Here’s a tip, only poke a little hole in the foil sealing your quart or gallon oil bottle so you can pour a skinny stream, or do what I do and dispense your oil from a syrup bottle that has a tapered, pull-to-open tip. It works like a charm, and you can push the tip against the inside of the filler neck to stop the flow for one-handed control when your other hand is steadying the saw.

Paul Sadoff, who is Rock Lobster Cycles, built this disc-brake, 650b mixed-terrain bike for himself, for a trip he plans to undertake later this year. The frame celebrates Sadoff’s 40 years of frame-building experience with a combination of lugged, TIG-welded, and fillet brazing.

A Chevy Colorado is on our shortlist of vehicles we would love to have in our garage. And because of this, we’ve spent no shortage of time critiquing and researching reasons why others should own one. At the same time, we have reasons why someone may want to pass it up. Of course, not all reasons are created equal, and priorities are different based on the consumer.

With the release of Force level AXS came another new quarq version. Interestingly this new version is listed as spider only for $599. The identical (as best I can tell) in function old DZero spider has been selling for $679. Should I expect a small price reduction across the quarq lineup? Or is this just a weird quirk (like what I did there?) in the product line?

Thesis produces the OB1 in small batches and sources materials from Asia with components curated from companies that follow the ethos of the Thesis founders. eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],’cxmagazine_com-box-4′,’ezslot_2′,123,’0′]));

Over a few months of testing, I made many thousands of cuts of through softwood and softer hardwood species. These ranged from three to nine inches in diameter. Most of the recorded cutting trials were done in fresh Ponderosa pine trunks that I felled up in the mountains for the shootout. I primarily used the chainsaws for crosscutting in green (wet) wood like their chains were designed for, not in dried construction lumber.

About a decade ago, if you had walked the floor of Mettler Toledo’s plant that produces truck, rail, and high-capacity scales, you would have seen a very different operation. A plasma table cut some parts, but others came from an aging shear, a machine that took up significant space and, thanks to its age, wasn’t very reliable. Persistent reactive maintenance on a primary cutting system is never a good thing.

About 64 percent of collision repairers who ask report consistently being paid to clean the pinchweld substrates before clamping and repairing damage left by the clamps, according to the latest “Who Pays for What?” survey.

We can’t make it such that there are less people, so the only meaningful solution is to cause less cars on the road.

This rather obvious solution has been with us for several decades, both as a manufactured product, and as a popular DIY project. The principle behind the iso cab (short for "isolation") is simple: Stick a speaker in an enclosed, soundproof box, put a microphone in there with it, and you can play as loud as you like—with no artificial attenuation between amp and speaker—while governing your in-house volume levels precisely via the PA and monitor system or into your recording interface.

A: Yes, absolutely. Rigid insulation sheets are one of the best things you can do when renovating the outside of a building before new siding goes on. It boosts effective insulation action and makes stud wall cavities warmer for any given outdoor temperature. This last benefit is important. Warmer stud cavities greatly lessen the chances condensation will occur inside wall cavities during cold weather. Double-wall construction boosts the energy efficiency of a building too, but it’s much more difficult to install in a retrofit situation.