A floor jack's STEEL WHEELS

O'Reilly Auto Parts has a deal right now where you can get
Pennzoil Platinum for $3 per quart after rebate. Mobil 1 is on
sale there for $5/quart.

Harbor Freight has a nifty, low-profile, 300-pound-rated, 6-wheel,
PVC mechanics creeper with foam-padded head rest and tool-holding
spots for $22 on sale. The exact same China-made creeper at
Autozone runs $40, but it has "Duralast" emblazoned across it.
It's AutoZone's top-of-the-line mechanic's creeper. I bought this
great creeper from Harbor Freight the other night, along with
a third oil drain pan for $2 that Walmart sells for $6. Sales end
soon.

Almost forgot to mention that you may need to use a coupon to get
that great price on the Harbor Freight creeper. Get on their
mailing list and they'll send you a newspaper every so often loaded
with coupons. This creeper, much better than my old one, rang up at
regular price at checkout, so I had to give them the coupon to get
the great price.

Get on everyone's mailing list! -- O'Reilly, AutoZone, Napa,
Advance
Auto, Pep Boys, etc, and post the deals you find here. We can all
coordinate to save hundreds of dollars a year!

For a week now, I keep smelling something bad when I walk by
a particular spot at home. It's really not a spot, but a large
7-foot by 7-foot area. I think yesterday I figured out what it may
be: A small rubber mallet I bought at Harbor Freight. It seems
like those rubber mallets can out-gas a whole, whole lot of
bad-smelling rubber....unless I'm mistaking where the odor is
coming from. I'm getting rid of that rubber mallet, I think.

"Built_Well" wrote :

O'Reilly Auto Parts Deals: Pennzoil Platinum $3 per quart
after rebate. Mobil 1 is on sale there for $5/quart.

Harbor Freight Deals: Low-profile, 300-pound-rated, PVC
China-made 6-wheel, mechanics creeper with foam-padded
head rest and tool-holding spots for $22 on sale. It's the
same as AutoZone's $40 "Duralast" creeper. Oil drain
pan $2, same pan Wal-mart sells for $6. Sales end soon.

You may need a coupon to get these great prices. Get on
everyone's mailing list. -- O'Reilly, Harbor Freight, AutoZone,
Napa, Advance Auto, Pep Boys, etc, for sale flyers loaded
with coupons, and post the deals you find here. We can
coordinate to save hundreds of dollars a year.
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That's a great idea. Thanks for the tips. I will post
unusually good deals that I come across.

Rodan.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:17:32 -0700 (PDT), Built_Well wrote:
>Bruce L. Bergman wrote:

>> Best and easiest to obtain material for a floor protector is
>> 1/4" tempered hardboard - basically pegboard without the
>> holes. Available at almost any good lumber yard or home center.
>>
>> The 1/8" thickness will fall apart too fast.
>
>I found some of the hardboard (hole-less pegboard) at Lowe's
>last night. But instead of 1/4-inch, it's 3/16-inch, right
>in between 1/8" and 1/4". I'll probably check Home Depot.

That might be thick enough to hold up. The only way to know for
sure is to try it - if it shreds, then you need the thicker stuff...

But I wouldn't bother using it with a regular floor jack on your own
garage floor slab - even though the sight of the concrete dust might
be unsettling the amount of actual damage is miniscule, and it would
take decades of working on cars daily in the same places to see any
real consequences.

If it does enough damage to be seen in one or two uses you've got
bigger problems - like substandard concrete used for the slab, or they
didn't seal and cure it properly and now it's spalling.

The only time we ever bother putting down hardboard on the floors is
working on a building and they already have finished the floors
(tiled, carpeted or painted) with steel wheel or very heavy implements
like manlifts.

Even dropping a hammer or a conduit bender can cause thousands in
damage to a tile floor if they have to redo large sections. Of course
it could happen even through the hardboard, but you can show that you
took reasonable and prudent precautions.

--<< Bruce >>--