What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[vwpieces]

Opened the garage door under house and gassed up the snowblower and proceeded to remove the inch of crusty sleet that dumped last night. Got most of the heavies gone, broke up, making it easy shoveling/scraping. But still was 4 hours to do all the lots and sidewalks. At least it warmed up enough to help. Rest of the day is ruined, I'm in recovery mode now.

 

[BrandonV]

Did you have a schematic or did you troubleshoot by inspection and intuition?

Wish I had a schematic. Weirdest system I've run into. Oddball -85VDC rail, sold by one company, made by another, rebranded from another.

Most switched mode power supplies are laid out similarly and usually the IC that does the bulk of the work has a schematic which doesn't deviate too far from whatever engineer designed the thing.

 

[dwasifar]

Front brakes on the Crosstrek:



Turns out there was a lot of pad left, but it did fix the slight bumpity bump.

I got a minor injury during it:



But ironically it was not from the car; it was from when my wife interrupted the job to ask me to unjam her mixer, and I got pinched in the wire clippers of my long nose pliers.

 

[Magnum440d100]

Met an old head at the post office a week or so ago. Asked if I were a mechanic. Well, kinda but not, but what you got?

He needed help installing a strut in a Volvo.

Got that done, and he showed me a sway bar that he bought for his other car, but the junkyard torched the end links off, instead of unbolting. He had been trying for a minute to get it apart.

I ended up bringing it home the other day (Thursday) and got it apart today when I had time. It was a HUGE help having it here at the house where I have access to all my stuff at hand.


He wants to pay me but I’ve only got maybe 30 minutes in both projects combined. I don’t want money. I’ll feel guilty for accepting money for such a short time spent. Ugh.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Took the Dingo out. Brought it back. Hung up my snowy play clothes on the boiler pipes. Freed Otto to run in the driveway.

 

[Fixr]

The cardboard also pads against driveway rocks.

At my last job, I had a couple of big pieces of three layer corrugated cardboard that worked really well on gravel. I sometimes wish one of them had followed me home, but then I would have had to find a place to store them.

 

[Fixr]

Yep, highly unlikely another oak tree will fall on it!

Watch out for airplanes.

 

[kaymccampbell]

At my last job, I had a couple of big pieces of three layer corrugated cardboard that worked really well on gravel. I sometimes wish one of them had followed me home, but then I would have had to find a place to store them.

You can buy huge sheets of corrugated cardboard from Staples. And you can glue them together with Titebond.

 

[rockcrawler]

Detailed the better half’s F-Pace in the shop today. A little paint correction was required and it was nice to have a warm, dry place to work. Returned it to her garage when done.

 

[Metallitubby]

Sanded and painted Civic mirrors, finished Aerocatch hood pin alignment and failed at fabricating the front tow-eye (too short).

 

[nadogail]

Assembled three 36X18 Planter Boxes, tomorrow I will tool up to build the 30" Legs for them.

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

Yesterday, RAS motor was reassembled.

 

[rzims]

Broke this down, packed it into my truck for the new owner. I did it a quite a few months back, maybe 6 or so. I posted it for sale with a plan to keep and use it while I restored one of my grandfathers, but it sold before I got to the one I use daily. I'm going to deliver it tomorrow. I was able to find all the proper depth stop nuts, so the make shift ones have been replaced with original hardware.

Beautiful! I have a similar vintage. My FIL bought it new and I got it after he passed....I just cleaned it up and use it regularly.

 

[ToolsRCool]

Hurried up and grabbed the Tremec T56 Magnum 6 speed manual transmission I have been wanting for my 83' T-top foxbody Mustang GT. It is already a pricy transmission, and being made in Mexico, I did not want to possibly be paying 25% more or whatever for it soon. So, I slammed that into the garage. Install soon.

 

[rd65]

House garage - fetched my snow shovel, returned it. Fetched the ice melt, returned that.
Shop - Turned on the heat. I will sit inside for a bit and do kids taxes - it's easy and I enjoy it for whatever reason. Then will head out to shop to get a few things done.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Didn't even go.

