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I agree with you that the Skycatcher wasn't Cessnas finest moment. The Vans series of homebuilts are excellent. Friend of mine has a 6, and I was interested in building a 9 at one time, but never happened. Probably should have limited my original reply to just mentioning that I felt that...

If your roof has lasted this long with no problems, I would just leave it alone. A lot of these home inspectors and engineers just want to "cover their a**" and worry you with a lot of talk. The house looks great and if you aren't having a problem after 40 years, its pretty well proven itself...

I think this video says it all. Dominos anyone?

All you really need is a 220 mig welder, to build a basic two post crane. The hard part these days is finding some reasonably priced steel. My son's crane is a little more work intensive because he wanted a movable trolley beam and we didn't want to put too many posts up and lose the open space...

You can hang lightweight things on the drywall by using some of those special screws that embed themselves in drywall and allow you to then put a screw in the center of them. Looks like a large screw thread and you just screw it into the drywall. As for cabinets or anything with much weight, you...

Torx are great. A while back there were several people selling boxes of them for about $50 which is about half what Lowes charges. They are called deck screws but come in different lengths. I bought a half dozen boxes. I already built a 16 x32 building using them and still have about 5 boxes for...

When I bought mine, I found that Rotary offered 2 versions of the same lift. One was American made over in Indiana and the other was identical but made overseas. It was a few hundred dollars cheaper. Don't know if thats still how they do it or not. I don't live but about 50 miles from the...

You can put 2x6 boards crossways between the beams. One at floor level, and one at the 4' level and another at the 8' level. You may have to remove a little foam here and there, but basically just span the ten feet. I'd use 3" deck screws to fasten the 2x6s. Then just glue and screw the drywall...

Are the trusses you currently have sagging ? Trusses are supposed to be designed to handle snow loads (even in California ?), so I have my doubts that you need any repairs. When new shingles are put on, the contractor should remove the present ones, so the load on your roof should be about the...

Sound like someone who has read a lot of engineering books but never actually worked in a warehouse. Since your avatar depicts an airplane, I'll point out that no matter how much calculation you do, things still have to be proven to work in the real world. Before Cessna debuted the recent...

Posted this on the HAMB and someone suggested that I should also put it on the Garage Journal. I have two scratchbuilt overhead cranes in my shop. My son recently purchased a home that had a nice shop building along with a couple other out buildings that we want to make into work shops. The main...