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Like many others I have been looking for a solution to the plier storage problem. Commercially available racks seemed to be either excessively expensive, or did not use the space efficiently. Some homemade dividers other members used, while interesting, just didn't feel right. What I ended up...

I'm sure that will sound like a silly question to some, but I would like some clarification. Yesterday, I was in Home Depot when I came a cross a sale display that kind of puzzled me. They were selling two packs of hammers, one "claw" and one "ripping". Same size, same weight, same length of...

Hello all. It has been a while since I posted anything, but I figured a new build deserved a new post. First a bit of back ground. In May of this year we we bought a new home after 26 years in our last one. I had been trying to convince my wife we should move for a while but she was always...

Sorry if this comes off as a rant, but I needed to relay this story. Anyway, I was in the garage today working on a project when I hit a snag. I needed a 1-5/16 socket. My 1/2 drives go up to 1-1/4. Great I think here is a perfect opportunity to pull out my dad's old 3/4 drive set that I have...

So I got a call last night, from a buddy of mine It seems the business he works at was doing some reorganizing and house cleaning. He said they had a welder they wanted to get rid of and he thought I might be interested. Apparently they had offered it to all the employees and had no takers. They...

Ok now for the project I really had in mind. I wanted a small. custom painted tool box to carry a few essentials in my 1966 Chevy Nova. I had been planning this project for a while but had never gotten around to buying a box. One day while looking for something else, I came across this box at...

Hello everyone. My name is Brad and I am in Oshawa Ontario, Canada. I have been lurking around here for a while, but this is my first post. I have been fascinated by some of the tool box restorations that I have seen on here, and decided to try my hand at something similar. I started out with...