What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[ZRX61]

Removed the rest of the rubber steps, washed the (left side) previously hidden parts.

Washed the rubber steps.

Still need to remove tape & adhesive residue from running boards & rubber steps.

Now too hot to do anything else today (at 9.18am)

 

[hobie18]

Did an oil change on my new to me 2014 Acura even though oil life was at at 30%. Was a spur of the moment thing. Was at Costco and it occurred to me that I should buy oil to have on hand when I decide to change it. Found it for sale at $3 a quart for full synthetic! Decided to stop at a dealer and pick up a filter and do the change today. Filter was $9.36 so the whole change cost me $24.36. Bought a crush washer but didn't use it as the one on the plug was almost a press fit and I went through that once where in I had to tear it apart to get it off.

Thanks for the info. I stock up when costco has the sale. Been low on 5-30. Willl pick up several of each.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Unmasked the LP tank I modified and unloaded the golf cart an stock wheels/tires.

 

[ZRX61]

Correction.... heat made the tape easier to remove...

 

[niget2002]

Got winded doing some chores this morning, so don't think I want to do much in the shop. We did have my wife's aunt stop by as she's passing through town. Took her to see the progress on the kayak.

 

[LeeG]

Replaced the bottom seal on the garage door. The old one had been there for 28 years, so it was due. By the time I was done with that (7:45am), it was already too hot to start something new, so I've been going through my boxes of "stuff that doesn't have a specific home" and deciding what to do with it all.

Lee

 

[KwikFab]

With FedEx having delayed me for nearly 3 weeks, I finally got to do a little work today.

Quickly knocked out 3 of my next 24 orders.

 

[pima67]

Watched the "head" tech remove the LM 98022 opener that was installed on 12/1/23 and install a new one in its place. The old one worked fine until mid March when it would raise the door back up after getting down to the floor. Tech worked on it on 3/29 and worked OK for a month or so. Failures occurred again and techs worked on it on 5/14, 7/19, 8/1. Sometimes had to make 2 or3 tries to get it to stay down. After the Aug visit it did the same. So figuring that they had not run into this before I spent over an hour on the phone with LM tech support as he had me do a number of things (really nice guy). None worked so he determined the need to replace the travel module. And he sent me a new one. Got back with the installer company and the head tech decided to replace the whole unit. All this was under warrantee and I hoping not to have further problems. He did remove the old unit battery and installed it in the new unit so not quite a totally brand new one.

 

[CoogarXR]

Finally had a look at my Garage PC to see why it won't turn on after the mishap on my workbench. Found the problem:



So weird. As I mentioned in another post, I was working on a piece of audio equipment (an EQ). I had the audio output of this PC connected to an amplifier that had it's tape loop output connected to the EQ. Just the output of the amp going to the input of the EQ, I didn't even have the output of the EQ looped back yet. I slipped while probing the power supply and I knocked the power switch into the EQ chassis. Direct ground of the incoming 120v. Quick pop, sparks, the amplifier, monitor, everything power cycled, and the PC stayed off. It came on by itself after about 10 minutes, fans running full-blast, then kicked off again, never to return.

I've seen lightning strikes do weird **** like this, but never just a brief 120v short 10ft away. That spike had to go through the chassis of the EQ, through the amplifier, through the PC, and finally decide to roast those specific semiconductors. You know, like this:



Oh well, it's not worth fixing. It's just a core2duo Windows 7 machine. I can get something decent in a small-form-factor that's newer for less than $50 shipped.

 

[rsparks64]

Prepped the Ariens zero turn, Toro walk behind, and Stihl weedeater and then did yard work.

 

[barks]

Watched the "head" tech remove the LM 98022 opener that was installed on 12/1/23 and install a new one in its place. The old one worked fine until mid March when it would raise the door back up after getting down to the floor. Tech worked on it on 3/29 and worked OK for a month or so. Failures occurred again and techs worked on it on 5/14, 7/19, 8/1. Sometimes had to make 2 or3 tries to get it to stay down. After the Aug visit it did the same. So figuring that they had not run into this before I spent over an hour on the phone with LM tech support as he had me do a number of things (really nice guy). None worked so he determined the need to replace the travel module. And he sent me a new one. Got back with the installer company and the head tech decided to replace the whole unit. All this was under warrantee and I hoping not to have further problems. He did remove the old unit battery and installed it in the new unit so not quite a totally brand new one.

