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Good video. One question on the cheater bar. I noticed you placed the pipe over just the grip, not over the entire shaft of the ratchet. I guess I always thought the proper way to use a cheater (if there is such a thing) was to cover the shaft too. It seems like just by placing the pipe...

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I've used the plastic food containers we get when we order Chinese food (aka 'chupperware' in our house). They're an ideal size for nut drivers and fit in a shallow drawer.

From my screen name, you already know what my answer is: :thumbup:

I'd patch it, since I believe the odds are better that a prospective buyer would care more about the appearance than the ease of access. That said, take one of the drywall pieces down to Lowes/HD and have a $3 sample of paint mixed if you don't have any of the original paint left. My other...

Looking at an Ace Super Set of taps/dies on CL. Looks to be from the 60's/70's. Perhaps made by Greenfield? Anyone familiar with that brand? Thanks.

Re: what did you do in your garage today? Annual neighborhood garage sales today, so spent the day in the garage selling off lots of stuff we no longer needed. Daughter and her fiance got a few bargains on furninshings for their new house. All in all, a good day, and I get to reclaim my...

Re: what did you do in your garage today? Relatively warm out there today, so I replaced the upstream O2 sensor in the Grand Caravan.

About ten years ago, I thought the same thing about building a shed over the Labor Day weekend. It was basically a kit that I beefed up, T-111 siding, shingled roof, PT floor on a gravel pad. Three days was about half the time I needed doing it myself and having it done right. I agree with...

As long as there have been kids, there have been bad parents who can't control their kids. It's nothing new. I was 10 years old in 1968 when my parents went to Sears to buy appliances for a new house my dad had just built. Now, my parents had their parenting faults, but one thing they would...

Re: Lista Cabinets come to the 12-Gauge Garage -- and I've got questions Or maybe black plastic (wouldn't yellow) and then use a clear label with white lettering. Fantastic garage, Jack!

Another vote here for SW paint, especially the Duration line. Not cheap, but I've never had to apply a second coat, unlike Behr (Home Depot) or Olympic (Lowes).

IMO, I'd leave it and see if problems develop. I'm betting you won't have any. From the last picture, it looks like each shingle is overlapped enough so the shingle on top would seal with the course below at the strip of tar on the surface of the bottom shingle, so it will probably be wind...

One piece of advice....before you install the siding in your house, make sure to bring it inside and let it acclimate and dry out. When I was a kid, dad installed some old barnboard in our family room. It was not dry enough and shrunk to the point we could see right through the gaps in the...

Another vote for the beadboard here. My garage had a crappy drywall and paint job from when the house was built in 1976. It also had a grand total of one 15 amp outlet and no insulation, so a couple years ago I tore the drywall out, ran two 20 amp circuits (and now wish I'd run 240 out there)...

Sorry, no pics right now, but the set I have was made in Taiwan. Got it as a gift from my future wife in 1978. Still have the wife, and most of the set...broke one socket, and lost an extension. Came in a red metal case. My 3/8 ratchet looks very similar to Boro Boy's. Those ratcheting...

I've got a set of ratcheting box end wrenches and a set of deep sockets from K-Mart, still with the metal tray. Anyone have a Bernz-O-Matic socket set?

A couple drinking straws from McD's. Light fixtures always seem to have bolts on the electical box that you've got to force down through the fixture and the insulation in the fixture blind. Slip a straw over the bolt end, then feed the straw through the fixture hole, push the fixture up over...

OK, I'll bite (especially since I just rewired my garage using plastic boxes exclusively :) ). What's wrong with plastic boxes?

Love that Charger!