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How much trouble am I looking at to repaint, including a color change, a box like this? Am I crazy? How much of a nightmare is it to get it apart and do prep? I don’t have any sort of automotive paint set up. Would it be absolutely impossible trying to do this with rattle cans? It’s a case of...

Many many years ago my grandfather painted the handles of all of his gardening tools red. He said it made it easier to see where they were in the neighborhood when people borrowed them. I have had some shovels and a rake sitting in a corner that need new handles. I thought about painting them...

I can get one of these for $50. Reelcraft Reel It was used for oil. I’d like one for air. Is that possible or realistic? Swap the hose out maybe? Just trying to figure out if it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

I can get a bunch of new old stock 277 volt fixtures. Would it be worth picking them up? How hard and/or expensive to switch to 120 LED? More trouble than it’s worth?

I am about to run the wiring for my basement wood shop. I am going to run 220 to several machines. One day it is possible that I could get some 3 phase equipment and maybe run it off of a phase converter. Would it be possible to run lines in preparation for that equipment? I know almost...

I am in the middle of replacing the half inch pex with three quarter for my outside water faucets. Our pressure and volume is horrible, and it helped on the first one that I tested. Then I started to wonder if there is any reason not to run them before the pressure reducing valve. It comes...

I just got this Powermatic 8” jointer, and I need some help! I believe it’s a PM60??? It was originally from a school and it’s missing a few things. I need a motor. Suggestions on a quality replacement or how I figure out size, shape, etc? I have nothing but the bracket to go by. I don’t...

I’m going with a section of pegboard. What brand? I’m going with metal and so far just looked at Wall Control and OmniWall. Are all the various brands interchangeable? I see a lot of them have both the traditional holes and some have what look like slots as well.

I’m working on my basement shop. Is there a good site on how to insulate the concrete walls? I see a lot of strong opinions. Is there a best practice?

The concrete guys were pretty rough in my neighborhood. Mostly spec homes. I’m considering racedeck type flooring for my basement shop. Overall the floor is fairly flat, but it is not very smooth. There is even a section where it looks like it was covered in plastic that then blew. Now...

I am thinking about using epoxy in my basement shop. The problem is it would be difficult to move all of the machines out. Is it possible to do half, move everything over to the other side, and then do the other half? Or is that going to create problems? I don’t really have any natural seems to...

I am finally getting a house that I can have a wood shop in the basement. I attached a rough drawing. I would like to go ahead and run the ducts so that I can put up drywall. However I don’t know where to start... The shop is the area with the tools. The big square on the left is under the...

I have a concrete garage floor with Sheetrock walls and wood baseboard. Ideally I would like to run the epoxy up the wall a few inches instead of the wood. That way I can get the floor wet and not have it run into the walls. Has anybody done this? Is this possible? What would I need to put...

I want to run my son’s Power Wheels truck off of my Milwaukee batteries. My plan is to use one of the 3D printed battery adapters and a DC motor speed controller. I’ll upgrade the motors if he burns them up. This has been done many times, and there are plenty of examples of how to do the...

I’m thinking about about steel beams instead of engineered wood. I will have room for something around a 24x36 shop. I want to have a steep pitched roof and finish the second floor. Any estimates on the beam size to span the 24’? Probably 2 of them 12’ apart. Do I set them on lumber or...

I want to get my 5 year old a blower for Christmas. The toy one isn’t cutting it anymore. He has used the fuel version at a friends. I have Milwaukee but only the 5.0 batteries. I am leaning towards the fuel unless anybody has a good reason to go with the original. Also do I need to go...

Does anybody know if there is a metal Butler building style with a sawtooth roof? I love the look from my former job, and I saw one over a fire station. I was trying to get an idea of cost, but Google has failed me so far...

Looks like we are getting close to a new house with a basement. About 1000 sq ft will be a woodshop and then storage. All I am familiar with is epoxy, but would that be appropriate for a basement? I know very little about the dealers but they seem to be popular. Would one or the other be...

We have a 12 year old house that was built during that time when they stamped them out as fast and cheap as possible. We got it as a foreclosure 8 years ago. A couple of days ago I noticed one of the outlets in our master bathroom had brown on it. I open it up, and the thing was completely...

What is the largest JH Williams made in the USA socket set that includes mainly sockets and not all the other tools that come in their larger sets? For some reason I can only find small sets or the giant sets with the other tools. Do they have any larger socket sets like Craftsman does?