rd65
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Try spray on foot powder.
What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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budo55
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You know what they say....a grinder and paint makes me the welder I aint!Dang! That’s rough plug!
I bought the YT3000 as a parts machine for my Ariens, as a lot of parts cross.
Unfortunately, the rear trans mounting plate on the driver side on my Ariens is starting to crack. I believe I can use the frame of the YT3000.
But if the engine runs decently, only needing head gasket replacement, I may move away from the Ariens. It’s just been a REALLY dependable machine, all things considered.
As far as what I did today?
Well…
No good deed goes unpunished.
The neighbors set up a kids slide into the creek. They put it across the creek from their property, but accessible by my property. I see why, as there is silt and some river stone, making a nice “beach”.
Anyway, being the good neighbor, I decided to start clearing it back there for the kids. I walked it, didn’t feel anything particular. So I took my mower.
Yup.
BAM. Found a large limb. Broke a dang spindle.
So after work, I picked up a couple spindles. Can’t just do ONE! Especially because I had a vibration. So why not.
Then, figured since the deck was going to be off the machine, might as weld the tearing bracket before it completely tears off.
It ain’t pretty, but it might hold.
Went and did a couple passes on my 2 acres, and she cuts nice and flat.
Still can’t wait for the parts to arrive to fix the Simplicity Champion. Then the Ariens may just be the workhorse/first cut machine. And the simplicity the finish mower. Who knows.
XJSuperman
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Last night I hid a car from the storm, and put away some hardware/reorganized, placed sockets into my new socket holder and grabbed some others to measure for the next one. This morning I found a temporary home for my hex wrenches and their holders.
jskicet
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Finally trimmed out the bathroom and one side of the shop windows. Going to put in saloon type door for the bathroom. Getting there!
rzims
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Well, after completely destroying our folding plastic table, I decided it was time for a work table for the shop. Thankfully I had enough scraps around to build it for no cost. Even had a piece of masonite to use for the top over plywood....(pic of everything heavy I had in the shop to hold it during gluing)
Then this afternoon, I cleaned and lubed the tractor to get ready for this Spring/Summer. Continuing to clear land and trying to cut in a couple of fire breaks/roads
Then this afternoon, I cleaned and lubed the tractor to get ready for this Spring/Summer. Continuing to clear land and trying to cut in a couple of fire breaks/roads
nadogail
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Began the assembly of an Elevated Raised Planting Bed, so I can resume growing my own tomatoes. i last grew my own tomatoes about 10 years ago.
Prospecter
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rd65
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Assembled the new Earthway spreader.
niget2002
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Started a print on the 3d printer to install in the travel trailer.
coldh2o
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Changed a high mounted light fixture.
Wiz02
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Nice truck!Changed a high mounted light fixture.
nadogail
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Completed the assembly of my Elevated Raised Bed Planting Box, I now need 6 cubic feet of soil and some Tomato Plants.
The box is 36 inches long and 24 inches wide with a depth of 14 inches.
The top of the box is 32 inches from the floor.
The box is 36 inches long and 24 inches wide with a depth of 14 inches.
The top of the box is 32 inches from the floor.
niget2002
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Installed the rest of the 3d printed parts in the travel trailer.
kaymccampbell
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Lovely car. Where are your bell housing tins? You could do yourself a mischief, with all the **** on the roads today.Couple action shots for you all of my oil change. Sunnex 10 ton safety jack photo bombing as it’s all I have. Getting the goat ready for the weekend.
The dust cover? I haven’t thought about it, I have no issues so far (knock on wood). That’s an aluminum flywheel too, but it’s fine.
coldh2o
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Thanks! Just spent two days polishing the 50-foot paint job, after the winter project of installing a new cam.
Snapped-off
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Put the Audi under the knife today.
Astro underhood light was awesome to use.
Much more room with the false firewall removed. I spy a DPF.
And it's gone...
Cute, isn't it? 6 sensors plugged into it.
New midpipe section loosely fit into place.
Tons of room for the new downpipe. I have 3 new turbo studs and a new gasket on order. Should've bought them before the project..
And lastly I pulled the wheels off to go get new Continentals put on tomorrow morning. I put about 45k on these, not sure how many miles were on them when I got the car. They're pretty well spent.
Astro underhood light was awesome to use.
Much more room with the false firewall removed. I spy a DPF.
And it's gone...
Cute, isn't it? 6 sensors plugged into it.
New midpipe section loosely fit into place.
Tons of room for the new downpipe. I have 3 new turbo studs and a new gasket on order. Should've bought them before the project..
And lastly I pulled the wheels off to go get new Continentals put on tomorrow morning. I put about 45k on these, not sure how many miles were on them when I got the car. They're pretty well spent.
Burt Shaver
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ZRX61
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The previous owner of my F350 was somewhat *stouter* than me & during his 28 years of ownership the drivers seat padding suffered a bit.
Was planning to drive over to a friends place & have him replace the foam in the seat base yesterday, but wasn't moving too well so called off.
