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From Hot Rod.. Yes, the new Harbor Freight compressors are good if you are replacing an older compressor in your home shop or garage and are using it to power cutoff wheels, torqueing lug nuts, or using a paint gun for small jobs. It is competitive with other compressors at this price and does...

Invent a MAGNETIC FINGER TIPS GLOVE! Working a Gas golf cart, relays change. Sure as **** one nut took a trip into never never land! I aint got a lot of Metric stuff as just stuff saved working jap bikes. Managed to find one, but still? I HATE GRAVITY!

3 in 1 oil! I think the can I have STILL is the same one got in HS 1960's, and I'm 69 now! Don't tell me "oil goes bad'! Still like new! And as a side note, I STILL have a bottle Brut 33 "splash on lotion" bought in HS. Little dab behind the ears would do ya, and quit using LONG time ago. STILL...

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Guy building a garage next me (house too). He did this yesterday when I wasn't home. WHAT are the front eve cutouts for? I can't see any reason!

Beats me.

Friend mine, its meticulous, not used much (has other rides, boats, has money and REALLY cares for all them). Thinking getting a new truck, and won't get much trade it. I'm between $4500/5000 for it. Looks like new, 5.4 (?) motor, extended cab, hard cover bed, new tires, leather seats, etc...

Electric heater (shop, 220). 10,000 watt, 42 amp draw. 50 amp breakers OK? From what found, seems right. What I have now welder..thanks.

4800 watt 220 shop heater to supplement the wood stove fast warm up. Has 6-30 plug, and shop is 6-50 (50 amp) the welders. OK simple cut the plug off and wire a 6-50? I'm a wizard mechanical, but not electricity! Thanks..

Have a friend who moved (FLA to Cincy) and has a 56x36 shop that was there, now has finished doing the inside and a boat painter. Wants to heat the shop with a 15,000 watt heater as does NOT want any "ignition" like Propane, no wood stove, basic no flame as igniting the paint fumes. Will a...

I'm a mechanical whiz, but a dufuss house electrics. I have 220 in the shop for my welder and 2 outlets. Wood stove for dry heat here rainy PNW winter. I want to buy a 220 heater for some zone heat a paint booth. But as far as I can tell looking into this, I have NEMA 6-50 (?) plug welder as...

Bought this for $30 off Amazon. Wanted a way to clean/detail GOOD my bikes in the shop. Portable steam cleaner! Works like a charm the "nooks and crannies"! As with flo lights, chrome doesn't show as well pix as if in daylight. Impressed. Finding all kinds uses for it now. Next gonna do all the...

Been doing this a decade. Simple propane tank and weed burner. Low flame, 5/10 minutes ya got heat. But NOT "full blast"! Need a torch with controllable flame.

Damn, I could not live without 1/4 drives! Heres some my collection. And they DO come into play many times me, tight places. And at the moment I'm replacing a mechanical fuel pump on my jacked up 350 77 K-5 Blazer. Hood is eye level high, and no way to get at from underneath with frame...

Wanna punch metal, whatever "WITHOUT DRILLING? Best "tool" in my many "boxes"!

Just got done cleaning out the carb on a old Honda CT70 Minitrail. I know the right way to do it, but for kicks watched a few Y/T vids. Have to laugh when I see .."take and cut off a wire from a brush, or a wire wheel to clean the small orifices, or a stripped "wire tie"? Oh REALLY? Do simple...

Newbie here, but been a shop rat since I came out the womb and crawled out to the garage to see what my brother and dad were building 64 years ago! Built this when retired 20 years ago, and I simple OUTTA room! Have more sheds outside, and 4 boats too. But that another story another time. You...

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