Recent content by AZBarracuda

I had looked for a safety/restrictor valve before posting here, and found none. Wrench97's input reinforced what my buddy suggested so I pulled the hydraulic hose off, poked a fine wire through it and found the interior of the hose to be rough, especially in the area of a 90* bend. I took it...

I installed a used Rotary SPOA9 2-post lift over a year ago. It's probably 20 years old by now. I've raised/lowered it dozens of times and now all of a sudden the right side (the side that the power unit hangs on, if that matters) goes down EXTREMELY slowly. So slowly, in fact, I have to put my...

I found nothing in the HD in Folsom CA, but scored the Dewalt 20V Max Combo Drill/Impact Kit (sku 1000714832) for $50.02 up the hill in Placerville on my way home. While searching the tool aisle one of the hardware area employees came to help, so I told him that I was looking for unicorns ...

You probably ought to preserve the ability to pull cables in the future, so you don't want to fill the conduit and gunk up the cables with foam. Perhaps there is a clam-shell (2 halves) metal conduit elbow that can be bolted on to seal everything up again. If not that, then I would go get a...

I appreciate the discussion so far. Y'all are having me consider things that haven't run through my mind of yet. This is exactly why I came to GJ; to get this sort of feedback from those with experience. With my limited time, I must do all I can to get it right the first time so I can devote...

My neighbor's idea My second idea was to put the lift in rear the RV stall. My hesitation was that the room is only 12' wide. I think that may be too narrow. Could I open both doors on the car simultaneously? How would I get my tool cart around to the front of the car? I would have to...

Here was my first idea Yeah, there is a lot of **** in the way of progress. I intend to move everything out of the garage when doing the interior finishing work. My initial plan was: Area A = metal/dirty shop area, do body work here too Area B = lift in this area, and park a car to one side...

Here is the RV stall. It was tacked onto the existing garage when the previous owners bought a land yacht a couple of years later. The stall is butted into the hillside with a wood retaining wall. There is no door on the front (tarped), the rafters are open in the rear and the walls stop a...

On the inside, all of my stuff is just strewn about. This is makes me crazy, and half of the stuff is still in moving boxes, but I am not "moving in" until the interior is finished. In the last pic, meet Ruby. She came with the garage. According to the previous owners, she showed up on the...

Greetings everyone! I was an avid reader of GJ for a couple of years, but didn't post too much. Being a shift worker, I had some down time while on night shift, and wisely filled some of that void with GJ. Unfortunately someone must have caught on because corporate IT blocked the site. Well...

Greetings everyone! I used to be an avid reader of GJ, until my employer blocked the site. Well, I've changed jobs, changed locations (moved from Phoenix to the Sierras in NorCal), and now have to pretty much start all over again with my new workshop. I hope to carve out time to visit here...

My neighbor and I have been buying the blue ones (x3), the orange ones (x4), and recently the Drill Master (black one) when they go on sale for $9 over the past 10 years. Purchased as disposables, they are used moderately for projects and have held up pretty well despite the tool-abusive nature...

Wet digging??? There's water in the ground??? A totally foreign concept to me here in the desert foothills west of Phoenix AZ. We have to ADD water to the pit in order to get a backhoe past the calcium/caliche layer 3' down.

Perhaps you could modify your picture postings to make them a bit larger. I'm only getting 360x270 pics. Double (or even triple) that size would be nice and easier to see details.