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I have more than enough tools at home and in the shop, but need to outfit my work truck, personal truck, and wife's car with kits containing the basics so that I don't have to constantly raid the home/shop. This will be for unexpected things of any and all types that come up while on the road...

Pet peeve here. I'm an armature that doesn't get to wrench very often, but does everyone else get as annoyed as I do about tools that get stuck on fasteners? It seems like everything I'm working on lately is one of those situations where you have to reverse the ratchet and give it a good pop...

Too big? What's that mean? Seems like a good problem to have. Right? Well, on my shop the overhead door is 15' tall and 24' wide. It's from 1974, so its well weathered by now, and it takes more than a little grunt to raise it up with the chain hoist. In fact, my son and my wife can't open the...

Anyone know what it's called or where to get some? A friend used to have one and it worked great for setting anchors like this one where you have to pound in the outside body before you set the center nail. I've run across several instances where a hollow punch made for metal would have come...

Been needing to get a real compressor for my shop for a while now. Online, I found two local options in the classifieds: - A Quincy 5HP 60 gal two stage claiming 15.7 CFM at 90 psi and 15.2 CFM at 175 psi (It's supposedly been used for only a month) - An Excell Devillbiss 80 gal two stage...

I love having a trailer, but it's alway in the way. What does everyone do with their trailers so that the whole shop or yard isn't wasted and they're not in your way all the time? My car hauler style trailer takes up too much room to leave it in the shop year round, but it also wastes a bunch...

I see all of these beautiful garage pictures around here. How do you guys keep the floor so clean? I've got a little epoxy paint on my floor - nothing fancy - but it's at least sealed mostly. My floor is always getting covered in globs of grease and streaks of oil from rolling back and forth on...

Looking for a recommendation for a bulletproof long-handle flex ratchet in 1/2" drive. I don't use impacts much, so I end up really reafing on the end of my long-handle ratchet a lot. I don't think my old Craftsman is going to last much longer. I'm worried that it's going to break and hurt...

They say, "If it ain't broke, Don't fix it," but this is garage journal, so hopefully some of you will understand my OCD and desire to clean up the main panel at my house. This is what it currently looks like: I may not be able to reach this level: But I'm hoping to come close to this...

I've heard that a battery could blow up, but never seen it happen. Actually, I still have never seen it happen, but I now have seen the aftermath. I have black pieces of plastic scattered across a 30' radius across the shop.

I have a big shop that is mostly open space. The 100' X 40' concrete floor is always dusty. Some of the dust is made by me, but much of it just seems to appear. The tractor tracks in some dirt sometimes, and maybe that dirt is getting spread around somehow, but I think most of the fine dust...

How extensive is your favorite wrench set? Does anyone make a set the goes all the way from 1/4" to 2-1/2" ? (or further?) My wrenches are mix and match, and I'm thinking of upgrading to something like SK or Wright, but once I go that route with nicer wrenches, I'm sure that my OCD will want...

I understand that "H" stands for handle, and "F" stands for flex, but why are 1/4" drive ratchets all labeled with a 72 and 3/8" drive ratchets labeled with an 80? I half expected 1/2" drive ratchets to be labeled with an 88.

. . . and the rest had to be Cman, Tekton, and HF. For guys like me, who aren't professional mechanics, our wives would kill if we tried to fill up our boxes with every configuration of SO ratchet in each of the sizes. But it IS possible for someone like me to save up a hundred bucks so I can...

Let me try to make this simpler. Example: I personally like Dodge cars and Trucks. You could say that it's "my" brand. Dodge is (basically) an American company. They have a reputation for, or at least market themselves as being known for, big power, bold straight-forward designs, and a little...

After several years of various projects on my new home, I am FINALLY getting ready to organize and finish the space inside my shop. As I start putting the interior together, I'm looking for tips, tricks, and ideas to make it great. I want the interior to be organized and awesome so that I will...