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I was gonna do the same thing, only with the studs on 16" centers and on top of the floor plate so the sheets would be reinforced along the bottom. This would give me only 12.5" of unsupported span between the studs. Going with 7/16" OSB, I'll need the extra support. I won't be mounting...

Don't forget to slightly stretch the spring after you wind it and before you tighten the set screws. Stretch it just enough so that the bulk of it sags a little. Stretch it too much and it gets a slight corkscrew shape to it when the door is down. This just puts extra stress on the coils...

I've had my 2-ton HF low-profile "racing jack" for 4-5 years now. It reaches the frame of my lowered S10 with just barely touching the sideskirts. Other than the very slow leak-down it has always had, I'm very satisfied with it. I haven't always been nice to it, either. Mine (Item#92782)...

Putting the tint on the outside won't make any difference. The problem, as mentioned, is because there is more light on the inside than outside at night.

You're cleaning up, organizing, and freshening up the garage all at once with that slatwall! I need to score a few panels of that.

I was just gonna use the framing nails to assemble the stud walls since they can easily be shot from a pneumatic gun. I could either assemble the walls on the ground by shooting the nails up through the underside of the floor plate into the end of the studs then stand them up and anchor/screw...

On the coil side, no. The switched side, yes. Power goes to a bulb into one side, travels through the filament (which heats up and creates light), then out of the other side into the other wire. On the coil side of a relay, power goes into it on one terminal, travels through the coil (which...

Well, I'm not gonna get any sleep tonight...

Regardless of which way you go with your external lights, I wanted to post up pics to give you a better understanding of the relay stuff: This is the style of relay I used, note the diagram printed on the relay: It has 8 pins in a radial pattern on the bottom that plug into a socket. The...

^^^ Good info to know about those LED bulbs. I was thinking of the outdoor flood light style bulbs, which have numerous styles of the LED version, so I didn't bother elaborating on those. Tom, before investing $75 in bulbs, buy just one of them and see how well it lights the area you want...

It's common practice to set the spring tension a bit "hot" because pulling a door down is easier than pulling it up on a manual door. Also, the springs will relax a good bit within the first X number of cycles. I always just told customers "within the first 6 months to a year, depending on...

I'm in for a 5175142 XPR-10A-LP if it reaches the 12 or more price.

I'm a picture studier/hands-on learner myself. Run the idea by him and he'll know exactly what you need. Maybe show him my pic. Relays like that are available at any supply house. Have him hook it up for you, but watch and learn or even help him if he allows. What you talkin' bout...

Whatever tension makes them balance as evenly as possible. Whoever installed your doors should have this set already.

^^^ Exactly why I did mine. I have dark tint and backing into my garage at night was a PITA. By the time I was close enough to see where I needed to turn, I was too close and had to pull forward again. Rolling the windows down helped, but that was only on nights that it wasn't raining. I...

To understand how a relay works, you must understand how a switch works since a relay is just a switch that is operated by electricity rather than moving a lever, pressing a button, etc. I'll try to make this as simple and direct as possible with some Google images. Here's a simple switch...

^^^ Right. It's all ~110-120VAC. It's the current (amperage) load that I didn't want to place on the operator. I know those two fluorescent lights don't pull much amperage at all, but I would rather play it safe than sorry. The relay, socket, and wires are cheaper than a replacement control...

I tapped straight into the two wires going to the operator's single bulb socket to trigger a relay. I used a relay because I wasn't sure how many amps the operator's internal circuitry could support. This turns my main garage lights (two 8' twin bulb fluorescents) on instead of that one little...

Pro: Very efficient from a brightness and power consumption perspective Con: Very expensive and would take considerable time to recoup the costs versus T8 or T5 fluorescent lighting.

I, having a background in metal fabrication, was aiming for the precise numbers detailed on the building drawings. I soon realized I was wasting a lot of time and effort trying to do so. The holes in all the joining pieces of the red iron have much more play in them than what that little bit...