Had same problem with a lift from 2014. Bought a new travel module, installed it and all now working fine for last six months. Liftmaster guy said he sold me the last one in stock for old machine. It’s a job lifting that thing next to the wall, on ladder, at age 80.

 

[Bob Heine]

It’s a job lifting that thing next to the wall, on ladder, at age 80.

@barks, I'm a few weeks from 80 so I treated myself to a new step ladder. It's a 6-footer with wide steps and a shelf near the top. Price didn't hurt too bad either.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CWNY63CH/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Outlawmws]

Put stuff away, Looked for things needed to patch a tire - Nope - out. Went and got a new can of the contact cement glue and 2 patches (all they had) .

Popped the LR wheel off, broke the bead, took the tire 1/2 way off the rim and blocked it open, pulled the offending bolt out, wire wheeled the inside patch area, 2 coats of the contact cement, applied patch, remounted the tire and then the wheel. Cleaned up and had dinner

Looked like a screw from the outside:




Nope!



2" (50mm?) sucker!

 

[larry4406]

With FedEx having delayed me for nearly 3 weeks, I finally got to do a little work today.

Quickly knocked out 3 of my next 24 orders.

Nice fab!

That press does nice work and looks to be rather small. Details please.

 

[oldman_pottering]

After two long weeks, FedEx finally delivered

Have to say, if I didn't opt for these heavy duty casters, the machined feet would've been more than adequate

I like the look of those adjustable castors, did you opt for a specific brand ?

 

[KwikFab]

Nice fab!

That press does nice work and looks to be rather small. Details please.

It's a 20 ton press available by Trick Tools (Bend Press)

Handy little thing for sure

 

[KwikFab]

I like the look of those adjustable castors, did you opt for a specific brand ?

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[ZRX61]

Nothing, I have to keep clean as I'm off to a birthday party later. Friend has reached the age where the obituary will no longer feature the word *untimely* ...

 

[Outlawmws]

Friend has reached the age where the obituary will no longer feature the word *untimely*

And what age would that be?

As far as I'm concerned, any sudden event is "Untimely" - if you knew it was coming, less so.

 

[LeeG]

3D printed a wall mount for my Vessel screwdrivers.

Lee

 

[ZRX61]

And what age would that be?

As far as I'm concerned, any sudden event is "Untimely" - if you knew it was coming, less so.

65.

 

[Bob Heine]

I like the look of those adjustable castors, did you opt for a specific brand ?

@oldman_pottering, I used similar casters for one of my wooden workbenches. At the time (2019) I bought a set of four for $49.95.

They work great but when there's a load on the wheel, that red adjuster wheel is very hard to turn. Amazon has a less expensive set that has a ratchet mechanism.

https://www.amazon.com/Leveling-Upgraded-Adjustable-Workbench-Capacity/dp/B0C5GQNNST/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[rcktpwrd]

couple small projects. Cut a scrap piece of luan plywood to attach our broken tailgaters sign too. Painted both pieces, still need to attach the letters to the new backing.



Then drilled some holes and attached more car show chips to the board

 

[David Paul]

Replaced an O2 sensor in wife’s 2013 Explorer, bank 1 sensor 2. Pretty easy up on the life. Part was $45 on Amazon. About 40 mins start to finish.

 

[glider]

Headlight bulbs on a 16 Grand Cherokee. Not a fun job.

 

[Bob Heine]

65.

Rick, when my mother was 65 she took a freighter to South America with a friend. One of their stops was Peru, where they did the 8-hour hike from the train station to the Machu Piccu site (elevation ~8,000 feet). She was huffing and puffing but made it to the top after some mate de coca (cocaine tea) at a village along the way. In the subsequent years she visited Africa, Australia, Japan, Sweden, England and China (in 1981). When we moved to Australia my mother and mother-in-law were 78 and in separate visits they hopped on a plane and did the 36-hour trip to visit us. My mother-in-law was struck down at age 82 because of her life-long smoking and drinking habits. My mother lived to 95 but would have lived longer if her bad heart valve had been diagnosed and treated.

