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Petrolicious video about my garage This was made a couple of years ago, but was kept behind Petrolicious' paywall until yesterday. I initially went through and organized my garage in 14 years ago, documenting it all here on the Garage Journal. I hope you like it.

...that ends at Harbor Freight? Well, when I first went through my garage 12 years ago, I moved my Craftsman oil-less compressor to a sound-insulated box in the basement. A line ran out of the basement, under the deck, and over to my garage. It worked all right. You could make out the sound...

Poster surprise: lightning strikes a second time A few years back, a French silkscreen artists did a poster of my car. I didn't think that would ever happen again, but late this Christmas evening I got an email with a sneak peek at a poster a Polish artist (and car guy) had also done of my...

I recently put together a way to lift up a camper above my driveway so I could park a car underneath it. It's been working without a hitch for awhile now, and I believe it's safe and stable. But I know I'm not any kind of genius -- much less an engineer. So assuming anyone out there's got the...

My bolt-on 911 aero: it will never be pretty, but now it's much easier to pack The video site Petrolicious contacted me a few weeks ago and said they wanted to do a video about my garage, which I was happy about. But they wanted to find out if there was anything I was currently working on that...

I don't watch The Grand Tour, so I don't really know what the community 'Grand Tour Nation' is all about. But they're running an online show called 'Garage Wars' where they show pictures of a handful of garages and choose a winner each week who gets (wait for it) a $50 Amazon certificate...

I thought this would be a lot easier than it ended up being. I've got a new-found respect for the people who make this sort of thing professionally. But here's a 10-minute clip about my two-car garage. In retrospect, I'm not exactly sure why I felt compelled to make it. But I'd be interested...

Table-Saw Trouble: Let's Be Safe In 2016 So here's the sequence, at least as I remember it. 1) I know what I'm doing is stupid. But I figure I'll be lucky, like I have been my whole life. 2) I hear the 'chunk' sound of the blade grabbing the wood -- kickback. 3) It feels like somebody's...

All of this was documented in the 12-Gauge Garage thread. But a couple of people asked that it be broken out separately -- so here it is. For a week (and a day) in December, I worked on a playhouse for my two kids. The genesis of the whole project was to find a new base for our front-yard...

Making my own race-car wing An old Porsche generates a lot of lift at speed. On a track, it's helpful to put some kind of wing on the back of the car (and a splitter up front) to keep the thing better-stuck at speed. I've had a bunch of different wings -- some of which I bought second-hand...

Winter Warning: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Thanks, guys. I'm going to move a thread I posted elsewhere into this one -- archive it here. I recently moved a C0 detector out to my garage, and I've been surprised at how quickly the levels go up when I run my car's engine, even for a few minutes...

Or Oregon, for that matter. The manufacturer's website says, in big red letters: "NOT FOR SALE IN CALIFORNIA OR OREGON." I've bought them before, here. And found a vendor who will send one to be. But has something changed? Is the manufacturer resisting labeling rules? Anyone know?

I've got a 48" length of 1/2" diameter aluminum tubing (with 1/16" wall) that I would like to find a way to cut a lengthwise seam in. The goal is to open it up slightly at the seam and then re-compress it into a teardrop-like profile -- an aerodynamic shape. I've been trying to think about the...

The basic form factor of the hand-held drill has stayed the same for a long time, as far as I can tell, with cordless models only modifying the pistol design by adding a lump of weight to the bottom of the handle. This bugs me a little. When I'm drilling through metal or using an impact-driver...

A 12-amp addition to the 12-Gauge Garage This was a purchase that came out differently than I planned. For awhile now, I've had a decent Cobra 6" grinder and an old (and pretty terrible) Harbor Freight 8" grinder. I've been keeping an eye out for a bigger grinder to replace the HF one, and I...

This goes to the heart of the thing that I hate about cordless tools. A little over four years ago, I bought a cordless 1/2" impact from Northern Tool. It was on sale for $99 -- which was $40 off it's normal price. It came with two batteries and served as my track-side impact for all these...

I went and dropped my new GearWrench 120XP into a tub of old motor oil doing an oil change for the wife. Easy enough to disassemble and clean. And a search even told me I can use the Permatex assembly lube on it. But I've never done this before. So how much goes in? Is it a drop? A...

I've got a crummy set of narrow long nose pliers, and I find myself using them all the time -- and then re-straightening the bent jaws, because, you know, they're crummy. In looking online, I keep thinking I've found what I want -- because I keep failing to see that the pliers I'm ordering are...

It's a question I'm asking on behalf of my neighbor, who's a retired surgeon who knows even less about AC systems than I do. He's got a Carrier 48GP, 5-ton heating/cooling unit that has a bad/leaking condenser coil. The unit is 10 years old, uses Puron refrigerant, and his service guy is...

I'm pretty clueless when it comes to electronics. I've got about 100 tiny LED bulbs wired inside fake candles on a deck I just built. One particular 'candelabra' thing I made has 84 of them in it. Here is what it looks like: The problem is, there's about a 30' run for the wiring to it from...