 

[cannuck]

day late with this. Saturday was grandkids' dance gala and fundraising dinner, so no shop work. Sunday #1 (13YO) wanted to make dog tag for a dance costume that was military. Was a great exercise in getting him to draw up his layout based on the tiny alfa-numeric punch set Mom gave him to mark on similarly tiny 0.032 aluminum tag. Spacing was 4mm so he had to lay out with very fine sharpie and then aim the tiny 2 mm figures at his center targets. Took most of the afternoon, but he is now at a point where he wants to do everything he can on his own and I am to provide critique and help when asked. He will never be a good dancer, but he has transitioned into a supervisory and administrative roll and it blends well with his progress in shop work.

Accounting and tax year end pretty much killing my shop time this month.

 

[welder4956]

The wire I ordered was not delivered until last night. It was a bit colder today, but I finished routing wire and connecting a 12V marine outlet in the F150 bed. Fishing the wire down the inside of the frame while laying on cardboard was "fun". I had bought a 25 ft fish tape a few months ago and it made the job easier. Looking forward to using this for our portable fridge/freezer on our next road trip.

 

[mopar66]

Starting moving tools into my Tekton box.

 

[phred]

Managed to bend my swag finger brake.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Managed to bend my swag finger brake.

I'd send em a picture, to see what they do.

 

[vwpieces]

Un-Powered the power drawer in my new US General box. Not Milwaukee charger friendly. It's now the bit socket drawer, hex and torx keys etc.


Bunch of magnetic socket rails arrived today.
Cut to fit several socket sets i have, and some shorter bit sets. Magnets seem strong enough so they won't fall over, even deeps.



Few more rails arriving tomorrow.

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

Not much, cleaned the last few parts for the carriage and prepped the pieces for reassembly, maybe tomorrow if it isn't to cold.

 

[rd65]

Several trips back and forth. Finished sanding a top FIL made for old Singer sewing machine table. Got one coat of stain on it, will do another tomorrow after work. Also installed turbo style pcv valve in Miata.

 

[dwasifar]

Corrected a bit of a mistake from yesterday's brake job and tire rotation.

I had the idea to put a little anti-seize on the lug studs during the tire rotation. Later I started second guessing that idea, googled, and found the majority opinion is Don't Do That. So today I pulled each wheel and cleaned it all off. Torquing process felt a lot more normal this time. Lesson: check first, not afterward.

The new brakes feel great, though. Noticeably improved. Not sure if I just didn’t notice their gradual decline, or if they're actually better than stock, but I would definitely buy these Bendix ceramic pads again.

 

[cannuck]

Managed to bend my swag finger brake.

Now you know why large press brakes have dies with 4 grooves of different width. Your press frame, BTW, looks very much like mine - except I mount my punches in a 3/4 UNC receptacle in top (not ram on my 20T but bottle jack pushing to tool holder). I make my dies starting with a set of 1" V blocks and drop a piece of heavy angle into it for wide groove. Then I use stacks of 1/4 angle bent in big press to place inside of big angle to make for progressively smaller (and stronger) grooves. Yeah, that is the poor man's solution, but as you now know you can't have one side of the bend slide into the groove while the other is out. My 90 degree only tools shouldn't work (i.e. allow for springback) but my radiused punch seems to be able to overbend steel when I am not carefull and squeeze a full 90 into aluminum.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Now you know why large press brakes have dies with 4 grooves of different width. Your press frame, BTW, looks very much like mine - except I mount my punches in a 3/4 UNC receptacle in top (not ram on my 20T but bottle jack pushing to tool holder). I make my dies starting with a set of 1" V blocks and drop a piece of heavy angle into it for wide groove. Then I use stacks of 1/4 angle bent in big press to place inside of big angle to make for progressively smaller (and stronger) grooves. Yeah, that is the poor man's solution, but as you now know you can't have one side of the bend slide into the groove while the other is out. My 90 degree only tools shouldn't work (i.e. allow for springback) but my radiused punch seems to be able to overbend steel when I am not carefull and squeeze a full 90 into aluminum.

Got a picture?

 

[cannuck]

sorry, double post

 

[cannuck]

Not right now, having severe issues with getting stuff from dead W10 to new-to-me W11 laptop. I have also done this by using pieces of angle with radius ground into back edge to fit flush in. I will also stack same sizes to make a die with clearance for opposite angle bends to stay away from press table and/or V blocks.

