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What about an electric fence surrounding the shop? Pretty hard to defeat in my humble opinion - if done right.

Received mine today. already up on the wall in the shop!

Delicate? Yes… But, it looks SO much better! :)

Easy fix. Install 1/4 inch drywall over it. It will look so much better.

Yup!

Cannot seem to get these adjusted correctly for some unknown reason. It always seems everytime I lift the car at least a couple of the restraints won't lock into place and I have to loosen the bolts, reposition the restraint and then tighten it back up. The MaxJax instructions don't detail very...

What I did was center my car - front to back in the garage to determine where I wanted to put the posts. When my car is in the air, I have approximately 4 feet in front and 4 feet in back of the car for access. I spaced my posts approximately 130 inches apart to allow for opening the doors...

I believe you may be correct. It does appear the front left pad initially moved, causing the other arms to slip. The unanswered question at this point is what caused the left arm to slip? Don't know if we can answer that given the limited video..

Just saw this on Jalopnik: http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/lift-fail-watch-a-100-000-mercedes-g-wagen-fall-from-1667224685/+travis Can't tell what the failure mechanism was.. I don't think the vehicle was too heavy for the lift, though. Don't know what one of the guy's were thinking he could do...

All of you have very good suggestions and I will weigh them all carefully. The DIY in me wants to do it myself. The "****" part of me wants a professional to do it, but its just a small panel, so I feel I need to try it myself first. If I screw it up, then I can always sand it down and either...

Well, I called the paint shop and a 1/2 pint of just the color would be $46. Going to a body shop and having them paint it I would expect would cost me at least $100 after its all said and done (maybe more) as you would have to factor in labor and other materials - primer, reducer, clear, etc...

Good idea about opening another window. Didn't think about that for airflow..

I've got a small panel that I need to paint. Normally I would do this outside, but the temps have gotten cold, so I need to rig up something inside the shop. I haven't done this before, so I need some help. I'm going to rattle can this as it is only a small headlight panel (approximately 1 foot...

Thank you gentlemen. All very good suggestions. I think I'm going to try one of the more quality headlights as was suggested by Olafur above...

Sigh.... I've got a couple of droplights, one is incandescent and the other is a long tube flourscent. I prefer the incandescent simply because it has better light output, but the real problem is directing the light onto the work area efficiently. If I'm under the car (car on a lift) and I need...

Thanks. The V12 is smooth as glass when they run right. You can balance a quarter on it when its running, they're that smooth.... I've been overhauling this thing for the past 12 months. That picture is about 2 months old. I've done alot since then. Next month I figure I'll be ready to put it...

Bill - I think you're on to something there! Its been too long since I looked this up. In my feeble mind I somehow got 325ft/lbs stuck in there. I just looked at this: http://www.bmw-m.net/techdata/torq/bmw_torq.pdf and you are correct. 100NM +60 degrees +60 degrees. I don't need no...

M70 (1991 BMW 850i)...

Been there, done that. BMW has a "no loan" policy. You would think that the money I spend on a weekly basis at their parts counter, they would give me a break on loaning me a tool - NOT!

Tried the calculation list in the link with different angles. Doesn't help my case... Thanks though..