Ever thought about changing trades? How about completely changing the industry or trade altogether? This week the guys take some messages from listeners asking advice about switching careers. Episode 200, hosted by Eric Aune & Andy Mickelson Send us your feedback or topic ideas over on our social channels! Eric Aune https://bit.ly/mechanicalhubIG Andy Mickelson https://bit.ly/AndyMickelsonIG Read more
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Ever thought about changing trades?
How about completely changing the industry or trade altogether?
This week the guys take some messages from listeners asking advice about switching careers.
Episode 200, hosted by Eric Aune & Andy Mickelson Send us your feedback or topic ideas over on our social channels!
Eric Aune https://bit.ly/mechanicalhubIG
Andy Mickelson https://bit.ly/AndyMickelsonIG
Two master plumbers talk small business and skilled trades as hosts of the Make Trades Great Again podcast. Episode 200: Changing Trades
Mechanical Hub’s John Mesenbrink pent the day at UA’s annual Instructor Training Program in Ann Arbor, Mich. Tom Bigley, director of plumbing services, UA, was my gracious host. As a first time attendee, I was super impressed with the event, from the classrooms to the training truck labs to the apprenticeship contests. The video below Read more
Mechanical Hub’s John Mesenbrink pent the day at UA’s annual Instructor Training Program in Ann Arbor, Mich. Tom Bigley, director of plumbing services, UA, was my gracious host. As a first time attendee, I was super impressed with the event, from the classrooms to the training truck labs to the apprenticeship contests.
The video below features Tom Bigley, UA director of plumbing, and Joe Fernandez Jr., UA training specialist, talk about the importance of the event and its training program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmmczHc9_CY Sharkbite becomes Sharkbite MAX with updates on fitting design that will push the pressure limits, grabbing power all while making them even easier to install. Don’t sleep on these push-to-connect fittings. As stated in the video, Eric uses them for transitioning from existing CPVC to PEX or copper with ease Read more
Sharkbite becomes Sharkbite MAX with updates on fitting design that will push the pressure limits, grabbing power all while making them even easier to install.
Don’t sleep on these push-to-connect fittings. As stated in the video, Eric uses them for transitioning from existing CPVC to PEX or copper with ease.
In what was a first of its kind event at an ISH Frankfurt show, 12 young plumbers/apprentices from eight different countries from around the world gathered at ISH Frankfurt to work together for one single goal: prefab Geberit bathroom plumbing systems on the show floor, which would be eventually transferred off site to bathrooms at Read more
In what was a first of its kind event at an ISH Frankfurt show, 12 young plumbers/apprentices from eight different countries from around the world gathered at ISH Frankfurt to work together for one single goal: prefab Geberit bathroom plumbing systems on the show floor, which would be eventually transferred off site to bathrooms at Niddahalle, part of the Eintracht Frankfurt sports club, west of the city.
Until now pipe threading with a battery-powered tool was limited to handheld machines, just one step away from their manual predecessors. While extremely useful and massively powerful, powered handheld threaders are best suited for repairs, small jobs and threading in-place. Production threading for electrical, plumbing, heating or gas piping demands heavier tools however, tools that Read more
Until now pipe threading with a battery-powered tool was limited to handheld machines, just one step away from their manual predecessors. While extremely useful and massively powerful, powered handheld threaders are best suited for repairs, small jobs and threading in-place.
Production threading for electrical, plumbing, heating or gas piping demands heavier tools however, tools that require stationary setup and significant power supply. Milwaukee seems to have changed that with their newest addition to the MX FUEL line of light equipment, the MXF512 Threading Machine.
During a recent trip to the WWETT trade show in Indianapolis I got my hands on the MXF512 threader and talked with a representative closely involved in engineering and design of the battery powered pipe threader. Please take a look at the video from the event.
For full specs and additional info check out this listing from our tool box page.