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rktinc

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Well, happy to announce I am just a couple rivets and layers of paint away from completion. Can't believe its almost done! It has really been a simple formula once perfected. scrape, sand, clean, repair with hand cut sections, pre-drill 1/8" holes and hand rivet over 1000 times. Caulk, hand brush on primer twice, then two coats of finish paint in SW Creamy. Nothing to it:)



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jblnut

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One tire on the sweet corn stand was flat and the tube wasn’t keeping air so I took it apart. Holy crusty Batman !!
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The only logical thing to do was to clean it up best I could and wrap tape around it to keep the unevenness at bay best I can.
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This is the last of the camper tires I swapped last fall. I may end up putting new tires on it again if I need more used tires lol. Baby powder it all like it’s gonna be working in 95f heat with 95% humidity.
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Then check on the oil draining process of the skid loader. I usually use a 5gal pail to catch it but didn’t today. When I was putting the jug there something tickled in my brain as to this isn’t right so I made sure the hose went into the jug. Yeah. That’ll do. Nope. It holds more than 2.5gal. That’s what the issue is. ******* :lol_hitti
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Today, Just outside the garage, I gave the Explorer a full flush and antifreeze refill...

Flushed the old until the distilled water ran clear...
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Went around and shot Fluid Film in the hood, rear hatch and 4 door water weep holes...

Good stuff since 1943...
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930dreamer

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Trying to remove 70 years of old paint from this screen door. I've applied about eight coats of paint stripper so far! I might look into having it media blasted. It had enough chipped/raised paint that sanding wasn't going to work. I think the screen is original.
 

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kaymccampbell

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Trying to remove 70 years of old paint from this screen door. I've applied about eight coats of paint stripper so far! I might look into having it media blasted. It had enough chipped/raised paint that sanding wasn't going to work. I think the screen is original.
In the hinterlands we call that Time for Aluminum.
 

kaymccampbell

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Yesterday I got the cooled off and seasoned Prentiss Wabers #4 stove manifold out of the oven and eventually reassembled it.

The brass tank still needs some more Mothers... Only so much my hands can take with that,,,

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Maybe a Ryobi lightweight die grinder and a little felt disc?
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I picked it up refurb, on a whim, in an outlet mall in St Augustine, just after I retired. It's got nothing on my air die grinders for power and speed, but when you want something simple n easy, it's the ticket. I use it almost daily.
 

Old Man Roger

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Cutting, bending, and welding a custom backrest for someone that wants me to make them a stool but not until later.

For now just the usual stay at home dad stuff

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Once the target has immersed herself in a sprinkling kiddie pool, the super soaker kind of loses it‘s desired effect. You my friend have unfortunately found your self at the will of your pint sized opponent.:LOL:
 

Outlawmws

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Maybe a Ryobi lightweight die grinder and a little felt disc?
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I picked it up refurb, on a whim, in an outlet mall in St Augustine, just after I retired. It's got nothing on my air die grinders for power and speed, but when you want something simple n easy, it's the ticket. I use it almost daily.
That's essentially a Dremel, and I have several of those.
 

KwikFab

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Once the target has immersed herself in a sprinkling kiddie pool, the super soaker kind of loses it‘s desired effect. You my friend have unfortunately found your self at the will of your pint sized opponent.:LOL:

He's a trooper, and I mean he'll run into any body of water regardless of how cold it is.

It was real chilly just 2 weeks ago up in Nevada when we went to the lake, and there he was splashing and trying to jump into the deep end :ROFLMAO:
 

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Cutting, bending, and welding a custom backrest for someone that wants me to make them a stool but not until later.

For now just the usual stay at home dad stuff

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Naturally, I can't leave y'all hanging so here ya go.

Since I rarely do "design" work, I'll normally do a quick test cut of something before doing the whole thing.

Here I wanted to test out the two letters I thought looked to be the most difficult.

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Well, it came out perfect actually!

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Onto the actual part.

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And the remainder.

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Sent him pictures and he freaking loves it.

Just waiting for my swatches to arrive sometime this week so he can choose his leather.
 

Beerhippie

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Having had a moment of clumsiness this AM,

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it looks like my work is cut out for me today.

That old mug--over twenty-five years old--was from the first firing of an Anagama kiln I helped build here in the county.

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I think it's there on the top shelf.

Anyhow, I'm fairly certain I picked the right glue:

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Now I'm trying to figure out the proper material for some filler where chips were lost... if only I had some gold leaf and hide glue, I could do it kintsugi style. Maybe some brass filings and epoxy?
 

