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Back to what had been my original focus before a posting hiatus. After a long and highly unlucrative career as a sprinkler archaeologist, I completed the system redesign/rebuilt. It follows a much cleaner, more centralized approach to valve placement. I also went through the effort of future...

One of the things that has been a bother lately is the figuring out ways to maximize storage out there. In this instance it's taking advantage of the wall space and going vertical. Obviously pallet racking is the right answer, but I wanted a maximum of 30" depth due to space requirements, which...

Lumping a couple of other purchases related to storage together here. I have had plans for a couple projects related to storage and shop layout. 1 is a storage rack that spans a full bay without any columns interrupting the span, and it could hold an engine block at the center. The goal was to...

I got my gang box and flammables cabinet cleaned up and painted. Decided they were a good enough excuse to try out 2k urethane paint instead of Rustoleum. I started with a roll on epoxy primer base for a couple coats. Wasn't strictly necessary, but knew it wasn't going to hurt. Followed up by...

Time flies, progress doesn't. Or at least you don't think it does until you stop to update GarageJournal. Too much stuff for one post. Overall things are going pretty good. Family is good. The house is holding up. Chugging away on projects even though I could use a break to really focus on...

I added some brush strips to mine and it was worth it. Helps slow down the critters and dust getting in. Nothing will beat a real door, but those are $$$ right now. Congrats on what looks like a great start of an adventure.

Matches what I have heard. He also is only conditionally offering the patent pieces when it's government mandated. P.R. goes a long way. I love all the gridfinity stuff. I am borrowing a friends bedslinger 3d printer and want to do more, but being maxed out at 100 mm/s on print feed is just...

Always a good project. A good option is a welding cart as well. if it rolls and holds stuff, criteria met. who cares if it's 1/16" out of square. My only reservation/suggestion on a welding table is shop space and you will get the itch for something nice i'm sure. You might consider something...

She also doesn't understand the side projects I perform to avoid buying more tools. I seriously considered buying a magnetic sheetmetal brake just to build the tubs for the table. Don't want to pay for it. Don't want to store it. Don't have a large need for it afterwards. As my father in law...

Contrary to everything posted, one of my other big goals for 2025 is to get my focus to single stream projects. For the past couple of years every project I have started has unraveled with scope creep to include at least 3 other side projects with equal or greater scale to the original. With...

With my son getting older and more adventurous, I find that trips out to the shop are increasingly about him being able to find anything dangerous that is not put up. One of those things is chemicals and flammable material. As a result I have been keeping an eye out on Marketplace for a lockable...

Had a couple weeks off during winter break. Most of it was spent with family and friends catching up. Did a couple other things though. With the gas line installed in the ground and dirt all messed up, I decided while it was worth moving some of the sprinkler heads around the gas line to...

Hey All, As is with most of us on this site, I have not been idle over the past several months, but never felt it was worthy of an update. As we have reached the end of the year it felt wrong not to document some of the progress. When I last left off, the biggest driver to finish projects...

Personally I vote both. I'm planning on an EMAX compressor AND a sound deadening enclosure to minimize the noise. As someone with kids who has limited hours after kids fall asleep to work, I'll do whatever it takes to not wake people up. Congrats on the concrete. As someone who had a multi...

What's wrong with pallet racks? He can reuse them later for other things as needed too.

Looks like a nice monstrosity to me! Trying to figure out your clamping methodology, or where mine can improve My use of F clamps to hold the top piece is apparently not good enough. Kept walking on a 10" wide piece of 16 gauge which won't cut it for my target project.

Step 1: Have a project Step 2: Round up a bit on lengths for your order as a just in case Step 3: Find out you are terrible at estimating and you REALLY rounded up.

Negative. I need to weld my handle setup on at lunchbreak and do a few test bends. I anticipate problems, but nothing insurmountable. See something i'm missing?

I attempted to buy the Swag Offroad finger brake attachment for my box project, but found it couldn't accomplish what I needed. Decided to try my hand at building a bigger brake out of some extra steel I have. I didn't have enough big angle iron around, so the top piece is a 2x2 square tube...

Sounds about right. I went 2' down due to the height, but otherwise in the ballpark.