And then... last night:
For less than it would cost in diesel to drive there & back I found a booster seat that is partially leather!
Much more betterer seat height now & the color actually matches the seats in the truck.
Was planning to drive over to a friends place & have him replace the foam in the seat base yesterday, but wasn't moving too well so called off.
And then... last night:
For less than it would cost in diesel to drive there & back I found a booster seat that is partially leather!
Much more betterer seat height now & the color actually matches the seats in the truck.
Changed a high mounted light fixture.
aagh! OSHA alert. You should’ve changed to LEDs while u were up there.coldh2o
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Lucky for me OSHA doesn't cross the border. I've looked at swapping to LED but 24 x 4' tubes is a big capital outlay.
56vette461
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Changed out the wireless keypad for the garage door opener. Broke open the case to remove the controller board and gave it to the neighbors son. He is trying to capture the market in recycled gold from discarded equipment. The imagination of an 11 year old.
DGersic
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Before you fill it, consider adding a self watering irrigation feature. I did that with the flower boxes that SWMBO fills with flowers, so we don’t need to water them.
Hooked
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"Advising" my grandson in doing something similar to a 1998 Polaris SLH. Had to find a used piston and cylinder though.
Measuring cylinder bores today in my project 1998 Seadoo Challenger, all is going well so far, after getting it apart I found that the low compression in one cylinder was from a ring being stuck in the ring groove on the piston.
OldGuyYardSale
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I received a 1976 450 SL from guy that passed. Fun car, but now I think the coil dropped. Still checking it out.Had some Fun times in the shop recently.
1983 Jetta had a low tire. Found leaking valve stem, easy nuff, new stem installed. Well, didnt feel like the valve was tightening in New stem.
And then....... SPOOOsh! the brass guts blew out the the NEW stem. Another New stem... Good this time.
Did first mow last week, house smelled like gasoline the next day. Old mower has a pinhole in gas tank. Mower is tired and I have a spare engine... Just swap it, 20 min job. Engine off in 5 min and pulled the blade holder.
HMMM, shaft on old engine longer than the replacement.
Old engine back on.
And to Save time once again, I'll swap the tank and carb as one unit. Done! and now wont start.
OK old carb on New used tank. Should work... it did run before! Nope.
Pulled spark plug, wet.. Cleaned and dried. No workie.
Pulled spark plug Again, Wet... Cleaned and dried. It sputtered.
Pulled spark Plug AGAIN, wet... cleaned and dried and It Work, It Works!!
Yeah old engine was rolled around, flipped and what not, because I didn't think it was going back in initially. Also do not think it was the Other carb, after the 3 spark plug cleanings.
2 Hours later the 20min job was DONE.
Today my Cheapest Chinese 200A HF Tig welder on Amazon arrived. Unpacked it and plugged it in to make sure it powers up.
A buddy came over, showed him the Tig and a few other cool projects. Laughed at my previous antics.
Started talking about SHtuff and went to show him a few things on the internet.
Now the Shop WiFi not working.
Just spent the last hour trying to figure out WhyTF the shop internet no workie. Everything in house is up and speedy. Wet rainy day so that is in the back of my mind. Shop is powerline ethernet. After turning things off and On again I come back into shop... I Find Chinesium high frequency Tig was left On. Turn off and magically the internet works again. Wonder how many times I'll go through that once I start learning to use the Tig.
Got this cool Sign to fix up. Wish it was mine but it's only visiting.
Cleaned it up and got it working. New bulbs too since it is brittle and kinda hard to get apart.
Also buttoned up this Mercedes for a friend. 1980 European 280SL hard and soft tops. 4spd trans and hand crank windows, small bumpers and big emblem grill. Pretty cool one for being in USA. Ran like garbage, new injectors and fuel filter got it dialed in. But didn't last long, another fuel filter and tank screen. Told him to put some miles on it and see what happens. Filter #3 and Then the rad sprung a leak. Odd rad for being 4spd, no trans cooler... Had a nice used one shipped from UK. Rad installed with no issues and did fuel filter #4 just to be sure. Off to find a new home it goes...
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I am still struggling to hone my aluminum skills with the new 255 and push/pull gun and a neighbour came over with some garden furniture that his son-in-law (former pro football lineman and our next door) broke the welds on some 1 x 2 thin wall tubing on the base. I tig'd up the tears and then put a mig bead completely around each joint. I also stuck a gusset in to take the rather extreme loads when my very large friend rocks back. He wanted to pay for the welding, but I insisted I needed the practice far more than the money - and I get endless help around here from the cause of the failure.
Sorry no pics as he took it straight home to re-assemble. Did I neglect to say: I HATE WASTE, so very happy to bring almost anything back into service.
