What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[69charged]

I put my oil drain pan into a bigger tub that you can buy at a Home Depot type place, its the tub they use for mixing small batch concrete, cheap and durable. 2' by 3' usually works for me!

I’ll definitely look into that.
Thanks

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

i have 3 of those tubs in my garage for various uses.

Me too, so useful and really so durable for how cheap they are.

 

[tncatadjuster]

Changed oil, new chain and sprockets, loaded on trailer. Going UFO hunting around Roswell, Hobbs and Truth or Consequences.

 

[KwikFab]

Had written off doing any test cuts today (being that it's over 100 today) but the garage is significantly cooler inside so I moved forward with cutting.

Did a good number of test cuts to dial in for the best settings -



When I got one that was "good enough", I ran with it and did a dino cutout -



The gear reduction really allows for great X-Y transitions as shown here inside the slots -

 

[PassnThru]

The attic stairs in the detached garage have been a pain for about a year now - one of the arms bent so they wouldn't come down without some persuasion with a long piece of lumber. I had managed to bend everything back straight but that didn't last long - once it bends that's the only memory it has left. Had been dealing with it as I didn't want to buy and install a new stair set when I stumbled across the fact that you can just buy new arms and hack them on.
I had no idea.
$50 well spent.

 

[Beerhippie]

Today, it's the pub's Stihl battery walk-behind mower on the shop bench. I purchased it a year ago, just about, so it's still under warranty.

The right-hand rear (driven) wheel has been having problems with not always wanting to free-wheel when not using the electric drive. This morning, it just plain stuck, making the mower just about impossible to use in tight spots--which is about 50% of the pub lawns.

Being under warranty is great, but it's Saturday and the local Stihl shop is closed for the weekend. I need to do a bunch of mowing on Monday, when the pub is closed, and I want to do it early in the AM as it's been in the eighties and nineties the last few days (it snowed earlier this week).

So the rear drive assembly has to come out.



Fortunately, I have a swamp cooler blowing right across the bench area.

About an hour of fiddling around and head scratching later, I found the problem:



That's a centrifugal clutch--or half of one. One of the sliding weights wasn't much into sliding anymore--you can see rust on the rods it's supposed to slide on. A couple of drops of 10 Wt. ND oil and it freed right up.

Here's the other half of the clutch (one per wheel):



While I had it apart, I greased everything with, no doubt, the wrong grease for plastic gears--but it beats none, I reckon.

It was very satisfying to find nothing broken. Yet.

I'm not sure why just one of the two wheels was sticking, as the clutch drives both. There is no diff in there, which kind of surprised me.

Now to figure out how to put it back together.... After I celebrate with a fine malt beverage. It is, after all, Saturday.

 

[Fordguy1964]

Got this exhaust fan installed. I prefer vinyl siding but steel isn't too bad if you think it through.

 

[Beerhippie]

Reassembly successful!



I think I'll take it in for the one-year check-up next week since it's still under warranty--and it's seen a lot of work in the year we've had it. I mow about a half acre once a week with it.

BTW: The wheel drive motor is attached to the small helical gear at the top of the photos of the drive assembly. It's an open-frame motor, and was TOTALLY encrusted in grass and dirt. There's a dust cover, but obviously not very effective. If you have one of these, it's probably not a bad idea to take the assembly out and blow the motor clean once or twice a year. Eight #25 Torx screws, one 10mm and one 15 mm bolt and some fiddly bits like the height adjustment spring are all that hold it in.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Assembled the Burg. Did fluids and detailing. Sent it off to play on the roads. Cleaned, flung, put away. Fixed solar tiki torches. Fixed some broken nails. Sorted through a box of random lithium cells. Sat n watched the rain with the kids.

 

[dwasifar]

I was busy.

Made a tool box rack for my new Milwaukee adjustable wrenches:



Improvised some garage ceiling lights:




They're controlled by the garage door openers, unlike the "fluorescent" fixtures.

Washed the wife's car:



And made another one of these bird feeders:



Stowed a couple of tires on the overhead shelves too. And mowed the lawn, but not in the garage.

Now I'm sitting on the patio with a cigar.

