Jayman17
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Yeah, that is our reality in this area. Always amazing to see some housing prices from other parts of the country.
Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT "DaBarn"
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Workspaces between 705 and 1200 squarefeet.
Yeah, that is our reality in this area. Always amazing to see some housing prices from other parts of the country.
PugetDude
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It did work in our favor when we sold our place on the Sound in 2019 and bought in AZ, 15 mins before prices started climbing exponentially.
Guys, thanks for all the positive comments on Emily's house, it was a labor of love. I told my wife that we are not going into the house flipping business...I have a day job 
I recently acquired from a very special friend, maybe one of the coolest additions to DaBarn ever!!! it inspired me to get back out in "The Little Party Garage" this week and play
Its a Champion spark plug cleaner/tester, as you can see in the photo the legs were bent over, it being sheet metal they required some special attention.
After a complete tear down, I cleaned all the pieces with Zep industrial purple cleaner and degreaser, then I used a body hammer and dolly to straighten all the years of abuse.
After several attempts to stiffen up the base with angle iron, I ended up scrapping that idea as it really didn't look that appealing to me, so I went in a different direction with some sheet metal.
This is the backside, it ended up working out really well, it is super strong now and it looks period correct and I only had to add two extra holes to the base on each side.
Here's the front side completed too, I added all new 10-32 bolts to the entire piece.
Here's some miscellaneous pieces that I cleaned and polished
This is the media canister, from the online pictures that I found it looks like it was covered with a canvas or some other sort of soft material
It measured exactly 6" across so I picked up a piece of 6" stove pipe and cut it to the proper length.
I cleaned the canister up and wire wheel the clamps and sprayed them black, then I installed the cover, PERFECT FIT
I polished the rest of the canister parts to complete the assembly, I'm missing the threaded cap for the canister.
Its ready to install.
I reassembled the entire cleaner, here's a shot of the top. I'm only missing one of the brass blow off fittings and I believe there were some different size threaded inserts for different size spark plugs that are missing.
Front photo.
The right side.
The left side.
And the back side, now I need to send it out to "The Big Party Garage" for one of those kick *** paint jobs
Thanks a million Don!!!
I recently acquired from a very special friend, maybe one of the coolest additions to DaBarn ever!!! it inspired me to get back out in "The Little Party Garage" this week and play
Its a Champion spark plug cleaner/tester, as you can see in the photo the legs were bent over, it being sheet metal they required some special attention.
After a complete tear down, I cleaned all the pieces with Zep industrial purple cleaner and degreaser, then I used a body hammer and dolly to straighten all the years of abuse.
After several attempts to stiffen up the base with angle iron, I ended up scrapping that idea as it really didn't look that appealing to me, so I went in a different direction with some sheet metal.
This is the backside, it ended up working out really well, it is super strong now and it looks period correct and I only had to add two extra holes to the base on each side.
Here's the front side completed too, I added all new 10-32 bolts to the entire piece.
Here's some miscellaneous pieces that I cleaned and polished
This is the media canister, from the online pictures that I found it looks like it was covered with a canvas or some other sort of soft material
It measured exactly 6" across so I picked up a piece of 6" stove pipe and cut it to the proper length.
I cleaned the canister up and wire wheel the clamps and sprayed them black, then I installed the cover, PERFECT FIT
I polished the rest of the canister parts to complete the assembly, I'm missing the threaded cap for the canister.
Its ready to install.
I reassembled the entire cleaner, here's a shot of the top. I'm only missing one of the brass blow off fittings and I believe there were some different size threaded inserts for different size spark plugs that are missing.
Front photo.
The right side.
The left side.
And the back side, now I need to send it out to "The Big Party Garage" for one of those kick *** paint jobs
Thanks a million Don!!!
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jon72vega
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Tony that is really Cool!
Tony that is really Cool!
Jon,
Thanks, I'm with you too, I think this is a great piece and maybe someday I'll find the ambition to paint it
I seem to look at everything as "I can repurpose that", I had this empty powder can and thought it would make a cool little project!
Luckily it had an easy to peel off paper label.
This is what it looked like after painting the cap black and adding a couple of black stripes, along with two yellow stripes, then I just added a vintage Bardahl decal, I also cut the "oil treatment" letters out on the vinyl cutter.
This is what happens when you agree to a hot date with the wife and you end up at Hobby Lobby
I found these two Gulf signs priced half off....so what the hell, they came home with me
I used some strips of 16 gauge sheet metal that was left over from a different project and got to bending.
I drilled some holes in the l-bracket and welded the two pieces together for the hanger, then I rolled another piece of 16 gauge for the sign frame to make it double sided.
I picked up some small black chain and i-bolts to hang the frame from the bracket, I even enjoyed one of my favorite adult beverages Landshark
I just need to drill a couple of mounting holes in the bracket to hang it and paint it black
I found these two Gulf signs priced half off....so what the hell, they came home with me
I used some strips of 16 gauge sheet metal that was left over from a different project and got to bending.
I drilled some holes in the l-bracket and welded the two pieces together for the hanger, then I rolled another piece of 16 gauge for the sign frame to make it double sided.
