That’s nice!
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Ohh…I like that. I don’t do much rivnutting, but that looks to be a much better lock. Round rivnuts are prone to slipping.
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Been there, done that!
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The Atlas RIV 990 is a cool toll for sure, but it costs just a tad more then the Rivet Nut Tool that is sold on Amazon. You know what they say though… Buy nice or buy twice.
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I would need to use it daily to justify $2300. Plus I don’t think that price includes any punch and dies.
and I would recommend anyone looking at a Rivnut tool, go with the Astro brand not the cheapest but good quality.
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Thanks for the Pro Tip, I just put an Astro Pneumatic Rivet Nut tool in my shopping cart.
Nice, I just have the manual tool. you will like the pneumatic one!
Saw this and thought I would share
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Looks like a great investment. With that out of the way. Can you imagine some of these guys with a class IV laser? Emergency room, here they come.
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Trying out one of these new carbide tooth 6 and 1/4 inch bits.
Seems to work all right. A little bit more chatter than the saw style.
Should have really tried it out on a bigger drill but I was only going through a couple inches .
This might be interesting to some but this is how we seal our hoods going through the wall.
It’s a piece of pool liner. Cut a hole about an inch and a half lesson diameter than the pipe going through it. Makes a very nice lip seal around the pipe
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If you got the H2D you could cut your gasket on that…
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That’s a wrist breaker for sure. Take some 38 Special advice, “Hold on loosely, but don’t let go.”
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Here’s an interesting project build with plans.
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“Seal our Hoods”
Hoods for what?
I accidentally deleted the response.
all penetrations through the building envelope get sealed like that.
For a typical house in our area there are several penetrations I make.
-Kitchen Exhaust
-Drier Exhaust
-Bathroom Fan Exhaust
-Lineset (Refrigeration)
HRV Exhaust
-HRV Intake
-Furnace Exhaust
-Furnace Intake
-Gas Line
-Convenience Outlet (BBQ connect)
Some of the other penetrations Maybe:
-a naturally aspirated appliance combustion air intake
-Make up air intake
-Cold Room Exhaust
-Cold Room Intake
-Condensate drain.
The one I cut using that 6 1/4 was a secondary suite range hood exhaust. The hoods in the picture are for a secondary suite bath fan and a primary suite dryer. I was there completing the install of the air conditioning condensers, this was an addition they wanted so I cut them in while I was running my vacuum and then decay testing on the refrigeration circuit.
This was a duplex with a suite so two furnaces two air conditioners and then the secondary suite on the one unit is all electric no air conditioning. So three dwellings all in all
I was happy with my vacuum numbers on this one.
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I figured, why be meek when you can share and gloat?
here!
And this is why no one loves me. I spend my time finding awesome tools…
My machine has been fully paid and I will be investing in a new way to plasma cut with it, e.g. as my current cutter is, um, not suited for my specific Langmuir Systems machine. Argh…
Outside of that idea, I did purchase a small lathe (miniature lathe for small parts). I fitted it with an Acorn CNC controller with the beaglebone green as a brains behind the brawn.
The people, and I saw somewhere on this site someone else got their Masso build too, at Sherline had a deal on no brains/electronics and no motors. So, with a little experimentation and some pushing, I got things up and running:
A little clean but it does the trick…
And here is the marvel. I did not purchase the Masso control system for some reason. I wanted to test DYI with the controller and motors. So far, so good…
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Not really a tool but kind of my most important tool for business.
So I’ve been working through the idea of buying a new van for my HVAC business.
I had been looking at Ford Transit vans a t350 tall and long model. But I see GM is come out with a pretty decent option for a large van. Also the rebate on this vehicle is about four times what it is for the Ford Transit.
Anyone ever seen one of these vans in person? I think there in use in larger cities.
Anyhow just throwing up some feelers to see if anyone has some opinions.
In July I’m going to a dealership in Calgary to check one out. I’m looking at the brightdrop 600 all-wheel drive.
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Looks nice. It resembles the old milk truck I remember from my childhood—very nice addition to your business TinMan.
All electric or hybrid?
Funny enough is I bought an old milk truck over 20 years ago to use for work and just never did. It’s a 1963 all aluminum Grumman kurbside. I’ll see if I have an actual picture of it on my phone. Used to be a lab equipment delivery vehicle in Seattle.
These aren’t pictures of mine but they’re very similar to mine.
100% electric. I only plan on doing service calls within my area. This van will likely never drive to another town once it comes here.
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