[RE-wrenches] tax credit carryover

2015-02-07 Thread Kirk Herander
What is the length of carryover for the Federal tax credit (individual)? It's clear in the tax code a business has a one year carry back & 20 year carry forward. For the residential, it seems to indicate only a 1 year carry forward, but not explicitly stated. Thoughts? Thanks. Kirk Herander VT

Re: [RE-wrenches] Cable crimper question

2015-02-07 Thread Dan Fink
I have the $50 harbor freight one, and it works fine once you do the metric conversion and then ignore the die size and do your own testing. For the big stuff of #2 and above, I use my hammer crimper. But this cheap tool will certainly crimp the s**t out of smaller sizes. Lots of us older folk have

Re: [RE-wrenches] Cable crimper question

2015-02-07 Thread Chris Mason
I have a couple of those cheap chinese metric hydraulic crimpers. They crimp fine, there is a conversion table in the box for AWG sizes. It's a lot cheaper to give each crew a $40 crimper than sharing a $2,000 Greenlee, and when the seals go you buy another one. On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:29 AM, w

Re: [RE-wrenches] Cable crimper question

2015-02-07 Thread penobscotsolar
I'm with Ray on this, Allan. 27 years of using Burndy and Greenlee crimpers with tinned copper lugs on battery and inverter cables without a failure says a lot. Like Ray, we do set it a little "tighter" than the scale indicates. Daryl > If there actually is a small hydraulic pump connected betwe

Re: [RE-wrenches] Cable crimper question

2015-02-07 Thread RE Ellison
If there actually is a small hydraulic pump connected between those handles? I have had previous experience a lot Chinese hydraulics, engines, generators Chinese hydraulics and engines have bad habits of seeping oil if not downright leaking! Their certainly looks like there's no room there for a