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    New garage shop construction - light gangs or outlet gangs for lighting?

    I'm guessing 3 rows of 3 lights. Many of the shop lights available now can be chained together so you'd need only one outlet for each run of 3. Mounting them to the ceiling is a real pain in the a$$. Even more so if the ceiling is high (mine is about 11'). If I were to do mine again I'd mount...
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    Old walnut tree

    Talk about wrong wood for furniture, I made an entire set of kitchen cabinets with poplar face frames... D'Oh
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    Old walnut tree

    Walnut headboard I made 35 yrs ago from a wind downed tree from my sisters property in Virginia.
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    For Sale 8 ea. Bridgstone Blizzak tires. 185/60R15

    These were on two Ford Fiesta's that my daughters drove. Had probably 2-3 winter seasons on them. All have about 7/32 left of the original 11/32 so assuming 3/32 eol, they are about 1/2 life left. $50 each for 1 $45 each for 4 $40 each for all 8 message or shoot me a text
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    Offset Smoker Build

    A couple more mods... I'd like to use the smoker when parked next to a vinyl fence but the firebox gets too hot. I used a piece of the main body tube which is 4" larger diameter than the firebox, added 2" stand-offs an now have thefollowing: Next I wanted a level spot to set my coffee when...
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    Epic food porn

    If you love your hatch peppers and garlic, I have your burger/fry sauce. You will need hatch chile powder (dried, red hatch chiles; Harmons should start carrying it soon) and crushed hatch chile peppers (I get 505 brand from grocery stores and others from Costco). The recipe: 40g Mayo 10g...
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    Epic food porn

    I watched him until it seemed he quit his day job and the quality of the vids dropped in favor of quantity. I still laugh every time I see the name though.. because this was a thing
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    Epic food porn

    I'll give that a try next time
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    Epic food porn

    gave the offset a workout yesterday left to right: 2.5lbs tri-tip, 16lb (before trimming) brisket, 16lbs of pulled pork. Tri-tip was a bit too dry, even with added fat trimmed from the brisket. Brisket was awesome, and the pulled pork was for a neighbor (he said it was great). and the...
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    Offset Smoker Build

    Dialed in enough that I sold the pellet grill last night...
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    Offset Smoker Build

    I am getting this thing dialed in... While the radiation warning sign shaped air vents looked cool, they brought the air in much too high and it was pretty finicky to keep the fire adjusted, so I added a baffle to the inside of the door to direct the airflow down low I then added a ghetto...
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    Any Mtn Bikers on RME?

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    Lighten the mood

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    Lighten the mood

    Found it
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    General Tech What did you work on Today?

    bring the other fender and I'll fix/reinforce it while you are here
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    Next rig options?

    how about another xterra? https://www.rme4x4.com/threads/for-sale-2011-nissan-xterra-pro4x-low-mileage-64-800-location-salt-lake-city-ut-lots-of-extras.119574/#post-1190345
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    General Tech What did you work on Today?

    I hit it with a SS brush and did not see any oxide breaking up as I started the puddle. Overall I was happy with how it went, other than my shaky hand.
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    General Tech What did you work on Today?

    So this showed up in the garage a couple weeks ago. With a couple of issues All of the welds were done with mig which looked great but were seriously lacking in filler metal. and my attempt at a fix What really surprised me was that it took the full 220A output of my TIG welder...
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    Old coyote hunting vid

    Come on Dave, we know that you were really in Iraq shooting the Taliban :rofl:.
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    Lighten the mood

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