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i've been on a building spree lately, and one thing that's kicking my **** is full sheets of plywood. Storing them is a pain, and working with them is worse. i've been storing them flat underneath one of my cars, so they have to be moved before i can drive it (and of course, they get oil...

i've actually been looking for a set of reasonably-priced double-box metric wrenches for my motorcycle toolkit... any recommendations?

Even a deadbolt will only keep an honest man honest (unless you've got solid construction with no windows), but knob locks are worse than useless... our last house had a stupid design where you could open the door from inside with the lock on without disengaging it, then close the door behind...

Varies depending where you are in the state... if you're near the coast, i can tell you- if you have to ask, you can't afford it :(

Re: Add a second "safety eye" to garage door to prevent (wife) from closing door on car?? You know, when i bought my new house i wondered why the previous owner had installed the eye sensors so freakin' high when he had 2 dogs to worry about... now i know! The angled sensors would work for...

That's strange, because i have the 40775 (1/4" Tuff 1 flex head) and like it a lot... torque feels just right for most of my 1/4" stuff. ...dave

i only have the 1/2"... still need to get the other two. i love the feel of it, but agree that it's a freakin' tank for the length... makes it a bit ponderous once you get the fastener broken loose.

Dang, lumber must have been a lot cheaper when they built that! i got a line on railroad crossties over the weekend... 8x8x12 creosoted, for a dollar a foot :bounce: And some 2 x 10 x 22-footers, so i think i can eliminate that center pole as well... now i just need to figure out exactly where...

Just to clarify, i was planning on digging out the hole, inserting the pole, and filling the concrete in around the pole, not using the concrete as a base for the posts... i'm amazed by the 48" depth figure... i would have thought that would be way past the point of diminishing returns. What...

My plan is to build a slightly oversized 2-vehicle carport, with the intention of enclosing it later on as funds allow. Here is what i'm looking at (i apologize for my lousy grasp of the terms involved): All pressure-treated lumber for frame 20' x 24', 9' inside headroom, 1:3 gabled roof above...

i would definitely be interested to see how that black oxide coating comes out... have spent a lot of time looking at the Caswell stuff, and some of it seems too good to be true... if it works, i'm all over it.

Holy cow, that's a lot of Proto gear on that site. Very interesting.

Kinda depends on what you're working on, but a few that i'll add to the list: LED light on a headband (some of the best money i've ever spent) Box cutter/shop knife (i have four or five, so that i can usually find one) A good set of scissors (see above... for some reason my wife won't leave my...

You know, i was probably working on cars as a hobby for 7-8 years before someone on this board explained the utility of owning multiple ratchets... for all that time i only had one of each size! :wtf: Man, what a revelation! Currently: 1/4- 3 + in-lb torque wrench 3/8- 5 + 1 breaker bar + 2...

Is the one in the middle a home-built wooden chest of drawers with a Craftsman logo stuck on it?? :spit: i took a bottom-of-the-barrell 26" Waterloo rolling "workcenter" with three drawers and a door on the bottom, and stuck it on top of my 26" 8-drawer Craftsman roller to create a makeshift...

Damn, i am kicking myself for not buying the 56" CSPS box at Costco while they had it... now they've only got a 41" branded as a "Trinity", IIRC... drawer slides felt cheap as hell, no ball bearings. Price is the same as the 41" CSPS, tho :( Guess i'll have to look into shipping on the...

Yup. And don't forget, if you're dealing with fasteners that have been rusting in place for 40-50 years or more (as i suspect quite a few of us here are prone to do), they heads in some cases have actually gotten smaller as a result of corrosion, making it that much easier to round them off even...

Nice looking stuff, but i bet the shipping costs are absolute murder for anything i'd want to get :( ...dave

Thanks for the tips! The area i live in is generally very humid. The garage has no heat or AC, just a ceiling fan. It has soffit vents and a single, very small gable vent. i really need some kind of exhaust fan system in there anyway, because the heat is just staggering in the summer... i'm just...

:mad: i recently moved to a new place with a very nice attached 30 x 32 garage with 12-foot walls that gable at close to 20'. However (there's always a however), i'm having a tremendous problem with moisture. i open my toolbox in the morning, and there is a layer of condensation on everything...