One thing I have NOT noticed is people mentioning another way to evaporate water; FIRE!! ~ BUT...then pure genius struck (and I can't imagine SOMEone has not already done this or talked about it!!)....pour your grey water in the metal basin! How about suspending a 5 or 10 gallon steel barrel, insid...

I had one of those. It nearly blew up on me, torched half of my structure, gave me burns all over my hands. Hence butane, a bastard gas for a bastard barbarian. Seriously? I've read a lotta your posts so I'm not really sure whether yer BS'ing me or not. Nearly blew up? or overheated and had a massi...

I've had a Coleman 413G (white gas) since the 70's and it's been virtually indestructable but after 30+ years, dealing with the fuel had gotten to be a pain. I was so tired of pouring and pumping that I decided to go propane. I was at Walmart checking out the new stoves when I noticed this hanging o...

If you can manage the hole punch why not go the extra distance and get it to cut the ends rounded, much like the crimps curve? These guys make dies that do just that. http://www.vogeltool.com/sample_parts.html This page (scroll down 3/4 of the way) has a "custom feed-through double flatten, radius ...

Thanks for the compliment.. I actually spent about as much time constructing the jig as I did crimping the ends of my conduit. I had a 6" X 6" piece of 3/8" steel plate laying around so I bored a 1 1/2" hole in the center then split it down the middle with a chopsaw. This gave me the top and bottom ...

Mr.?, I almost purchased the same 6 ton press from Harbor Freight but changed my mind at the last minute and went with the 12 ton instead. The 6 just looked a little too Rube Goldbergian to withstand very much use. Ironically the pump assembly on my 12 came apart after about 150 struts and I had to ...

I started cutting the struts today for a 24' 3v dome and thought I'd share my set-up. It's a 72" piece of 6" 16 gauge metal stud bolted to an electric chopsaw with an adjustable stop block mounted to the end. I can cut up to 5 pieces of conduit at a time, without having to do ANY measuring or markin...