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I thought I would post how I hauled home a few long pieces of steel with my BMW and little trailer. The pieces of steel are about 18' long. My trailer is only 8' long. The steel was free out of the company scrap bin, so I didn't want to spend a lot of money. So after work, I headed down...

I'm getting ready to purchase my radiant heat tubing and manifolds for my garage project. I found a good price on tubing an manifolds from "pextubing" on ebay. Has anyone purchased from this person? Good bad or otherwise? They have good feedback, but just wanted to know of any personal...

I'm just trying to double check a few things before I set my last course of block for my garage. The last course will stick up above the poured floor by about 3 inches. The other 5 inches will abut the concrete floor. Question: Can you all confirm the rough opening for a standard man door...

Guys, the company I work for is looking at getting rid of some Bard 3 and 4 ton AC units. These are the all-in-one style AC units that get installed on the side of a building. You see them on contruction trailers, etc. I'm looking at getting one for my garage. Would any one else be...

browsing craigslist I found a Turnmaster 13x40 lathe with some tooling listed for $2000. Any thoughts or experience with this machine? Good bad or otherwise for price?

So I was able to purchase a decent sized steel (it might actually be cast iron) table top that was from a printer's table. The guy said it was about late 1800's vintage.... It's about 35" x 51" and about 2" thick on the edges and about 3/4" thick in the middle. It's got a nice patina to it...

anybody on here use the "Punch" brand residential design software? THey have it at Staples for $10 after the rebate..... I've currently designed my garage in ProE, which is good for the structural layout, but not so good for doing the graphics of actual "look". I think it might be easier with...

Here's the description of the lift on craigslist: "Selling a challenger car lift. This is a scissor type lift and only picks the car up around 3 feet. it is perfect for brakes, tires, ball joints, and motors and transmissions on front wheel drive cars etc etc. It only requires 115v power so can...

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Hey guys, here are the details on a craigslist ad that I woudl like to get some feed back on..... Description: QUOTE: "3 axis CNC knee mill for sale. If you remember price was $1800. I need it gone so the price is down to $1500. It's an Alliant brand mill (Bridgeport copycat) with an Anilam...

Anybody on here have one of the "brute" air compressors? They are made by Briggs and Stratton. I bought mine at walmart a few years back.... http://www.brutepower.com/products/air_compressors/product_information/index.cfm?id=Endeca.53611 For the smaller compressors, it has a single cast iron...

so in the latest episode of my garage build, I needed to run conduit from the house to the garage for the electrical. I had rented the Mini-Ex (bobcat 331) to do the digging for the plumbing and the electrical trench. I get the trenches all dug and now it is time to get the conduit under the...

Is it ok to combine two wires together to obtain a higher total ampicity for a circuit? Example, I'm planning to run #2 copper from my house main panel out to my future new garage. (yes, I'm running 2-hots a neutral and a ground in the conduit) However, at some point it might be nice to...

I'm getting to the point of planning the details of my floor drains in my new garage. The gable end with the garage doors will be 28' wide and will proably have 2 8x10 doors or one 18' or wider door. most likely the two doors. Can you all submit pictures of your floor drain setup and what you...

Has anybody on here run multiple under slab conduits during their garage build? I'm intending to run a few conduits from the electrical panel under the slab to various points around the perimeter. It looks like I will have to integrate the conduit bend into the foundation block wall...

So here's the deal, awhile back, before I started on my new garage, the DOT was tearing down a house for the new road that was going to be routed by the our house. I was able to salvage the nearly new replacement windows out of the house. they were fairly easy to pop out. I think I pulled out...

A couple of questions... I'm getting ready to do my garage foundation wall. I'm planning on 4 courses of 12" block and then 1 course of 6" block. the intent is to create a brick ledge. On the last course of 6" block, should they be a bond beam block or just a regular block? I have to fill...

here's unique way of turning a shaft down with out a lathe. My brother was working on a little project and needed to turn a shaft down about .015 to .020". we don't have a lathe.....yet. the shaft was from an arctic cat sled.... So here is what we did... Used the bearing block from the...

This happened a couple of years ago....but it still should help somebody from making the same mistakes that I did..... I had purchased a MSC mill from a guy here in PA and was going to ship it back to our (my brother and I) shop in SD. No problem, the guy had a forklift and could load it onto...

So I happened to be browsing craigslist while I was in Florida last month. I came across a New Holland skid steer for a super low price. I almost thought it was a scam. So I called the guy and he said to come and take a look at it. Sure enough, it was a pretty decent skid steer. The guy had...