 

[Beerhippie]

Assembled the Burg. Did fluids and detailing. Sent it off to play on the roads. Cleaned, flung, put away. Fixed solar tiki torches. Fixed some broken nails. Sorted through a box of random lithium cells. Sat n watched the rain with the kids.

Did you weld the nails?

 

[Outlawmws]

Did you weld the nails?

Sent it off to play on the roads.

I'm more curious as to who she sent the burg with.

 

[cosmokenney]

I installed a new track bar in my jeep wrangler today. Then went for a test drive. Heard a crunch - crunch and only then remembered that my phone was sitting on my front bumper. Ran it over with both front and rear wheels. Only the back glass of the phone cracked. But the font display doesn't work. I don't know how to turn it off now lol.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Did you weld the nails?

No. I used ANC to fix the chips n chunks.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I'm more curious as to who she sent the burg with.

By itself. Though I was sitting in the saddle. You gotta let your your toys out to play once in a while.

 

[jblnut]

Rebuilt my sprayer pump. It started leaking last night and I have around 1,200 acres left to do so it had to be repaired ASAP.


Yikes that’s crusty inside !! There are 6 individual diaphragm pumps that work together to put out as much as 40gpm at 150psi. I spray around 25gpm at 50psi so there is a lot of extra capacity on tap.


I found the bad diaphragm ! It’s always good when you find the issue and don’t just hope whatever problem there was goes away once it’s been rebuilt.


Reinstalled, tested and working !!

 

[Crazyjake8493]

Milled some grains in the garage this morning to brew a Czech pilsner in the basement, and spent the rest of the day cleaning up the rest of the basement.

Had some other garage projects but it's been raining for the last 36 hours straight and it was too depressing to keep going in and out.

 

[DGersic]

Treated my flower box covers with (brown) copper green wood preservative. These sit out all winter, so even being PT, they get pretty beat looking.

 

[Beerhippie]

Treated my flower box covers with (brown) copper green wood preservative. These sit out all winter, so even being PT, they get pretty beat looking.

Copper napthanate? I used too much of that back in the seventies and eighties and now can't handle the fumes from it--but it sure does work.

 

[DGersic]

Copper napthanate? I used too much of that back in the seventies and eighties and now can't handle the fumes from it--but it sure does work.

Yep. I built the covers a bunch of years ago from PT. When they got totally dried out, I treated them with green. That was probably 10 years ago, and wife has been complaining about the green ever since. This time I got brown, and she’s much happier.

 

[Beerhippie]

I can see a can of the brown stuff from where I sit right now. But, as mentioned, just smelling the fumes now makes me physically (and violently) ill, so I won't be opening it.

Be careful with that stuff.

 

[rharman]

Never tuned a horn before. Can you adjust the volume, or just change the pitch?

 

[02Xterra]

Finished up a couple of frames for 'Bob Ross' paintings my wife painted a while back.





Then went to my sister and BIL's new house to help my dad cut up a few trees. While there, we also took down an old decrepit pergola, which happened to have this bell attached to it. Neither of them wanted it so it came home with me.



Quickly decided I wanted to mount it on the wall somewhere so I grabbed a few scrap pieces of oak and came up with a design for a bracket




I just need to grab one more bolt from Lowes



Gave it a few pulls before I cleaned up for the night, it sounds pretty good!

 

[TurnipTruck]

I have been waiting to install a bunch of new-to-me goodies on my Jeep until after the dealer warrantied the known and common problem of grinding and banging front RH axles (11 months and 5k miles since first complaint).

Yesterday, it finally rained and I could self-justify some inside time.

30 plastic rivets and a dozen bolts before the frame is naked:


This lightly-used bumper came with a wireless winch/towbar/Genesis dual battery/Tazer/footrest/foglights and a front camera. It took most of the day. The ability to raise the Jeep to just the right height allowed me to reach those winch bolts without having another elbow on each arm. All of the supplied bolts had to be replaced with longer ones.


Note: It was strongly suggested to use all the spacers so the grille would clear the winch wires, and it is still close. There was some question on whether this obsolete RockHard bumper would fit over the Mojave shock reservoirs, so I was happy that there is plenty of room.

Now for a wash!

