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I came across a deal on a 45k btu MHU45LP Big Max propane heater and am thinking of getting it for my garage. I did some googling and it looks like these heaters are no longer made. They have been replaced wiht a 50k260420 unit. The specs look similar. Does anyone know what changed? I can...

I am finding myself not going out to the garage since it is too cold to work so I am thinking it might be time to finish insulating and add a heater. My garage is 24x24 but has a 2nd floor loft with a full workshop up there. That makes it 1152 square feet counting the second floor or 576...

I need some advice. I am pretty good at working with metal but have never done much fiberglass work. This past summer I decided to do some modifications to the fiberglass cowling on my airplane. This involved bonding the two halves together. I took a course while out at the airshow in...

So I am getting around to all the maintence at the house I put off when building the garage and one of the projects for this year was to replace a 2nd story window. The windows are original to the house so the sill was rotted out and they were pretty inefficient. It was time to pull it out...

I am just about done rebuilding a 9" south bend lathe I picked up a few weeks ago and I am now starting to think about buying a mill. I was originally thinking of picking up either a mini-mill or one of those bench size mill/drills until I started poking around on craigslist. Living in the...

I mentioned in another thread that I bought a used south bend lathe. I had to pull most of it apart in order to make it light enough to carry up to my second floor shop. Since it is already apart I would like to clean and paint it. Any suggestions for what is the best stuff to use to remove...

I need some advice. I am looking at buying a lathe. Right now I have a grizzly G4015z 3 in 1 machine. I never use the milling portion of the machine, already have a nice drill press for drilling holes, and the features on the lathe seem like too much of a compromise in exchange for being able...

Does anybody here know of a scrapyard in or around the Connecticut area that will let you go pick and buy stuff by the pound? There used to be a small one in Norwich but I don't think they are open any more. I need to replenish my stock of steel for different fabrication projects I'm working...

I need some help. I need to make a cone out of some thin sheet metal for a project I am working on. The cone has to be 7.5" on the top 3.8" on the bottom and 20" tall. I am trying to figure how to lay this out as a flat pattern on the sheetmetal. The top and bottom can't be straight lines or...

The recent thread on security / break-ins got me thinking about my garage. It is detached but sitting about 5 feet away from the house (walkway in-between). One of my concerns is fire. Right now if there is a fire in the garage and I am in the house, I would never know it until its too late...

Came across this on craigslist today. Who in their right mind would want a gold plated Ingersol Rand impact wrench? This has to be one of the stupidest idea I have ever heard of. http://hartford.craigslist.org/tls/2029186078.html Keith

I need some help. Reading the recent posts here about various garage ceilings being insulated has left me confused. I have a 2 car garage with a gembel style roof and a 2nd floor and am located in Connecticut. Think 90 degrees in the summer and 30 degrees in the winter. I have turned the 2nd...

I have a chance to buy a propane fired torpedo type heater for really cheap (under $50). The problem is that the guy I am buying it from says that it is rated at 250k btu's. I have a 24x24 2 car, 2 story garage that is pretty much uninsulated at this point. I need something to get me through...

I am moving alot of my tools from the basement to my new shop above the garage. One of those tools is a Grizzly G4015Z 3 in 1 lathe/mill/drill. It is a decent machine for its purpose but I am starting to think that something like a 9" southbend lathe might fit my needs better. I would say...

I inherited all of my grandfathers tools when he passed away a year ago. I am just now getting around to moving them from my grandmothers house to my shop. One of the items I picked up this weekend was an old delta benchtop drillpress. This thing is all cast iron and very heavy. I am hoping...

I started the wiring of my garage this weekend. I have everything run except for the service feed wire from the house to the sub panel. I am confused on one thing though. The sub panel is in a detached garage. I thought that you had to have the neutral and the ground seperate from each...

I'm ready to start wiring my garage this weekend. As a background, it is a detached garage about 5' from the house but will require about a 60' run to get from the inside house panel to where I want to mount a sub panel. I went to HD today and bought the sub panel. It is a 100 amp main...

I am getting ready to start wiring the lights in my garage. It is 24x24 with an 8.5' ceiling downstairs and a gembral roof upstairs. I was originally going to put in a bunch of 4' fixtures but then noticed going down the aisle at HD today that you can still buy the ceramic type fixtures that...

I recently just had a 2 story garage with a gembrel roof on it installed on my property. Due to the roof covering about 90% of the wall and ceiling space on the garage and the shingles being black, it gets pretty toasty up there during the day. I am thinking about putting up some insulation...

I'm a little confused and need some advice. I posted a while back about running a sub panel to my detached garage. I am all set as far as wires, ground, etc but am still a little confused on what panel I actually need. The feed for the sub panel will be hooked to a 60 amp breaker in my house...