Recent content by XFV8_pano

At least you can still buy made in your own country tools. My heart sank when the sidchrome company shut down and in they poured from china with the old brand name stamped on them. Take the tool back and get your money back, then look for a good 2nd hand one. Thats how ive been sourcing my...

i bought a lot of metal tool boxes at a clearance sale. they were all blue. i needed a way to differentiate what was in them. so i bought a roll of tape which is white on one side and magnetic on the other. now i ca se e the ends of all the tool boxes lined up with my scribblings about the...

took the front panel off a 1973 leyland P76 and found a 12 and 13 mm ring spanner in the gap between it and the inner fender. a mate found two japanese beer cans in the door of a 1978 datsun he was fitting door speakers into. i also collect damaged road signs when i see them while walking the...

im in oz - we went metric in the 70's when i was at school. the only non metric measurement i know is that im 6 ft 4 inches. oh yeah, i have 302 and 351 cubic inch engines in my cars. i drove from la to ny and back last june-jul-aug and had to use the gps set to km to understand your road...

the forklift idea sounds like a good solution. i need to lift it by a at least two metres. this will align it with the roof line of the house and allow trucks etc to drive underneath. thanks for the suggestions.

i have a dilemma and a partial solution, and am open to suggestions. I need to raise a carport that is 8 metres long 2.4 metres wide. it is only 2.4 metres in height, and i need to lift it to park a 4x4 under and to get it into my garage. it was like this when i bought the property. there are...

When i was 20 i had my car broken into and tools taken from my garage. i lost a sidchrome toolbox and socket set (big $$ for a kid - and a gift from my dad), a maglite and a few otehr things. A year later i was at a friends place and we went to his bedroom to get a book. As i walked in i saw my...