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From one of the packaging industry newsletters I get in my real life, an announcement of a new-old innovation in motor oil packaging. The well-known bag-in-box system...

Anybody ever convert a slipping pneumatic cylinder on a desk chair into a fixed-position? I'm thinking perhaps a combination of an appropriately-sized shaft clamp and a thrust bearing?

I'm a sucker for lights. I've bought too many over the years, only to end up not using them. One of the exceptions is the Costco Snap-on branded LED corded worklight being discussed in a couple of other threads -- I've bought several of those and they're excellent. Here's another one. Costco...

I've had a Honda HRB215K4 SDA mower since the spring of 2000. Just finished my springtime maintenance (including a piece of debris in the carb jet). As I pushed it back to the garage I found a bolt in the driveway. 14 mm by about 35 mm (1 3/8 inches), with a thick flat washer and a sleeve or...

I thought this new toolbox is cool, and very true to retro design. Not sure I would want it, but I like it. About £750 with VAT ($1150) in the UK...

I just got my FLIR ONE™ infrared camera thingie for my iPhone. This new accessory is going to get used in a number of ways, both work and personal. Chasing heat loss in the house will be an important project around the home. This is gonna be fun to work with. The FLIR ONE is described HERE...

I'm tackling a few window rebuilding projects on my 1930s home to get ahead of winter. The original stuff on the house is too nice to give up on, but despite work on them seven or eight years ago, they're rapidly getting into rough shape. This round involves removing almost all the paint...

A friend has a collection of junk that needs to be seen to be believed. Trust me on this one... He has a few interesting vises in his shop, ones that I don't know. The vise big brains (big vise brains?) of GJ will come through in no time, I'm sure. This one's his all-time favorite, after a...

Here's one that will take you guys only a moment, but it has me stumped. From the tools in my little brother's estate when I settled it a few years ago. About 5 inches long. The tip is a metallic rod that will extend almost the full length of the barrel, held by the collet at the front. What...

These have been in the family for, I'd guess, 70 or 80 years at least. My grandfather worked as an ice deliveryman in the 1920s-early 1930s, and then rigged heavy machinery in the late 1930s-early 1950s. They're from Vom Cleff & Co., made in Germany (which seems quite unusual for his old...

I'd been on the lookout for one of these for a while, and this deal seems as good as any. Costco item number 834495, in the warehouse yesterday (at least here in the St. Louis area) for $699.99.

I have three ladders in the garage. A six-foot stepladder, a 16-foot extension ladder, and a 32-foot extension ladder. The first two live inside with no problem. Exactly what to do with the long ladder is the challenge. There are a lotta ladder storage threads on GJ, and I've looked through...

The April Costco online-only circular has a wire frame corner shelf for $77. One or more of these might help me use some space better. FYI...

Shots taken in December along the highway in rural Utah. Look at the Garage Journal artwork at the top of this page and see if you see any similarities...

I inherited this in my brother's collection of tools -- he was a pretty loyal Ford driver for a lot of years. He got more reliability and economy out of his purple 1991 Thunderbird than one might imagine. Sunpro/Actron CP9015 Ford-Mercury Code Scanner. For OBDI systems 1981-circa 1998...

Picked up one of these at Costco a couple of weeks ago for $32.99. Nothing Snap-on about it except the licensed use of the name, and COO China, of course. They seemed to be selling out fast, so as always with Costco, if you think you want it, grab it now. I've used it several times already...

I picked up this Deltran Battery Tender Plus for $39.99 at the Costco on Wadsworth in Denver on December 23. They had another twenty or so -- not that many, and I haven't seen these in my local Costco's. Decent deal on something I've been hunting for a while.

Thanks to all who helped out recently on sealant recommendations for the Mountain Top checkerplate aluminum tonneau on my Tacoma. I'm repairing the broken caulking seal on the aluminum sheet now http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=220939&highlight=mountain+top+tonneau Next up...

I have a pair of gas struts that are ready to be discarded or recycled. There was a time many years ago when I guess I'd have just pitched these, but I'm a little more safety conscious these days, and discarding something with stored energy doesn't seem right. The maker of these gas springs...

I have a tonneau for the bed of my 2001 Tacoma Double Cab -- an uncommon style, out of production now and one I hunted for some time before finding. It needs a bit of restoration work and I'm looking for advice for a particular sealant. The tonneau is a checkerplate aluminum cover made by...