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    Handy Tip Using Magnets

    I'm not quite sure this qualifies as "fabrication" or anything more than a little ad hoc MacGuyvering at best, but it's proved useful as hell and yielded one of the best yet bangs for my garage buck - so I thought I'd share. I've been wrestling with the best way to implement trickle chargers to...
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    Bendpak Lift Power Cord Question

    An installer assembled a third BendPak HD-9 lift at my home and seems to have pulled a real *****. My ceilings are 12' tall. Lifts 1 & 2 plug directly into ceiling outlets overhead but Lift 3's power cord is about 2' too short. I suspect the culprit to be a careless installer who, for reasons...
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    (Yet Another Request for) Lighting Input, Please

    I'm preparing for the imminent lighting of my 36' x 27' garage and workshop which, for all intents and purposes, has a 12' ceiling throughout. Effectively, the left two thirds consist of two oversized single-width parking bays. Each contains a four-post stacking lift behind a 10' x 9' door...
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    Fluourescent Overhead Lighting

    I have a roughly 37' x 26' newly-built garage that's basically 3/4 vehicle space and 1/4 workshop. It has six keyless fixtures and bulbs at present in advance of having final fixtures chosen and installed. The car space will have 2-3 four-post stacking storage/service lifts. To retain aas...
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    220/110 Conversion

    We recently moved into a new home with an expanded garage we intended to meet all of our automotive/workshop needs - including a pair or 4-posts lifts. To that end, we had the builder add 220V outlets on 30A breakers throughout, even positioning power for future needs like EV chargers if the...
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    Door Selection Recommendations

    My wife and are are building a new home that will have a porte cochere arrangement with two sets of 3-car garages. One set will be our everyday "his 'n hers" garage with an 18 x 9 door and a third single-width stall with a 10 x 10 door that should be sufficiently large to park just about...
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