The Home Machinist!

Here's something interesting!

Exactly. They put lathes on submarines.

I'm with Steve, amazingly enough, and I would use what I have. It's a hole.....for a strain-relief. If the strain-relief fits, deburr it, vac up the chips, and it's good to go! :) Bill This could ruin your reputation. Another thing just occurred to me I could tack the extraneous knockouts with a we...

Step drills are the answer when you don't have knockout punches. Having the right tools for the job is part of doing the job. :D As was previously said, creating holes in electrical panels is accomplished with knockout punches. Punches make round and accurately-sized holes, not raggedy ellipses. So...

Step drills are the answer when you don't have knockout punches.

I still don't have gas. I keep watching Craigslist and Offerup. People don't respond to my inquiries, and then their tanks sell.

Maybe I should stop using the word "stolen" when I ask people what type of tanks they have.

Okay, time for a question. The people who design electrical panels have some funny ideas. They'll put a whole bunch of 1/2" knockouts on one side, a knockout with multiple diameters on the other side, 15 3/4" knockouts on the bottom...it all appears to be random, and it can cause problems....

I was wondering when someone would point that out.

Let's try to minimize the "dope" references!

3.Breakers and fuses, protect the wire that is down steam of them, not the device or load, that is on the end of the wire. I am really glad to see someone point that out. No one seems to understand it. A lot of people preach that you should never put a relatively low-current device on a circuit wit...

Thanks for helping us out. Today I'm trying to figure out how to get up a ladder with 125 feet of 6/2 Romex rolled up in a heavy coil.

If two #6 wires are filling a 1" conduit almost halfway, the insulation must be really something! Tonight I got myself 125 feet of #6 Romex. I only wanted around 70 feet, but the price was nearly the same, and I can use the excess to run another circuit. It will be great using Romex and omittin...