What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Mr.zippy]

They do! They call it the lower hose...

Indeed! And the hose clamps are sooo easy to get to!

 

[niget2002]

Finished the strips on the combing on the kayak. Next up is sanding and laying the lip around the cockpit.

 

[snorvet]

^^ Very nice!! I'm a little bit behind your progress.

 

[Bessy]

Came out to finish working on the door (or nearly finish, still need to get my neighbor to make a decision on x or z format for some of the bracing, because I've forgotten what the last door I made looked like.

Since I am in waiting mode while things dry in clamps, I figured I'd look at tool storage. This lead to a major reorganization of the tool tower. Moved the impact wrenches and DeWalt flashlight to the Automotive cart, built a small shelf for the hand planer, then added another shelf to the front for sanders. Found a magnetic strip to toss blades and bits at rather than putting them away... I'm lazy.

The DeWalt 703 will stay in it's bag for now, as will the track saw (red bag).

Portaband, angle grinders, DeWalt cutoff tool and the recip saw all hang out on the wall cabinet by the welder (no pics over there because it's a way bigger mess than this area of the shop, if anyone can believe that).

Next up, chargers. No idea what to do with them yet.

 

[ZRX61]

Pulled the 5th wheel mount out of the Dually & removed the tonneau cover & brackets etc. It's getting spray in bed liner in a week or two.
Dropped by Horrible Fright to put together a basic *on the road* tool kit for it too.

 

[southalabama]

I’m about to turn 58. I’ve got a 4 year old. I’ve done the math. There isn’t a retirement in my future.

In the shop I Unloaded two boxes containing 8 Grizzly casters each found on a deal thread on this forum. If my conversion was correct each box weighed 48 pounds.

 

[welder4956]

Oddly - the tires came with a dent in the middle - almost as if they had manufactured them planning to strap them flat during shipment.
A strap in the middle doesn't help at all - I've done a ******** each side which helped close up the gap but just didn't quite get there. Part of the problem is that the ******** the side does bow the sidewall out but by the time I'm getting close to closing the gap it starts deforming the sidewall so I no longer have a round bead area.
Removing the valve stem and using a blow gun is a good idea - crank up the regulator on the compressor and really get the air in there. I'll redo the straps tomorrow and try that first.

Definitely need to remove the core on the valve stem to allow more air volume to seat the beads. I used to mount tires in my teens and they were very hard to seat if you didn't remove the core. On the mower tires I mounted last season, I removed the core and used a male quick connect fitting slid over the outside of the valve stem to get enough air flow. Insert the male fitting into the hose end with the hose pinched off or use a ball valve to shut it off. I don't think a blow gun is going to have enough volume to do it. The blow gun has good velocity, but not enough flow.

 

[Mike65]

Definitely need to remove the core on the valve stem to allow more air volume to seat the beads. I used to mount tires in my teens and they were very hard to seat if you didn't remove the core. On the mower tires I mounted last season, I removed the core and used a male quick connect fitting slid over the outside of the valve stem to get enough air flow. Insert the male fitting into the hose end with the hose pinched off or use a ball valve to shut it off. I don't think a blow gun is going to have enough volume to do it. The blow gun has good velocity, but not enough flow.

Removing the valve stem is one trick, there is also a band the tire shops used to have that you would wrap around the tire & inflate it with air to compress the tire to get the tire bead closer to the rim so hopefully it would seat easier.

 

[PassnThru]

Success! As I stated earlier the tire was recessed at the tread in the middle so a strap in the middle wasn't doing anything. So I tried a ******** each side near the edge. That wasn't working well either - the tire was deforming before the beads came in on the wheel. So I had this idea this morning that would allow me to use one strap in the middle that pulled in the edges:


Four pieces of wood spaced evenly really let me crank it down until the beads were touching the rim. It still took a bit of coaxing but eventually popped right in.
Also, I drew blood this morning. I didn't bleed yesterday and nothing worked. I bled today and it worked. I don't believe that this is a coincidence.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Nice

 

[Wiz02]

Success! As I stated earlier the tire was recessed at the tread in the middle so a strap in the middle wasn't doing anything. So I tried a ******** each side near the edge. That wasn't working well either - the tire was deforming before the beads came in on the wheel. So I had this idea this morning that would allow me to use one strap in the middle that pulled in the edges:


Four pieces of wood spaced evenly really let me crank it down until the beads were touching the rim. It still took a bit of coaxing but eventually popped right in.
Also, I drew blood this morning. I didn't bleed yesterday and nothing worked. I bled today and it worked. I don't believe that this is a coincidence.

Agreed. You always need to make a donation in blood for tough jobs.

