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I just bought a house with a three car tandem and I would love to put a small lift in the tandem space. I work on bikes as much as old cars and it seems like a flush mounted mid rise scissor lift would be ideal for both. Something like the BendPak MD-6XP. I could make an aluminum table top for...

I will be relocating from North Dallas to Redmond in the next couple of weeks to start a new job. My wife and I own our current two car garage with attached house, and will be looking within a 45 minute commute of the Redmond Microsoft campus. Price ceiling is probably about 400k. I'll be...

Hello folks, I'm working on rebuilding a VFR into an RC30 replica (Click here if you'd like to know more about that project) I bought the bike I'm selling here for a couple of parts that I needed off of it, mainly the oil cooler, and headlight assembly. Now I've got my eye on a few parts off...

I love the paddock. I haven't been to a lot of races of any sort (In Texas and NASCAR doesn't really appeal to me) But I always find that the garages before and after a race to be a lot more interesting than the race itself. Back in 2004 I flew to California to see a JGTC exhibition race (and...

...is kind of ratty, the stuff in it makes up for it though. Click the pic for the article on TGs site: I just built a little wooden one of those (type 35) for my daughters first birthday. I see a go cart like Nicks coming in a few years :)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160782702866#ht_1392wt_754 I've wanted to build myself a pinstriping box for quite a while now. Something like the link provided would be perfect (without the pull out tray, I hate those things). Probably with an open top compartment for...

Everyone hates wood huh? All you seem to see here are metal $1k-$5k boxes, which don't get me wrong, would be sweet. There's no way in all heck though that I can spend anything like a grand on a tool box. So I'm thinking about making one (two really) ...And after all, I like making stuff. This...

Last weekend we all of a sudden had radiant floor heat in our entryway. Long story short, I rented a jackhammer and cut a 1.5 foot hole in my slab yesterday. The spot where I had to dig was outside but on the front porch (so still had to go through the main slab) The electrical line that I hit...

Back when I was in metal working class our instructor talked about his vice grips. I'm very familiar with the "normal" type which close and tighten with the knob at the back. With his though he was able to adjust the amount of clamping force independent of the throat size. Once the force was set...

A little post for a little job. But I'm still proud of myself for it. My waterheater failed last week so I had to have a new one put in this weekend. This one was put in when the house went up in 2002 and there was no pan so the box was soaked: Apparently it was also the trashcan for the crew...

I was reading through that CNC post and it sounds like there are some machinist here. I'd like to ask what it might cost to get one of you guys to turn me a stainless axle made for my triple tree. This is the best picture I've got of one on hand. The stock piece has the lower tree welded to it...

I want to do a wall of builtins along my back wall with a graphic across them. This is my layout: The graphic is about 19'x9', 300 dpi and composed of around 2000 1.5"x2" photos. I'm waiting for a quote from Unique Garage and have an e mail out to GarageWallWraps.com. Who else should I be...

I've just built myself a workbench (top) for my 2 car garage. It's 2 feet deep and 15 feet long, framed with 2x4s and has a top made of 2 layers of off set 3/4 AC ply. I'm not sure now, how to finish it off. Most of what I do is customizing/restoring old motorcycles, for which disassembling and...

Back in my apartment garage (pictured) I had all the florescents plugged directly into the light socket in the garage door opener with one of those screw in outlet things, and I loved the fact that all the lights came on when I opened the door. The door was a two button with which you could turn...

I've got a 2 car single door and I want lots of Battery Tenders for 2 cars and 4+ bikes. Obviously not all at the same time but for the most part I'll want the bikes and one car on them in various configurations around the garage. I'm laying in the electrical right now and am playing with where...

I wanted to share my ideas with the experts. I've been trying to think through all the problems that I might encounter and everything that I would want in a workspace but I know I'll never think of everything until I need it and it's not there... which I'm sure everyone on this forums been...