Recent content by CaptainRay

You can get a pipe threader at harbor freight that is nice for $59 http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=pipe+threader

I don't know about storage and benches you can buy, I'm bulding my own stuff, can't afford to buy any myself. Would rather spend my money on my hot rod projects. Except that I am buying one or two of the 13 drawer tool boxes from Harbor Freight and making a bench out of it... My other benches...

For whatever it's worth, I would suggest you do some serious research on the problems you can experience with epoxy floors. Epoxy does not breather so test your cement to make sure there's not water coming up through it during wet weather/wet season. If it does your epoxy will laminate and...

Be careful selecting epoxy, old cement, lots of oil soaked in from the past that you cannot get out. There are just lots of drawbacks to epoxy. I didn't do my homework and I'm paying for it now. I just finished putting $800 worth of a high quality epoxy on my shop floor, it's all coming up...

Started putting up the building in September 2011 and am still hard at it. Had to fabricate the walk in doors, haven't bought the overhead door yet. Just about have the ends buttoned up now but a little more work around the doors. A few problems to over come with some of the work but coming...

If your heart is set on epoxy I would suggest that you do some research first to avoid the common mistakes. I got my answers from Youtube and google search. 1) you need a test kit to make sure there isn't too much moistue, epoxy will laminate if there is too much moisture. If it is fresh cement...

I may have been just unlucky over the years but anything I painted onto cement just came up. Got fooled again with an industrial epoxy I got at at good price... and thought would do a good job. it's coming up and scrapes off every time I drag the jack or a piece of metal across it. The...

WOW! What a great place and project. I'm always collecting pictures of old shops, gas stations, garages, diners and such. A great project, anxious to see how you fix it up... hope you keep it true to the year... I worked in an old Richfield gas station when I was in high school, back in...

Welcome from Missouri... I retired almost 11 years ago... have never been so busy... I can say each year I seem to have more to do than the past year. Good luck with the honeydo's... My shop project build... http://s1134.photobucket.com/albums/m614/CaptainRay1964/

I'm still building my shop but have regrets already... Wish I didn't put epoxy paint on my floor... it *****! Wish I had put more thought into where to put my shop, ended up having a wet weather underground spring coming off the hill that never showed up before the ground was cut. Wish I had got...

I just poured an 8' by 8' slab for my shed, did my own forms and had to fill in a little to make things level. Used a harbor Freight mixer I have had for many years and mixed my own cement, moved it to the forms with a wheel-borough. Took me about 4 hours and my daughter did the finishing work...

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At least it's not China... I guess. But I have to say I do buy HF a lot because someone has destroyed the economy and my disposable income ***** now. I go out of my to buy American anytime I can. I buy a lot of Craftsman tools and have a 3 pretty good size tool boxes full. The wrenches, L...

This is an very informative video on shop lighting and it covers LED's the new T8 lights with the electronic ballist and the old one with the mangentic ballist. and the T8 fluorescent. I'm an LED light nut, I have make signs out of the LEDs. I have to say I agree with the guy on the...