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I need that. I don’t know why, but now that I know it exists…

I have a powermatic model 50 that I’d like to sell. Probably from the 50’s or early 60’s. Motor from the 80’s, magnetic starter - currently wired for 240 single phase. Fabricated mobile base. I realize you aren’t exactly in the neighborhood, but you never know. I’d keep it, but I don’t have...

The surgeon lifted the 10# lifting limit this morning. Yay - cancer free at this point. As soon as I got home I went straight to the garage to clean-up a bit and investigate an intermittent garage door opener issue. Picked up, threw stuff away and ran several cycles through the ultrasonic...

I see that we both keep our air tools in the same place - bottom drawer. About the only ones I actively use anymore are the air hammer and the 5” high speed sander.

I finally spent some quality time in the garage today - keeping in mind my 10# lifting limit. Finally labeled this fastener cabinet that's been sitting on this shelf for several decades... Then I actually organized most of the fasteners for a few hours while listening to the last baseball game...

I had a bunch of old Levolor mini blinds that were being replaced. The 1” slots fit my Lyon cabinet perfectly. Of course, Formica works as well.

What’s stopping you from mounting the top of the wood bench 180 degrees from what is shown?

Buy 2 26” cabinets and put ‘em together!

Once upon a time, Sears called them “add-on” boxes. A few years ago I picked up a couple of “Performax” branded boxes @ Menards. This is their budget line. Perfectly suitable for drill bits / zip ties / small tools. Pretty certain they were made in asia as they were ~ $70 a few years ago. No...

There are still plenty near me. 4 within a 10 minute drive. There were 5, but I think that lots of these places expand too quickly, spend too much money and just get buried. If you have a good product, and promote your business in multiple ways, you'll be fine as long as expectations are...

Spent 30 minutes looking for the new package of nylon line for the string trimmer. Round trip to Menards to buy another pack took 20 minutes. Installed the fresh line, cut some weeds along the garage and was shortly reminded of the 10# lifting limit the surgeon has limited me to. 3 more weeks of...

Too nice to look like a ransom note. Maybe next year.

I remain quite jealous of your vise. Is that an Emmert?

Believe me, I got the point long before the existence of garage journal or of the internet. There is risk in all the things we do - from driving a car / truck to being a pedestrian. There are risks in our dietary and lifestyle choices. As adults, all we can hope for is awareness of the risk...

Glue boards. Yes, it’s cruel, but I’ve spent far too many hours over the years cleaning up mouse **** to care. The other advantage of the glue boards is they aren’t going to crawl into a corner or under something and die - you know exactly where they are.

Do their CAD drawings specify a tolerance? Likely not. We’re talking about shelf pins for cabinets- not precision bearing fits / tolerances for tooling or engine builds. The shelf pins were manufactured to a commercial tolerance. For this type of product, the manufacturer (and the user) would...

Alternatively, or in addition, try swapping the temp sensors to see if the problem transfers.

I know it’s a stretch, but on the thread of gas supply - perhaps you could swap the gas valves from one unit to the other and see if the problem moves. I know, I know, gas valves never go bad, but I had one boiler that would seemingly eat gas valves. I could come up with no reasonable...

I’ve had a few of my better tool boxes in the woodshop half of the garage for over 20 years. Initially I did this to keep the tasty stuff from prying eyes as well as to allow more room for cars in the front half. Well, now there are several more in the front half as well as in the woodshop. What...

I can’t honestly say as I don’t claim to be an expert on craftsman boxes. I picked up the craftsman machinist box along time ago (late 70’s or early 80’s - can’t remember, but I remember it was around $75. Purchased at a sears store). it’s pretty pristine as I never took it to work - honestly...