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Thanks for the comments, guys. Looks like I'll be waiting a bit and picking up a better compressor.

I don't own the blaster yet. It's just one of the many things I wanted to do with the new compressor. Would a little Eastwood or Harbor Freight blaster work with a 6.5HP compressor for removing a car's paint? I'm fine with it taking 8 hours instead of 1. I just want it to work.

One of the things I wanted to use the compressor for was soda blasting the project car sitting in my garage right now. After doing a bit more research, I'm not sure that even a thousand dollar compressor can do it! Some of the contractors are talking about 175CFM or higher as a minimum. That's...

6.5HP means about 20CFM, which is plenty... And it looks like I can pick up one of those for around my price range, too. Of course, I know nothing about that brand. I see that the Ingersoll Rand SS5 is getting really bad reviews, which makes me wary. Not so much that there's issues (lord knows...

I'm looking for a compressor to run some shop tools and a HVLP paint setup. This will be going in a garage in your typical little subdivision with close neighbors. My neighbors have been pretty awesome about me wrenching in my garage, and I'd like to keep them (and the HOA) happy by not getting...

I’m in Colorado Springs, CO. Garage will eventually be heated while I’m in it, but not 24/7. 2x4 walls, so R-value would be low.

Imagine your typical suburban house - 10 feet on either side between you and your neighbors. The garage walls between you and your neighbors are sheetrocked, but not insulated. Is it worth it to rip down the sheetrock and insulate, or would the results not be worth the effort? Is there a way to...

20x30 3-car garage with a little cutout for tool chests and whatnot. I just replaced the two 60W bulbs currently in the garage with "100W equivalent" LED bulbs, and now I'm inclined to agree with you. It's quite a difference. Now I'm thinkin' that half the fixtures would be okay. 6 on the...

Nope, no wiring done yet. Just laying out the lights via 3D modelling and trying to figure out everything I'd need to get. I believe early next month I'm going to start buyin' stuff.

I guess not. Just went out and checked the breaker box. There's a 15A breaker labeled "Garage Lights". Hit that, and the openers went dark too.

I believe code around here states that each garage door opener has to be on its own circuit. I haven't bought the lights yet, but they typically take dual T8s, which are what... 35W each? So, 70-75W per fixture, times 16 fixtures... Carry the one... 1120-1200W. 120V service, I=V/R so 10 amps? If...

I figured it'd be easier, but if parallel's the way things are done, then that's the way it's done! How the heck do you manage to wrap up sixteen wires in one locknut, though? (Joking, you'd actually run two lights to a junction box, and then a common line out... right?) Actually, for that...

Right now, my garage has this pitiful little 60W light bulb in it. I'd like to take that out and replace it with 12-16 dual-T8 LED light fixtures. Like most on here, I'd also like to do a lot of the work myself. Here's the rub: I don't know a damned thing about this kind of work. I'm operating...

Yes. I don't know. We're still in the process of buying the house. As for the HP rating, I haven't purchased the compressor yet. I imagine it'd be a "little" 5HP compressor, since I have no need for SCFM > 16@90PSI.

Excellent to hear. I have no desire to perform the work myself. I'll gladly pay to have someone else do it. I just thought of this. The house is wired for a hot tub, but there is no tub. Those are normally 220, right? Could I attach a rotary-screw air compressor where the hot tub would have...

We were going to build our dream house. Had everything planned out. And then a house came on the market that was 99% of what we wanted at a 10% lower price. So, we did what most people would do. We settled. This means that my new garage doesn't have a 220 line for electric cars or welders or any...

The Sawzall is in the bag in the bottom drawer.

It used to bug the hell out of me when I was working with my tools daily. I even made up a list, went down to Sears, and looked at what they had available. It turns out that a great many of the sockets I'm missing, Craftsman simply doesn't make! That's okay, though. I can survive. Just two more...

I was reading this thread at work, and decided to chip in when I got home. Please excuse the iPotato pictures. Sun won't be up for another hour! I made the mistake about a year ago of telling my wife that I wouldn't get another project vehicle until we had a new house. As such, my tools have...

Yes. No overnight street parking. Every house has central A/C, so need for window A/C. (If you're talking garage, I could run a standalone unit. Plan on buying one for my server rack anyway.) I'm a "less is more" kind of guy when it comes to the garage. So here's what I'm thinking, for garage...