What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Outlawmws]

You can never go back.

Actually you can under the right circumstances. I've been invited back to former companies multiple times. One in particular went from 3 years, out at two other companies for two years, then back for over 22 years..

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

You can never go back.

Bon Jovi questions your assertion.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Actually you can under the right circumstances. I've been invited back to former companies multiple times. One in particular went from 3 years, out at two other companies for two years, then back for over 22 years..

You were just on vacation.lol

 

[Old Man Roger]

Bon Jovi questions your assertion.

Ask Richie Sambora.

 

[kaymccampbell]

You can never go back.

Sure you can. I went back to my childhood, only with all the naps, n money, n toys I could have ever dreamed of.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Sure you can. I went back to my childhood, only with all the naps, n money, n toys I could have ever dreamed of.

You didn't have a dingo as kid, or a flush mounted lift. Maybe a mule and a jeep jack? lol

 

[niget2002]

Sanded parts of the inside of the kayak from where I bunged up the finish while doing the bulkhead and new post installs. This evening I'll go out there and fire up the air compressor to spray some fresh clear over the sanded areas. I don't plan on painting the entire inside, so hopefully I can feather it well.

 

[kaymccampbell]

You didn't have a dingo as kid, or a flush mounted lift. Maybe a mule and a jeep jack? lol

Didn't I say that?

 

[Beerhippie]

Between errands, laundry, phone calls and rain, many trips back and forth. Fired up the 2, 3d printers, ran to town to get meds, banking and buy a box. Filled up boxes with wrapped freshly painted beetle parts to ship to engine builder, 2 boxes. Then stopped for a minute. Phone call from powder coater, parts are done ready for pickup, please pickup tonight as we hope to leave on vacation, dinner delayed. Restarted the 3d printers, ran to drop off boxes at UPS. Visited the neighbors place, trash to the curb, gather mail, fed & watered the menagerie. Back home, couple minutes before I need to be on the road to pu parts. Refilled the hummingbird and oriole feeders. Off to pu parts, stopped and ordered a pizza for dinner, 9pm the bursar & I sitting down to pizza. Full day, but lots accomplished.

Damn, you've about worn me out just reading this!

I need a breather and a beer.

 

[Beerhippie]

I have some of those as its in progress. The short 5/16 square on the 327/427 stuff is also needed, and i found one more of the barcalos in 5/6 X 3/8 stuck with a couple others in my SG bucket 30 min ago - so those are in the de-rusto solution/USC

@Beerhippie - Timm my QL and 427 both have 5/6 square genny nuts? were there 2 sizes? I'm also showing 2-1/2" to clear the frame support bars from the gullet of the wrench.

I have 2 of the T55's setup for this, so good to go there.

11/32 and 5/32 is easy.

I'm still deciding which wrench gets cut for the shorty's but a 5/16 X 3/8 DOE besides the Barcalo Z/Geometric seems a good possible candidate. I need to dig in the pile again

You're correct--5/16" it is.

When it comes to cutting or otherwise modifying wrenches, I use the "Made in" brands exclusively. India, China, etc.

 

[kaymccampbell]

You're correct--5/16" it is.

When it comes to cutting or otherwise modifying wrenches, I use the "Made in" brands exclusively. India, China, etc.

Sometimes you need an honest to dogness decent modified wrench. Then you gotta buck up and mangle a spensive one. Gives me the twitch to do it, but I've got a whole drawer full of specially mangled tools that bear witness to 60 years of working on weird ****.

 

[rd65]

You can never go back.

to an employer, sure you can. went back I think 7 times over a dozen years. would never go back to that shop again now though. a nice, mellow, smaller shop that was nearby, you bet. after I retire and dont need survival type money.

 

[Old Man Roger]

to an employer, sure you can. went back I think 7 times over a dozen years. would never go back to that shop again now though. a nice, mellow, smaller shop that was nearby, you bet. after I retire and dont need survival type money.

Jeezuz you guys take everything literally.lol It's just a saying, it implies it's never as good as you remembered. A lot of the time, it's just because you were young.

 

[Beerhippie]

Sometimes you need an honest to dogness decent modified wrench. Then you gotta buck up and mangle a spensive one. Gives me the twitch to do it, but I've got a whole drawer full of specially mangled tools that bear witness to 60 years of working on weird ****.

I agree--but these are "boutique" tools for working on old Coleman ****. No high-torque needed. I let penetrating oil and heat do the hard work when needed.

 

[Outlawmws]

Jeezuz you guys take everything literally.lol It's just a saying, it implies it's never as good as you remembered. A lot of the time, it's just because you were young.

it was usually better second or even third time. One company had me back 9 times.. the last one I coudl have doen without but the $$ was good.

Sorry, not letting you off the hook!

