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Some paint today, very close to done for a while. Some of the trim around the door had been left raw long ago, some had been painted a very dark brown. I'm not going to fight the dark brown, but I'm putting my chocolatey moose brown on the raw wood. And you can see, the wall was made in...

Keep plugging away at my Underground Lair thread! Eventually you'll get to my discovery of the museums devoted to measurement and machine tools of the Industrial Revolution, both in New England.

Had a friend who needed to make a part or two for his race car, picked up a lathe in his area. An old Sears/Atlas lathe that had spent is life in a NASCAR shop, dating back to when the sport was more grassroots. My friend did all of the homework he could to learn (and to be safe) and as the...

I bought a De Walt nozzle schnozzle. Had it on my wishlist for a few years. Thought it was a just a floppy hose, I was wrong. You can set a curve to it and it holds it, which is neat. Something screws in here. Uh.... just went and looked and their short hand-sized blow gun (which I don't...

Now, at the end of the 5th installation of the same door the other night I looked at those washers I used as shims, and I thought, "You've spent this project mocking the hacks that came before you. Then you stacked washers as shims, a car guy hack, in the middle of a carpentry zone. Think of a...

What sounds better than a V-12 engine? TWO V-12 engines! This is how the De Haviland Mosquito do. Airshow 10+ years ago in the Virginia Beach area.

Oh dear. I have to remind myself sometimes that the level of mechanical awareness -- and awareness of the physical world -- that we here at GJ tend to have, is often lacking in others to a degree we can't imagine. Had a coworker who was aghast when his 20-something son was picking up a car...

I guess the bright side was that he was raised in a home full of proper utility knives? Used to have an auto parts job, the teeny boppers there would use single-edge blades for mundane tasks... then leave them around the place willy nilly. Drove me nuts. How I got the metal Castrol shirt...

I, too, spent some dough at Harry Epsteins, made a big order, then realized I should have gotten something else, so a small second order.... later realized I should have gotten something for the missus, why, she'd like a 250th anniversary of America pair of pliers, right? Right? So I snagged a...

Could have sworn I had a few nice new paintbrushes but wasn't sure where they were hiding. Had a brand new cheap **** brush from Wal-Mart and, well, with patience, which I can do, it wasn't so hard. The next day I went to Ace and bought a nice brush. After coat #2, which went on much...

I think I've described how dumb the inward-swinging door was on this closet. It was hitting the concrete and needed clearancing. But that only allowed it to swing further in and hit where the new deep shelves were being built. No matter how I sliced it, it was going to have to be an "open door...

Yes, the items he listed at the bottom of that post are the ones that are discounted for HJE Day. Other items, in the first part of the post he wrote, different promotions if you buy certain amounts of other brands, like being entered into a raffle that will happen later. HJE day is about...

Jori details all of the rules and procedures here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/harry-j-epstein-day-2026.557168/post-11669271 Not everything's a sale, but some things are. I think I bungle the discount code issue every year, it might be the way I pay and what kind of computer...

I thought I was done with scrapers and putty knives! This thing is gorgeous. https://www.harryepstein.com/products/dexter-russell-green-river-works-3-stiff-scraper-knife-w-bolster-525s-3?variant=50220329468201

Electrically driven wheels have got to be coming someday!

Did you ship them the ratchet, too, or did you just bag it up as a reminder while you waited for parts?

Hey, an end cabinet was how we did it in the old days! If you were a big deal and had a lot of tools, you hung that little assortment of more drawers off the end of your cab. Nowadays we just buy another cabinet or whacking huge cabinet!

This was a hit on past HJE days. Website still shows it, but -83 in stock, so I have no idea if it's still around. $2.50! https://www.harryepstein.com/products/3-8-old-forge-stubby-pin-punch?variant=47458253865257 I just thought of this, stumbled across it looking for a nail set.