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We have all electric at our coastal south GA home and wish we had a gas line for an emergency generator and a gas cook-top. But we do fine without it. At our primary home, we have gas furnace on downstairs unit, gas water heaters, and gas cook-top. Upstairs is heat pump. I'd be ok with...

We belong to both Costco and Sam's. Each have their strengths. Sam's seems to have more SKUs in the store while Costco tends to have some higher quality items. There is a some overlap in what they sell and they charge about the same. We have the Costco Visa card and actually use it to buy things...

Our training and familiarization of little Frisco with riding in our crazy collection of cars continues. He did great on a 8 hour drive so distance and time is not a big deal for him. Each car comes with different challenges of coming up with safe restraint systems for him. I've been installing...

Our primary residence is plumbed like many where the front hose bib is direct city water pressure upstream of the PRV for the house. City pressure is about 80 psi and our PRV is set for 60 psi for the rest of the house. Our cabin with well pump is 40 on, 60 off set points. Filtration system...

I don't want to sit in the back. Let me drive!!

We have had our little Frisco about 2 months now. We have been training him to be a garage/car dog. He already loved going for car rides so that was a good start. He was a great passenger in our little Fiesta for the long trip to our coastal house. Frisco sat or laid down the whole way in his...

I have an older version of this: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/cbc-sc1445?rrec=true . I just roll it to where I need. And I have a bunch of trickle charger/maintainers. Battery Tender, NOCO. Viking (HF), Battery Minder, and some I got with a coupon at Costco. They all work well. The NOCO...

I have the exact same one. 2 years of use. Original battery. Works fine.

In some of the tight areas where I can't get a screwdriver or nut driver on the end of it, approach it from the side with a wrench. Happens more often than I like in some cramped areas, bent over trying to reach it at a funny angle because some previous owner or mechanic (or factory) put the...

Hose clamps on most of my cars. Some parts of my BMW dash backside. Bleed screws on many of my cars. And I don't remember which specific nuts and bolts but I needed the 7mm a lot when I disassembled my Mercedes dashboard.

Are you sure about the 6.25" when lowered and installed on the lift? Our sliding (not rolling) is about 5 cm above the ramps and we drive our low cars on the lift all the time with no problem. EDIT: about 2 inches in freedom units:

I can finally join all of you with garage dogs. We just adopted a rescue dog. Some A-hole threw a litter of very young puppies in a box onto the side of the road, they went through the "system" until a no-kill rescue shelter started taking care of them. After being shuffled between some foster...

Same method I use (except I have so many Metric wrenches, they get 2 drawers as well). I feel good that I've kept the habit of throwing them back in the right drawer with smaller wrenches on 1 side and larger wrenches towards the other. So left to right = small to large. Every now and then, I'll...

Thank you for posting that. I hope that is really your tool drawers. I use a similar method and almost (but not quite) feel guilty that I don't have the beautiful well organized drawers that everyone posts here on GJ. My system is simple: separate metric cabinets & SAE cabinets with: This drawer...

QuickJack still shows $350 Black Friday Sale. Not sure if some retailers are doing better deals...

Finally bought a couple of rolls of the shop towels from Wally World. Took one of the new ones and compared it to the old one (dirty and wrapped around the old fuel pump) that was part of the bulk-on-sale-warehouse-club purchase from pre-Covid days. Felt and looked as good as the old one. Even...

Thanks for the heads up. I bought a few 12 packs many years ago from Costco/Sams and just have been working through them. Still have a few rolls at home but I ran out yesterday at our coastal home while replacing a fuel pump. So my plan was to run to Sams and stock this house with a 12 pack but...

Had same symptoms with some light fixtures that I switched from incandescent to LED. The problem was the center tab. So, X3 for @LXCam suggestion.

Over 25 years ago, I was meeting with a very senior executive at my company (I'll call him John Smith) and I was asking him about the value of an MBA in career development. He laughed, told me I was far beyond MBA in my business knowledge and then said he was about to grant me an Marketing MBA...

Mid-Torque? This is Garage Journal - what is worth doing is worth over-doing. How about 1700 ft-lb of break loose power? The Big Impact (it has actually come in handy quite a bit getting things loose for us but I'm scared to tighten anything with it)