 

[Outlawmws]

When it comes to cutting or otherwise modifying wrenches, I use the "Made in" brands exclusively. India, China, etc.

I got rid of all that import carp. the imported I do have are quality items.

But I have a huge collection of old first half of the last century tools, and some are brands I'm not collecting and are not particularly valuable. Still generally decent quality tools however. that one was a rusty, nick in the shank orphan Vlchek W8E18, - Thinking I may add an "M" to that # if I have a stamp that small...

Sometimes you need or want an honest to dogness decent modified wrench. Then you gotta buck up and mangle a spensive one. Gives me the twitch to do it, but I've got a whole drawer full of specially mangled tools that bear witness to 60 years of working on weird ****.

Fixed it for you!

Yeah, I've never actually needed that particular wrench despite owning 21 of the breed that have this need , but I know it's coming - likely with the nickle plated 228D that was the model for the pics, if only to get to the nickle to clean/polish. Plus I go meet up with others with the addiction and we work on a lot of stuff, so having a dedicatede sett with al the right ones needed for whatever comes up is often handy.

 

[Fixr]

Really rough day today in the garage at work. Just typical non sense I guess. I done a used car end of April and they sold it 5 days ago but it’s had 900 miles put on it from being used as a lot shuttle and customer test drives and all of that. Well comes in with bad ball joints and I got my tail chewed because they are saying the ball joints were bad when I done the car in April because they are like it’s impossible for a ball joint to just go bad and if it does go bad it’s not going to be instant it’s going to be a few hundred miles that it goes bad over sometimes thousands of miles. So I got written up and am being back flagged over it. I went up to my coworker who is a very seasoned tech and I’m like hey so a ball joint can it go bad like right away because I mean you hit a pothole or something too hard and it can go bad or just go bad from getting weak right? He’s like absolutely and then I told him about the whole debacle and he is like that’s some bs man. I also got blamed from the sway bar having a slit cut in it but I’m like there’s no way I did that either because I didn’t touch the sway bar and also the cut was fresh and not any surface rust or anything looks like it was just done today. But nope it’s my fault. That really made me angry especially because I’m being back flagged over it. They are going to take time for two ball joints and the sway bar. My bigger question was like well why didn’t you bring it back to me for if there was a concern about it and they couldn’t answer that question.

So a ball joint could go bad instantly right or especially over 900 something miles. Am I crazy for thinking that or what.

And then the Tacoma with the steering rack and power steering pump is back saying it’s leaking again I’m like great Toyota and their reman warranty **** we have to install is going to screw me again.

I’m just so over the drama and non sense like that. Hopefully it will pass but I guess it’s an all the time thing in this field. My one coworker who trained me I asked him and he’s like no a ball joint won’t go bad right away and that I should face the fact it was bad then I’m like that’s not the answer I expected from him but ok. I disagree with him on that for sure. But I can understand his frustration too as he is also getting back flagged because he makes money off of me. Not my fault though. I honestly think with all the problems everyone been having recently that we have someone tampering with cars on the lot but they refuse to listen to us when we ask them to look at the one or two cameras they actually have.

So I guess the main question I’d like to know from the wisdom of GJ is can ball joints go bad instantly? I’m pretty dang sure they can. I’ve had them bad out of the box before even.

/s No Blake, it is absolutely NOT possible for a ball joint to go from being in-spec to out-of-spec in 900 miles, especially if lot monkeys, random customers and sales dweebs have been driving the vehicle and beating it like a rented mule as virtually all lot beaters are. That could NEVER happen. And a slit cut in the sway bar and not even rusty after several months? Definitely your fault. /s

 

[Pompey]

I put in a few more hours on my bench project this morning. I am not a carpenter but it is coming along pretty well and is straight and square so far. Yesterday I saw that one of the 2 x 6 back rails was warped and curved so rather than try to shim it, I replaced it with a straighter 2 x 6

 

[niget2002]

Sprayed the clear on the kayak. Mental note. Make sure the nozzle is tightened all the way on the spray gun before trying to spray paint. Air managed to get pushed past the seal and back up through the paint bucket and made a mess of everything. Shot 2k clear everywhere like a water hose while I was trying to adjust the spray pattern. Luckily, the test board where I was setting the pattern is far enough from the boat that nothing got on it.

 

[oldman_pottering]

Always handy piece of 5/32 wire rope for cleaning things that aren't straight:

That's a clever idea

 

[kaymccampbell]

Jeezuz you guys take everything literally.lol It's just a saying, it implies it's never as good as you remembered. A lot of the time, it's just because you were young.

We're boomers puppy. Of course we take **** literally.

 

[Beerhippie]

That's a clever idea

I have probably a half-dozen of these, different dia.s and lengths for clearing all kind of things--like mini-drain-snakes. Just remember to run the drill backwards so it doesn't un-lay the wire rope.

