Recent content by 83Earnhardt

I found out the secret is to have the gate swing easily with no stress or binding. I have a 350 mounted on a sixteen foot gate and have had no problems. Gate has an adjustable cable mounted on gate about 12 foot out running about six feet up the post that gate is mounted to. This takes the...

Why don't you do what my sign has. i have a 76 sign that is 8'+ and it was double sided until one side cracked. It has a full frame with 8' fluorescent lights inside. By the way, I'm trying to sell mine.

By the way, I rebuilt my first carb and it was that same 2bbl. Took me forever!! And also my first brake job, did one side and left the other intact to make sure i installed everything right. Brakes overheated a lot.

Lord does this bring back memories. My first car was a 67 Galaxie 500 fastback with a 390 2bbl automatic. I learned a lot about how to work on cars by keeping it running. She was a tank but we had a ball piling everyone in and heading to New Smyrna Beach!!.

Watched a moccasin climb in to my first shop roll out cabinet and get behind one of my portable compressors. Called my neighbor as I did not want to move in case he moved. Neighbor came over, grabbed a flat shovel and gave me o hoe. I moved compressor, moccasin came out, neighbor pinned him...

You might want to look into waterweld from a parts store. This stuff is incredible and we have used it on aluminum high dollar radiators for late model race cars and never had a problem,. Heck I sealed a leak in my ATV fuel tank with 3 years ago and still no sign of a problem. Easier to use...

I have a dream of one day opening a full service gas station designed to look like it was straight out of the 40's and 50' with fully dresses attendants who would do all of what has been discussed in this thread, clean the windshield, look under the hood, check tire pressure etc. Location would...

Here in Florida we use water once we fill the hole with dirt, with hard soil like clay that may not work. Using a heavy bar will flat wear you out. I use broken shovel handles, sizes along that line work well and I keep them light.

Warehouse is located in Sanford, behind the baseball stadium and is open on select Wednesdays during the month. They have Dell computers with monitors that are three to four years old that are for $65.

Here in Central Florida Seminole County has a warehouse that collects all the used discontinued school items ranging from TV's because they are going flat screen to tools, metal cabinets, filing cabinets, desks, vacuum cleaners, coolers etc. I visited them today and they had for example food...

I was introduced to Mean Green hand cleaner at the dealership I worked at years ago and fell in love with it. You only use a little of it each time, unlike GOJO or orange hand-cleaners and it works well WITH water and really cleans your hands and does not make them dry up if you use it a lot...

Was in HD today, they had the large top and bottom 41" tool boxes for total price of $299.00. SKU#635958, Model HTC405 and HMT405. I'm tool box poor but it makes me think about buying the combo and putting the bottom under my bench and slide out the top one. These they have huge tall drawers...

Thanks guys, very helpful. Bought the 3' pipe today and will post the final results.

What suggestions are out there regarding how to store lube guns and funnels, we all know how dirty they get when they are stuck in a bucket, I made a PVC rack for them but it just doesn't fit the bill. I would like to create a cabinet that I could hang on the wall and store the guns and funnels...

Contact http://www.metalbuildsupplies.com/welcome.html. I have added two additions to my shop and barn and purchased direct from them. They are located in Kissimmee and manufacturer the panels at the length and color you ask for. I made the mistake of going to other roofing supply companies...