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Winter is right around the corner. I plow snow with a 97 full size Chevy K3500 pickup and an 8.2 Boss V plow. The truck is kept in a heated garage. When I get done plowing, there are times it takes close to an hour to melt and squeegee the resulting water into a drain. If I let the snow melt...

Hey guys, I am installing a used 2 post Globe drive on car lift in my shop for personal use. A couple days ago, an insurance adjuster was out to look at some storm damage to another building on our property. When she saw the car lift in my shop (overhead door was open) , she asked me if I used...

When I built my shop 8 or 10 years ago, I bought used 8 foot fluorescent fixtures that were removed from a store. They use the single pin T12 tube. The lights have worked fine... until a year or so ago. I now have quite a few that are not working. And... it sounds like they are phasing these...

Thinking its time to change the oil in my air compressors. My large compressor is a 3 phase- Quincy, 2 stage, piston pump, The others are single stage piston pumps. I just did a quick search on NAPA's site. It shows non detergent 30wt "air compressor" oil at $7.99 a quart! Farm & Fleet shows...

I FINALLY got time to start my welding table this weekend. First project with my Miller 211... Still have more to do, but at least it is usable. Was going to build completely from scratch, when a contractor told me about his industrial pallet shelving he wanted to sell, $50/ unit. Had to weld...

I want to order a marine distributor from Summit for my SBC powered 73 Ski Nautique. It sells for $319.00. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/DUI-M12720BL/ didnt know if there are any discount codes/coupons around right now? Thanks!

I understand the r22 is going to be phased out. Does anyone have the information on how soon? I have a 20 year old high efficiency "take out" furnace heating my shop. It has an A coil in it and I've been thinking of adding AC to my shop. I need to get the condenser coil for outside. I was...

We have a couple of older barns on our property. I started to restore one of them four or five years ago. We did get a new roof on it, and I have one of the walls rebuilt, then the economy took a dive and it has been setting since. I am hoping to get started on it again this summer. Here is a...

For the last year, I have been working on getting my shop organized It has come along pretty good. Over the weekend I needed to grease my v-plow.... and it hit me, I still have my grease guns, setting on the floor in a 5 gallon bucket. Does anyone have a good / clean way to store these? :dunno:

I have been using the cabinets in my shop for a few years without any hardware.. Just could not find any "off the shelf" ones I liked. Everything looked to "kitcheny". Just started working on my homemade cabinet hardware.... I think it fits the "garage" motif?

I've been lurking around a while and have posted a few different times. Thought it was time to get some pics of my shop-in-progress. I started the shop about 6 years ago and have been working on it, between my "toy projects". It is aprox 48' x 32' with 10 foot ceilings. I finished it with...