mark
 MarkSLSmith Woodworking Hand Tools 52 14,566 03-18-2024, 02:00 PM
  0 Thread: Wood Chippers
Post: RE: Wood Chippers
woodworker501 Wrote: (08-01-2023, 06:51 AM) -- I have a DR Chipper that is about 10 my years old. It will chip up to three-inch branches, but there cannot be any crotches because of the opening is sm...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 10 8,179 08-01-2023, 02:21 PM
  0 Thread: Wood Chippers
Post: RE: Wood Chippers
fredhargis Wrote: (08-01-2023, 04:57 AM) -- What about buying a consumer grade one for he light stuff, which I'm guessing is most of the work...and then rent the big ones when needed? -- I forgot t...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 10 8,179 08-01-2023, 02:20 PM
  0 Thread: Wood Chippers
Post: RE: Wood Chippers
fredhargis Wrote: (08-01-2023, 04:57 AM) -- What about buying a consumer grade one for he light stuff, which I'm guessing is most of the work...and then rent the big ones when needed? -- Indeed, th...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 10 8,179 08-01-2023, 02:16 PM
  0 Thread: Wood Chippers
Post: Wood Chippers
I didn't know whether to post here or in power tools. Can anyone recommend a good wood chipper?  I am, of course, looking for a consumer version, not one of the trailer mounted types that the lawn ...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 10 8,179 07-31-2023, 12:04 PM
  0 Thread: 4H Project- Waterfall Bookcase
Post: RE: 4H Project- Waterfall Bookcase
Likewise, great job by all, but especially your son. Was this a commercial plan?  I like the look so much I might be interested in making my own. Mark
 MarkSLSmith Woodworking 14 4,309 07-21-2023, 01:13 PM
  0 Thread: Hour Meter Question (power equipment)
Post: RE: Hour Meter Question (power equipment)
I think I might have figured it out.  I checked new hour meters on sale at Amazon.  In at least one case, the 1/10 was clearly intended to designate that the meter reads in 1/10's of an hour, ie 6 min...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 3 1,373 07-18-2023, 12:57 PM
  0 Thread: Hour Meter Question (power equipment)
Post: Hour Meter Question (power equipment)
Folks,  I haven't been able to find a specific answer to a hopefully simple question. If an hour meter on a lawn mower reads 396.1 and underneath the readout it says "hours 1/10", does this mean...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 3 1,373 07-18-2023, 07:50 AM
  0 Thread: Trim/Moulding Question
Post: Trim/Moulding Question
Folks,  I have a trim question.  In the attached pictures, you will se a glass pane installed in the wall between 2x boards with wall board on the outside of the 2x boards.  If you were me, how wou...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 2 1,580 06-05-2023, 07:14 AM
  0 Thread: Tripped GFCI Outlet?
Post: RE: Tripped GFCI Outlet?
David Stone Wrote: (04-11-2023, 06:29 AM) -- I've got an exterior GFCI outlet that wont reset. I get the red light flash when I try. I assume that means I've got a short in the line somewhere?  Is t...
 MarkSLSmith Home Improvement 10 3,912 04-11-2023, 06:53 AM
  0 Thread: Dust Collector Performance Question
Post: RE: Dust Collector Performance Question
jteneyck Wrote: (03-24-2023, 09:34 AM) -- They would have been the first and only company to have ever done that with a 1.5 hp motor.  Adding a cyclone may have improved the overall performance, all ...
 MarkSLSmith Woodworking Power Tools 9 4,517 03-24-2023, 11:33 AM

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