Q: I’m about to start a project to replace my old kitchen faucet, and of course have been getting all sorts of advice about the best way to do it. I’m confused, though, when it comes to sealing the ...

Q: Your advice about using string, putty and tape in plumbing is a little off the mark. Those three products are quite different, and are not interchangeable at all.You use tape (or pipe dope) to seal ...

I remember the date like it was tattooed on my left arm. October 25, 1994. It was a Tuesday. I’d been given the assignment to go and work with a company that produced roll-formed metal parts for the ...

Although it would be wrong to say that tape measures are difficult to use, they can sometimes certainly be a bit fiddly - a couple of examples include the measuring of objects that aren't ...

Yeh, metal-tape measures stopped being cool right around the time ThinkGeek started selling the Smart String, which has 50-inches of retractable string that can bend around curved things. BUT WAIT! It ...

Ken Burke restored the painted signs on the side of the Dietz Lantern Factory using string, a tape measure and a level. Syracuse, N.Y. -- Decades ago, Ken Burke lived in the shadow of the Dietz ...