RE: [BlindHandyMan] tool cabinet

2009-01-02 Thread Larry Stansifer
Ron, Feel down the outside surface of the drawer slide. You should encounter a small spring loaded tab, if memory serves the end of the tab closest to the front of the box can be pried outboard with a common screwdriver, with this tab released gently slide the track *not the drawer* inward as if y

Re: [BlindHandyMan] tool cabinet

2009-01-02 Thread frank cunningham
Larry, why not just post your fix, please. I'm sure many could benefit from it... Thanks... Frank - Original Message - From: Larry Stansifer To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 4:44 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] tool cabinet Ron, Feel do

Re: [BlindHandyMan] antenna question

2009-01-02 Thread Tom Fowle
Bill, Any metalic object can attract lightning, but the higher up it is the more likely it is to be a problem. To be taken very seriously indeed if you live in areas where you get a lot of it. Tom Fowle

[BlindHandyMan] wasted spaces

2009-01-02 Thread Lenny McHugh
I just finished watching a wasted spaces show on DIY TV. In a Childs small bedroom they made a small closet that goes up into the roof tresses. They used a garage door opener to raise and lower the closet. Since the opener will lift 800 pounds I can think of a few other applications for a simil

[BlindHandyMan] shopping essentials

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
Hi, I am in a fortunate delemna. I have been given $200 in Home Depot gift cards. I could buy stuff I'll never use; or get essentials. Though you guys use things I may not for preference or needs, I was wondering what are the essentials you would be sure to have on hand if you were going browsing

[BlindHandyMan] plumbing note

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
I was wanted to mention that as happy as I was to have the pvc drain piping, with hand-tight grometted fitting, and a washer and brass nut to assemble to my previous pipe; I wanted to say that *every connection needed teflon tape. Being that it is a slide over nut that compresses a gromet or ang

Re: [BlindHandyMan] need advice about humidifiers

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
that always worried me as refitting all of the duct work might just be impossible. Thanks On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Scott Howell wrote: > No, it does not introduce rust or any other concerns into the duct > work. Even growing up with one of the older humidifiers and I'm > talking over 30 years ag

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Christmas radios

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
I was looking for amplified antenna for this new digital TV era coming. I have a digital tuner, and a lightly amplified antenna. Phillips 2510/27 seems to have the most 50db amplification. But in my searches, I found a motorola device that was just a line amplifier for incoming signal. Are they h

Re: [BlindHandyMan] antenna question

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
You said you also had it attached to a fence? Is it aluminum? If so, as I am picturing my chain link fence, isn't that a more attractive ground? Does your wire cross any gutter or such metal? When you detach it from your radio, are you then making that line to fence a lightning rod of sorts? I am

RE: [BlindHandyMan] antenna question

2009-01-02 Thread William Stephan
Spiro: No, it's attached or affixed to part of a wood privacy fence, then the wire runs along my neighbor's garage wall, near the top. I have to be a little careful with what I do because there are neighborhood association covinents in place here. -Original Message- From: blindh

Re: [BlindHandyMan] need advice about humidifiers

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
thanks for the clarification, to all as well. On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Scott Howell wrote: > There is not enough water vapor to create a mold environment as far as > I know. We have never had mold in our ducts in the years that we have > had this humidifier running. Nope, no mold, rust, or scary

Re: [BlindHandyMan] antenna question

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
was the switch rated for that kind of serge? On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Lenny McHugh wrote: > Bill, when I was active with ham radio I had one 19 foot vertical antenna on > my roof, perfect lightning rod. I had a good quality grounding switch. It > was a two position switch. In position one the ant

Re: [BlindHandyMan] tool cabinet

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Yearns
Happy days are here again. The drawer is out. I called about a dozen Sears numbers and one young guy mention two styles he had saw. Mine was the cheaper plastic glides on a couple of rollers. Basically there are pieces. The track that stays mounted to the drawer , the track that stays stati

[BlindHandyMan] in line tv amp

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Yearns
All the inline t v amps i have used were a f coax fitting for in and out and then a 120 volt plug to power the thing. Easy to install just to make sure the in and out connections are correct. Any that mount on the antenna outside had a separate line out to power it on the mast and the 120 was