A lot of people are going be surprised when I turn 80 later this month. I have not been good to my body.

 

[ZRX61]

Rick, when my mother was 65 she took a freighter to South America with a friend. One of their stops was Peru, where they did the 8-hour hike from the train station to the Machu Piccu site (elevation ~8,000 feet). She was huffing and puffing but made it to the top after some mate de coca (cocaine tea) at a village along the way. In the subsequent years she visited Africa, Australia, Japan, Sweden, England and China (in 1981). When we moved to Australia my mother and mother-in-law were 78 and in separate visits they hopped on a plane and did the 36-hour trip to visit us. My mother-in-law was struck down at age 82 because of her life-long smoking and drinking habits. My mother lived to 95 but would have lived longer if her bad heart valve had been diagnosed and treated.

A lot of people are going be surprised when I turn 80 later this month. I have not been good to my body.

Ever since Keith Richards outlived Richard Simmons I've been rethinking this whole healthy eating & exercise nonsense

 

[KwikFab]

Nice fab!

That press does nice work and looks to be rather small. Details please.

Also, I didn't have them in the picture cause I'll sometimes move stuff around but all I need are a few pins and my press remains 100% still on my table

One in the front and one in the back will suffice, but I've got a total of four on it

 

[GirchyGirchy]

Worked on the Focus brakes. Good side done, bad side torn down and mid-clean. Picking up some brake fluid and oil for the car this afternoon.

 

[pima67]

@barks I hope I never have to use the travel module he sent me. I just started my 85th trip around the sun.

 

[niget2002]

Started to teach the son how to properly wash and detail a vehicle by washing the wife's car.

He made it all the way to dressing the tires before asking to leave.

I did the final wipe down with detailing spray by myself.

Next time we'll get to buffing and polishing.

 

[Outlawmws]

Put stuff away, inspected both Toyota's front brakes, No issues despite brake dust noises.

Helped the youngest daughter with furniture re-arrangement.

 

[cannuck]

Got the front brakes swapped for discs, rebuilt the rear drums with all new parts, replaced all the flexible lines, and flushed out all the hard lines on my 67 cougar. Next have to figure out how/where to put the new proportioning valve to reduce pressure to the rear so the discs will work properly, and change out the booster and master cylinder.

Mind me asking what the 4 piston calipers are from? Those are BEAUTIFUL brakes!

 

[Snapped-off]

So last week on the day it was 105F out, I lost the A/C in the new commuter. It wasn't a very enjoyable drive home.

I figured it probably had a leak. I stopped and bought 2 cans of gas, which happened to be the only 2 on the shelf without stop leak. I checked to see if the clutch was engaging, and it wasn't.

Tossed on the gauges a few days later and we're at 85-90 psi... it was about 87 out. That pretty much ruled out the charge, so I ohmed out the clutch magnet while it was still on the car and it was open.

I just happen to have my wrecked parts car behind the shop that had working A/C 2 years ago. Off came the clutch.


Good resistance on this magnet.


Compressor back in place with the clutch back together.


Alternator back in. Belt tensioner and belt went back on after. Last was reinstalling the battery cable.


Hit the A/C button, saw the rpms dip, and verified the clutch was spinning.

Ready to go for next summer...

 

[cannuck]

This is grandkids' last weekend before school, and our youngest 2 start Kindergarten in a few days. My shop helper is our eldest (13) and I bought him a little Genmitsu Prover 1805 CNC router a while back, so figured time to put it together and get it running before school starts. It came in pieces with no instructions or software, but that was easy to find on line. My digital friends all warned that G code stuff can be a bit fussy, but I found a site where I could try Easel CAD/CAM that puts out G code directly. My grandson picked up on all of it and had it up and running on day 1. I bought a sheet of 1/2" MDF and cut it into 7 x 9 blocks - and he has used almost a half sheet in last 2 days. The router operating system (Candle = GRBL) displays the lines of code being calculated and executed. I think I am learning more than he is as I am not sure I could run it on my own yet. It has been an extreme moment of pride and joy to watch him make all kinds of value judgements all on his own. He finally said Grampa should go in a watch his auction - so he could be in the shop all by himself for first time ever. I should point out he can run the saws, presses and starting in on drills on his own, but with me in shop so the CNC thing just opens more doors for him. Best shop day in years.

