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Re: What did you do in your garage today? What a great idea! Love it..

I added a line volt thermostat to my Dayton G73 and did a write up on it here: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121560&highlight You will find a wiring diagram I pulled together on how I did it. Hope it helps you out. Zane

I was able to get my boarder completed over the past few evenings and figured I would post up the final results. I simply used the green Frog tape and had excellent results with zero bleed through!!! As suggested I simply measured from the foundation footers up on either end of the wall and...

Spent the past few weeks prepping the walls for paint and actually got started on some painting. The garage had the original builders grade flat white paint that badly need attention. I went with a self-priming interior enamel paint in a satin finish. For the top half of the garage I have...

You are correct, I painted the door frame the same dark gray as the base boards and cabinets. I will be painting the door itself the same color but in an oil based paint for greater durability. The floors will be next. I'm swimming in options with that project. Not sure if I want to do...

So I think I narrowed my base and stripe color combination i'm going to go with. My garage walls are about 12 foot tall so cutting in and painting the top half took quite a bit of time. The original wall color was off white with Flat paint. I used an interior satin enamel paint in pure white...

Hey guys. Thanks for the guidance. Sounds like the concencios is use the ceiling as my guide. I also have a laser level that I will be using to help me out. Thanks to all for the needed info. Zane.

So, I have read quite a bit about how to get a nice clean boarder with some great tricks others have done. But now that I'm getting close to doing my border, I have a question about what am I basing my line off of? The floor (that slopes down from back to front of garage) or off the ceiling...

Not much to post, but I did however finish up painting the cabinet doors over the weekend. Considering building some soffit storage around the back wall and sides of the entire garage to utilize all of that ceiling height I have. Measured it all out and with how I want to do it, it would...

I figured I would share how I wired up my lift. As I was researching lifts I ran across some stories of switches on the motors sticking while raising the lift and the operator was not able to stop the lift and as you can imagine the damage that could occur if the top of the car met the garage...

I once owned a small company called Tuff-Stuff Appliances that sold custom garage refrigerators. It was a fun little side business. Here are a few of them to give you guys some ideas on using some diamond tread plate.

Sorry this took so long to reply. Total width of the lockers are 18 inches.

My next task is to finish painting my cabinet doors. I hate things being half done, it drives me nuts!!!

I was able to assemble my lift last night with the help of a engine hoist and a friend. It really is not that hard of a job at all. I was more concerned than I needed to be in the end. Once I got everything leveled out as I wanted it I used my daily driver to test it out. I was very...

Well hello, I cant seem to hide from you!!! ;) Sorry I didn't make it over last night. I'm going to come over this afternoon and pick it up. You want to come over and help me put it all together tonight? Beer will be provided!!!!

Skyline, Yes I would agree that it is a fascinating car and over the past several years have done quite a bit of research on it to gather its history and have slowly started to bring it back to its glory. A car like this as you can imagine takes time and quite a bit of care with the simplest...

While I was on a role with my wiring marathon I finally pulled wire to reroute my thermostat for my garage heater. I had to move it due to the cabinets I built. I still need to install the thermostat in the box and hook everything up, but the hard part is now done. Not in the mood to think of...

Completed bending conduit and pulling wire for my 220 run from my sub panel to drop down just above the placement of the hydrolic pump for my lift last night. I will run flexible conduit from the ceiling down to a 30 amp double pole switch as a safty cut off before wiring to the pump switch. I...

Oldbear How can I get my hands on that paint you are talking about?

Yes, it is a 1958 Lancia Aurelia B24 that has been in my family for a very long time. It's the car that got me into cars and it holds many memories of working in the garage with my father when I was young.