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[Mazderati]

Yeah, graded is what I was trying to say, like a bolt. Thanks for confirming and for the supply house suggestion.

Traditional lally columns (metal tube, concrete fill) will push on a new 16' beam of triple 2"x8"s glued and screwed. The beam is perpendicular to and supporting the...

[Mazderati]

Does threaded rod not need to be rated for structural applications? Seems crazy the same house-brand Chinese shit used to hang HVAC would be used for real loads.

The short of it is at least one lally column lands on ledge that slopes. So, not concrete but bedrock. The thought is to drill...

[Mazderati]

Lally columns. I'm adding some in a non-critical application to level and support a sagging floor. Original joists are sound but long and tired. For reasons I may go into later, I want to use threaded rod and standoff baseplates at the bottom of one of the lally columns. Like the image below. Does threaded...

[Mazderati]

I bought a snowblower so I wouldn't have to hire a plow. Now, I need to hire an octopus to run the snowblower.

[Mazderati]

Range anxiety, spotty infrastructure, time to charge, higher purchase price, and just the fact EV is new tech are all obstacles even without considering supersized preferences. Still lots to figure out.

[Mazderati]

Lightning confirmed dead. ~20B write off for Ford and the plant they just built. 1,800 jobs gone. Ford transitioning the plant to battery production for data centers? Cross post to stock market tanking.