Eastwood's wonderful new "HotCoat®" home powdercoat system requires a conventional kitchen stove to be installed in the garage. Sometimes the expense of running 220v electric to the garage can be a bother. Be sure to check the basement of your home, you may find 220v already installed from a previous dryer application or even a stove for canning. The cost saved may make carrying those parts to the basement well worth it. Note: "Powder should only be cured in a well ventilated area."

A spare old clothes washer and dryer can be a wonderful luxury in the garage. Shop cloths, car wash towels and even car covers can be washed safely away from your wife's delicates, with no fear of grease, chemicals and marital strife.

Here's the best tip within this tip. A dishwasher is a wonderful appliance to have in the garage. Wire wheel covers, one of the world's worst things to clean by hand can be duck soup, with a dishwasher. Simply, remove the covers from the car, wash off the serious road grime, tar, stones etc. Put the wheel covers in the dishwasher and turn it to pot scrub. Voila! Sparkly clean, wire wheel covers.

Other appliances in the garage that can be handy include an old hair dryer as a heat gun, and old Electric motor from a washing machine or furnace blower can be converted into a buffer or sander using mandrels available from Eastwood. We recommend the Motor Adaptor Part.

A little appliance creativity can save a lot of work in the garage. A car collector friend of ours who is an appliance dealer has a whole row of used appliances right next to his workbench.