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Just a quick hello. I haven't had anytime for Garage Journal since about January, We had a lot of snow, a lot of family issues and a lot of personal health issues so am doing some reading catching back up. Love the Electrical work on the shop Thomas and the Fireplace details. Both are top notch...

looking good keep us posted A Garage is never big enough

Ditto on the young guys thing. A young friend of mine I met 14 yr ago when he was 12 siphoning diesel out of my service tank to put in his lil honda 50 motor bike, just called me and stopped for a visit today.. Hes now out of college and wanted to introduce his future wife to me. One of my...

In a this story is a plus for those of us that save things!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my son's called looking for a specific electric motor for a furnace. Do to mounting brackets its kind of a one off motor and hard to cobble something else in to work in place of it. I had kept a used one off of a...

As someone who cooks a lot and likes to cook YOU don't have to be a woman to appreciate that kitchen awesome job as is the whole house. glad to see your still plugging away!

Love that shelving unit Thomas you have indeed been busy. We got a nice little snow a couple days before Christmas here also. Sad to say it has been followed by a bit of chilly weather its -14 right now expected to be in the -20s over the weekend, but those temps do give the snow a nice...

well winter has hit here in North Dakota its a balmy -14 as Im writing this (or is that typing this) anyway that is getting cold supposed to be around -25 this weekend but it might warm up to 7 or 8 tomorrow but the only problem with a warm up at these temperatures is it snows than...

I am wondering how many plugs I put in one of those silver champion testers in the day???? looking great Don

I like seeing your work... and you mangle metal as good as many professional metal manglers

great work on the rotisserie turning thing. I love your parts dept. my shop is on a small 12 acre horse hobby farm and the buddy who owns its wife is not a fan of a large parts dept I get one stalls worth of parts collection so I have to scrap way to much good iron. Id come down and try to...

enjoying the studybaker One of the first cars I ever worked on I still am trying to save up for a studebaker pickup.. been doing that for 45 years some day I might make it After all I finally bought that 1975 dodge pickup I wanted when I graduated a couple years ago drove it...

the add on folding shelf usually is an extra $10. off when purchased with the red cart I love em both!! the shelf thing under the pull handle is awesome for your must have PB blaster silicone spray brake cleaner etc keep it full cans never fall over or out

I am a Ryobi fan used them in the trades for over 20 years and had better results than with milwaukee or dewalt but thats just my 2 cents worth

I have a bench top as that fit when I bought it. I really have only once needed a floor model, in 35 years. That being said I bought a cheap side add on harbor freight tool box with like 6 or 7 drawers glued and screwed 2 pieces of scrap 3/4 osb together and siliconed down after leveling and...

The local Ace here is an old fashioned nut bolt hardware tool store. its on the second owner in almost an 80 year period! I have been shopping there for almost all of my life. my first tools came from there. you can still get a chisel from the same bin as my first one came from, either wood...

than a wall hanging toilet is the cat's behind for you. run a vent up inside the wall cavity for the stool and a sink, of course an adequate wall support and hanger for a wall stool. Wall stools are great till you have 350 lb guys sitting on them make sure your walls studs are good double...

cut the socket off my sparkplug sockets have the 5/8" at least a couple inches inch deep. put a layer of grease on if you do not have any heat sink paste. and use a chop saw

how about a 5/8 " sparkplug socket with the wires running through the socket then using a wrench on the sparkplug socket? I know not everyone has a sparkplug socket with the six point on the top but I have a lot of old ones around.

As an Hvac tech back in the old days everything was flared . Right up until around the 60s when silver brazing took over and compressors became hermetically sealed ( and kept in a mayonnaise jar on funk and wagoners front porch) they were needed. R-22 or R 502 on a hot day just sitting...

Surprising how even parts that are not all that old (69 is not old in my world) are rebuildable. But then I was doubly surprised when a relay went bad in my 06 Honda Accord. A/C relay and it was hot, I stopped by a shop to get it diagnosed and then replaced. Little plastic box. Local autoparts...