 

[driftpin]

I saved some bucks today. I was rinsing the pool Hayward cartridge filter, and when I went to re-install the filter into the housing, I saw that the thumbscrew for the filter vent was broken-off, flush with the housing. The filter vent screw/thumbwheel is made of plastic and the filter housing is fiberglass. That shouldn't be too-difficult to fix, eh? It may be if you're looking for the proper plumbing hardware on Sunday.

What the thumbwheel pressure vent looked like before it broke-off (the little knob on the left):



I tackled the removal of the plastic screw first. It got drilled-out and I used a Cornwell screw extractor to pull it out. The remaining thread was in need of being drilled to a 1/4" NPT size to fit the pieces I was going to use, not yet bought.

I went to Ace Hardware and bought a 1/4" X 1/4" MIP hex ****** fitting and a 1/4" FIP SS ball valve w/a brass body.



The MIP hex ****** got teflon tape on both ends, and after I used my 44+ year-old Craftsman Kromedge tap & die set (bought new) to tap a FIP thread in the drilled-out filter body, in the ****** went.



Teflon tape, the 1/4" FIP tap and the socket I used to hold the tap:



Then the 1/4" FIP 1/4 turn SS ball valve/brass body was threaded-on. The top-half of the pool filter housing was cleared of any plastic debris from the drilling, and a schmear of plumber's grease was placed on the O-ring of the filter housing. Back together the filter housing went, and after cracking the ball valve open, the pool pump was turned-on.



When the ball valve started shooting water past me, I shut it off, and looked for any leakage. None was evident. I left the pool pump working, and checked on it occasionally until dusk. It was holding pressure, so it's good to go.

I checked Amazon Prime for prices on the Hayward filter top-half fiberglass housing, $327, w/tax. A new housing, complete, was ~$1100! The two 1/4" brass pieces were <$17. Looks like a savings of $310, if I had to buy the top-half of the filter housing, because I buggered the pressure relief hole trying to remove the broken-off plastic thumbscrew.

 

[Jgaz]

used my 44+ year-old Craftsman Kromedge tap+die set

Does your set look like this? Mine is about 44 years old as well.

I made the wooden box because black box mine came in self destructed about 10 years ago.

 

[WildBill]

Mind me asking what the 4 piston calipers are from? Those are BEAUTIFUL brakes!

I agree, they look amazing in person. And are huge. I was carrying them around showing them to people, look like something off a modern European sports car. They are stock Kelsey Hayes 4 piston brake calipers for I believe 1964-67 Mustangs and for sure only 1967 Cougars. Shelby used them on his Mustangs. I was told that they were developed for racing and when front discs started to become popular on street cars Ford went to a cheap single piston. I don't know if that's true (the racing part), but seems plausible. I bought a kit that used all stock parts so I can always just walk in a parts store and get pads, bearings, seals etc. VS some aftermarket hard to find stuff. I was going to go aftermarket until I saw these bad boys, then I was all over going stock.

 

[LeeG]

My neighbor had the hand wheel locking knob on his Powermatic table saw break. Here is what it is supposed to look like (photo from ebay)

On his, the threaded insert was shredded. I didn't have any 3/8-16 inserts, so I stuck a piece of 9/16" steel bar in the lathe, drilled and threaded it. Then I cut some threads on the outside to give the epoxy a place to grab, bored the knob out to fit, and pressed the new fitting in with some epoxy to help hold it. Done in 15 minutes.

It would have been easy enough to buy a new one, but not at 7am on a Sunday morning on a holiday weekend. I really like being able to help out my friends with things like this.

Lee

 

[oldman_pottering]

@oldman_pottering, I used similar casters for one of my wooden workbenches. At the time (2019) I bought a set of four for $49.95.

They work great but when there's a load on the wheel, that red adjuster wheel is very hard to turn. Amazon has a less expensive set that has a ratchet mechanism.

https://www.amazon.com/Leveling-Upgraded-Adjustable-Workbench-Capacity/dp/B0C5GQNNST/?tag=atomicindus08-20

that's pretty neat, thanks