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Brent T

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Finally started the '82 CBX on Sunday. It started right up and idled and ran just fine. Rode it around the block no problem. Problem is, it was blowing A LOT of white smoke. I was totally bummed and figured I was going to have to tear it down again and do a valve job or at least replace the valve seals. The bike hadn't been started in at least 10 years and my dad is not in a position mentally to answer questions on how it ran last time he had it running. Today, I started it again. Absolutely no smoke at all. WTF! Took it for about a 10 mile ride and it absolutely rips. Whatever was causing all the smoke seems to have fixed itself. Next step, take a ton of photos and submit everything to Bring-A-Trailer so I can get it sold.
 
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My wife takes care of cats for a nice 89 year old lady. Her cat scratch post made of carpet and some rope was all mangled up, you know, from the cats scratching it.

So little old lady buys some new rope, and then figured out she really doesn't know how to fix it.

My lovely wife tells her I could probably fix it.

Cat lady offers to pay, good god.

I have a go at it and pull the rope and staples out of the post and re wrap it.

Now the rope looks good, but the carpet up top looks like ****, so remove it and the staples and cut a scrap from some spare I have in the basement and staple it on and tell the wife to ship 'er back.

By this time it is late at night, and it isn't going anywhere, and the top carpet doesn't match the bottom, the cuff doesn't match the collar as they say, so I say leave it here I will fix the bottom tomorrow.

So now OCD me has rebuilt a $30 cat scratch post for free for a lady I don't know.

That is what I did in the garage today.

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Did a glue-up out of cedar to make blocking for the pancake vent termination for the new boiler. Tomorrow I’ll run it through the surface planer, cut to size, then mount it and the intake & exhaust pipes to the new boiler.

Rummaged through the stock rack for some copper sheet to bend up into drip flashing for the blocking, pulled out a couple pieces of cedar bevel siding and some stainless box nails as I’ll have to weave a few new courses of siding in - I’m moving the exit point. The nails were on a shelf behind a tool chest and a bunch of other **** but now I’ve got everything staged for tomorrow.

Nothing would please me more than to spend more time cleaning and organizing the garage, but I must stay on-task with the boiler replacement as it could start to get chilly next week.
 
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I got a few things done in my shop.
  1. Hung up two more sheets of plywood. Now i just have to rip a 21" section to get into the far corner before i start down the other wall. I also have to cut 2ft sections for the long wall to get to the 10ft mark. I haven't decided if I'm going to insulate and plywood the gable ends or just put up insulation and be done with it.
  2. Get a First and Second coat of Kilz on some of the OSB.
I'm having to work and finish as i go around the shop. Right now I'm trying to get this corner done completely so i can put my Tire Machine, Balancer, Air Compressor, and Press(S) back along the wall to gain back some working floor space.

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That little Dingo has been through some stuff hasn’t it? Cool little machine
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Well, it's 20 years old. It's moved about 6 acre-feet of dirt. Dug about 3 acre feet. Dug about 2000 feet of ditches and trenches. Moved almost everything in the yard at least once. Pulled over about 1000 trees. Been the saw horse for those trees. Carried and stacked those same trees as logs. Carried the parts for every outdoor project. Stone walls, greenhouse, sheds, siding, decks, roofing plumbing, you-name-it. Hauled and loaded the cement mixer. Been a welding positioner and outdoor work table countless times. Ground all the stumps on the property. Milled shale to pour a footing. Been scaffolding. Brushhogged the property enough times for it to become lawn-like. Snow blowed the driveway with the dogeater. Installed and maintained the driveways. Dragged, towed, pushed, lifted. Moved giant rocks. Sifted rocks out of soil. Moved and planted yard plantings. Wrenched and bent damaged cars. Moved and dug out stuck vehicles and machines. Transports tools to and from the sheds. Loads and sometimes hauls the garbage cans. Loads scrap for the recycler. Yard mule for the trailers n whatnot. Jacks the sheds for occasional releveling. And that's just what I can remember.

It used to run every day, all day in the early years. Then it tapered off to just every day for a bit. Nowadays, like me, it gets to take a few days off. After this latest round of maintenance, I expect it'll outlive me, and go on to help its next owner. At least that's my hope.

I always have a smile on my face when I take it out to do battle, no matter how grim the job. It's like a friend that's always there when you need a hand. Somehow, I've become attached to it over the decades.
 
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Used a piece of scrap 1" square tube to make a place to hang clamps on the end of the workbench.

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Then continued to install corrugated panels on the wall until I ran out of wood for the trim. I'll get more tomorrow.

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Maybe a stupid question. Are you going to caulk the lower edge of the tin siding where it meets the floor? It would be awful to have some welding, cutting, grinding sparks to get behind there and do their thing.
 
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Last 2 days might be the last 2 warm afternoons left, so cooked up some roofing tar and went up to seal the seams. Found the foam rubber gasketing on ridge cap completely gone, so used some Great Stuff to close the gaps back up. I put 5 1/2" of closed cell foam on roof a year ago, but found in extreme wind and rain there were 2 small be real leaks. Pretty sure they were the from roof cap but had to seal off all of the seems just to be safe. By 16:00 the roof steel got cold as did the tar and it was a proper ***** to finish up each day - but another big deal out of the way.
 
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Yesterday was more camp cleanup and put away, glad the heat dropped another 10 degrees! - Man it was dusty up there! I need to upgrade the rear and side slider door seals; a LOT! both have "battle damage" so don't seal well...