I picked up some small black chain and i-bolts to hang the frame from the bracket, I even enjoyed one of my favorite adult beverages Landshark
I just need to drill a couple of mounting holes in the bracket to hang it and paint it black
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jon72vega
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What a great idea!
PugetDude
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Great idea, Tony. How did you fasten the signs to the spacer ring?
shortykorte
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Yeah inquiring minds wanna know.
Yeah inquiring minds wanna know.
Drum roll please
To mount the two signs together on the frame, I just drilled two holes all the way through the two signs and connected them with two 10-32 x 2" bolts. It worked out pretty good
PugetDude
ALLIANCE MEMBER
I knew it wasn't going to be hot glue.Drum roll please
To mount the two signs together on the frame, I just drilled two holes all the way through the two signs and connected them with two 10-32 x 2" bolts. It worked out pretty good
Bob Heine
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Tony, you could also use binding posts for the attachment. You get the same fastener head style on both sides of the sign that way. This assortment has a slotted/phillips head on one side.To mount the two signs together on the frame, I just drilled two holes all the way through the two signs and connected them with two 10-32 x 2" bolts. It worked out pretty good
PugetDude
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Or all-thread and a couple of acorn nuts.Tony, you could also use binding posts for the attachment. You get the same fastener head style on both sides of the sign that way. This assortment has a slotted/phillips head on one side.
Aren't you grateful for all this helpful armchair-quarterbacking, Tony? ... 'tis the season for giving
don long
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Tony
Sorry I missed the refurb on the spark plug cleaner while I was in exile .It turned out very nice. I know just how rough it was when you received it. Great imagination on fixing the grit bag. If I run across a couple of the plug holders I'll send them your way.
Great save there friend
Don
Sorry I missed the refurb on the spark plug cleaner while I was in exile .It turned out very nice. I know just how rough it was when you received it. Great imagination on fixing the grit bag. If I run across a couple of the plug holders I'll send them your way.
Great save there friend
Don
jblnut
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Awesome job on the house !!! Cat piss smell is the absolute worst to get rid of 
If you keep restoring all the neat stuff you do you’re going to run out of shed space in The Little Party Garage and need to add on !
If you keep restoring all the neat stuff you do you’re going to run out of shed space in The Little Party Garage and need to add on !
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Johnno
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Nice job on the Gulf sign and bracket.
I was thinking you may have come up with a magnetic system to add the Gulf covers with no hardware showing.
Keep up the good work
I was thinking you may have come up with a magnetic system to add the Gulf covers with no hardware showing.
Keep up the good work
KansasProud
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Took me a minute.... All kinds of crazy things running through my mind, gas? oil? anti-freeze?
Homebody
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Or all-thread and a couple of acorn nuts.
Aren't you grateful for all this helpful armchair-quarterbacking, Tony? ... 'tis the season for giving
This is how we all learn alternative ways of doing things, people helping people - after the fact! 
jblnut
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Welp …… autocorrect did me dirty again lol
PugetDude
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Happy Holidays to you and your family, Tony.
jon72vega
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Tony,
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
shortykorte
Well-known member
Merry Christmas!
oldironfarmer
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Wow! Excellent work!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Jayman17
Well-known member
Merry Christmas Tony to you and your family. All the best in the New Year!
Bob Heine
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Tony, I hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas.
Guys, thanks for all the Christmas well wishes and all the ideas and comments on the Gulf sign, I have yet to get the sign hanger painted. I have been pretty busy with family holiday gatherings 
I signed up for the 2023 Garage Journal secret Santa gift exchange. Garage Journals own BlakeTheCarGuy got my name and sent me a great secret Santa package, it also included a Harbor freight gift card along with everything else.
Thanks Blake
I took the Harbor Freight gift card to my local store today and picked up their 65 pound anvil, I have always wanted a anvil, but I could never find a vintage anvil in good shape that didn't cost a fortune, this anvil has pretty good reviews and its very affordable, but you have to inspect them pretty close before taking them out of the store, the top face of these can be very pitted and its where they have welded up bad spots in the casting and ground them back down, the first one I opened up at the store had a lot of pitting on the face and it looked like they ground it with a flap disc and did a horrible job of it! it looked really bad! the one they had on display was in perfect shape and the top was surfaced ground and looked awesome! so the store associate kindly gave me the display model. I'm going to build a stand for it and I will post that when I start it
I'm not going to be doing any blacksmithing stuff, so this anvil will be awesome for what I want to use it for.
Here's a few new tools that the family got me for Christmas
Do you think they know I like Milwaukee
My son, Cody got me three different brands of one of my favorite adult beverages
Happy New Year everyone
I signed up for the 2023 Garage Journal secret Santa gift exchange. Garage Journals own BlakeTheCarGuy got my name and sent me a great secret Santa package, it also included a Harbor freight gift card along with everything else.
