What gizmos do you have in your garage

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the various tools, gadgets, and equipment that participants have in their garages or similar spaces. It includes personal anecdotes about DIY projects, mechanical tools, and even humorous exchanges about spiders found in storage areas.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant inquires about high wattage lasers or similar gadgets, asking others to share pictures.
  • Another shares their experience of building a PLC trainer from scratch, indicating a personal project in progress.
  • A participant lists various tools and equipment in their garage, including a MIG welder, metal lathe, and multiple motorcycles, highlighting the diversity of their collection.
  • Comments on how having specific tools, like a MIG welder, facilitates car maintenance and repairs.
  • One participant describes their detached carport, noting the lack of exciting items, which leads to a humorous exchange about spiders and their webs.
  • Another participant provides a detailed inventory of their garage, mentioning tools, dirt bikes, and a sound system, expressing a desire for additional equipment like a TIG welder and milling machine.
  • There is a light-hearted discussion about the types of spiders present in the storage areas, with some participants sharing their lack of knowledge about them.
  • One participant humorously notes that their garage is so full of items that there is no room for a car.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share their personal experiences and items without reaching a consensus on any specific topic. Multiple competing views on what constitutes a "cool" gadget or tool are present, and the discussion remains informal and exploratory.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express desires for additional tools or equipment, indicating that their current setups may not meet all their needs. There are also humorous references to the presence of spiders, which remain unresolved in terms of identification or significance.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in DIY projects, mechanical tools, and personal anecdotes about garage setups may find this discussion engaging.

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Do you have a mega watt laser or a similar high wattage gizmo or some thing equally cool, if you do can you post a picture of it.
 
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If I had a garage I would fill it with so many things... In my bedroom I have a PLC trainer I am building from scratch that is half completed.
 
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Cool (to me...) gadgets in my garage:
  • 180 A. MIG welder
  • 9" metal lathe
  • Bench drill press
  • Three motorcycles -- all Harleys of vintages 1948, 1984, and 2000 (and a 1946 Harley in my outside shop)
  • 6500W. generator for when the power goes out (pretty often where I live)
 
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Makes it easy to do a clutch change

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It makes working on cars much easier 2milehi, i am jealous.:))
 
Instead of a garage, we have a detached carport with an enclosed storage room at the rear. Nothing exciting in there: two bicycles, some garden tools and spiderwebs.
 
jtbell said:
Instead of a garage, we have a detached carport with an enclosed storage room at the rear. Nothing exciting in there: two bicycles, some garden tools and spiderwebs.
Which spiders?
 
fresh_42 said:
Which spiders?
Blessed if I know, I'm no biologist. :-p I hardly ever see them, anyway, just the webs. Actually, I don't even usually see them before I run into them. ?:)
 
jtbell said:
Blessed if I know, I'm no biologist. :-p I hardly ever see them, anyway, just the webs. Actually, I don't even usually see them before I run into them. ?:)
Sorry, I was late looking up SC. If it were Australia it might have been interesting to know before running into them :confused:
 
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42'x22'.. Metal lathe, 1 stick and 1 MIG welder (WANT a TIG and Plasma cutter)... drill press... Looking for a milling machine... Oilseed press, woodworking tools, big wood stove.. a dozen chain saws in various states of repair, 4 dirt bikes (2x 1984 XR 500, 1997 XR400, 1987 XR100), Some Cummins internals.. a front end for my buddy's truck we'll probably install tonight... A 1964 NTSC vectorscope (trying to find a way to make it useful)...
Sound system is my computer (12TB storage) through a Marantz 2275 amp, 4x10" speakers... The sound of that amp is WONDERFUL.. and it blows the doors off any modern unit with even double the power ratings.

Spiders? yeah, I got them too here... The one family of spiders I don't mind are the Salticidae.. they're pretty cool!
 
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Rx7man said:
42'x22'.. Metal lathe, 1 stick and 1 MIG welder (WANT a TIG and Plasma cutter)... drill press... Looking for a milling machine... Oilseed press, woodworking tools, big wood stove.. a dozen chain saws in various states of repair, 4 dirt bikes (2x 1984 XR 500, 1997 XR400, 1987 XR100), Some Cummins internals.. a front end for my buddy's truck we'll probably install tonight... A 1964 NTSC vectorscope (trying to find a way to make it useful)...
Sound system is my computer (12TB storage) through a Marantz 2275 amp, 4x10" speakers... The sound of that amp is WONDERFUL.. and it blows the doors off any modern unit with even double the power ratings.

Spiders? yeah, I got them too here... The one family of spiders I don't mind are the Salticidae.. they're pretty cool!
And I first read you have a MiG in your garage.
 
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That would be kinda fun.. but expensive
 
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Boolean Boogey said:
If I had a garage I would fill it with so many things...

My garage IS full of so many things that there is no room for the car in it
 

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