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Choice of Impact Driver ?

I am trying to choose an impact drill (driver) that can install 10 inch Spax lag screws in pressure treated timbers. Al...
18 comments posted 15yrs
posted by jnipperxxx
18 comments posted 15yrs posted by jnipperxxx

18v L-Lo battery problem

I got this battery last summer, all went fine and after season being over over for using it, put it in my colder/cooler...
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posted by harri85274
9 comments posted 15yrs posted by harri85274

wall cabinets

greetings, i am planning on hanging some wall cabinets and am curious as to the height from the floor to the bottom of...
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posted by changbah
3 comments posted 15yrs posted by changbah

Bugs

Last evening, I was bitten again by something. I was bitten about a month ago on my arm, and had a round swelling mound...
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posted by pittmanpirate
17 comments posted 15yrs posted by pittmanpirate

self-propelled mower won't propel

I've got a Craftsman mower (917.372852, roughly ten years old or more)) that worked fine until one day last week when c...
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posted by no
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by no

OT: Senior Texting Code

A friend keeps sending me senior "humor", most of which I delete, but thought this was at least minimally cute. Of cour...
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posted by hypatia08
1 comments posted 15yrs posted by hypatia08

Circuit requirements for undercabinet microwave

Doing some kitchen reno work recently in a family members condo. I ran all of the new electric lines, which called for...
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posted by mikepier
10 comments posted 15yrs posted by mikepier

Timer valve to delay toilet refill?

One person [*] in our household will from time to time use too much paper, clogging the toilet -- and then flush it two...
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posted by dougatmilmacdotcom
45 comments posted 15yrs posted by dougatmilmacdotcom

water putty on outdoors application

I do a lot of outside restoration and find myself wanting to return to a building material that my brother and I used t...
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posted by merrilljensen
3 comments posted 15yrs posted by merrilljensen

Solar light flashing

One of the solar lights around my planting bed has decided to start flashing all night. Actually strobing is probably a...
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posted by kurtullman
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by kurtullman

any ideas for unwanted sand?

what to do with it? Got four 75 lb. bags in my pickup truck left over from winter. No use for it. Any ideas besides thr...
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posted by njnagel
17 comments posted 15yrs posted by njnagel

Flexible gas line

Looking to install a natural gas stove. Home currently uses a LP gas bottle fed stove. City natural gas has been instal...
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posted by chief_jim
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by chief_jim

Home Depot has duck-not-tape

"[BANGOR, Maine] A duck nests in the garden center of the Home Depot store .... Employees sectioned off part of the cen...
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posted by heybub
3 comments posted 15yrs posted by heybub

Fridge pops, snaps, clunks

Amana Energy Saver 18 cu. ft., fridge on bottom, freezer on top, from 1984, in constant service in a midwest US home. M...
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posted by puddingDOTman
6 comments posted 15yrs posted by puddingDOTman