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Best parts washer for garage, portable parts washer cleaner

What are parts washers?

You may also know a parts washer as a parts cleaner. It is a tub created to clean car details in. It contains a solvent that provides a possibility of soaking and scrubbing parts with some rags, metal brushes, or even toothbrush. Parts washers are usually equipped with pumps that circulate the solvent though a hose. Due to this, any user is able to rinse car details with a water stream. In fact, this item is good to decrease engine internals, wheel bearings, carburetor parts, and other metal details. It would be a great option, if you work with car parts a lot.

OEMTOOLS 24805 20 Gallon Mobile Parts Washer

OEMTOOLS – Best portable parts washer cleaner

Best portable parts washer cleaner

  • Features Casters for Maneuverability
  • Durable Powder-Coated Steel Construction
  • Working Capacity: 12 Gallons (45L)
  • Package Dimensions 33.2 x 23 x 19.5 inches
  • Item Weight 80.1 pounds
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I have looked through hundreds of these. I have also made a list of reviews, and cons and pros of the items. And so I decided to choose this one. The construction is solid, and well-designed. It has metal pump housing items. It works well, and the installation is simple. Of course, it will do just for small projects. I like this product. But I am still trying to detect which cleaner works better.

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How To Lubricate Your Noisy Garage Door

Is your garage door really squeaky and loud? Well my dad always told me where there’s a squeak, there’s parts rubbing together and when they’re rubbing together they’re going to wear out. So in this article I’m going to show you how easy it is to lubricate your door so you get rid of all those squeaks and help your door last a lot longer. Let’s get started!

Now before I get started I wanted you to have a chance to listen to what my door sounds like now. This is before I’ve done anything at all and at the end of this video I’ll have a quick comparison that shows just how much quieter it is after a little bit of lubrication.

All right so let’s start with discussing the supplies and the tools that you’re going to need to get this job done, starting with the lubricant that we’re going to use. This is a white lithium-based lubricant. It is made by WD-40 brand, but it is not regular WD-40. If you don’t learn anything else from this video, pay attention to this next part: do not use regular WD-40 to lubricate your garage door. Regular wd-40 is actually a de-greaser, it’s not a lubricant – and it attracts dirt, and it attracts dust, and it will destroy your garage door pieces and all the parts that rub together. Do not use regular WD-40. You want to pick up any kind of a lubricant that has a white lithium base. This just happens to be a WD-40 brand.

As you can see here though, when I went to the store (this happens to have been Lowe’s) to pick it up there are several different brands of white lithium based grease – and I know that you can pick this up not only at Lowe’s, but Home Depot, Walmart, almost anywhere that has any kind of a home improvement section will have a white lithium-based grease. In addition to making sure it’s white lithium, also make sure that it’s got a straw like this so that you can pinpoint the application of the lubricant. You’ll see why that’s going to be important here in just a few minutes – we’ve got some real tight spots to get this into.
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How to install an electric garage heater NewAir

It’s 44 degrees in the shop today. Let’s do something about that. As part of the recent shop improvements that I’ve been trying to make, one of my goals has been to make the shop comfortable year round. And it just so happens that, right now, it’s unseasonably cold, especially for southern California, so the shop is really cold. That’s why today, I’m gonna be installing this NewAir electric garage heater.

The folks over at NewAir sent me this 5,000 watt garage heater. It comes with a bracket that you can either hang from the wall or from the ceiling, and it puts out 15,000 BTUs of heat. Especially since my table saw accident, my hand tends to really stiffen up when it gets cold. So having a heated shop is really beneficial this time of year. I rank these projects by how many F bombs you’re likely to drop while tackling the project.
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