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He you didn't read my reply. I like that coupling and it will be there long after I croak. I may even put a tang in a 20 gallon tank. Dance And it's not from Home Depot

My house still has lead bends. 3 of them. The house was built in 1959. I replaced most of the plumbing and wiring except this pipe. The 4" stacks and mains are still there. The new bathrooms I used PVC. To get the 2" galvanized pipe out of the 4" stack, I had to slice it in two places and...

So today was like any other day. Snow outside, warm inside. I go to make myself some oatmeal in the microwave, push the button and nothing happens. OK great, I need to see what is wrong with the 7 year old microwave. So I take the thing apart and after a while with the schematics, I find the...

Just got in from Key Largo early this morning. Our Closest friends bought a home there on the water so we spent much of the time on their boat. I love mangrove islands and they are one of my favorite dive and snorkel spots. I am always surprised at the lack of life in the sand in the tropics...

There is actually a whole chapter in my book about that. I also know it is on here someplace but I can' find it. It is a little bit of a process to make it look great and I don't want to write it again as I just wrote that chapter last night

I got to admit (and brag a little) my tank has been around a long time but I think it looks better than it ever has. I really have to many fish and corals but I really like the way everything is and for the first time in, I can't remember. I don't want to stick my hand in there and change...

Don't be a Sissy, soldering a float full of gas would just be a gas, pardon the pun. Of course you would have to drill a hole in it to empty out the gas as I have done a couple of times. It is an easy repair but if you can easily get a new float, then by all means buy it. But if you needed...

If the float sunk, it probably wouldn't run as it would flood, not to mention gas all over your floor. But if it is copper, you can solder it.

You mean the float sunk? That stinks. It is copper and probably easy to fix, but if you have time you can probably just order another one. I have to shut off the gas valve on mine or the gas will all leak out. I need a good day to take the carb out and clean the needle valve.

If you got the engine from Harbor Freight I would not get to close to it as the pistons are probably made of wood, and not very good wood. :huh: We got to keep these things going. I put snow chains on mine because the wheels are small and almost useless. I went to a snow blower repair shop...

Well, we didn't get a blizzard here but I am old enough to know they always double the amount when they predict this. I had a snow plowing business for about 10 years and used to scream when they predicted a big sow fall and we got nothing.

Now that I finished removing it I think we got about 14"on one side of my house and about 8" on the other side. That blower is almost 40years old. I keep it going because it is American and you probably can't get a good machine anymore.

We also got a Sissy snow fall on Nassau Long Island. We got about 8". no where near the two feet they predicted. If you are old enough you know they always inflate snow predictions. I am not complaining about the snall snowfall, just the predictions.

I got about 7" so far here on long Island

You can do it a couple of ways. Take a three wire male plug and connect a 2 wire cord to it. Just connect it to the neutral and ground terminals in the plug. The other ends of the wire you can skin a little and put in some type of container, I use an old film container with holes in it or you...

I have had many flame scallops, No, you cannot keep it alive in a tank. But those cucumbers, Wow, they grow like crazy

My simplicity comes from cheapness and ease of building using stuff I already have laying around

I also have always used a skimate container. Mine is a 5 gallon bucket and for the shut off switch I just brought two wires from the GFCI that controls the pump to the bucket. The neutral and the ground. When the water hits those wires, the GFCI trips and the pump stops. I also use a similar...

That is still a matter of debate as I have not gotten that far yet in negotiations but the book is going well. It is about half DIY stuff and money saving ideas along with practices that disappeared so I am trying to build most of this DIY stuff and take pictures as I do. That takes time. I...