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Hi - I'm about to hang a row (8) of upper cabinets (24w x 30h x 13d) along the back wall of my garage. The back wall is made from 12" thick cinderblocks filled with concrete. I'm planning on mounting 2x4 studs horizontally, the same length as the cabinets, to the wall first, and then...

Hi all... I just moved into a new house, and it's gonna need a new driveway. About 6400 square feet of chewed up asphalt with poorly executed concrete patches from 10 years ago, and another 2000 square feet of gravel drive and parking area.... Ideally, the 6400 sf of asphalt would become...

Howdy all... Just bought a new house (yay!) with polished concrete floors (radiant heat too) throughout. The house is only ten years old, but the floors could use a re-do. They were sealed correctly back when built, and they aren't chewed up or stained by any means, but now that the house is...

Hi geniuses! I've just bought a house (hooray!) that only has a carport (what?!?!) that I will immediately be fully enclosing and turning into a proper garage (whew!). Problem is, the house is of a certain extreme modern architectural style that requires a unique and visually neat-o approach...

Rust never sleeps! Which is why I need to know how to destroy/sever/annihilate eight 9/16 nuts and bolts holding a 70 Charger front bumper to its supports. My nut cracker won't fit in there, so what's the best method? I sure don't need to save anything but the bumper, and it WILL be getting...

Hi guruz - Anybody know what a "Dapping Punch" is used for? Is this used for "schwedging" (sp?) rivets, such as those used in 70s cars' vent window assemblies? Just wondering.... :dunno: - Charlie

Man, I know I'm like the last guy in the world without a MIG... what if all of a sudden I needed to weld a 6-foot spear onto the front of my car? What would I do then? So I ask ye gurus of toolz: How in heck does a guy learn to weld MIG? I'm 42 and busy as heck, and it's for "hobbyist" auto...

If you could pick between butcher block, stainless-over-wood, or black phenolic resin countertop for your 8-foot workbench, what would you choose, and why? Also, keep in mind that you need to pick the top surface for the two rollcabs that will fit underneath, and those could also have a...

Okay experts... :bowdown: I'm toolin' up from scratch for the garage refurb of my old mopars, and not being a trained mech ( :headscrat :dunno: ) I'm a little overwhelmed by the various types of punches out there. I thought I knew what a center punch was for, but now I'm not so sure! I'm...

Hello gurus of toolz - :bowdown: If you had to pick one, 3/8 or 1/2 drive, to get started with an impact wrench and sockets for disassembly of rusty old mopars, what would it be? I thought most impact stuff would be 1/2 drive, but I'm seeing lots of things like cordless impact wrenches and...

Hello kids.... Found these high-end autoshop furnishings and cabinets, they look like a slightly more modern and evolved version of Lista. Lots of nice accessories for a finished look. http://www.shureusa.com/ And these mfg's of storage bins and benches... http://www.durhammfg.com/...

Hi all... Although my little car-hole isn't anything to shout about, the transformation it has recently undergone IS. Here is the recipe: Take one small house in the hills with a 'two-car' garage and almost no closets. Add one 32-foot Ryder truck's worth of miscellany. Then build a 6x6x9...

Hello all - Thanks to the great advice from you guys, I am over the idea of getting some big ol' CM set to get me started... I've already made a list of what I think I'll need, and trying to find the best or most sensible choice for each... (FYI: I am assembling tools to wrench heavily on my...

Howdy all.. I'm a longtime forum viewer who has learned A LOT by lurking, and now it's time to get spending, and I need a little advice... I've got a couple of 1970 Mopars that I'd like to be able to do a bit of wrenching on (maybe up to the level of suspension rebuild...), and I've got a...

Hi kids - I'm a hobbyist finally setting up shop to work on restoring my shaggy Mopars (see avatar), and I'm having a hard time picking an air compressor. I'd like to use it to run tools such as angle grinders and such, but also to run a benchtop blast cabinet for paint stripping and rust...