 

[bugnut]

Started a couple of 3d prints, installed threaded inserts into a test 3d pc and then did the install on the required piece. Brought in a couple boxes delivered by Jeffs kids.

 

[larry4406]

Milled some grains in the garage this morning to brew a Czech pilsner in the basement, and spent the rest of the day cleaning up the rest of the basement.

Had some other garage projects but it's been raining for the last 36 hours straight and it was too depressing to keep going in and out.

Very nice!

I want to re-start brewing after a 25+ year hiatus.

What do you have for a brewery?

 

[aaustins14]

AC condenser on dad’s Honda Accord, Also did brakes on all four corners.

Tore apart the front left wheel/brakes on the 2017 gmc sierra. Have this abs light that is throwing traction control codes, brake controller and abs codes. Front left abs sensor open circuit.

Just threw a new sensor in and did not resolve the problem. Now to get the meter out and start chasing wires. Figuring a broken wire between the sensor and the brake control module.

 

[Skyman]

Finished up a couple of frames for 'Bob Ross' paintings my wife painted a while back.





Then went to my sister and BIL's new house to help my dad cut up a few trees. While there, we also took down an old decrepit pergola, which happened to have this bell attached to it. Neither of them wanted it so it came home with me.



Quickly decided I wanted to mount it on the wall somewhere so I grabbed a few scrap pieces of oak and came up with a design for a bracket




I just need to grab one more bolt from Lowes



Gave it a few pulls before I cleaned up for the night, it sounds pretty good!

You and your wife both do beautiful work. Nice score on that cool farm bell.

 

[Outlawmws]

Finished up a couple of frames for 'Bob Ross' paintings my wife painted a while back.

Happy trees!

Gave it a few pulls before I cleaned up for the night, it sounds pretty good!

Cool old school (pun intended) one room school house bell!

 

[mikegt4]

Finished up a couple of frames for 'Bob Ross' paintings my wife painted a while back.





Then went to my sister and BIL's new house to help my dad cut up a few trees. While there, we also took down an old decrepit pergola, which happened to have this bell attached to it. Neither of them wanted it so it came home with me.



Quickly decided I wanted to mount it on the wall somewhere so I grabbed a few scrap pieces of oak and came up with a design for a bracket




I just need to grab one more bolt from Lowes



Gave it a few pulls before I cleaned up for the night, it sounds pretty good!

I have a bell like that, my mom bought it in the early 1950's in tribute to one of her relatives that had passed. It became the "dinner bell" for me and my brothers while growing up. We lived next to a 2000+ acre county forest/park and my brothers and I would spend most of out waking hours "down at the creek". We could hear it a mile away. The only problem was that wasps would build nests inside it and for some reason would be annoyed when the bell was rung.

 

[02Xterra]

You and your wife both do beautiful work. Nice score on that cool farm bell.

Thank you!
The farm where we currently board our horses has one of these, but it's about twice the size

Happy trees!



Cool old school (pun intended) one room school house bell!

Always gotta have those haha

I have a bell like that, my mom bought it in the early 1950's in tribute to one of her relatives that had passed. It became the "dinner bell" for me and my brothers while growing up. We lived next to a 2000+ acre county forest/park and my brothers and I would spend most of out waking hours "down at the creek". We could hear it a mile away. The only problem was that wasps would build nests inside it and for some reason would be annoyed when the bell was rung.

Very cool story!

 

[cody1325]

Finished up a couple of frames for 'Bob Ross' paintings my wife painted a while back.





Then went to my sister and BIL's new house to help my dad cut up a few trees. While there, we also took down an old decrepit pergola, which happened to have this bell attached to it. Neither of them wanted it so it came home with me.



Quickly decided I wanted to mount it on the wall somewhere so I grabbed a few scrap pieces of oak and came up with a design for a bracket




I just need to grab one more bolt from Lowes



Gave it a few pulls before I cleaned up for the night, it sounds pretty good!

I'm envious of that pressed steel collection!

Got most of mine back out and on display (after moving a ton of Breyer horses around), and I've got two old Tonkas that are due for full on rebuilds, and even a bit of body work (at least they cost just pocket change). While my first Tonkas were among the last produced in the US, I prefer the ones from the '70s and before.

