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    split galvanized water pipe

    Cut the split pipe and remove both pieces. Install PEX fittings; brass will have larger flow area. Buy a foot of PEX from local hardware store and two clamps. Borrow or buy cheap PEX clamp tool. Install new PEX and forget about it. PEX will take freezing without bursting. I"ve gone to...
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    Hydraulic Fluid Overfill--What to Expect on TO-30?

    Dear Mr. Huebner: Thank you for responding. I appreciate knowing of your experiences with overfilling the gearbox. A question, please: what do you mean by, "...bottom bolt hole on the dipstick cover."? Is this a (or 'the') drain plug? Please pardon my ignorance, but I'm trying to get up...
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    Hydraulic Fluid Overfill--What to Expect on TO-30?

    Old owner of older TO-30 recently returned to the fold after being out of Fergusons for a few years. When I picked up this machine the Previous Owner had 'helped' by filling the transmission case almost to the brim. I've read on this forum about overfilling the gearbox and as a result seeing...
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    OT: Garage Door opener keeps frying

    Quote: "The converter on the logic board that converts from 110 to down to 24 volts is what keeps blowing." You sound capable so you may be able to consider this point: Is the voltage 'converter' an iron-chunk transformer or a zener diode? If transformer, look for a wiring fault in the...
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    Chop Saw Blade

    You've got two ways to go: (1) cheap at HF or (2) premium top dollar. You are going to have absolute heck cutting oilfield tubing and sucker rod. Wholly different animals from 'plumbing' material. You are going to eat up wheels terribly fast either way you go. Better would be a metal...
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    Propane price?

    Buy your own tank. Prices in my area range widely from about $0.50 to $1.50 per gallon of volume. With your own tank you aren't tied to one dealer. To maximize your potential resale value shop for good used tank that has a liquid line discharge and perhaps even find one that has the liquid...
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    gas tank

    One poster suggests using carbon dioxide or nitrogen. Great idea if you can seal the tank and pressures when heated (sunlight, summer weather changes) don't create a problem. BUT---carbon dioxide is NOT inert. Any moisture will create carbonic acid and eat your steel tank. Just be careful...
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    Learning to weld

    Buy Lincoln or Miller, maybe Hobart (by Miller). Stay away from cheap junk. Practice practice practice. Spouse and I both attend local Vo-Tech for one semester night-class of four hours once a week nothing but stick and MIG. Got pretty good. She's much better than I. And you get...
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    Lincoln AC-225 Power Switch

    Electrical contact cleaner. You can try the spray can type but better would be the liquid quart bottle from Affiliated Electronics in Tulsa (see website) on Admiral. Good stuff. Tell them what you want to do as they have two or three different types. But...since you're working on an...
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    Snap on ratchet found

    The ratchet mentioned by one poster that is slightly larger than 1/4-in square is almost certainly a metric that came in to the States as part of a VW or other import toolkit sold by Snap-On to dealer shops. I've run across one a guy brought back from overseas and had had it for years...
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    Well pump check valve question...

    You mention the pressure tank got changed out. My bet is the check valve you used to have got replaced and a swing-type check valve was installed. A water well system needs a spring-loaded or spring-type check valve. What you describe happening sounds like the swing-type check valve flapper...
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    carburetor changes after rebuild - opinion requested

    Mentioned here is that the distributor has been apart. Refer to my posts earlier Aug'13: a cautionary note regarding the spring-loaded spark advance mechanism. Mine shucked a tiny nut on the spring plate and got jammed under the plate and the engine kicked the distributor completely out of...
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    rust buster

    I had luck a couple of times by removing the carb and cleaning it best possible by soaking in carb-cleaner then boiling the heck out of it in a ceramic-lined (or removable ceramic shell) kitchen crock pot. If larger use an electric turkey roaster. In both cases the removable ceramic shell lets...
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    Financial Adviser

    First, realize that the decision to interact with and the selection of a financial advisor is one of the most serious decisions you will ever make. Secondly, are you sure you need a fiancial advisor? If you're smart enough to pose the question you can probably figure out the basics...
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    Air Cleaner Disassembly--Oil Bath on TO-30

    I like the idea about using a steam cleaner. Sort of hard to find in this area for small jobs...but it gives me an idea: Soaked in gasoline for a few days and got some clean but left a hard tar-like deposit in some areas on the face of the steel wool. We've got a cut-down drum we use for...
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