Recent content by Reynar

It's a weird story. I worked at this same campus - a massive, sprawling place belonging to a large company that most people have heard of - from 1997 through about 2008. Some of the buildings are just being used as storage now, compartmentalized into chain-link storage cages full of unused lab...

I bought this from a surplus store at a previous employer - it's a former lab bench for testing computer equipment. Welded steel frame, roller bearing drawers, and switched power in the posts holding up the top shelf. Since taking this picture, I've bolted a Yost vise to its corner on the left...

Re: Craftsman 34-1/2" 2-Shelf Heavy-Duty Plastic Utility Cart $79.99 w/FS @ Sears Are you guys talking about this Husky? http://m.homedepot.com/p/Husky-2-Tier-Plastic-4-Wheeled-Service-Cart-in-Black-12603/205736982/ If so, how does one go about getting a price match? I wouldn't have guessed...

I totally forgot about my own dang thread. :) Those Vidmar cabinets went where they did because that part of the garage is wider than the rest of the room, so there's a natural place to put things with such a large footprint. Unfortunately, the lab bench was too tall to go in between - the...

Cool! I think that your Becker is such that simply replacing the head unit isn't ideal, so you were wise to have yours fixed up. Maybe something about that head unit not having any amplification at all, and modern head units not being able to use the Becker amps? Something strange and "two...

That's not a bad idea. I've never used peg board much - it always seemed like when I removed a tool from it, the hooks often came along for the ride. Maybe I had lousy hooks?

I almost forgot! I had to buy a new drill, and this is what I got. Seem pretty great. Drill. by krshultz, on Flickr They had this as a bare tool for 119, or with two XRP compact batteries and a charger for 129. Since I already have an 18V XRP cordless impact gun, it was an easy choice.

What about those IKEA ones I've seen on here?

Progress was made this weekend: The wall cabinets went up. It went pretty quickly, too, once my wife and I had the positioning correct. I put the 36" ones closest to center, with the 30" ones on the outsides. This worked out rather well on the right side as you're looking into the garage. It...

Some of the stuff from the other garage has been moved into the blue cabinet. Here's some of the Mercedes stuff going into the bottom drawer - brake rotors and other heavy stuff. An entire plastic tub of spare Mercedes stuff went into the bottom two drawers, with about half a drawer left over...

This is pretty much the best I can do, it shows three out of the four. I have two of each: two 30" wide, two 36" wide. I wonder about maybe putting them on either side of the lab bench. And here are some pictures of some of the "stuff" I've got to put away. Pardon the mess - in a lot of ways...

Hey there! Yes, I absolutely plan to put the tools from the Craftsman cabinets into the Vidmar cabinets. I've just been agonizing over which drawer to put what in. I'll also be able to put some of the spare car parts in there, especially in "Blue" with its slightly taller drawers. Spare brake...

Thanks! I think you'll really like the floor. It's light years beyond the big box store Rusoleum epoxy I put down at the old house, easier to work with too. And if you do something severe enough to damage the paint, you can buy more paint in small amounts, I think as small as half a pint.

In that last picture up above, you can barely see this compressor. This is an old Speedaire that I bought over 10 years ago at an estate sale. I took the opportunity to drain it (nothing came out of it), clean it up, and change its oil: Saturday's alright for cleaning. by krshultz, on Flickr...

After putting on a birthday party for our daughter, I needed to unwind a bit, so I went to the garage and did some work on it. The first part was continuing to clean up the Vidmar cabinets. This shows one of the drawer faces, faded around where an ancient sticker had been: Saturday's alright...