Recent content by 67Charger440

Here's what I did. I don't have a lift picked out, but it will be a clear-floor 10k. I very carefully placed (every bar laser aligned and tied) and documented the extra rebar and depth. I'm 8.5" deep for 15'x4' with #4 on 1' centers over a 20'x5' area I'll adjust the final location to miss...

Lots of decent sized wolf spiders and black widows in the garage. Wolf's I don't mind, but they scare the **** out of me when they come shooting out from under something I pick up off the floor. Black widows **** because they multiply so fast and lurk in the areas you don't access often, but...

We're moving in 3 weeks. Emptied out the rafters in the attached garage and sorted through the KEEP - GIVE AWAY - TRASH. The shop out back has a 40' container backed up to it and I'm going through the same process, but sorting and boxing all the KEEP as it goes in. NOT FUN, but I have found...

Reassembled the kids Yamaha TTR-50 engine after pulling he head to replace the intake valve I nicked while heli-coiling the wasted spark plug threads. They were bad when I got it, but usable. I replaced the plug, and it wouldn't stay anymore. It is almost comical how easy these engines are to...

Just to follow up... I used the box spacer w/o the nuts and elbow shown below (both from Lowe's) on the inside, then screwed the weather-tite outlet box to the threads from the outside and secured it from rotating with a screw. EMT from there.

I want to add a few outlets to the outside of my Shop. Its a steel building, 30x33. The existing inside wiring runs from the panel in EMT through a daisy chain of outlet boxes along the strut/purlin(name???) along the wall about 48" above the ground. There is nice easy access to drill through...

OK. HD version of the dynamat will be the first and easiest. After that I'll go for the bolt on weight. I don't need it silent, I just need to NOT be afraid to drop anything on it for fear of 3 hours of ear ringing...

I'm putting a mezzanine in my 30' x 33' shop. The setup: Free-standing, S6x12.5 I-beam. Shaped like the "L" piece from Tetris. 30' wide overall, 10' deep for the left half, 6' deep for the right half. Back beam is [2] 14'6"ers to clear the center upright. Front beam is 20' on the right...

I have a workbench made from a 8'x2' piece of 3/8"steel plate with a 3" tall 90° bend at the back. This thing will deafen you if you smack it with a hammer. Taking a note from the car guys using hush-mat and the like, if I bolt a 20 lb. lead bar or two to the bottom, will the added mass/soft...

Just picked this Columbian D44 For what worked out to be $27. Came from a clockmaker's workshop that had closed up a few years ago and is finally liquidating.

Thanks, the Binder is a riot. It was my father-in-laws until he had a stroke and it just sat. We have gone hunting up in the mountains of Montana in it many times. That thing is a mountain goat even on little tires. Close of escrow is August 5th. The shop is basically wide open, 30x33...

Just a quick introduction... After surviving the market crash that has locked me in my current housing tract home for 9 years, we are finally in escrow on a new place. 1.26 acres with a 990sq.ft. shop. I have a decent fleet of older vehicles that I restore, race, or just drive, but the...