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  4. HVAC servicing, DIY or not?

    in Around The House

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    Go for it. If you've pulled things apart and put them back together before, I'm sure you could do it. I'm not playing on my bais either because it means taking work away from guys like us (i'm a plumber, but will help out the HVAC side of things at work if need be) but it requires following your nose and getting a little dirty (if that)

    What sort of furnace? Fuel Oil or a gas furnace or electric?

    I wouldn't blame you for getting someone else to clean it for you if it was fuel oil, a gas furnace is like a childs toy compared tho... 



    Sorry it's an oil boiler. I say furnace because when I say "boiler" I get a blank stare usually.


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  6. HVAC servicing, DIY or not?

    in Around The House

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    I do more and more work around the house, but I just had the furnace guy come and clean the furnace, cost around $240, not a bad price, but felt I may be able do it myself given some google-fu. Nice guy though.

     

    I don't see a lot of information on DIY HVAC work and it sort of scares me. Is this a DIY area or not?

  7. Does anyone change their own oil anymore or is that extinct like the dinosaurs

    in Automotive

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    On 12/8/2016 at 10:57 AM, CATERPILLAR said:

    Wtf that would destroy a engine if wouldn't have checked it

     

    Wouldn't the oil pressure light have come on? It has come on for me in the past when I had very low oil.

     

    I usually take my car in to the dealership as I sort of enjoy it, they don't try to upsell me ever, and it's under warranty. I plan on doing it myself once my car is out of warranty.

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  9. Do not use adapter drives with impacts

    in Power Tools

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    3 hours ago, jeffmcmillan said:

    I recall someone did a video on torque loss using adapters a while back.  Something like 10% torque loss with adapters but there was something like 5% difference between control tests that made the results questionable.

    From my experience it's not a big deal in most cases.  The problem is sometimes you get weird harmonics where the adapter springing back effectively cancels out the impact.

     

    I'm not sure why you're having problems with the M12 ratchet though because that doesn't impact so there should be no torque loss with adapters.

     

    There seems to be some similarity between impacts and how the M12 works. I need to take mine apart to see the mechanism.

     

    Anyway I tried it using a single socket and using and adapter + socket and there was some power loss.

     

    I found it hard to remove a moderately torqued bolt with the thing, when I took the adapter off and used just a single solid socket, I was able to drive a small lag bolt into a block of wood. I feel like when you use an adapter, the "looseness" of it absorbs some of the impact energy somehow. Hard to explain.

     

    I could be full of it of course. :)

  11. Do not use adapter drives with impacts

    in Power Tools

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    I've been disappointed with the performance of various tools over the past few weeks: first my Ryobi 18V impact, then my milwaukee m12 ratchet. I couldn't figure it out, I was getting much less power out of both than I should have been, and the tool would just uselessy rattle the sockets/bits around, not moving the fasteners.

     

    Researching online, I began to see a reason why: I was using an adapter drive bit! My guess is that the links absorb too much of the impact energy and render it pretty much useless.

     

    I'd like to do a video about this to warn other people who might be disappointed with their power tool performance: do not use adapter drives.

     

    I would actually say that the more of your bit/socket that is solid, the more impact energy will be delivered to the fastener!

     

     

     

     

  15. How do you treat your tools?

    in Milwaukee

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    I have historically not been good with my tools, but this year I have been good. I have treated more than a few with Evaporust and gotten them "in action" again. 

     

    My power tools get wiped off and the batteries taken out of them in storage. Usually only my Milwaukee Rotary Tool gets filthy. I try to keep it clean. A can of compressed air would probably help it last longer.

  18. Tool addiction

    in Introduce yourself

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    On 8/5/2016 at 11:21 PM, KnarlyCarl said:

    Wait what happened?

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    I have experiences like that at my house because of the humidity, wood is always shifting slightly from humidity changes through the seasons

     

    Deadbolt is no longer hard to latch into place. For a few weeks in July it was. Heat and humidity maybe?

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