Recent content by cudacharlie

Hi - I'm about to hang a row (8) of upper cabinets (24w x 30h x 13d) along the back wall of my garage. The back wall is made from 12" thick cinderblocks filled with concrete. I'm planning on mounting 2x4 studs horizontally, the same length as the cabinets, to the wall first, and then...

Hi all... I just moved into a new house, and it's gonna need a new driveway. About 6400 square feet of chewed up asphalt with poorly executed concrete patches from 10 years ago, and another 2000 square feet of gravel drive and parking area.... Ideally, the 6400 sf of asphalt would become...

Howdy all... Just bought a new house (yay!) with polished concrete floors (radiant heat too) throughout. The house is only ten years old, but the floors could use a re-do. They were sealed correctly back when built, and they aren't chewed up or stained by any means, but now that the house is...

bobbyd you are the man! That's IT! I'm not sure if it will fit/work/whatever, but that is in fact just what I was looking for! Thanks! I was searching for "horizontal door" and never found those. Nice! Jimmy, my problem is I can't use an overhead door due to the funkyness and lowness of...

Hi geniuses! I've just bought a house (hooray!) that only has a carport (what?!?!) that I will immediately be fully enclosing and turning into a proper garage (whew!). Problem is, the house is of a certain extreme modern architectural style that requires a unique and visually neat-o approach...

Man, that sound really atypical. That set of wrenches has got to be a floor model or B-stock that somehow got mixed up with A-stock, or else was severely damaged in shipping somehow (?). No way would that stuff slip by SK's q.c. department, right? Good to hear SK is freaking out and...

Thanks guys... Well, I got it off the car, but with the supporting frame and front-to-back Y-shaped supports. The bolts holding the actual chrome bumper to the supporting frame are the ones that need to go... Hholmberg's got it sussed; if I just take the 24" breaker bar to them it will round...

Rust never sleeps! Which is why I need to know how to destroy/sever/annihilate eight 9/16 nuts and bolts holding a 70 Charger front bumper to its supports. My nut cracker won't fit in there, so what's the best method? I sure don't need to save anything but the bumper, and it WILL be getting...

Blam! aToolCrib strikes again! Nice price. I don't even know enough about the tool to know if those ones I found are even the equivalent. What's up with Astro-Pneumatic always having a $13 version of so many tools? Is it just that they are Chinese-made? Or is there something even cheaper...

Oh man, how great! IMAJUNKIE too! I'll be orderin' soon... thanks!

Wow, those jewelry-making tool sites just opened my eyes to a whole ri-donk-u-lous world of wonderfully obscure tools. Who knew? What a world. I love it!

Sixty-six bucks for the Mayhew at SJDiscount tools... http://www.sjdiscounttools.com/may28650.html Fifty-five for an SK one.... http://www.sjdiscounttools.com/sk90245.html or the Astro-Pneumatic version for twenty-six bucks... http://www.sjdiscounttools.com/ap9409.html Are these the same...

Wow. That's all I have to say. Amazing invention! I hope they make a mint....

Hi guruz - Anybody know what a "Dapping Punch" is used for? Is this used for "schwedging" (sp?) rivets, such as those used in 70s cars' vent window assemblies? Just wondering.... :dunno: - Charlie

Man, I know I'm like the last guy in the world without a MIG... what if all of a sudden I needed to weld a 6-foot spear onto the front of my car? What would I do then? So I ask ye gurus of toolz: How in heck does a guy learn to weld MIG? I'm 42 and busy as heck, and it's for "hobbyist" auto...