Recent content by Gearheadmb

There are a lot of good points here. My attic has soffit vents, but thats it. My first thought was a simple blower mounted up high in the attic, ducted to a vent in the ceiling, ran off of a light switch. Lilscorpions post got me thinking and I think hes right, it would work better to have...

Today I was installing some additional lighting to my 40x24 attached garage, so i had to go up in the attic to run some wires. It was about 35 deg F and sunny outside. It was cold in the garage. It was hot in the attic. Like, take my hat off and still started sweating. So my thoughts were, why...

https://dayton.craigslist.org/tls/d/springfield-minster-55ton-stamping-press/6789280806.html Not the cheapest can crusher youll ever find, but the build quality should justify the price. Plus with a quick tooling swap your can crusher can become a log splitter.

At my last house i had this situation. Just a small shed and no garage or basement. My shed was maxed out being used for storage, so i kept an old slab door and a couple saw horses in there. When i needed a work bench i set the door on the saw horses right outside the shed. It wasnt ideal but i...

If you wanted to simplify it, instead of a full pocket you could just do sheeting from the tracks up to the ceiling, and something from the ceiling to the top edge of the door. I would do something flexible like heavy tarp. Or use wood to box the three sides, and just do enough of a strip at the...

Thanks for the tips guys. It will be a big help.

My garage has unpainted OSB walls. I want to paint it to brighten it up. I do a little of everything in there, woodworking, metal working, mechanical work, so it is going to be dirty. What paint color and type would you recommend to brighten it up but not show dirt too bad? I was thinking maybe...

One of my plans for this fall or winter was to build myself a proper woodworking bench. So when I stumbled upon this cool old woodworking vise on CL I had to jump on it.