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Hello folks, We have just installed new landscape lighting on our property. One of the last items on the list is somewhat whimsical; wrapping the trunks of two palm trees in our back yard. I've seen this done at various locations with either traditional individual mini-lights or rope lights. I...

Hello Folks, As a way to clear exhaust fumes when moving my cars in and out of my gagage, I've just installed a 24" 5000CFM wall-mounted exhaust fan in my garage. It is a 6-car tandem (3 x 3) totalling 1700SF. The fan is mounted 10 feet up in the upper rearmost portion of the left wall. The...

Hello folks, My primary hobby is classic car restoration, and I recently spent three weeks hunting down, and paying an unreasonable amount for, an obsolete instrument panel bezel. This got me to thinking about 3D printers and printing. A few years back I did some basic research on the subject...

Hello folks, I'm fed up with my three-year-old Google Nest AC2200 Wifi mesh system. I have four nodes spread throughout the house, and one or more of them will drop out for a few minutes, or a few hours, on a daily basis. I'm convinced that it has something to do with flawed hardware/software...

Hello folks, I decided to start this thread after reading another GJ member's account of being locked out from his safe. I have a large safe with electronic keypad (Liberty Centurion 24 with Amsec ESL10 keypad). Every now and then (maybe 20% of the time) after entering the correct combination...

Hello folks. I'm doing some spring garage cleaning and I need to make a decision about some old Dish TV equipment. When I bought this house four years ago, it had (and still has) a Dish TV satellite dish installed on the roof, plus two Dish TV receivers. The previous owner had a subscription...

Effective PR for the gullible. https://www.wsj.com/business/the-secret-society-of-people-who-know-the-formula-for-wd-40-e9c0ff54?st=gbfMtR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink There are so many more better products than this stuff...but it's treated like a legend.

Hello folks, It seems the latest home maintenance gimmick is the spraying of the roof with some sort of rejuvinator/ preservative which claims to extend roof life by 5 to 10 years. These guys are everywhere here in San Diego, and a lot of folks seem to be buying into it. Personally, I think...

Hello Folks, Well, I did something really dumb this week. I've been putting all the final touches on my years-long garage expansion project. Everything's 99.9% buttoned up. Then I remembered the one thing I had forgot to add, which I had in my last garage location: a rate-of-rise heat sensor...

I received this message from Belkin today. Long story short, all off my WEMO light switches will stop working in January. I've got seven of these buggers installed in my house. I'm not pleased, yet somehow in this day and age I'm not shocked...

Hello folks, I need a new small portable wet dry vacuum. A few years ago (2018) I purchased a Dewalt DCV581H cordless/corded shop vac: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DD1UQ3Y?tag=atomicindus08-20 The suction - wait for it - really *****, and I realized that I hardly ever use the battery, I...

Hello Folks, I recently doubled the size of my original three-car garage. It now holds 6 cars and is a total of 1700SF. Parking is tandem (three in front, three in back) so even though I try to move the 'deep-parked' cars quickly outside after starting them, I still will get intense residual...

Hello folks, I have three vises - a Wilton 450 bullet, a 6" Craftsman and an 8" Eastwood. I'm setting up workbenches in the new garage this week; an 8ft 'dirty bench' (3ft deep) on one side of the garage, and a 6ft 'clean bench' (2ft deep) on the other side. Plan is to mount the heaviest duty...

Hello folks, I recently acquired a small (8 x 16) metal lathe and a Hi-Torque 6500 bench mill. Both are mounted to .5" thick aluminum base plates (to enhance rigidity) which are subsequently bolted to Craftsman CMST98268 lower tool cabinets (like this one). HiTorque bench mill (lathe is...

Hello Folks, I have a 2-ton under-hoist tripod safety stand which has been very handy. Unfortunately it it heavy and awkward to move around. I would like to put casters on it, if possible, to make it easier to move around my garage. I'm thinking of drilling a hole in each lower gusset and...

Hello folks, I've had this old rollaround bottom tool cabinet for several years. I would like to identify it so I can put a value on it and sell it. Based on the age of the original owner I figure the box was purchased, probably new, in the late 1950s or early 1960s. I cannot find any markings...

Hello Folks, I'm looking to purchase a new metal-cutting saw. Before I moved I had an offshore off-brand 4 x 6 metal cutting band saw which, after tweaking & bracing and fine tuning for a few weekends, worked reasonably well. I also had a B&D 14" chop saw. When we moved I sold the 4 x 6 but...

Hello Folks, Years ago I acquired a large mural from a local hot rod/muscle car themed venue that had closed (Sparky's in San Carlos, CA) and installed it in my garage. The mural consists of 3 panels measuring 4' x 8' each, and one end panel which is 1.5' x 8'. Altogether it measures 13.5' x...

Hello folks, In the attic space above my garage there is a drywall 'wall' which goes all the way up to, and conforms with, the roof pitch, and essentially seals off the area above the garage from the rest of the house. I assume that this is some sort of fire code requirement. Recently while in...

Hello Folks, Earlier this year I converted all of the eight-foot fluorescent fixtures in the rear portion of my garage to no-ballast LED tubes (all ballasts removed and fixtured re-wired), sixteen tubes total installed on eight two-tube fixtures. Yesterday was the hottest day of the year in our...