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Baffled by the litany of Milwaukee M12 Ratchets, and not wanting to watch hours of videos, or wade through involuntary ads, or sift through hoards of Amazon affiliate link commission agendized articles, or toggle back and forth through separate windows and pages and pictures on Milwaukee's...

I need to cut a 30" x 48" aluminum panel into 4 pieces that will end up as 15" x 24". Essentially, the first cut will be to halve the 48" length, and the next two cuts will be to halve each of the two 30" x 24" pieces yielded from the first cut, to produce 4 identical pieces that will be...

I have a 36" long section of 6" x6" x 0.250" thick A500 steel box tube that I want to cut up into 4 individual pieces square and true. The problem is, I need two pieces that are 15" long, and one piece that is 6" long (for the cross cutting part of this) Since 15 + 15 + 6 = 36, what method of...

As the title states, please post any deals or steals you find on Makita power tools or OPE, corded or cordless, on this aggregated thread. I searched before posting, and found 2 Milwaukee permathreads (one, called Milwaukee Power Tools Permathread, currently on the first page of Hot Deals, and...

It takes me a while to type a post, and by the time I finish and post it, Garage Journal logged me off. It is frustrating to lose, or at least think that one has lost, all that time invested in typing the post. This might be a good thing for GJ, but I participate less in GJ because I get...

I'd like to be able to cut and thread 1 1/2" galvanized pipe on an occasional basis. This will be used pipe, so free threading from the big box stores is not an option. It will not be used for plumbing... just bars and railings. It would be nice to have this threading capability on an ongoing...

That is the question. What I thought would be a slam dunk has turned into a nightmare of manufacturers withdrawing any meaningful information from their websites, leaving us once again at the mercy of marketing and retailers and Amazon reviews of the blind leading the blinder. I bought a new...

Just testing.

I have several prevailing torque fasteners on my medium duty truck that are final torqued in excess of 300 ft lbs. I don't know what the prevailing torque is, but it is too tough for all of my current (Chinese) pneumatic, as well as plug in electric impact guns. I need a POWERFUL impact...

What is the proper way to mount foundation vents in the sidewalls of a stick built 2x4 framed garage with T1-11 plywood siding? I went to HD and picked up a couple of FV-146 vents from Construction Metals Inc. These were unique from the mostly aluminum soffit vents that HD had in that they...

I need a light outside the man door of my garage, so I can see well enough to unlock the door. The wiring and three way switch is already there, HOWEVER, there is no electrical box for the existing porch light, which was just fastened directly above the door onto the 2x6 trim cap, with a hole...

Is there an easy way to obtain European spec cordless tools in the USA? The European community upholds higher standards for noise pollution and dust control, and I have found that Milwaukee USA, formerly a USA company, doesn't put all of their best features in the tools they sell in the US...

Porter Cable, DeWalt, Craftsman, Black & Decker, & Mac Tools... all seem to use the same 20v lithium ion battery system system, as if made by the same parent company. They are identical in slide mounting style at the bottom of the tool handle, using the same mounting direction and beveled...

I'm looking for the best ways to build 2x4 framed shelving, using 3/4" plywood decking. I already have the 3/4" plywood, I just need the framing, and the brackets, if using store bought 2x4 shelving brackets. Over the years, I've seen lots of designs, but I only vaguely recall the details, as I...

At $5,000.00, PLUS truck freight on top of that (almost 1,000 lbs), is this a good deal? Take a look at the pics below and see if you can "Brake" it down: 1. The Scam ($4,999.99): 2. The Press ($699.99): 3. The Brake ($379.99): 4. The Winch ($89.99): 5. The Plates...

Here are some pics of the results of vinegar and salt derusting. Before and after comparison at the end of this post. No boring videos waiting for water to boil or watching grass grow... just a few pics of pauses along the way to see interesting turning points in the process...

So it seems everyone talks about using a grease gun for hydrostatic testing of tanks. I even saw a kid (sounded under 18) using a grease gun on YouTube for testing a tank he obtained for his refurbished Quincy 325-10. What that video did NOT show, however, was the grease gun itself...

I need to loosen a pipe plug that has a male square head that is about .440" from flat to flat (more or less 7/16" or 11 mm square). I have found some sockets that have a square male business ends designed to fit INSIDE pipe plugs whose driven square ends are concavely interior within the plug...

What is the latest thinking in optimum doors for a 2 car garage? Sectional? Swing out? Swing up? Roll up? (ie, rolling onto itself into a tubular shape when open, as opposed to rolling on tracks like a sectional) Something new not mentioned above? (due to not being known by me) What are...