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I would imagine concrete would be very unpleasant to touch in the middle of winter unless you keep the house really warm and don't drop the thermostat at night.

I have the same ones. The casters need to be greased well, otherwise they're hard to move. I can easily move my car in any direction with them, but that's because I packed them with grease first. For some reason, the manufacturer didn't see the need. If I were moving it routinely I'd upgrade...

Yeah, but the rotor adds unsprung weight, so you'll suffer on acceleration. ;)

Same here. I don't understand the current trend in high-dollar custom houses that says they should look like a conference center. Make it look like a house. This is a lot more appealing than the corporate retreat idea:

Depends on which interface they used. They might have switched entirely over to the wifi capable one, but if not, the "new" non-wifi capable one looks almost identical from the outside to the one that can do it. If your panel has the wifi symbol below the ABCD button, then you're good to go...

I've got the Rainbird, which just came out this year. I like it because on some of the wifi controllers, you can *only* control it via wifi. This one is a wifi module that hooks into a regular controller, so you can still program it at the unit if for whatever reason you can't use the wifi...

That's the Racor, right? More recent reviews suggest they're making it cheaper now, and a couple mention it falling because of plastic load-bearing parts. Otherwise, that's the one I probably would have ended up with.

I'm finding a lot of ceiling-mounted storage lifts online, but they all just sit there swinging from their lifting cables when in the up position. Is there one that locks into a retaining system? This thing would be mounted above cars, and the idea of it just hanging from cables that are being...

Well, that's not going to happen. The intent is to destroy the company and then get a big payday for the people at the top from the sale of assets. Sears put itself on the edge of the cliff intentionally, and it's not gonna listen to anyone telling them how they can avoid jumping. I'm...

Any LED bulbs in the area? They can interfere with garage door remotes.

Knipex low-volt crimping pliers. They're much nicer to use on the RJ-45s than the cheapie ones.

They're not listing the specs on that thing, which is suspicious. "HD" can mean lots of things. 720 and 1080 lines are both considered HD for marketing purposes. And as long as one component in the system is capable of HD, they can label the whole thing as HD, which means the camera might output...

Same. It's the most comfortable creeper I've ever had.

For the home user, why not? We're torquing down lug nuts and head bolts here, not building moon rockets. It's more important that the torque across all the bolts be even than accurate to within a thousandth of a ft/lb. If the torque spec is 80, then 78 or 82 will be fine. Obviously for the...

http://www.hardingsteel.com/carparx.shtml This is close to what you want. I bet they could do a center access space instead of a solid floor all the way across the top if you wanted to use it for working on the car as well as parking. Everything they do is obviously custom at least to some...

Good plan. For cheap insurance add a water level alarm, just as Murphy's Law insurance.

I've been re-reading through the whole thread and drooling over your garage, which I've followed (mostly) silently since you started. Really great job on everything. Got time for a question? How'd you get your rapidair tubing so straight? Mine sags, and if I cut it short enough so that it...

I don't. I just built it yesterday and haven't snapped any shots yet. It's a riff on this one: https://imgur.com/a/TWOuc Things I did differently: I made it 3 feet deep rather than 2. I sometimes do car projects that involve taking large pieces apart, so having the extra depth will be very...

A lot of good ideas. Thanks guys! I thought about going vertical, but then I'd have to make the receiver swivelable, as it can't stick out beyond what the bench already does when it's folded against the wall because space is too tight and it would be too close to a car. I want to do a...

I'm going to put a 2" receiver in my fold-down bench. I'll have a grinder and a vise mounted to hitch plates. I'd like a quick-release pin instead of a bolt arrangement to secure them when they're installed. I'm thinking something like bike wheels use, with a lever lock, but I can't find...