What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[nadogail]

Finished a couple good sized projects over the last couple weeks.
Time to reclaim the garage bench space.

Cleaned, flung, organized, and relegated a **** ton of wood scraps to the fire pit can.
Long, mostly thin, off cuts that I’m saving stored between the studs in the shed.

Dowels, pipe, threaded rod, aluminum flat stock, etc. stored on the inside of the shed door.

Back in the day, we used to get Kite Sticks from Wood Working Shops. Often the only thing that was allowed to be thrown away was noise and bent nails.
Those shops that needed heat burned scrap wood and sawdust.

 

[stonesfan68]

I installed a CV axle in the C70. I needed a new tool to get the job done.

 

[SRU1436]

Replacing the carpet in my 2001 Silverado. The carpet was terrible after raising three kids in this old girl. Time for fresh carpet, and a thorough cleaning on the inside. I’m the original owner, bought her from the dealership with 26 miles on the odometer. She just turned 140k a few weeks ago. Don’t drive her very much, but she has been a trusty steed this entire time. On the outside she was plagued with the dreaded flacking clear coat.

 

[Cjb1979]

Finally finished putting this pile of parts back together. Still working on sewing up the grass bag, and going to bend up a new metal bottom for the grass bag too!

 

[kaymccampbell]

Scrubbed the waxy **** off the Burg's new tires.
Welded the smoker to the new hand truck.

 

[Indexmill]

Finally finished putting this pile of parts back together. Still working on sewing up the grass bag, and going to bend up a new metal bottom for the grass bag too!

Spectacular specimen. Wow.

 

[GX460DIYguy]

Well, I learned that no matter how many times you see the same answer on the internet to a question, that doesn’t mean it’s right. Maybe my search terms weren’t 100% correct, but everything I saw said the the oil capacity was 2 quarts for the mule we have. Found out today that wasn’t true as the oil was about 4” over the full line on the dipstick. Tried to pump it out through the top with no luck so I tried loosening to drain plug just enough that it would slowly drain some out. That didn’t work either as it didn’t let anything out until the plug was completely out. Ran to town and got 2 more quarts of oil and put the proper 1.1 quarts in it.

 

[02Xterra]

New valve cover gasket and NGK plug wires on my '95 Eclipse


Modified a paper towel holder to fit a PIG mat roll. Needs a bit more refinement, but it'll work for now

 

[Ben Buck]

Started changing tires on my daughters Simplicity.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Started changing tires on my daughters Simplicity.

Hopefully the new tires aren't too horribly deformed.

 

[Ben Buck]

Hopefully the new tires aren't too horribly deformed.

No ! They came individually wrapped in cellophane, pristine shape.

 

[welder4956]

I haven't been posting much here due to spending more time in the yard than the garage, although I am usually in and out of the garage all day getting tools and taking occasional breaks from the heat in the doorway. We had a leaking main water line when we came home from a week long trip on Monday. Fortunately my son was able to shut the water off at the meter shortly after we noticed it on the security camera. So I had to dig that up the day we got home and do a quick repair to get the water back on. I ordered 100 ft. of 1" PEX-A and expansion collars to replace the whole line, so I'll be doing that late next week. The rest of this week has been pressure washing the driveway and fence, and catching up with yardwork.

 

[Ultradog MN]

We have a steel deck. I built it a dozen years ago. One of the posts I made real tall and it had half a yard arm on it that I hung extraneous junk on.
Yesterday I took the yard arm down and welded another side to it so it's more like a proper crossed yardarm.
I bought an aluminum flag pole from a scrapper friend of mine this week so I made the yard arm so I could insert the flag pole into it.
Now I can display my extraneous junk And fly the flag.

 

[PhantomEB]

Wonder what makes us choose what we choose. For me, maybe it was the years of, "pay me now, or pay me later", commercials. Never had a problem with them.

Sometimes I even use the Motomaster if they are on sale.

Many, many moons ago, I made the dies that printed the Purolator Oil Filters. I also sent a lot of off brand stuff for Purolator. It was all made by the same company.

Mine came from Millwright trade school, shown how QC testing shown Fram was the worst and Wix came out on top. That reminds me I need to switch out the Fram on the Early Broncos 357 to a Wix now I run her daily.

