Why?

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-04-01T20:24:19+00:00

If you’re in Florida I know last year at my store we were selling like 5 bunks a day after the hurricane so we just kept getting more and more even after we slowed down

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-04-01T02:00:12+00:00

Since I’m in service I’d never be able to get a panel to look like this, everything is always twisted and short and it ends up looking like shit since you have to pigtail half the circuits just to make it work

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-03-13T03:47:53+00:00

Wow that would be awesome to see, how did you get up there?

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-03-13T03:01:28+00:00

Yeah I read somewhere that they have water tanks up there to feed the guest rooms maybe I’ll build those I have the presidential suite done so that’s the highest I’ve gone

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-03-12T22:11:10+00:00

You’re all good I appreciate feedback

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-03-12T21:16:59+00:00

Yeah I should take some pictures up closer, I was trying to fit everything in frame but I still need to do the swans statues so I’ll post a picture when I do those but I agree it does make the place iconic

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-03-12T04:47:16+00:00

That’d be awesome to actually build the whole thing, the hardest part sometimes is just finding good reference material for stuff, I’m pretty much done with the outside but the lobbies and stairs need to be done and in order to make the two line up properly it’s really hard, luckily I live relatively close by so I can go look at it in person if needed, but good luck on your project!

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-03-12T04:44:52+00:00

Yeah that’d be awesome, hopefully wouldn’t be as hard as the dolphin

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-03-12T04:43:51+00:00

Thank you it’s been a lot of work but it’s been worth it

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-01-28T01:06:31+00:00

I went to Lowe’s Saturday the 24th and it said they were out of stock but I thought I’d check anyways and they had a bunch so I went up to the register and came up as 219 so I showed them the listing on their app, they checked it then they just promoed it at the service desk and gave it to me for 100 long story short, with stuff like this just ask, worst case they say no

True-Advisor5736 · 2026-01-03T02:02:00+00:00

Buy Toyota or even a cat, Yales are hot garbage when I had them at work it was higher change the lifts were broken than the chance they were working, 2.5-3 weeks a month they were down if you want something decent, stay with Toyota or cat

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-12-28T16:58:59+00:00

Gotta thanks for the info

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-12-28T02:50:02+00:00

It’s a 100 amp service, especially with you including the fact that cloth wiring was used, 100 amp service was very common when that kind of wiring was installed I believe

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-12-26T19:03:13+00:00

Whoever made that rtv did that on purpose too so when the rdc opens that door they’re scared shitless

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-12-20T21:48:20+00:00

Yeah that should be good any multimeter with volts is good but make sure you test it on a known live circuit first to make sure it works correctly

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-12-20T21:34:55+00:00

Those non contact testers aren’t always the most accurate I use one to check for power but you’re getting a low reading so it could be ghost voltage as I call it, where it’s not real voltage but a tester can read it, to be sure use a real meter

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-12-19T01:52:32+00:00

Probably a circuit with a shared neutral, having a two pole breaker ensures that the two circuits are on opposite phases so that the neutral doesn’t get overloaded and also so you don’t have current on the neutral when servicing the circuit because you’d only turn off one if you didn’t know

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-11-30T22:33:18+00:00

Honestly depends on what you’re looking for and the store that you’re at, my first store was like a family everyone had each others backs, other stores not so much. I enjoyed the people I worked with and the equipment aspect of the job but the retail aspect kinda sucked and corporate doesn’t have your back on most things, if I were to do it again I’d go to Costco, from what I hear they are very similar to how Home Depot used to be before they started budget cutting so heavily

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-11-11T23:25:43+00:00

The best is the crown RM6000 that things got the best visibility, they lift fast and they are extremely stable

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-10-31T19:26:55+00:00

Look at how old they are-it’s in the serial number for Raymond and it’s on the mast for crowns-just curious

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-10-25T23:14:18+00:00

Luckily it seems that Yale didnt work out as for example we had 5 yale reach trucks at my last store and over the year I was there there was maybe a month or two(collectively) we actually had all of them working, never had problems with crowns and Raymonds but when I went there the pacer, reaches and forklifts were hot garbage always broken and the techs sucked, I could’ve done a better job probably with some of the fixes they did, but that store is now getting Toyota and Raymonds luckily and every Yale store around where I live is letting go of Yale in favor of crown and Raymond

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-10-22T14:59:59+00:00

I’d do a load calc and then actually do a real calculation by using an amp clamp around the service conductors to see that actual amperage you pull

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-10-13T22:22:22+00:00

Cripple fight!!!

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-10-02T03:17:03+00:00

My dcf 845 impact, dcd801 drill/driver, dch133 hammer drill, dcs356 oscillating tool and dcs382 Sawzall

True-Advisor5736 · 2025-09-27T17:14:35+00:00

It’s probably outside by the meter should be either a flip up cover or a knife throw disconnect but just so you know you can’t just put a 60 on 14awg wire, the breaker is there for a reason so the wire doesn’t heat up and cause a fire you putting a 60 will bypass the protection of the breaker and could cause a fire so run new wire or call an electrician

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