 

[kaymccampbell]

sorry, double post

cannuck said:
Not right now, having severe issues with getting stuff from dead W10 to new-to-me W11 laptop. I have also done this by using pieces of angle with radius ground into back edge to fit flush in. I will also stack same sizes to make a die with clearance for opposite angle bends to stay away from press table and/or V blocks.


Kay says:
Then we'll wait. Hope you get things sorted soon. May I recommend auto backups and a NAS in your future? I'd also recommended dumping your MicroSuck operating system, but that might be too much all in one go.

 

[PhantomEB]

Now my trailer is complete with two ramps Out at my buddy’s acreage.



moved some stuff around and set up tables in front of the bronco to lay out wiring ****.



stripped some auxiliary wiring off the bronco as well the passenger seat and Center console.

system now completely rough wired to battery and at starter solenoid.

tonight is nuetral safety switch while battery is on the NOCO Genius.

 

[phred]

I'd send em a picture, to see what they do.

Oh I know what the problem as and it’s all my fault. I’ve already order the parts to fix it. $22 bucks and a little time welding and it will be better than new. I was using it on a 40ton press and the ram slipped/crushed the collar and it tipped forward.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

Only thing I did was toss in a couple bags of 5¢ returnables that were in the porch. Been sick as a dog for almost a week now, no garage fun.

 

[8pack]

I am putting a 75k Hor dawg heater in. The garage is uninsulated so my heat guy suggested I at least open the walls up and insulate in that area before the heater goes up as it will be a bit of a pain to get to later. It accounts for about 1/3 of the walls that need to be insulated so I will do it in steps.

After pulling the sheet rock I found that the wood exterior walls are tongue and groove so I insulated all the cracks with spray foam before putting in rock wool. I also made sure everything was sealed up so no mice could get into the wall cavities.

I put OSB up and primed it and just finished taping the joints. One more round of sanding and spackling and then the topcoat.

I am using Inslyx satin floor paint on the walls. It is tough and everything wipes off it easily, it doesn't stain and it doesn't attract dirt. I did it on one of the other walls and am very happy with the durability and ease of cleaning.

In progress

 

[a57belair2]

This wasn't today but about two weeks ago (wanted to make sure I didn't have any return issues). I put together two Vyper Chairs. Then I sat in them for a little, took them apart and put them back in the boxes. I just couldn't justify the price after I put them together. The Elevated Steel Max, would have been worth it (maybe) if the casters worked a bit better (might have overtightened them a bit, but not great out of the box on both chairs) and if I could rotate without having to move the whole chair (maybe the other style adjust would have been better but wasn't available in the special edition). The Robust Steel Max on the other hand I would not get again. Didn't get low enough and with the foot ring it was too wide. Both sure were comfterble but just not worth it to me.

To Vypers credit they did take them back without issue. They were not bad at all, just not as great as I had hoped they would be. Please don't mind the messy garage that is this my current project. Hard to pull everything out in the snow so I'll have to clean strategically.

 

[larry4406]

This wasn't today but about two weeks ago (wanted to make sure I didn't have any return issues). I put together two Vyper Chairs. Then I sat in them for a little, took them apart and put them back in the boxes. I just couldn't justify the price after I put them together. The Elevated Steel Max, would have been worth it (maybe) if the casters worked a bit better (might have overtightened them a bit, but not great out of the box on both chairs) and if I could rotate without having to move the whole chair (maybe the other style adjust would have been better but wasn't available in the special edition). The Robust Steel Max on the other hand I would not get again. Didn't get low enough and with the foot ring it was too wide. Both sure were comfterble but just not worth it to me.

To Vypers credit they did take them back without issue. They were not bad at all, just not as great as I had hoped they would be. Please don't mind the messy garage that is this my current project. Hard to pull everything out in the snow so I'll have to clean strategically.

WOW!

Welcome to the forum!

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

Mounted/ adjusted the carriage bearings, tested all the functions and pulled some measurements for the tables and fence. Zero complaints.

 

[Old Man Roger]

That thing’s a work of art, may the gods of kickback look kindly upon you.lol

 

[bulletpruf]

Sharpened the chain on the Milwaukee M18 chainsaw.

Installed and leveled the 6-24x50 scope on my Remington 700.

 

[kaymccampbell]

That thing’s a work of art, may the gods of kickback look kindly upon you.lol

Properly used they're perfectly safe. I've had one for 50 years. No problems. Cut the entire frame for my house with one.