Garage and garage adjacent, added another shelf in the laundry room area. Got tools and cut some of the wire shelving in the garage. The room is right about six feet wide. Probably the third or fourth time I have added or moved shelves in the laundry area over the years My wife wanted/needed some place better to hang clothes that she doesn't put in the dryer. So a deeper wire shelf fit the bill. I moved one small, about 12" wide, shelf up and placed the new 20" wide shelf in it's place. Now the wider shelf sticks out enough for hangers to clear the lower shelves enough, and if it's still not enough space I can add the closet rod brackets and that would put a rod another couple inches out.

started with this

to this:

I gotta do the same, last winter I simply put up shelving up high for TP, Paper Towels and Kleenex. The support rods were a great place to slide in 4’ Grow LED lamps. So want to put wire racking like this for the wife to do late winter preseeding for her garden plants.

 

[PhantomEB]

Finally got my brake system mounted up. Tried two different ways, one I wasn’t happy with the clearance to Valve Cover, the second one, I couldn’t millwright up a way to put the bigger bore MC to a vacuum booster.

sat down and had a beer with my brother over face time, he goes why going that far back into basics, we just finished a camping weekend with the Quads and his truck….you got time…. And whipped this version out.

Used the Big bore MC with Hydro boost onto the stock EB angle bracket…..now I got so much clearance that pulling the Engine won’t be a hassle.

just now need to millwright up a little thing to attach the Hydroboost to the pivot point then bench bleed the MC in the truck.

 

[Magnum440d100]

Got the Sierra set up for lightweight towing.


The wiring for the trailer lights are present, but not the plug. So I got one off that jungle website.

Unfortunately, no factory tow package RPO, so no factory brake controller. Oh well. I’ll go aftermarket. But seriously though. I’m only going to be pulling the truck bed trailers with this truck. I have the Cummins truck for the heavy stuff.

 

[alinc100]

Finished a quick clean, wax, and refelt on the machinist chest. I used the high dollar Gerstner felt and ,you certainly can tell a difference working with it and the overall install. Best part is putting to use the Olfa wheel cutter and a straightedge.

 

[Beerhippie]

Yesterday, I ruined the patina on this old (early '40s) vise:









This AM, I performed thoracic surgery on a Rinnai C199 commercial-grade on-demand water heater:



It needed a valve and aorta transplant and some neurological work:



The "aorta" I had to replace:



Glad I caught that before the aneurysm failed and did any damage.

Back to work:



and ready to heat water to make beer. The setpoint readout should say 185.

I think I'll work on the vise some more once the sun moves behind the warehouse so I can grind outside in the shade. The jaws need some serious re-profiling before she's a user.

 

[larry4406]

Yesterday, I ruined the patina on this old (early '40s) vise:









This AM, I performed thoracic surgery on a Rinnai C199 commercial-grade on-demand water heater:



It needed a valve transplant and some neurological work:



The "aorta" I had to replace:



Glad I caught that before the aneurysm failed and did any damage.

Back to work:



and ready to heat water to make beer. The setpoint readout should say 185.

I think I'll work on the vise some more once the sun moves behind the warehouse so I can grind outside in the shade. The jaws need some serious re-profiling before she's a user.

We have similar Rinnai 199’s in our new homes but they are maxed at 140F and not your 185F mash temp.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Fixed my nails. Waited on brisket.

 

[Beerhippie]

We have similar Rinnai 199’s in our new homes but they are maxed at 140F and not your 185F mash temp.

You can change the max. setpoint with the DIP switches on the PC card--but I wouldn't.

 

[Magnum440d100]

I guess my day wasn’t done lmao

I was mowing down some tall stuff next to the road with my trusty rusty Ariens. I noticed it was down on power



Yup. Air filter


So I put a new one on




I wonder what caused the element to pull in like that! I wonder if it was so clogged, it sucked it in until it could get air lol


Back to running as good as it will for being as clapped as it is lmao

 

[larry4406]

You can change the max. setpoint with the DIP switches on the PC card--but I wouldn't.

Interesting.

We do the programming per manual as they are limited at 120F from factory but then it tops out at 140F

 

[kaymccampbell]

We have similar Rinnai 199’s in our new homes but they are maxed at 140F and not your 185F mash temp.

Gotta be a C to get that 185 temp. They make good hydronic boilers.

 

[zcar751]

Bought a vacuum bag set up to do veneer. Today I veneered some redwood burl to a couple of dash pieces for the Puma. I even go a coat of varnish on them.

 

[Skyman]

Early plierswrench in the foreground? Looks pretty cool.

 

[Beerhippie]

Early plierswrench in the foreground? Looks pretty cool.

I don't recall if this is the early or late version. My other pair had the forged panels instead of stamping.



They were a freebee with the vise.

 

[Outlawmws]

Those are later. if only for the $6 price tag.

