Recent content by randyny

Me and my son made a heavy duty workbench. We needed more space and I wanted a place to mount a vise that I could really wrench on without having the table move. Bought six 4"x6" ACQ, had four leftover sheets of 3/4" CDX from a build, and the top is birch - only because it's nice and bright so...

I sucked one up in a Dyson cordless vac a while ago. I whirled that SOB for a good 2-3 minutes. Didn't do anything to it. It still crawled around like idiot. When I pick one up of the wall with a tissue, I like to turn it sideways and crush it. Gives a satisfying crunch. Although I...

A buddy and me went 50/50 on a set off eBay. Was the triumph brand, cheapest balancer and second cheapest changer. This changer added the air blast for seating rims. We both go to the race track several times a year and change tires fairly often. In three years we replaced five sets of track...

Thanks for your videos, I watched them while considering whether to buy a changer or not. Ended up going halvsies with a buddy on the Triumph changer & balancer for abouit 2200 total. We race our cars so have already mounted/dismounted 4 tires six times. And patched 3 flats from the inside...

actually, 2 ef2000s compared to 1 ef3000 is about the same price, but 33% more capacity.

vs ef3000, Weight, 136 lbs vs 44 pounds (88 for two). 44 pounds is an easy suitcase carry. 136, not so much. quieter, redundancy & flexibility.

During hurricane Sandy I did not have a generator and was powerless for 6 days. Vowed to finally get a generator. My area was still out of power during Halloween. Bringing the kids around trick-or-treating, we passed many generators. 10 of them were the Home Depot standard ones. Always...

No pic of the collapsed scissor but it fits nicely between the runways. Maybe sticks up tpe inches if that. Nothing on the vette hits hits it, not even the air dam. Me and a buddy assembled it one afternoon. It really is a two man job. I have a loader but choose to use two engine cranes and...

Hey fellas, I posted this in the corvette forum and wanted to copy it here since I got most of my research from garage journal. Yes, many have waxed poetic about how great it is to have a lift. Here's my experience. Got a bendpak hd9xw two weeks ago. The convenience of the lift is...

Don't know cost per beam. All framing material was 16k. You may be able to special orde from Home Depot but I'd bet bigger lumberyards have them readily available. Tool man, that elevator is sweet and elegant. I can't use it since I do t have vertical wall height to use it but man, that's...

Wow, the creativity here is amazing. All these motorized stairs are terrific. Aqr, that hoist platform looks sweet. I agree that I need to be realistic about usage. It will be storage only as there is not enough height to use more than the center six feet. I have to do something that will...

The joists in the field are engineered I-beams, 11-7/8" TJII PRO 560 C.J. @ 16" o.c., spanning 24'. There are 2 doubled LVL's framing the loft opening. There are LVL's because of the posts up to the roof.

Ha! I love hose motorized stairs, especially the last video. My architect put two pull down stairs in the plans. I didn't have them added because I wanted something more robust. Of course I didn't realize at the time that full size stairs would have to be in the middle of the floor because...

Hi, I just had a barn (I call it "barn" to differentiate from the house-attached garage) built. It is 1200sf; 24x50. I left the middle part open so I can put a lift in and get decent height. Question is what's the best way to get up top. permanent staircases would take too much space and...

"The real reason to hate CFL is that they ****." True words that. The poor light output as it warms up is terrible. Both from a performance angle and as user experience. I also question whether they put out the same amount of light. I'd say 80% is more like it. I've been dating each bulb I...