rlrnr53 wrote:Reed, I'd be happy to be able to get a vehicle in my garage............
I appreciate your situation. I was okay with a simple outbuilding when I moved here in '94. I was a carefree bachelor, until 'late '01, and wife version 3.0 had a lot of "stuff" that was useless IMO. A much bigger storage building was needed shortly afterward and was purchased. Then a friggin' commercial rental storage unit was needed and I just paid the last payment on that puppy, per settlement agreement. last month.
rlrnr53 wrote:One of my biggest problems is where to put my tool box when I retire. I have a large Snap On box and top along with a smaller Homak roll cab and another Snap On top box that I have to get in besides an older Craftsman top and bottom box. Right now, all I can do is to squeeze by everything else in the garage part of my basement, which like the garage is stuffed with a little of everything.
Whatever you do, throw out everything else and keep those tool boxes. I've recently received a 40" wide Craftsman tool combo and it is junk. $500 hundred off but, junk none the less. Snap-On is the way to go. I remember the local Snap-on guy stopping by at the Sears auto center where I worked at, while in college. Metric tools were low on the sears craftsman radar then. They allowed me to get the tools and make weekly payments. Nowadays the prices are outrageous. I think I paid $20+ for a single small torx socket last year.
Sorry for the rant but, I just experienced
ANOTHER episode of tire installers throwing 300 psi impact guns to installs that are speced 100 ft lbs. I broke a 1/2" drive socket and a 1/2-3/8" adapter. Local NAPA was closed and my local Sears store wants to sell TVs instead of tools. I was going to install new front calipers on the heep but, my goal suddenly went to getting the lug nuts speced out to 100 lbs, in case of, a flat tire or broken axle scenario.
For $1,300 for four tires, I would expect a little more than this hassle. When I returned from buying two of every thing that I broke, I decided that the life time free tire rotation, wasn't happening on my watch again.
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