 

[Beerhippie]

Those are later. if only for the $6 price tag.

That's what I thought.

What price tag?

 

[Outlawmws]

What price tag?

the older forged ones were marked $5

 

[micromind]

I don't recall if this is the early or late version. My other pair had the forged panels instead of stamping.



They were a freebee with the vise.

That's not a pliers, it's a tubing cutter.

Note the cutting wheel at the bottom by the slot screw.

 

[SRU1436]

Making progress on the truck.

 

[rharman]

I can attest that primary wear also accelerates as the number of teeth are fewer. Had a 12 tooth on a Yamaha 125. It didn't last half a season. 12 is pretty drastic, but it did put the power band to the rear tire.

That's perfectly understandable. You'll be running higher RPM with fewer teeth to maintain the same speed. Hence, more wear.

 

[Beerhippie]

I'm pretty much done ruining the patina on the Parker vise:



I ground the jaws even with each other. I'm fine-tuning for flat and square with a file--draw-filing. I'll probably be working on that off and on for days.

I mounted it to my portable vise stand:



Which only took a couple of hours as I had to cut and grind off the studs from the previous vise I had mounted there and drill and weld some new ones in.

Now to make some copper jaw covers for it--when it cools off a bit. Annealing 2" copper pipe in the shop when it's already over 90F... just not happening.

It's beer thirty.

 

[Beerhippie]

That's not a pliers, it's a tubing cutter.

Note the cutting wheel at the bottom by the slot screw.

It's an Eiffel Plierswrench. There were numerous interchangeable dynamic jaws to make it do what you needed, This one just happens to have the tubing cutter jaws, but I could stick any others in there--if I had them.

It's an adjustable, parallel-jaw and versitile pliers design and a fairly good--if massive--one.

 

[Motorman55]

God I love seeing OEM parts going on older cars like this. It's very satisfying. Those bearings and seals are so mission critical that to go aftermarket/parts store could almost be considered irresponsible given the nosedive in quality of that kind of stuff over the last decade or two. Props for keeping that thing running with good p

It's a rainy day, so lets start another in-door project. And why not, what the heck, I only have three other projects going at the same time...what's a fourth one gonna hurt.

Big change taking place in the garage office. Have to make room for the new HF 42", Black, Roll Cabinet I ordered last week. Today I started disassembling the drafting/art table. The table and the chrome drawer cabinet, as well all the office, art and hobby tools/supplies, etc., are all going back into our spare bedroom in the house. The spare bedroom (currently full of on going project stuff and more) will now become a multi-use room for the wife and myself. That's a whole 'nother project in itself.

This now frees up some additional work space for the shop. The garage office will still remain a display room for my motorcycle motormobilia collection and now also double as a clean workshop area too.

And you know what that means right??? ........BUY MORE TOOLS!!

Got a phone call yesterday from HF that the the 42" Black Tool Cabinet I odered was ready for pick up. So I got to work and finished removing the chrome drawer cabinet and drafting table from the garage office and putting back in the spare room. Took half the day to get that done and set up. Office looks a little barren right now.

I managed to make some room for it amongst all the, as yet to be installed new bathroom fixtures, flooring and boxed what-nots. Not sure if this will be the final spot for the drafting table, but at least its out of the office.

Today I rode over to HF and picked up the 42" tool cabinet with my trailer. Of course it had to rain today so I'll have to wait for a drier day to unload it into the garage. Maybe tomorrow. Have to move a lot of things out of the way including the motorcycles before I can even attempt to bring it in. My old back hurts just thinking about it. Meanwhile it sits on the trailer in my MIL garage awaiting its turn.

 

[Mike S.]

I changed the timing belt, water pump, pulleys, tensioner and serpentine belt on my wife's Pilot yesterday. I got it all done in about 6 hours, which I thought was pretty good for a home gamer.

Next weekend it'll get new pads and rotors all around and then this car should be good for awhile.

 

[Outlawmws]

I mounted it to my portable vise stand:

Timm, did you ever put a welding ground lug on the potable stand?

 

[545_days]

Changing the auxiliary belt on my 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio. The job is 10.5 hours book time. Way more for me alone at home...

That's the belt that the long blade screwdriver is touching behind a ton of hoses, ducts, the intercoolers, a giant aluminum bracket, etc.

 

[69charged]

Just continuing on with the ceiling install.


How about that 50” plug in height as suggested by the fine folks right here on GJ!!!



Then debating how I want to finish the boards that will go over the OSB on the ceiling…..barn board style
to be continued….