Recent content by dungbeetle

I've read all the threads on bleeding jacks. I can't seem to get the second stage of my two stage transmission jack bled... anybody got any ideas here?

I built my stairs out of 1.5 x 3 inch steel without any folding parts. I use a $70 Harbor Freight electric winch to pull it up and let it down. If I were you, I would make the stair angle not as steep as what the folding stair shows. I have carried an engine block up my stairs. I don't think it...

What kind of cars?

I tried both types of foam. I used sheet foam in the mechanic shop and the welding shop. In the paint shop, which was the last one built, I wanted hermetic sealing as well as insulation, so I had it sprayed. It cost me 1800 dollars to do a 22 by 48 building. It ended up that the insulation...

not bad... at first they wanted concrete footings going below the frost line. I think they wanted them 3 feet. But, I resisted that. 'didn't want something that permanent, in case I ever decide to move one and put a house back there. The floor is a grid of the 1.5 x 3 steel turned on edge and...

Only two sizes of metal are used. One is 1.5 x 3 inch .078 thick..... the other is 1.5 inches square, .062 thick. The welder is a Miller 185. Locally, the metal was available in 24 foot lengths which is why the building are always 24 feet in one direction. The siding comes in 16 by 3 foot...

The best part about it was the cost. I figure it cost me about 4500 bucks in materials for the 30 x 48 shop, and that included 2000 sq feet of concrete and a thousand bucks worth of insulation. The labor was done entirely by myself and my gardener over a period of two months with sporadic help...

I was a little worried about that, too, but the tractor seemed to handle the 30 x 24 sections just fine. However, if you look at the website, you'll see that I didn't even use the tractor on the last building. I just used my transmission jack.

I think that aptly describes me. I retired from being a computer programmer about 6 years ago and started doing what I did 40 years earlier when I was 16.... ie. building cars and chasing 16 year old girls (fortunately I haven't caught any, otherwise I'd be writing this from jail). The first...