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  1. slantsixdan

    What do you look for in a forklift?

    1. Get a forklift with a Slant-6 engine 2. Watch this hi-larious German (because of course it is) movie:
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    LED bulbs for garage/shop

    Oh, yeah, if you're doing colour-critical work (body/paint, etc) then colour rendering is super important. There are high-CRI (95+) LEDs, but they're not widely marketed to consumers and they're expensive. The highest-CRI artificial light source is (wait for it) halogen. A halogen light fed its...
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    LED bulbs for garage/shop

    Bring along a salt shaker when you're shopping for lights. That "Kelvin rating" stuff is thrown around as if it's this giant, big, massively important thing to the exclusion of all other things. It is not! Use it as a general guideline to know what kind of light you'll get—when a reputable...
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    LED bulbs for garage/shop

    What used to be Philips Lighting is now a spun-off, independent company called Lumileds. They still use the Philips brand name for light bulbs because of consumer familiarity. No, it's selection of the actual LEDs themselves.
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    LED bulbs for garage/shop

    That is not necessarily correct. White LEDs are available in a full range from very yellow to very blue.
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    LED bulbs for garage/shop

    LEDs are like anything else: buy cheap ѕhіt, get cheap ѕhіt that works poorly for a short time until it dies. Buy good quality, get good quality that works well for a long time. There's a mountain of cheap ѕhіt on the market—avoid it. There's also a whole lot of really good stuff on the market...
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    LED bulbs for garage/shop

    Mostly I spend my time thinking about lights with wheels under them, but from time to time I think about ones that are intended to stay put. There's a service called FromJapan whereby those of us outside of Japan can easily and cost-effectively buy stuff from the closed and opaque Japanese...
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    Has anyone painted their car with rollers

    Next time I'm over there I'll take some if that's okeh with him. He's doing gloss black.
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    Has anyone painted their car with rollers

    An A-body freak friend of mine is well along in the process of painting his '64 Valiant (225 2x1bbl 4-speed) using the Rustoleum/foam-roller method. He's not done yet and it's already clearly going to come out great.
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    Has anyone painted their car with rollers

    Serious as a heart attack 200 miles from the nearest hospital. See here; scroll down nine posts to the one from 69Chargeryeehaa.
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    '61-'62 Dodge A-body application-specific screwdrivers

    I need a full set of these, obviously.
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    Spray Chrome

    All the sudden spray chrome is old news, as it seems; now there's stretch chrome film. :shock:
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    Spray Chrome

    See here, and here.
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