I'm curious, is that yellow/black Nylint Econoline from the short-lived revival of the brand by the founder's granddaughter a couple years back? Shoulda got the clearance blowout deal towards the end, where you could've gotten both for like $40.

 

[KFBR392]

Finished cleaning up/lightly restoring this pair of old Eames barstools. The first one was a breeze. The second one really fought me—the fasteners were all rusted out and ripped themselves out of the fiberglass shell during disassembly. One of them ripped clean out and left a gaping hole, two of them just spun themselves free inside their holes, and one stayed in place.

I’ve decided I hate the clear/yellow stinky regular JB Weld 2 part epoxy. I almost always get really mixed results with it, and this was no exception. It failed miserably and wouldn’t cure, so I got the white marine stuff instead and it worked amazingly well. No fumes, no stench, filled gaps and holes, drillable, and held the final repair.

I filled the original damage/hole with a copious gloop of marine epoxy to cure overnight, sanded it flush after curing, got a 1/4-20 threaded insert, ground it down shorter with the angle grinder so it wouldn’t poke your **** when sitting, drilled a hole into the thick marine epoxy repair, filled the hole with more marine epoxy to hold the threaded insert, tapped the threaded insert into new hole, Q-tipped the threads clean with degreaser to keep epoxy out of the threads, and 30 minutes later it was good to go.

The barstools got new Pegasus branded casters sourced from Grainger that work/fit perfectly and are virtually identical to the originals.

The aluminum really didn’t clean up any better with Mothers Mag polish than it did with Brasso, but the Mag polish doesn’t have the horrible stench that the Brasso has, so I threw out the Brasso and have fully converted to Mag polish. The aluminum needs to just be sanded down and fully refinished, but that’s too much work for me. I’m happy with the 7/10 cosmetics.

 

[Beerhippie]

Thinking back on how absolutely encrusted the drive motor of the Stihl mower was, I opened the top this AM to clean the blade motor. To my surprise, it was just a little dusty, and it turns out can be cleaned by removing the blade and fan and hitting it with a blowgun from underneath.

Sharpened the blade while I was at it. Ready to mow in the morrow!

 

[Jgaz]

Mounted the top on the Kustom Kanine Kennel and I’m calling this project complete.

Just have to move it into the house and I can park my truck back in the garage

 

[02Xterra]

I'm envious of that pressed steel collection!

Got most of mine back out and on display (after moving a ton of Breyer horses around), and I've got two old Tonkas that are due for full on rebuilds, and even a bit of body work (at least they cost just pocket change). While my first Tonkas were among the last produced in the US, I prefer the ones from the '70s and before.

I'm curious, is that yellow/black Nylint Econoline from the short-lived revival of the brand by the founder's granddaughter a couple years back? Shoulda got the clearance blowout deal towards the end, where you could've gotten both for like $40.

Thanks! I'll have to take another pic, I have a few more. A couple of these were my dad's old toys that I used to play with when we'd visit my grandparents in central NY, but most are ones I've found in local estate sales.

Yea it is, I have the gray van as well; I gave one set to my niece & nephew, they seemed to enjoy them! I was hoping they would expand the offerings a bit more but it's been pretty silent lately it seems.

 

[phildb4]

Not our normal stuff but....as you may have, like my Brother Rick and I have accumulated more hats (most car/tool/car show) than we need. Some have been sitting on a rack in the garage for several years collecting dirt, spiders, mold, etc. Today we decided that it was "Wash Our Old Hat Day" Instead of our normal activity, we washed and more importantly, disinfected 17 hats. We also worked to disengage a stuck overdrive on a 1949 Jeepster.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Dragged out the welding/potting table. Put it back. Cleaned the bulb auger several times. Swept n dusted. Took out n put away tools. Fixed little broken things. Put away the car broom for the season. Fielded phone calls. Took out the trash. Took the Dingo out to play potting bin. Put it back. Hung up my little tape case.

 

[msharley]

Built these (and three more) pin tables ....hmmm? 1990? or so?

Used hard. Put up wet.

Sold the shop & in process of moving/building new pistol range...

So...whilst tables are "ambulatory"...doing some long neglected repair and modify to "three tier" from two tiers.

 

[msharley]

Got the stiffeners on two of the tables this afternoon...