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You folks helped me much when I was building my garage several years ago. I now need to ask a question about paint for a metal fence. I have a steel fence that surrounds a pool in my back yard. The fence needs painting. i want to use the best paint I can on the fence. Several years ago a car...

I have done a search on this subject but need to ask a question. Is there an good, American made bearing press that can be had for $500 or so? I am doing some work on some old 60-70 era cars and need a press to push out control arm bushings, ball joints, etc. Nothing real heavy. My friend bought...

I do a bit of sandblasting on some old muscle cars that I fool with. I see that Eastwood is selling a conversion kit that converts a sandblaster to a soda blaster. The cost is $129. I wondred if any of you folks had tried this conversion from sand (or 'black beauty') to soda bicarbonate. Any...

I built a 31x54x12 garage addition the summer of '06 with much help from this fine forum. I have much enjoyed my garage where I am doing a bit of restoration work on some old muscle cars. I bought 25 4 gang Lithonia florescent (spelling?) lights for the shop. In the 12or so months since these...

I built a garage this summer. It has a room that I want to do some painting in. The room is 23x14x12. I posted a post on this forum previoulsly concerning questions that I had concerning air flow through this room. I am going to introduce air through filters on one end and then exhaust the...

You folks helped me greatly while building my garage additon. Now I need some advise re a metal fence. The d___ deer have suddenly shown up and are eating up (of all things) my rose bushes. I have about 200 rose bushes and they are real nice. At least they were real nice until the deer started...

I have recently built a garage addition. I piddle with some old muscle cars and plan to paint a bit in a room that is seperated from the rest of the garage by a wall. This room is 14x23x12 (the total garage is 31x54x12.) I live in the country with no close neighbors and would be doing work only...

Over the years I have bought a good deal of tools, etc from Northern Equipment which is based in Burnsville, Minnesota. I have always been impressed with their products, prices and service. One of their CSRs recently told me that I needed to be a "Hotline" member. It cost something to become one...

I completed my shop a couple of months ago. I am doing some restoration on some muscle cars. I have a 70 SS Chevelle and a 74 Pontiac Trans Am that I am now working on. I need a welder but I need help in getting the right one. I am doing mainly body work on these old cars (I went to a community...

I bought a couple of Coleman brand wall cabinets this morning at Lowe's. They are pretty nice. You have to put them together. They certainly aern't Lista's but they cost less than $60 each. I put them up and put spray paints in one and cleaning stuff in the other. They have a 10 year warranty...

I have a room in my new garage additon (31x54) that is 14'x25'. I plan to do a small amount of spray painting in here. I am going to buy a non-spark exhaust fan and will have the air source on one end of the room and the exhaust on the other. The room is 12' tall. Is there some formular as...

I am going to do a bit of body work in my garage addition. I recently went to a Akzo/Nobel (Sikkens/Lesanol Paints) school. They had the best of equipment. They had dual action sanders that had a vacuum attachment that sucked up most of the dust and grit produced. They had an expensive central...

I bought a ScatBlast bead blaster from TP Products (I might have some of those names not exactly right). I used the cabinet for the first time today and it is really neat. A hot rod buddy and I bought a 70 Chevelle SS and we were working on it this PM. I bead blasted all the bumper supports...

I need to install several sheets of pegboard in my garage. A buddy mentioned some pegboard spacers used to create a space between the wall and the pegboard. Any of you fine folks used such as this? Where to get these spacers? Since my walls are white I was going to buy some prepainted pegboard...

I have 4 door openings on my garage. These are 9x10 and each has a swing out carriage style double door. I think that I can figure out a way to seal (insulate) where the doors **** up to the jams, although any ideas are appreciated. I especially need some help as regards sealing off the bottom...

I started on this garage addition in April 2006. I am basically complete now. This structure is 31x54x12. I had to attach it to my home to meet local building codes. I subcontracted out the concrete, framing, plumbing, insulation, masonary, roofing and some of the electrical. I did all the...

I put down the first coat of the Rustoleum Professional Epoxy today. This was after cleaning, etching per their instructions. Mixed mechanically the Part A & B per their instructions and then mechanically mixed those together. I used 2 kits on the 750+/- sq ft that I coated. Used the recommended...

My friend has a 3 car garage. He just bought a a/c-heat unit. The unit has a real thin outside compressor unit that feeds into a wall mounted inside unit. It has no tubing or duct work. He said that these have been used in Europe for years. It is doing a good job on cooling this space. The best...

I am preparing to epoxy my garage floor. I cleaned it yesterday (Sat) and today. It took 2 days to do it all. I swept and them blew out the area (my garage additon is 31x54 but there is a dividing wall that forms a separate room that is 23x14-I am only doing the bigger room now) to be painted. I...

I have read many posts about epoxy floor prep. I have decided to use the Quickrete 2 part solvent based system. I called today for a Edco floor grinder (with diamond stones). The rental outfit (a big firm that I have used much in the past) also sells the Quickrete Epoxy kits (cheaper than...