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skoronesa said:

Then I guess that 11$ set is a cheap date that'll do ya just swell.

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skoronesa said:

An electrician told me these would come with straight thread dies. I could always swap the dies to NPT though. What do you think? They are aluminum and thus much lighter than the Ridgid dies. They would match the rest of the Greenlee tools I've gotten for my personal work van

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TerryTotoSucks said:

You know for the better part of my career we didn’t buy or use any fancy tools. My father and grandfather grew up in harder times and they only bought what they had to. So that means they worked harder but kept more money.

Boy how things have changed. My dad said they thought they had hit the big time when they bought chain cutters instead of cuttting clay with chisels. And when they got electric drills and saws to to rough in’s.

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ROCKSTARPLUMBER said:

My first few years plumbing in my 19-22 yrs we didn’t get chipping hammers and jackhammers. We got handed sledge hammers and chisels.

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TerryTotoSucks said:

Amazon guy just threw these on my front porch
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I think Irwin calls a lot of their drill bits “ speed bore “. Found some old regular spade bits by Irwin called speedbore in my shop

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TerryTotoSucks said:

So now I’m going through my HVAC tools that I bought and looked some of the prices up that they’re selling for.

I came out like a bandit…….I could sell the tools and make a nice profit. They’ve only been used once and I put them all back into the original package.

It was a nice investment and I had a good experience with it. If any of you are thinking about installing one, I suggest doing it. I can answer some questions and make it a little easier for you.

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skoronesa said:

You ever use a "Star Drill"? They are brutal.

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DDDave said:

You're expensing the hrs of education, right?

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skoronesa said:

You have to be careful with hex dies as historically they weren't threading dies, just RE-THREADING dies for fixing messed up threads. The past few years I have seen many more hex dies that actually are bonaifde threading dies, but I have also seen some that aren't.

That said you can certainly cut threads with them if you try hard enough!

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TerryTotoSucks said:

5 years ago I started looking into a minisplit for my office. 400sq.Ft.

Asked a HVAC buddy how much it would cost to install if I had the wiring requirements installed at his chosen locations.

He quoted me $4,000. With materials costing $1800. So $2200 labor for 5 hrs work.

I laughed and said, “ I’m going to HVAC school “. He laughed back 🤣

Then I went to minisplit HVAC school on YouTube and read the installation manual that came with the minisplit I purchased. $1200 Gree 23 seer heat pump with Wi-Fi control. Package deal, came with lineset and control wiring. Bought all the tools to install it.$1000 worth of tools.

So I’m up to $2200 and I have the equipment and the tools.

I spent about 12 hrs watching videos and reading the install instructions and all the instructions that came with the new tools I bought.

Took me 4 hrs to install the unit from start to finish. Does not include the electrical I had to do, but that wasn’t in the HVAC quote.

Electrical cost me $200 for materials,I did that myself also. I wired the entire office. I actually built the entire office from the ground up. Foundation, framing, insulation, wiring, plumbing, alarm system, drywall, painting, cabinets, trim, siding, roofing and tile floors.

I built the building 20 yrs ago. The only problem I’ve had is the entry door casing at the threshold rotted away…….rains a lot here and it was wood. I failed to maintain it and it rotted. I replaced it with fiberglass casing and it’s good to go.

So now the minisplit indoor unit fan is making a bad noise so I decided to replace the head unit. Found it on eBay for $325, got lucky it’s discontinued. I’m going to save the old one for parts and maybe repair it and keep as a spare.

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TerryTotoSucks said:

I just got my gauge from Supplyhouse.com, gotta stay away from that place……

For fun I bought a couple sch.40 pvc dishwasher tees. Comes with a plug if the dishwashers not there yet or you’re removing the dishwasher, it’s molded on the side and you break it off when needed. Pretty cool as Miley would say
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TerryTotoSucks said:

I just got my gauge from Supplyhouse.com, gotta stay away from that place……

For fun I bought a couple sch.40 pvc dishwasher tees. Comes with a plug if the dishwashers not there yet or you’re removing the dishwasher, it’s molded on the side and you break it off when needed. Pretty cool as Miley would say
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