 

[BlakeTheCarGuy]

Changed the oil in my friends car. She normally does her own work but she just had a baby so not exactly in shape to do it this go around but I like helping people so it was good to do it. She is having me do transmission fluid and filter next week it got too windy today and would be dark time I’m done anyway. And where is a V6 it’s a bit harder to access the transmission pan. So she said it’s fine to wait. She tried to pay me but I politely declined and said she could keep that for the baby since she is a single mom and works really hard as it is while raising 3 kids. I don’t want money when it comes to helping. It makes me feel good to do things for people.

 

[niget2002]

Had a shop light explode when I turned the lights on this morning, so I replaced it with a spare. I need to get a new light with a reflector.

My ladder is about a foot too short for this to be "easy". Luckily there's lots of stuff for me to hold on to while up there.

Now back to the kayak.

 

[admranger]

Finished up my Craftsman 150 drill press project. Just a light restoration from this:



To this:



Full thread here: Craftsman 150 Drill Press restoration(ish)

 

[Outlawmws]

Nothing - the Tax man cometh... But Fed is filed.

 

[isb cornbinder]

I sat there quietly contemplating with The Queen song, "And another one bites the dust" playing in my memory. My cousin called to say her brother had died in the night. He was 81. My cousin has lost two brothers this year. She is two of the original 7 siblings. My family farmed. My cousin's family lived in a nearby town. Her family was in construction.
My extended family often held a family get-to-gether on Sundays, at Grandmother's place. As the family grew there might have been close to 200 attending. Some of the older Danish immigrants, from neighboring farms wondered in and became part of the family fabric
Most of the older family came from Denmark and Norway. The kids had to escape the house because of the thick tobacco smoke mixed with strong coffee.
All of the aunts brought home prepared food. I think they must have agreed on who was bringing what.
Sixty plus years later, there might be fewer than 20 of us left who gathered in the 1950s and early 1960s.
My Grandmother was a wonderful Old School Dane. She would tell us kids that we had the accent, certainly not her.

 

[niget2002]

1 of 5 eighth inch coaming lip strips installed.


My foreman verified the strips before install.

 

[nadogail]

Loaded the new gate frame and pickets into the van to take them to the job site, the installation previously scheduled for today has been delayed because of rain.

 

[PassnThru]

Shifted from mower tires to PCs. Both the older kids bought new desktops in the past few weeks so we really didn't need the 'kids' desktop anymore. It hadn't been used much lately as they all have laptops and we needed the space for one of the new ones.
My garage PC is the castoff from the house - it's always been the slowest PC we have. So I'm working to take over the 'kids' PC. Should get a bump - mine is an AMD Phenom 2 945 at 3.0G - theirs is a Core i5 at 3.2. Both 4 cores but the internet says the i5 is up to twice as fast - depends on who you believe.
I've reformatted the 1TB hard drive - we will reuse that in one of the new PCs. Left the 500G SSD as is - another spare for later. A RX570 went back in the box for a spare - I've got a 580.
I don't feel like a reload so I'm going to try just moving the hard drives over and hope that Windows will reactivate on the new hardware.
If I disappear for a few days you know what happened

 

[rayra]

Off roaders use that trick for re-beading tires that came off the rim while crawling at 3 PSI... only they just toss in a lit match.

As big a PITA getting beads set these days, is, I'm ready to start...

I've seen some construction vehicle tire service guys on youtube that are now using some custom high pressure air 'cannon' devices, with a thin wide arched opening, sort of like a flame spreader on a propane torch. They wedge that into the bead area and open some large valve andthenBLAMMO, an overpressure shot of air floods the tire and shoves the bead shut from inside. Looks alarming. /hold my beer

 

[rayra]

Buffet reassembly today. Got all the hardware reinstalled, plus the knobs. Got the countertop attached with screws from below. Now it just sits for another couple days to air out some more in the garage, before we move it into the house. And it will sit splayed open in the dining room for another couple days after that, before we fill it up.

I definitely need to refinish the top of the hutch before I complete its upper cabinets. I only did one coat of poly on the hutch, it was a poor effort. The wet-sanding and re-coating on the buffet top produced a markedly nicer finish.
But that will wait until May, when I resume furniture building. The upper half of the dining hutch, with glass-doored display cabinets and LED lighting both inside and over the countertop below; And the bar-hutch that will conceal the 5cu' chest freezer that sits in the dinette area, adjacent to the bay window storage bench I built in Jan-Feb.

Also managed to finally clear-coat the floor transitions / thresholds for my parents' house. Taken me 2yrs to get around to making those.

 

[isb cornbinder]

I've seen some construction vehicle tire service guys on youtube that are now using some custom high pressure air 'cannon' devices, with a thin wide arched opening, sort of like a flame spreader on a propane torch. They wedge that into the bead area and open some large valve andthenBLAMMO, an overpressure shot of air floods the tire and shoves the bead shut from inside. Looks alarming. /hold my beer

I have told this story recently. Back in the early 1950s, when farmers were going to rubber tires from steel wheels there were a few farmer-fixes that failed.
One of out neighbors filled a low front tire on his Farmall with propane. All was well until the sun heated the tires and the air in the tire began to combine with the propane, RAPIDLY. The big bang alerted a neighbour a mile away. The only causality was the tire. Dad said that event will be talked about over coffee for many years. It has been 70 years. Maybe Dad was right.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Rayra, I hate to say it, but that brown looks good.