Lots of vacuuming, and on hard surfaces damp wipe downs to finish. - then put away. refueled the Gas appliances, and topped off the camp fuel station.

Made a parts run as the screw holes are stripping in the 1/4" ply door on the stove/lantern/fuel/pantry box on the fuel side. I'm sort of surprised those 1/4" long wood screws held in 1/4" ply as long as they did! Moving to 4-4 tee nuts and machine screws...

Took the rust off my new to me Skatchet hand hatchet.
 
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Well, a place where I volunteer needed an electric lock changed out because they lost the key and it wasn't functioning right. I swapped it out for them with a new one, but took the old one home with me. Without having a key for it, it makes it difficult to rekey it. I tore it apart and was able to rekey it after breaking the tumbler and dumping the springs out the top, but it was a pain and found a loose connection. It's not keyed to my key, factory reset, reprogrammed and on my garage!!

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kaymccampbell said:
Maybe a stupid question. Are you going to caulk the lower edge of the tin siding where it meets the floor? It would be awful to have some welding, cutting, grinding sparks to get behind there and do their thing.
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I'm going to do something, just not settled on what it will be yet. I thought about J-channel, but that would collect too much dust and dirt. I'm thinking of just bending some galvanized angle or drip edge to go along the bottom, or something like the rat guard used on metal siding. I don't want a wood baseboard against concrete floor. I had not considered caulk, but that would be another option.
 
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Ran my cables through techflex and hooked up my torch.

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Did a dry run of a design with tons of movement ensuring all movements were smooth, and the cable was free of tension all around the table.

Also, cleaned up this Sega Saturn I picked up from a local garage sale.

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Cleaned up pretty well.

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And it works too!

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Probably won't be able to run my CNC table until this weekend, but I'm excited to get some test cuts and see if my initial issue goes away.
 
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welder4956 said:
I'm going to do something, just not settled on what it will be yet. I thought about J-channel, but that would collect too much dust and dirt. I'm thinking of just bending some galvanized angle or drip edge to go along the bottom, or something like the rat guard used on metal siding. I don't want a wood baseboard against concrete floor. I had not considered caulk, but that would be another option.
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They used to make wood strip with that wavy pattern for a tight seal. if you can still find such, bevel the top and use it as a baseboard.
 
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The latch on the gate between the nice half of our backyard and my half has always been more difficult to open than it needs to be, so I decided to do something about it. I turned down some brass on the lathe, and drilled a hole to hold 1/16” stainless wire rope, and tapped to hold a set screw to use as the handle.

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I added a small spring to the backside so there was enough slack to keep the latch closed.

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It works very smoothly. Hopefully it will be a good long term solution.

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I haven't posted here in a while. 10 pages worth lmao.

Between being sick for 3 weeks, and work.

Anyway, more eBay parts for the Lincoln showing up.

I couldn’t justify the $200 for the NOS one. It’s for the passenger side and I needed the drivers side.

Found this one for $50. It looked rusty crusty in the pic, but it’s just surface dirt. It’s actually VERY nice under that crud. At least it’s not peeling! IMG_4915.jpeg

The other day ago, I cleared out my mud room. The weather is going to be temperate for the next 2 weeks, so I HAVE to get done. Loaded the 2x4’s and wood on a couple saw horses out in front of the garage. IMG_4916.jpeg

Pulled up more flooring and found this guy. Had to evict him, sadly. But at least now I know what was keeping the dogs riled up at **** *** early-o’clock in the morning.IMG_4917.jpeg

Got the old duct work pulled IMG_4919.jpeg

Sadly, the OSB I had already put down was warped. I started putting it in, then had to leave it be while I attended to my mom’s funeral. So I wasn’t able to really brace any of it underneath. I wasn’t able to get that far. So it’s all coming back out. I’m giving up on that idea. IMG_4918.jpeg

More tomorrow hopefully. Now it’s bedtime.
 
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Not in the garage yet. But got my house service panel upgraded today. Next is sub panel for the garage, generator hookup, and wiring for an electric stove. My garage is small and only has a few lights, and outlets. Once I get the service panel. I will install more lights and outlets, 220v circuits for my compressor and heater. Also, a circuit for my 110v welder. Although I can't do anything about the size of the garage right now. I will be happy to have the electric upgraded.
 
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Still cleaning up putting away and completing my "fix it list" I started while camping.

Went through the canopy pole set and marked then as to what goes where likel I've promised myself for years to do. reassembly will not e much faster. I added vinyl tape to the leg sections so I can assemble easier when alone, and not have the legs fall off. vinyl will be able to be reused within reason. I got all the poles to fit in the aluminum case I keep the poles in, - Something i was off by one short section on the camp reload - I had added 3 short sections to make it wider and carried those up loose...

Lemon oiled the bare wood "top deck" of the big 5 gallon wash station as the wood is drying out. Its old rough sawn fence wood with piece aided to the edges to help keep things from falling/rolling off so easy, and some blocking on the bottom so it sits as level as the can is.

Reorganized the parts/tool boxes in the van again so the cooler and the reserve tank fit in a way that allows me to access either, easily. I'm thinking about making a low deck back there for storage of loose smalls, maybe with a drawer or two?

Made leveling ramps from scrap redwood: 1-1/2 - 3" H in 2 stages, x 18L overall and 8 W. This way I can work with not level spaces more easily. important if I'm sleeping in the van.

Sleeping bag was aired out and put away and some of the cleaned laundry put away like the Flannel sheet I primarily used and some other things
 
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