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So my wife picked up a 3 set volume of her first three books for me...they are excellent. Lots of good ideas, methods and inspiration. The basics are quality over quantity and careful attention to sight lines, purpose etc to make a small space, large :-) I very much embraced the principles in...

Wow is right....and congrats Drives :-) That child is pretty lucky to show up in your family! Spoil away.

I get it 100%. We've configured our house quite a few times from no kids, then 2 young ones, and now two young adults. I'm sure we'll reconfig yet again if we stick around..ha. I'm a huge fan of smaller "quality" spaces vs massive ones with all that overhead that brings. I have a set of...

Kind of interesting that you have the treadmill in there and my wife has asked me to the do the very same thing in the, gulp, theatre room. Call me stupid, but that's one issue I'm not compromising on. It's the only space in our older home that is wide open, and dedicated to one purpose. That...

In an older home, and in reference to challenges like "anything square" I give you this very simple adage: "If a man on horseback wouldn't notice...." For my kitchen reno, the floor slopes nearly an inch, the walls were up to 1.5" out of plumb, and the room was nowhere near square. Not sure...

37 years deserves a congrats :-) I think your wife is a lucky gal to have you.

Great job keeping this appliance working Drives :-)

Nick, your front strut attaches to the A-arm, and two bushings are used where A-arm attaches to the body. These bushings allow the A-arm to rotate (every time to hit a bump, corner, or stop) as the spring compresses, while keeping the wheel assembly stable. Those bushings can be hard to...

So on the 4K, I tried out a (not cheap!) 4K projector on our 120” screen and returned it. Turns out that given the theater viewing distance of around 12-13 feet I honestly cannot discern a nice quality 1080P image from a 4K one, at least not enough to drop thousands on a 4K projector.. You...

I’ve only had success with 120V charging via the EVSE and a neutral bonded plug, but using an inverter generator. My old generator would not run our newer furnace (newer communicating stat) and our UPS units cycled until exhausted. That was after tuning frequency and voltage on the generator...

All those Canadian retirees living six months in Florida every year certainly have it sorted…ha.

Thanks Nick. So far so good with the DJI Mini 4 Pro. I was a bit apprehensive at -33°C, but the battery temps did not drop below 10°C, which is just fine for them :) The temps don't shut things down per se, but it's sure good for battery sales. My daughter's LEAF cabin heater was acting a...

Sorry @drivesitfar ... the music is from YouTube's royalty-free library: "American Vernacular" from the Artist "Rage". I figure the best way to avoid any copyright issues is to try and use tracks from their own library!

-35C is pretty cold, even for us. The ski hills closed over the weekend, a pretty unusual event. Good news is that it’s just for a few more days…

It's been cold, like really cold! Last night we dipped down to the -35°C (-31°F), with a windchill value of -44°C. I've been capturing hyper-lapses over the last two months of the Lake to capture some of the magic I see out there every morning :) Play it in 4K resolution!

I really like IKEA's LED cabinet lights etc. and have use quite a few of them. The cabinet lights with a sensor turn on when the door is opened, and off when closed. Super slick...and not expensive. You'd need these three bits. Note that they have quite a few LED options with sensors aside...

Sorry about that, but best wishes right back at you :-) To you as well. Thanks again for all the likes and feedback :-)

Best to you and all the merry garage crew :)

Call me wierd but I honestly think the working bits of a differential are as much art as they are functional. I put a Quaife torque biasing diff in my autocross cross car that would have looked very nice on a display shelf with some cool lighting. It certainly cost more than any art bits in...

100%. The odds of missing something on the 100 odd parts that have to be removed, timing issues, leaks etc etc means you really have to love the car to do it. I built a custom Audi engine literally from the pistons on up for my 90 Westfalia engine conversion and that ended up taking many,many...