12V Battery charging problem - MASSIVE SPARKS

. ;-) Back in 1963, my dad had a TV repair shop. He did some work for a car repair shop. One day he fixed the blown output transistor on a car radio. This was when car radios still had tubes, but they had switched to one transistor in the audio output. Car guy bought it ...
Posted by mike in Home Repair 10 years ago 
Strip LED fixture with accessory outlet

The LED shop light I bought has a large number of visible LED sources but the Toggle I just put into an older shop light has a diffuser included. It's not quite as bright as the shop light but it works well. This would keep me going for a while for cheap while i look for a ...
Posted by TimR in Home Repair 4 years ago 
Disconnecting electricity supply

We have a house and small shop, same building but independent utilities. With retirement (i.e. old age) approaching, thoughts are turning to perhaps closing the shop, and retiring.
Posted by News in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 14 years ago 
Metal scraper mats

We got one from our local hardware shop, they had to get one from their supplier but it came next day. The hardware shop is always our first call for anything, they're usually cheaper than the sheds and are knowledgeable and helpful - it's in their interests to be so.
Posted by Mary Fisher in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 20 years ago 
OT: Unopenable packaging

Can't get a small item out of the big packaging in the shop, and slip it into your pocket. Amazon can abandon that as they don't have shops. Anyone remember the sudden change to larger packaging, many years ago, for Gunson's Colortune?
Posted by Bob Eager in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum 10 years ago 
Semi-OT, Smoke Alarms in Shops

I have a shop in my "lower level", at the other end of the house. If a fire developed in the shop after we went to bed the chances of me hearing the smoke alarm (the one in the shop) is about zip. It would seem someone would make smoke alarms that triggered the other smoke ...
Posted by Guppas! in Woodworking Forum 22 years ago 
dust problem with shop vac

The standard shop vaccum filter that comes on many new machines allows the very fine shop dust you are complaining about to pass through the vaccum and exit back into the air in the vaccum's exhaust streem. The "cloud around it" is this very fine dust.
Posted by Joe Nation in Woodworking Forum 22 years ago 
New DeWalt planer

Facing out of the shop would of = course not need filters. My second idea was for using as a hanger within = the shop so the filters would be needed. Puff because being in AJ you should understand what a swamp cooler is. Anywho = take a swamp cooler and face it out of the shop.
Posted by Puff Griffis in Woodworking Forum 22 years ago 
Re: Bandsaw Now? Keeping my Craftsman Tablesaw.

In a recent thread the statement was made 'In the shop the table saw is king' and was latter amended to 'in the cabinet shop the TS is king, in the furniture shop the Band Saw is king'.
Posted by Bernard Randall in Woodworking Forum 22 years ago 
Table saw opinions wanted

Larry asks: Shop Fox is usually a step or so up from Grizzly. I think Grizzly sells some of the Shop Fox machines, which makes sense, because Woodstock International, the Shop Fox distributor, is part of Grizzly. Grizzly has been around since '83, improving each year.
Posted by Charlie Self in Woodworking Forum 21 years ago