 

[larry4406]

Had cabinets delivered to garage for install into dining room
tomorrow.

 

[Fixr]

I have probably a half-dozen of these, different dia.s and lengths for clearing all kind of things--like mini-drain-snakes. Just remember to run the drill backwards so it doesn't un-lay the wire rope.

Wound guitar strings work pretty well for small stuff.

 

[rd65]

We're boomers puppy. Of course we take **** literally.

I dont think @Old Man Roger is as old as he is making himself out to be. I think this Roger might have a few years on him.

 

[Wrench97]

Sometimes you need an honest to dogness decent modified wrench. Then you gotta buck up and mangle a spensive one. Gives me the twitch to do it, but I've got a whole drawer full of specially mangled tools that bear witness to 60 years of working on weird ****.

I buy used wrenches just for this purpose.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I buy used wrenches just for this purpose.

That's my usual MO, but out on top of a landfill, during the week, with a foreman wanting to spread and cover, now, there ain't no garage sale popping up next door. However there was a Sears, 2 miles away, and torches n grinders on the service truck.

 

[Wrench97]

You can never go back.

Another boomer here yea you can, I worked for a shop from 1975-1980 full time, left for a fleet shop my Pa Inspections license was still at the old shop and once in a while he would call and ask me to take a look at something no problem I learned more in those 5 years I was there then at any period before over the years my time there went up and down and finally about 2019 I started working 2 then 3 afternoons a week I retired from the fleet shop after 42 years now spend 30-40 hrs a week at the old shop.......Of course the wife thinks I nuts................

 

[nadogail]

I looked for my missing bag of electrical bits to add a switched receptacle on the back of my table saw, nothing found.

I did discover that Harbor Freight and Home Depot’s 5 gallon buckets are incompatible. If you nest a Home Depot bucket inside a Harbor Freight bucket they will stick together and you have to drive them apart. If you put a Harbor Freight in a Home Depot bucket they slide apart.

 

[Beerhippie]

I looked for my missing bag of electrical bits to add a switched receptacle on the back of my table saw, nothing found.

I did discover that Harbor Freight and Home Depot’s 5 gallon buckets are incompatible. If you nest a Home Depot bucket inside a Harbor Freight bucket they will stick together and you have to drive them apart. If you put a Harbor Freight in a Home Depot bucket they slide apart.

Do you have a compressor and airgun?

If so, just aim the airgun downwards into the joint between the buckets. Magic!

 

[nadogail]

Do you have a compressor and airgun?

If so, just aim the airgun downwards into the joint between the buckets. Magic!

Thanks, I didn’t want to listen to the compressor filling my air tank.

 

[Beerhippie]

Thanks, I didn’t want to listen to the compressor filling my air tank.

Sounds like an excuse to buy a quieter compressor!

 

[Motorman55]

I called HF today to see if I could get the 2 narrow chrome handles that were missing from the Chrome Kit. As expected, they're not available individually. Worth a try anyway. My only option is to bring back the whole kit to the local HF store for a replacement or refund.

Since I already have these 8 handles mounted, I've decided its easier to just buy a 2nd kit, take out the 2 missing ones I need and then return it for the refund. Same difference, less work.

The 2nd Chrome kit came in today. I took out the 2 short handles I needed and installed them. Think the box looks much better with the chrome handles. What do you think? I'll return the missing parts kit for a refund likely this Friday. (Before and After pics below)

 

[Fixr]

That's my usual MO, but out on top of a landfill, during the week, with a foreman wanting to spread and cover, now, there ain't no garage sale popping up next door. However there was a Sears, 2 miles away, and torches n grinders on the service truck.

Why is it that when I think of you and a foreman on landfill wanting to spread and cover, I get a little uncomfortable?

 

[Fixr]

That's my usual MO, but out on top of a landfill, during the week, with a foreman wanting to spread and cover, now, there ain't no garage sale popping up next door. However there was a Sears, 2 miles away, and torches n grinders on the service truck.

JH?

 

[Mr. Roboto]

Finished putting up this shelf to store a bunch of my Milwaukee stuff.

 

[nadogail]

Finished putting up this shelf to store a bunch of my Milwaukee stuff.

Very Pretty

 

[69charged]

Finished putting up this shelf to store a bunch of my Milwaukee stuff.

CLEAN!!!!!

 

[zarex]

Walked in for something then thought about starting next coat of mud after working a 12 hr shift....nope i'll wait till my days off >.> should have just paid to get the drywall done I hate muding and taping, screwed up the tape in a few spots and went back and fixed them since pics were taken. my fault for being in a rush near end of first coat

 

[Beerhippie]

CLEAN!!!!!

****!