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I'm hoping some of you guys out there have pictures that would help me on this. I've seen benches where there is a lower section that is desk height (~30") and an area on either side that steps up to counter/bench height (~36"-40"). Or at least I think I've seen them. I've got an idea in the...

I posted about this in my main garage thread, but I'll put it here for those who might just assume the thread is only about the garage. I've never had a band saw. Or rather, I've had an old inoperative one sitting on a table for a few years, now. It's never been run. I got a motor and the...

A few months ago I was surfing around on the internet and landed at a web site for a magazine called Family Handyman. They were holding a contest called the "2011 Best in DIY award." The part that got my attention was that they had a garage category -- so I emailed in a picture to enter...

I've got a three-year-old who likes to get you sitting down in a room and then dash, fast, to an exciting and dangerous destination. Sometimes it's the garage, which got me thinking about a way to keep the place locked off for him without making things slower for me. Like every adult human who...

I wrote about this in my main garage thread. But I thought I'd also post it here. It's a small project, but it does show how handy it is to have a welder and a garage to use it in. My wife and I were given a twin bed for our three year old. We wanted to get a second one to match -- since...

I know I can cut sheet metal with shears, but is there a special type of shear (or cutting technique) that doesn't compromise the 'flatness' of the sheet? In other words, I'd like the pieces to be perfectly flat -- not stretched or distorted -- when I'm done with them. They're maybe 10" by...

My garage wouldn't appear to have multiple dumpsters worth of junk in it, but that's because through the last couple of years of renovation work inside the garage I moved all of the leftovers, scraps and other junk out. What never shows up in the clean-and-shiny pictures is the...

I want to leave alone the economic/political issues of Harbor Freight, if I can. We can leave Wall Mart, Sears, and most big American retailers of Chinese imports out of it as well. I'll just say: Lordy -- for better or for worse -- you do get a lot of tool for the buck at Harbor Freight. I...

So, after thinking it was like NIPE-ex, and then hearing NIP-ex, my Googling has pointed me to it being pronounced KIN-ih-pex. (Like Cinemax, but with a hard 'K' at the beginning and a 'mex' at the end.) Is this right? I'm guessing it's in the same vein as kinematic Click here to hear what I...

Garage Movie Double Feature I don't know why, but you can't embed movies in threads in the Garage Gallery forum. So I'm putting these two clips here in the General Discussion area. I finished putting the little lift in my two-car garage. The details are here in my main thread. My...

I know I could simply buy these from Greg Smith. But it seems like there ought to be something out there that's approximately the same size, only with a much lower price tag. I don't have tire sections to cut up and sandwich together. It just keeps eating away at me that there's probably...

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(Generic image I grabbed off the net.) There have been a handful (some recent, some not) of horror stories about guys losing their garages to fire. Off the top of my head, I don't think I remember a story where the owner happened to be in the garage when the fire started -- which is what some...

In this thread, I laid out the idea of using a hydraulic lift table to raise my race car enough to do brake and tire work on it in my garage. One issue with my hydraulic lift table is that the two sliding wheels at the end of the side arms are not held captive in their track. In theory, the...

As the subject line states, this is NOT an idea that I think would make sense for anyone else. Generally speaking, there are a lot of good arguments against repurposing any equipment in an environment where someone could be injured or killed. The easy take on this situation is to simply say...

Hard to connect this to the garage, really -- except that I learned to set tile by putting it into my garage a few years back. My wife's sister lives near us, and recently got a new place with her boyfriend. It's literally down the street from us. The good thing they did was to not ask me to...

I've got a bunch of 4-1/2" ones, but for the sake of cutting depth -- and occasionally for the option to remove a lot of material quickly -- I've thought about getting a bigger one. But 7" or 9"? I know 'both' is a good answer, but for those of you with all the sizes, which one is the most useful?

I have a friend doing this, and he asked for some advice after dulling a scraper of some sort. I guessed that a wire wheel on a 9" grinder might do it cheaply. A quick google search shows some pricey soy-based thinners that reportedly destroy fewer brain cells than ordinary Jasco. Has...

You know those moments where you realize you must be an idiot, because the puzzle is simple and it's sitting right there in front of you? I'm having one of those right now. I picked up a used Class A pressurized water extinguisher to have on hand for when I'm welding. It takes 2.5 gallons...

I've pretty much finished my garage, now. Some parts of it involved moving some heavy things by myself. More recently, I did an engine swap on my car. I've been packing up the old engine to ship out, and today I finally got tired of using levers and bottle jacks to slowly move the big lump...