I think they just made you a Mod.

All Hail The King!. :bow:

Never seen or heard of those.

Bottom line, it’s impossible to replace experience, seeing, feeling and smelling, and interpreting it in real time. In other words, getting your ass in there and doing the inspection. 😆

Everyone is always trying to cut the work out of work. Not gonna work. 😮

TapCon’s can be tricky to install.

The hole has to be the exact proper size.

You should overdrill depth by about 1/2″ or so.

Then, run your bit, with the drill running, in and out several times. As in, a dozen or more times.

Keep doing it till the dust stops coming out.

Compressed air is only minimally useful in such small diameter holes,…[Read more]

Do you have a copy of the NEC?

If not, you need to get your mitts on one right away.

We can’t just guess, or “I’m thinking this size”, when in comes to conductor sizing, wiring methods, or conduit sizing.

It’s all laid out VERY specifically in the Code.

Annex C will have all your conduit fill tables.

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Doobie wrote:I used screws to fasten my fiber cement Hardie planks on my shed build. I just didn’t want to deal with any cracked boards and simply like screws better although they take much longer to fasten. But from all I’ve read, most use a gun and nails to fasten it.

Yea, that might work on a personal shed project, but it’d never fly on a job…[Read more]

Thanks.

I see I should frequent this forum more often.

I’ll start out with the bad news: Service Entrance calcs are not for the inexperienced.

There is the whole subject of the load calcs, which must be done to determine what size service to install. But I’ll skip that for now.

If some of the load is continuous duty, you’ll have to size at 125%.

The table you’re looking at is outdated. It’s now…[Read more]

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:

Seven-Delta-FortyOne wrote:
Just googled it.

Looks like it’s been discontinued already. :blink:

Have no idea what happened.

Maybe Hitachi is no longer making nail guns I don’t know.

Hitachi is now Metabo HPT so they would be under that name and may have new model numbers under their new name.

It is now the NR9…

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Just googled it.

Looks like it’s been discontinued already. :blink:

Have no idea what happened.

Maybe Hitachi is no longer making nail guns I don’t know.

It looks exactly like my NR90AE.

It’s a great gun. Lightweight, toenails really well, and has a selector switch to go from bump-fire to sequential.

I got mine for about $170, though.

You can get a Makita MAC700 for $200, and a Hitachi NR90AE for just under $200, and throw in a couple hoses, and you’ll be set for less than $500.

You’ll have a pro-grade setup, with ability to add more guns, siding, trim, roofing, whatever. Although the Makita compressor will be a little slow for production roofing.

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I have this older Porter Cable suitcase air compressor. Had it for years. Thing is a beast.

But now it’s in the shop for repairs.

So, I picked up a Makita MAC700. Been wanting a smaller and quieter one for a while now. Something for when I’m not running 2 framers balls to the wall. 😮

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I think my biggest issue is the short warranty.

I’m looking at brand new TopCon lasers, and I’ll get a 5 year warranty.

For me, definitely worth the extra couple hundred bucks.

Looks like I might be buying a new rotary laser.

I see some Bosch going for 300 or so as Recon, and 600 or so as new, but the Recon only has a 90 day warranty.

And I was told that the lasers can cost as much as 1/2 as much as new to repair. :blink:

I wonder how Bosch’s Recon program is? Hmm…..

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All of the ones I’ve ever seen had a pretty truncated warranty, usually 90 days when the new had a 3 year type of thing.

If they had a full factory warranty, I wouldn’t hesitate.

It’s pretty scary.

I’ve been following it off and on since it began, and speculation of it’s impending failure has been constant.

The irreversible ecological, historical and social damage has been astronomical.

China reminds me of America in the 1880’s, but with up-to-date technology. 😮

What is this slab for?

I can’t tell from the pictures.

My advice will be different based on if it’s a patio, or a slab-on-grade foundation.