Sorry no pics as he took it straight home to re-assemble. Did I neglect to say: I HATE WASTE, so very happy to bring almost anything back into service.
brit vet
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I installed the split air conditioning in one side of the garage in a temporary position knowing that as I went through the garage organisation I'd have to move it again. I've been putting it off for weeks but finally got at it a couple of weeks back. Back story I was an air conditioning engineer on the tools for 20 years and really enjoyed it but it was getting tough on my spine so I came off the tools and employed some engineers to do that side of things while I pushed a pen around. Flare kit, tube expander, manifold set, braizing kit and a vacuum pump all located so no more excuses.
Strip down
The 85mm core hole through 200mm concrete block with no clutch on the drill was "fun"
Unit in place and more wall paint
Took me a weekend at a leisurely pace what I could do in a few hours in my pomp without the aches & pains but so glad to have it done.
Strip down
The 85mm core hole through 200mm concrete block with no clutch on the drill was "fun"
Unit in place and more wall paint
Took me a weekend at a leisurely pace what I could do in a few hours in my pomp without the aches & pains but so glad to have it done.
kaymccampbell
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You honestly would think all that robust spinning heavy metal would deflect any little road ****. And I imagine it does, for the most part, considering the number of machines running without tins.
In the day, we were installing a new clutch n trans into a friend's super-some-damn-thing. While I'm cleaning n flattening the tins, he's doing some other stuff. I hear it hit the floor, come round and wave the tins. He waved me off and backs out into the night.
So, I've finished and painted up the tins, when a wrecker rolls in the yard. The fella scootches his baby in. He's pissed. We get her up in the air. In what's left of the bell housing is a whopping big chunk of something suspension off a truck. And that big engine dragged that thing right up into and out of the bell housing.
It only needed a ring gear and bell housing IIRC, but it was a lotta work to do the whole thing over for 5 minutes of tins.
Yes, the tin would not have deflected the road debris away like Superman, but what would it have done was prevent intrusion and engagement.
And that's why all my sboxes have perfect tins.
micromind
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I installed the split air conditioning in one side of the garage in a temporary position knowing that as I went through the garage organisation I'd have to move it again. I've been putting it off for weeks but finally got at it a couple of weeks back. Back story I was an air conditioning engineer on the tools for 20 years and really enjoyed it but it was getting tough on my spine so I came off the tools and employed some engineers to do that side of things while I pushed a pen around. Flare kit, tube expander, manifold set, braizing kit and a vacuum pump all located so no more excuses.
Strip down
The 85mm core hole through 200mm concrete block with no clutch on the drill was "fun"
Unit in place and more wall paint
Took me a weekend at a leisurely pace what I could do in a few hours in my pomp without the aches & pains but so glad to have it done.
Drilling a concrete block in the middle (where the web is) ensures you won't hit a steel rebar.
PassnThru
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Some Wii remote repair. The kids out grew it years ago but I hooked it to the TV in the garage and we still play it occasionally. Of course that means the remotes are always dead and sometimes the battery has leaked. We had one that was intermittent - tore it apart and used a water/baking soda mix to clear any residual battery acid. Then took some crocus cloth on a toothpick to polish the nunchuck connector and then washed everything down with electrical cleaner. It's solid now. Working on number two that showed signs of a previous leak. Not sure at this point if I will have to do all four but I'm getting faster at it if I have to.
Burt Shaver
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Oh, the pistons are not available for it? Cylinder was beyond being bored?
jimkinney
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I found that the 4 foot T8 balun bypass LED 10 pack were less than $10 more than the fluorescent 10 pack at Home Depot here in FL. It only takes a few minutes per fixture to bypass the balun. They work great and use less electricity. They are also instant on regardless of temperature.
HPRifleman
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Turned this:
Into this:
Into this:
Jazz1
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Replaced CV on wife’s Camry…test drive and the noise is still there..vibration/ noise when turning wheel to the right..****..it’s the wheel bearing that’s the problem. Good thing i work cheap,
ZRX61
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Made a good start on building a bookshelf that will sit on top of the steel cabinet I moved into the garage early last week. It's only going to be one shelf & will house my workshop manuals & parts books. It's only 32in wide & the stack of F350 manuals will take up at least half that (that stack is currently 16in tall, but there are others not in the stack).
Front, back & base are cut to size, just need to make the sides, then glue, sand & varnish it (all 1/2in plywood). May increase the height of the back & change the shape of the sides....
Front, back & base are cut to size, just need to make the sides, then glue, sand & varnish it (all 1/2in plywood). May increase the height of the back & change the shape of the sides....
GarageHobbyist
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Started putting together a new stand for the Central Machinery horizontal bandsaw. 5/16 x 10 frame channel, the legs are 3.5 x 3.5 x 3/8 thick tube. Not sure what it weighs, but I don’t want to pop my clutch trying to lift it 
I don't know if you are aware of the risk, but whatever you do when tracking an injection leak DO NOT put you fingers onto fitting to feel for oil with the engine running !!!!! High pressure diesel will not only penetrate your skin with ease, but the resulting infection usually costs you that finger. It is one of the more dangerous things that we have to keep in mind when working on diesels (and some high pressure gasoline direct injection engines).