Thanks Blake
I took the Harbor Freight gift card to my local store today and picked up their 65 pound anvil, I have always wanted a anvil, but I could never find a vintage anvil in good shape that didn't cost a fortune, this anvil has pretty good reviews and its very affordable, but you have to inspect them pretty close before taking them out of the store, the top face of these can be very pitted and its where they have welded up bad spots in the casting and ground them back down, the first one I opened up at the store had a lot of pitting on the face and it looked like they ground it with a flap disc and did a horrible job of it! it looked really bad! the one they had on display was in perfect shape and the top was surfaced ground and looked awesome! so the store associate kindly gave me the display model. I'm going to build a stand for it and I will post that when I start it
I'm not going to be doing any blacksmithing stuff, so this anvil will be awesome for what I want to use it for.
Here's a few new tools that the family got me for Christmas
Do you think they know I like Milwaukee
My son, Cody got me three different brands of one of my favorite adult beverages
Happy New Year everyone
BlakeTheCarGuy
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Really hope you enjoy the bbq sauces. The patriot sauce is my personal favorite. Hope you got a good laugh at the name of the rub. That’s another of my favorites too but I promise all of them are good. I told my antique store friends that have a booth that I was on the hunt for Chicago Bears stuff and both were able to come up with one thing in a week which was both the cup/mug. It’s hard to find their stuff around my area so I’m glad I was able to source those for you. I’m just happy you liked it all. Definitely post pictures of whatever you smoke with the sauces and rub. I plan to get a smoker in the new year sometime.
shortykorte
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I just picked up those same wire strippers and they’ve gotten a lot of use in two weeks. Love them.
That anvil horn looks dangerous.
That anvil horn looks dangerous.
Jeff Ivers
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Brrrr! It's almost that cold here in OK. Snow is supposed to be here tomorrow.
PugetDude
ALLIANCE MEMBER
I just checked and we are suppose to have -25 windchill's tonight
I had to wear a long sleeve T-shirt today.
Its been really busy around here lately, So I needed to take some time out to post some updates on DaBarn
I finally painted the frame and hung the Gulf sign up
My wife bought me a pretty cool birthday present last week, she ordered it online from Holtz Leather Company, its made from old authentic used white oak bourbon barrels.
Hung in DaBarn
I also Decided to buy myself a birthday present
A Baileigh BR-18E-24 power bead roller
I decided to pull a couple of shelves off the wall that I made quite some time back, I painted the steel parts and put a few coats of boiled linseed oil on the cherry wood
and hung them back up
I finally painted the frame and hung the Gulf sign up
My wife bought me a pretty cool birthday present last week, she ordered it online from Holtz Leather Company, its made from old authentic used white oak bourbon barrels.
Hung in DaBarn
I also Decided to buy myself a birthday present
A Baileigh BR-18E-24 power bead roller I decided to pull a couple of shelves off the wall that I made quite some time back, I painted the steel parts and put a few coats of boiled linseed oil on the cherry wood
and hung them back up
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PugetDude
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Noticed you were MIA for a while...
Glad it wasn't punitive.
Glad it wasn't punitive.
I bought this 1942 Craftsman drill press about 15 years ago and made this stand for it, it was about time that I tore it down and finish it after sitting in the barn for ever.
I picked up this really awesome Craftsman light in perfect shape with original paint, I just had to give it a good cleaning
I drilled and tapped a couple of 1/4-20 bolts to mount it on the stand.
I made a shelf for the base, I stained it, then painted DaBarn logo on it and gave it three coats of spray poly to top it off.
I have all the pieces ready for the stand now.
I decided to take the drill press stand and the other four pedestal's I made to the powder coater for a coat of safety orange
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With so many new things going on in DaBarn I decided to reorganize the back half of the shop to make it a little more user friendly.
The first four pictures are before I started playing garage tetris.
And this is what it looks like now after playing garage tetris, I really like the new layout, I just created a circle in the center, the only issue is that I need to use a power cord to run stuff now.
I can rest peacefully now that I have satisfied my OCD.
The first four pictures are before I started playing garage tetris.
And this is what it looks like now after playing garage tetris, I really like the new layout, I just created a circle in the center, the only issue is that I need to use a power cord to run stuff now.
I can rest peacefully now that I have satisfied my OCD.
PugetDude
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Tony, I hope you oriented everything off a datum line and then squared everything up with a laser.I can rest peacefully now that I have satisfied my OCD.
harley jim
Well-known member
Tony, That looks great, wish I could get back to my shop, it seems like the harder I try the farther away I get! can you put a recoil reel above your tool row?
Noticed you were MIA for a while...
Glad it wasn't punitive.
Scott
I did manage to stay out of jail
Scott
I just went old school, a tape measure and a chalk line
Jim
I feel your pain, I think we all need more QST
That is a good idea on the power real from above, the only wiring that I do have in the ceiling is the lights, but I don't think it would overload the circuit if I added that to it. I have the lights wired on two separate circuits each one only has six lights on it.
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jon72vega
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Everything looks great!With so many new things going on in DaBarn I decided to reorganize the back half of the shop to make it a little more user friendly.
The first four pictures are before I started playing garage tetris.
And this is what it looks like now after playing garage tetris, I really like the new layout, I just created a circle in the center, the only issue is that I need to use a power cord to run stuff now.
I can rest peacefully now that I have satisfied my OCD.
I like the orange stands.