I spent the first 5 years at my first ad agency as Creative Director with an Art Director who was colorblind. I had to fix some stuff some times, but other times he created stuff I hadn't considered that actually worked!
Ad business must be really tough!
There are more dangerous and harder ways to make a living, but the constant judgement from non creative people approving or disapproving of your work, the hours, the constant grind, the feast or famine of account management was trying at times for sure.
Work in and out of the garage.
First, making an apple pie (I make everything from scratch) to cutting some motorbike chain tensioner brackets, truck bed parts, and parts for making another stool.
What he said!
Changed some extremely overdue cabin and engine air filters
One of the favorite childhood stories.It's all gone too; my MIL and SIL came to visit
The hose for the front lawn sprinkler--we use in-ground pop-up for most of the lawn--had been stuffed full of leaves, which ended up in the sprinkler, which is mounted on a ten-foot pole, making access easy. Fortunately, I had a spare, so just swapped it out.
I put my 1954 M37 up on my new lift for the first time a few days ago. I did some experimenting to determine the vehicle's center of gravity (CG) in its current state and weighted the rear of the chassis to shift the CG so that I could place the CG directly over the center pivots of the lift for stability while allowing clearance for the tires at the ends of the platforms. I think I got it very close.
It seems very stable, the safety locks work well, and of course I make sure the locks are fully engaged before walking under the lift. I can raise the chassis several inches higher than necessary to stand up under it. Of course, with the top and windshield installed, I wouldn't be able to raise it quite as high. The garage has an 11-foot ceiling.
My cunning plan is to 'attempt' to install the new brake lines, fuel lines, and wiring before winter, after which I would move the chassis to our old garage (my shop), which doesn't have a lift, but I think most of the remaining work could be done at a more convenient height, so theoretically no lift should be needed. That would allow me to park my daily driver truck in the new garage over the winter. I would just drive over the lift as if it were a speed bump.
I'm in the process of installing a standby backup generator for our home, which takes priority over the M37 for the next week or two, but things seem to be moving in the right direction.
It's a model "AK-X95 Full Rise Scissor Auto Lift." It seems to be quite well constructed, and so far it works really well, although I wish they would have put more effort into producing a decent English-language instruction manual. There are multiple sellers here in the US, but I don't have any way of comparing them. Feel free to PM me if you'd like more detailed feedback.
So, you didn't die. Good job. Carry on.