 

[Mikeske]

Took the grime off the headlights on my Chevy equinox wash and polished the car and gave a good scrubbing of the inside of the car. Also did a oil change when I had it in the shops

 

[Jgaz]

Started gluing up a custom size bulletin board that I’m making for the neighbor’s lady friends.
This board will fit between her desk top and an upper office cabinet.
I had her order a couple extra cabinet filler strips when she ordered the cabinets.


Easy project.
These ladies pay real well and are happy campers.

 

[Jgaz]

Rayra, I hate to say it, but that brown looks good.

Agreed

 

[DGersic]

Cleaning up and putting stuff away.

Needed some paint stripped off some small parts, so dug out a rollock pad and air grinder. Since I had the compressor full, I checked and aired the cars tires.

Cut two new closet poles to size.

 

[rayra]

Rayra, I hate to say it, but that brown looks good.

Heh, I've gotten used to it as well. When I look at teh rooms, there's a lot of black furniture and cabinets and a lot of dark brown wood. So it actually all kind of works together. When we get the Buffet moved in and loaded up and the boxes of stuff all tidied up, I'll take an overall shot.

 

[DeeDubz]

Power went out yesterday... Got to work in the dark a little bit until it came back on. Found my heat exchanger was plugged up pretty bad. Got everything put back on the F250

 

[PhantomEB]

Got the call last night….no night shift so I got into some little things needed to be done on the bronco.


Both fuel lines run to the tank.
Coolant lines ran and screwed down(need hose clamps).
battery box bolted down behind the passenger seat. Will mirror image it on the drivers side at a later date.

time to wire the sniper back up using the permanent battery and switch panel using a relay for the system.

also time to order those 4” long slip shafts for my driveshafts.

 

[SRU1436]

Working on redoing the front brakes on the Chevelle. Replacing rotors, bearings, brake lines, and upgrading the calipers.

 

[BonzoHansen]

This is why we can't have nice things.

So my 93 K1500 had an exhaust manifold gasket leak. Years ago I had already had that manifold off. And I knew it would be a total ***** to get back on because it's got that warped thing going on that these manifolds get.

So I see the dorman replacement manifolds have excellent reviews everywhere I look. So against my better judgment I buy the replacement dorman part and this is what I got. Non existent exhaust ports. That's not going on my truck.



I don't want headers, so let's make this work. I have remflex gaskets on order, and a new spreader tool because mine is MIA. but those tools don't fit between 1 & 3, so I did this and it appears to have worked as I was able to bolt in in 1 & 3 now. 5 is still no good lol.

Now I wait for my order to arrive and have a dead truck in the driveway.

 

[Outlawmws]

it's got that warped thing going on that these manifolds get.

I thought you were talking "not flat" warped - I was going to suggest finding a shop with a horizontal belt sander and give them a "poor mans surfacing" (A buddy from way back had one Man that was nice to have available! He's passed now so I'm thinking about one of my own...)

so I did this and it appears to have worked

Maybe try that with some heat? leave it in place til its coll and see if it stays long enough to get bolted down?

 

[Jgaz]

Cleaning up a bit today and made a decent set of cork soft jaws out of leftover bulletin board material from my current project.

 

[Ultradog MN]

I added some bling to my shop clock.

 

[BonzoHansen]

I thought you were talking "not flat" warped - I was going to suggest finding a shop with a horizontal belt sander and give them a "poor mans surfacing" (A buddy from way back had one Man that was nice to have available! He's passed now so I'm thinking about one of my own...)



Maybe try that with some heat? leave it in place til its coll and see if it stays long enough to get bolted down?

a lot of guys say they shrink, which in looking at it makes sense, but I don't think that is what actually happens.

Heat would be my next step if needed


If it fails maybe that's the gods telling me to LS swap it lol

 

[ZRX61]

Dug out my 6 ton jack stands & gave them a scrub. They've been on a bottom shelf behind my welding box for several years, but now I'll be needing them for the F350.
One of them had oil stains from my previous F350 which is now somewhere in Australia.

 

[Outlawmws]

made a decent set of cork soft jaws

I like those! do I have ant heavy cork?

I added some bling to my shop clock.

Is that solid? Hope the mounts are strong if so! But very cool!

 

[Outlawmws]

Still not much in the shop (grabbed a couple things for pics) but the Tax Man goith! All filed!

 

[Ultradog MN]

Is that solid? Hope the mounts are strong if so! But very cool!

Thanks.
Yeah, the gear is very heavy!
21" in dia and 78 lbs. on the bathroom scale. Had to get my neighbor to help me get it up there.
I made a good mount for it. It won't fall.