Re: [BlindHandyMan] antenna question

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Yearns
My fence is wooden and yes the antenna crosses metal gutter in two locations.. However this wire is just looped over the metal furnace vent and a couple of roof ventalators so the wire is actually lower than those parts and the peak of the roof. Not the best installation I have ever put up but

Re: [BlindHandyMan] tool cabinet

2009-01-02 Thread Ron Yearns
Actually my wife and I tried a heavy tilting and banging last night and since getting it open today it did rearrange things a bit. We almost lost it on the floor. It is very heavy with tools and the castors don't lock. Don't try that at home. Ron - Original Message - From: cliffo

Re: [BlindHandyMan] antenna question

2009-01-02 Thread Lenny McHugh
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] shopping essentials

2009-01-02 Thread john schwery
Spiro, if you do any cutting of angles, I would get a sliding bevel t square. I don't think that is the correct name but the thing is made of 2 main parts so you can get an angle, lock it in place and transfer that angle to a saw. earlier, Spiro, wrote: >Hi, >I am in a fortunate delemna. >I

RE: [BlindHandyMan] tool cabinet

2009-01-02 Thread Larry Stansifer
Ron, You just nailed one of my biggest bitches with Craftsman roll cabs. The damn casters are to small and they don't lock. Service technicians are required to move their tool boxes to the car they are working on. I can't tell you how many times some poor sap with one of those Craftsman roll cabs

Re: [BlindHandyMan] need advice about humidifiers

2009-01-02 Thread Scott Howell
Well maybe not completely impossible, because as far as I'm concerned, with the proper tools, anything is possible. THe issue is cost and destruction and reconstruction involved. grin Not much cannot be done with a sledge and saws all. hee hee On Jan 2, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Spiro wrote: > tha

Re: [BlindHandyMan] shopping essentials

2009-01-02 Thread Dale Leavens
Jig saw and saber saw are different names for the same thing. Not too sure what "essentials" I would buy from Home Depot, depends a lot on what you already have. A good quality framing square has a lot of uses, cheap ones will bend. A decent trisquare. One almost always has some use for a good

[BlindHandyMan] Remote speaker for my TV

2009-01-02 Thread Tom Vos
We have a treadmill in a room separate from the TV, though it is visible through the doorway. My wife would like to watch TV while exercising, without having the TV on loud enough to crumble the plaster ceiling. Does anyone know if I can plug in to one of the jacks on the front of the TV to connec

Re: [BlindHandyMan] in line tv amp

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
Thanks, the two I saw in my minimal search were switch craft and a motorola for about $49 on Amazon. About how many db do they give? I have a digital TV and was thinking about a 50db phillips 2510/27 unit. But if the inline unit is better I can do that to my roof mounted antenna. Or, in fro

Re: [BlindHandyMan] shopping essentials

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
thanks, I've saved the messages about this and forgot.; they can't be very expensive. On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, john schwery wrote: > Spiro, if you do any cutting of angles, I would get a sliding bevel t > square. I don't think that is the correct name but the thing is made > of 2 main parts so y

Re: [BlindHandyMan] need advice about humidifiers

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
ouch hehehe On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Scott Howell wrote: > Well maybe not completely impossible, because as far as I'm concerned, > with the proper tools, anything is possible. THe issue is cost and > destruction and reconstruction involved. grin Not much cannot be done > with a sledge and saws al

Re: [BlindHandyMan] shopping essentials

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
great suggestions Dale. The sand paper is probably the only thing I've ever organized as I was going through loads of it at one time. clamps, spring loaded punch, some small chisels, a nice new hand saw for rough and fast cutting. On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Dale Leavens wrote: > Jig saw and saber

Re: [BlindHandyMan] shopping essentials

2009-01-02 Thread Spiro
tell about this dead blow rubber hammer. Is it for "mallet work" where some might use a hammer and wood block? On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Dale Leavens wrote: > Jig saw and saber saw are different names for the same thing. > > Not too sure what "essentials" I would buy from Home Depot, depends a lot