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I live in Central Texas and spent my childhood in South Texas. I didn't see snow (except in movies) until I was 15 or 16. Y'all are speaking a foreign language! You have more than one thermostat? "On" and "Off" aren't the only choices? Your heater is outside? Is it just me or doesn't a 30...

Freezing weather isn't exactly common here but it just hit low 20s. Wife is worried about the outdoor animals so I need to consider how to handle the once per decade cold spell. PEX is cheap so my trailer storage lean to can double as three sided animal shed. Any ideas?

Do you think they read GJ? I didn't find a review on here. http://www.grizzly.com/products/96-24-Drawer-Stainless-Steel-Industrial-Cabinet-with-Wood-Top/T27877#

I built one years ago. It was too tall, too heavy, and too hard to position. If you tried to move it once the load was up, it wanted to tip over. I never used it. I eventually sold it and started lusting after a bridge crane. Even a 1/4 ton bridge crane which spans 30 ft will cost too much...

I knew an old millwright. He had some homemade skates and an all position toe jack ( closest name I know for it) made from a bottlejack. I still lust after those. He never did share the all position bottle jack trick. I saw a YouTube video where a guy made one work upside down with a pickup...

Color hardeners like the concrete stamping guys? Water jet garnet? Cast steel shot from slurry grinding? Brown aluminum oxide from shot blasting? White tabular alumina pellets like the refractory or investment cast stuff? Concrete is only wet once. It might be nice to have a floor that wont...

I think they are the best thing you can use an Arbor press for. They are quick and durable threads for 6061 or 5052 sheet aluminum. What are you building?

When I worked in a welding shop (30 years ago), we had a collection of cardboard posters on one wall. They listed beams of X size in 10, 20, and 40 ft lengths and the load they would carry with the deflection listed. The dozen or so we had were for all common beams, columns, and trusses in...

Golf carts. S2000. Smart cars. Motorcycles or mopeds. M3. Less than 16ft. Less than14 ft. Less than 10 ft. My (24 x 40?) chosen garage style adapts easily to a couple bump outs for a four car garage. Anybody consider a tee shaped garage? Maybe a 16 x 40 top with a 24 x 40 center...

I found a press release and some ad copy from 2013 for PVC tile and drip mat with a routed edge for tape lighting. Any one own any? I find nothing with a recent date. Can you treat the stuff like a regular floor?

I like the Steevo workbenches. If you own one, what jobs (if any) do you tackle on its surface? The jobs I think of actually performing on top of one(electronics testing, assembly work) really cry for a knee space. I cant picture tearing down a transmission on one. The tools I would...

I am on the disposable side of this question. I weld jigs to the top of the metal ones and grind them off again. I spill paint, drip oil, drill or cut into the top of the wood ones. I just add another piece of handy plywood on top when it gets bad. I treat mine more like sawhorses but some of...

My aging eyeballs need help so often I EDC a little CR123a flashlight constantly. I do get tired of the taste of aluminum though. (Head lamps drive me crazy.) What do lift owners think of these?

I thought lighting my future garage would take mounting a couple fixtures and flipping a switch. It turns out the job takes more light, more fixtures, more thought, and more money! I have been scouring photos, you tube, and the internet to see what others have done. I used to do a little...

Look at any house plan: Closets rob space from livingrooms. Pantries poke into garages. Bathroom towel storage makes a bump into closets. Bathrooms squeeze into, well, everywhere. Look at a garage: shoebox. Rectangle. Square. I suggest we are missing something here. A recessed built in...

This lighting stuff gets complicated in a hurry. I like the UFOs. I hate the cheap LED bulb flourescent converters. Fewer fixtures is less wiring. I like good even lighting. The ceiling will be high bay or high bay-ish. 80 + CRI. Highish lumens per watt. 100k hours or so is a plus. No...

Anyone consider a curved or "non-shoebox" garage wall? Maybe as a room or entry transition? A work area bump out? As an attempt to make washdown or leafblower cleaning easier? Add architectural interest? Dont laugh, but I am considering a curved wall to limit catching exterior windblown...

Back in the early 1990s, I worked in the rush to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. I hung grab bars and mirrors, installed toilet partitions and wider doors, demo concrete and poured ramps, moved walls, and all kinds of "unintended consequences " of complying with the law. It...

I view slab on grade as "normal". I know up north frost heave is problematic but the knee wall seems like a perpetual PITA. Why use one? Also, why dont there seem to be many thermal breaks in the slab? I view concrete as a heat dump to ground. Up north, that must be thought of as a large...

I have known machinists over the years. Often they say things like " a real machine shop would have 10" concrete not like this cheap floor this SOB did". Is vibration that big a problem for a mill or lathe? Does it decrease accuracy? Slow down feed rate? Where does the diminishing returns...