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    Storing Nuts and Bolts ?

    i picked up 3 of these red wurth bins for $50 & gave another $20 for the gray bin & they threw in the drawer set free since it was missing a couple drawers. all bought on craigslist. i should be set for bolt storage for a while.
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    TV size and location in garage?

    i made my own swivel mount for my 40" flatscreen. when i bought the tv, they gave me a wallmount bracket so used that to fab up the ceiling mount. it bolts thru the ceiling to a steel saddle over one of the trusses. i also fabbed up a shelf that attaches to the bracket & hangs just under the...
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    Hanging out in the garage

    i went with the works in the new shop. central heat & air, 40" hi def flatscreen on a swivel ceiling mount that i made (swings so that i can see it from everywhere in the shop) i have all the cable channels available & a dvd player hooked up too. when the old back gets to hurting or i need a...
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    anyone here have a wilton variable speed bandsaw??

    i just picked up a model 8201vs with the variable speed clutch & have some questions about setting the speeds if anybody can help. thanks!
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    Media Blasting Cabinets - experience and lessons learned please

    i bought this 24"x24"x48" from grizzly tools. it's built from heavy guage steel, has a vacuum that bolts to the back & doors on each side along with the face that opens. it's been great! had a hf in the old shop hooked to a shop vac, so did most of my blasting with the pressure pot outside. i...
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    What did you do "TO" your garage today?

    Re: What did you do to your garage today? i finished up the ductwork for the new central heat/air unit & once things cooled off, i finished a pair of tanks off of a 66 panhead put the silver base on two other sets of tins that will get candy topcoats. still had some energy left, so shot the...
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    looking for info on a pexto shear

    it's a 1957 harley davidson 165ST a.k.a "hummer". i paint more of these per year than probably anyone else in the country. i have 13 set of "hummer" tins here right now along with a 66 panhead & a 1930 harley VL. the one in the pic was a bike i painted a couple years ago that came back to get...
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    "Polly" gas pump restore pics...

    i personally don't redo the works inside other than the meter that the faces attach to & the light system. most of the people i do pumps for want them inside the office, house etc. & unless the pumps are completely diassembled & cleaned well, they always smell like stale gas. people don't take...
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    "Polly" gas pump restore pics...

    oh, thats nothing, just what was behind the garage when it burned. i still have a few pumps & 5 upright coke machines in a storage pod along with three barber chairs, & about 20 old pedal cars. add in a 69 mustang, 66 tr4, 52 chev hardtop, 36 REO flying cloud & the 36 ford p/u (in the shop...
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    grandpa's pipewrench

    i've had this laying around the shop for years, it even survived the fire. after going thru the fire it looked really bad, lots of rust & crud, so decided last week to tear it apart for a "redo". i like to keep a few small things around for when i have extra clearcoat etc mixed up from doing the...
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    looking for info on a pexto shear

    i picked this up for the new shop recently & was curious if anyone has any info as to what date it was made. the tag says it's a 137-G & there is another number in a slot nest to that with 10-40. just curious if this means it was made in oct 1940? it works good & the blades are in excellent...
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    "Polly" gas pump restore pics...

    nice job on the "polly" pump! i've got a tokheim 36-B that i'm planning on doing into a polly pump when time permits. not sure which one of these i'll do next...
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    My Wife Drags me outside to see this!

    i have a whole folder dedicated....
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    Spider Killing

    the raid "concentrated" deep reach foggers work great! we stay overrun with brown recluses here & it was REALLY bad last year after the big flood in may. we didn't get flooded, but the houses behind us, across the street from us & a half block down beside us were about 4 feet under water. seems...
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    Let's See Your Garage Dog

    here's my boy: relaxing after a hard day's work:
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