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I'll be installing Dakota pre-finished slatwall from Menards on the upper half of my bare garage walls. It's a prefinished white laminate, but where the "slats" have been milled out is just unfinished particle board. Here's the link...

Looking to put a code reader on my Christmas list. I know the lower range of these tools won't do what the dealer's scanners can, but it would be nice to have the ability to read basic trouble codes. Looking for suggestions. Here's one I spotted on Amazon that's one of their best sellers and...

Re-doing the ceiling and lighting in my 500 sq. ft. garage (actually it's a carriage house). When I did the lighting almost 20 years ago, I put up 4 incandescent lights, switched at the door, then wired up ceiling outlets, on a separate switch, for 9 four-foot fluorescent light fixtures. Back...

My garage/shop is a 1911 carriage house/barn. It has an attic/loft above that's accessed by the usual wooden ladder nailed to the wall. Currently, I use the loft to store empty boxes and other light items. I'm currently working on re-working several parts of the building, and considering...

Was very surprised to see a half-page Harbor Freight ad in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. Wow, either Harbor Freight is really looking to capture a new demographic, or ad space in the WSJ is really cheap (or probably a combination of both . . .)

The pump died on my Harbor Freight parts washer, so, based on reading some threads on this board, I bought a Little Giant pump to replace it with. Now I'm trying to figure out how to rig things up. Any help would be appreciated. Here's a pic of the old pump. It was held down with two screws...

5 sets of Snap-On sockets for sale on my local (Columbus, Ohio) Craigslist. $75 each. http://columbus.craigslist.org/tls/999720975.html Not mine, no financial interest. Just passing along in case anyone is interested.

Looking for tips on moving and transporting an 80 gallon upright air compressor. Approx. 500 pounds. Would be buying used, so it would entail moving out of seller's residential garage, into my van, then out of my van and into my residential garage. No access to fork lifts, cherry pickers...