Recent content by fionasdad

Watched a show on the Discovery Channel years ago called To Catch Thief. They had former thief’s break into homes. It was amazing how fast they could push in the window in a garage door and pull the emergency cord to get into a garage. Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

I have blown in insulation and I hate it. It filters in from my ceiling and I have a fine gray dust always. I'm considering removing it and replacing with fiberglass. Just saying...

It's probably a T-7. A decent auto parts store should have one.

Sorry to hear about your friend. I had a cheap Home Depot special wood attic latter. It lasted about 3 years and then I had to replace it with a metal one at Lows, I think it's was one of the 375 rlitman mentioned. Much better than the metal one! Another thing when you're up in the attic...

This scares me. My wife and I inherited a piece of property in Lake County Ca. a few years ago. A family member had tried to buy it before we got it and had the land surveyed, so there were some informal flags indicating the property boundaries. Later we found a different fence line (very...

In my case I'm replacing a fence were the bottom peice is a 1 X 12. I'm using metal posts and rather then use the 1 X 12. I put one peice of treated lumber on the bottom and then the 1 x 6's on top and then use three stringers. The treated luber protects the 1 x 6s and are a lot cheper...

21 mm impact sockets.

My dad was a Sales Rep. for Grainger and retired from them. Great company. You're right though they aren't really after the small accounts but the larger one's get much better pricing. If I remember correctly from my dad (he retired back in 1999) they have a sliding scale for regular...

You can get aftermarket filters for it from Grainger and the noise is a little better.

I had the Porter-Cable batteries rebuilt a couple of years ago they worked great for about a year and then stopped holding a decent charge. One refuses to take a charge pretty much at all...

Wow that's for all the input! I put myself through college working for a tool store for about seven years and my dad is a retired Graingers sales rep., one thing I've found is that I like the more "professional" tools. You may not use them all the time but when you do you really use them. I...

My Makita that still works the best out of the two is one of the old 9.6 volt "stick" batteries, a 6093 and I put on a keyless chuck.

In my case the coldest it gets in my area in California is an occasional mid to low 20's and that is on a really cold day. Usually the garage stays above freezing.

My cordless drill batteries just last a few years even though I don’t use them very much. I live in Elk Grove California and it can get very hot. My garage is facing the South so it gets the hottest sun of the day here (it's not uncommon for my garage to be well over 110 degrees or hotter for...

It possible there might be to much oil in the cylinder.