Old Man Roger

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Having had a moment of clumsiness this AM,

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it looks like my work is cut out for me today.

That old mug--over twenty-five years old--was from the first firing of an Anagama kiln I helped build here in the county.

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I think it's there on the top shelf.

Anyhow, I'm fairly certain I picked the right glue:

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Now I'm trying to figure out the proper material for some filler where chips were lost... if only I had some gold leaf and hide glue, I could do it kintsugi style. Maybe some brass filings and epoxy?
I think I remember using baking soda? It makes the glue dry almost instantly. Another thing I’ve used with super glue was floss.
 
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Outlawmws

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Having had a moment of clumsiness this AM,

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That pattern on the lower stub at the cup base looks weird for ceramic.
 

Beerhippie

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Let the experiment begin!

I've repaired ceramics using CA glue before and it works perfectly--but doesn't fill gaps. Thanks to the reminder above, I decided to make use of the CA/baking soda trick. This forms a hard but toolable filler, and I've used it before.

But I still wanted the kintsugi look, so I ground up some brass rod (I'm short on gold stock right now) and mixed that with the baking soda.

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The trick is to add a little bit of CA glue, then sprinkle some baking soda/brass mix on, repeat until the gap is filled.

Now to sand it down:

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That's sanded from 120 to 400 grit with WOD paper.

A shot of clear engine enamel:

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We'll see how long that lasts. I don't use a dishwasher and just hand-wash, so that may help. I'll give it a bake at 250F once the paint has dried, which should also make it more durable.

Unfortunately, the sandpaper took off the "glaze" of the porcelain pottery. There is no true glaze applied to this pottery, as the wood ash of the wood-fired kiln forms its own glaze.
 

BetterDays

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Continued the PSA (put **** away) with the new bench.
Bringing home another 4 totes on Monday, as only 6 fit in my car.

Trying to figure out what to do about the stuff not large enough for a defined home. Might just be time to ditch a lot of stuff and hope I don't end up needing it next week (or the week after)
 

Beerhippie

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Continued the PSA (put **** away) with the new bench.
Bringing home another 4 totes on Monday, as only 6 fit in my car.

Trying to figure out what to do about the stuff not large enough for a defined home. Might just be time to ditch a lot of stuff and hope I don't end up needing it next week (or the week after)
You know you will....
 

Prospecter

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The house we are redoing has a 30x40 garage/shop that has over 100 outlets... the former owner was a woodworker and he thought of every place imagineable to put power.

Now with battery powered tools, I use maybe 6 of those outlets, still nice to have I guess.
:D Someday someone will move in to my house and shop, and wonder at all the outlets they do not use. Changing times.
 

CoogarXR

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Yanked the mower deck out to replace the blade I bent the other day:

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Last time I changed the blade I just lifted the nose of the mower way up with my cherry picker and fought with a breaker bar forever (those nuts were TIGHT). My cherry picker is buried in the corner of the overstuffed garage, so this time I just dropped the deck and zipped the nuts off with a 3/4" impact. Easy-peazy.

Then I noticed the PTO lever spring rusted and broke. Looking through my parts bins, I found that a dishwasher door spring is very close in length/girth, so I made it work. Hooray for parts hoarding!

And while I was sitting in the driveway, chilling, celebrating my lawnmower victory, Amazon rolled up. My first time getting Amazon on a Sunday. But they had my thermal fuse I ordered for my van. The blower resistor module died (only my top 2 speeds work). Last time this happened, I ordered an OEM Delco module for $55 (and that was RockAuto's price!). It only lasted a year. This time I decided to look closer- it was only a thermal fuse that failed on the module. I ordered a bag of 10 of them for $6 shipped. Soldered that in, and I have my "quiet speeds" on my blower again. And I can fix it nine more times for free, lol.
 

kaymccampbell

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Sorry, I'm not following; how is that smaller/lighter than a Dremel, one of the smallest, lightest, power tools there are?

My Brunning electric eraser from "back in the day' is heavier.
It's half the diameter and shorter. It's like holding a fat cigar, not a 'heavy' thing that strains the fingers n wrist like a Dremel. What can I say, I'm old weak n broken. Give it time you'll want one, too.
 

Bessy

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Not in the garage, but adjacent to the garage... My lovely wife was scrolling Instagram and found a video of someone blowing out their tower fans with a leaf blower... Next thing I knew it, I was on the deck blowing out our tower fans with a leaf blower. Then with a compressor, because when you have fire power, you don't just pull out a pea shooter.
 

jimkinney

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Only thing in the garage was the breaker panel, but noticed the ceiling fan at the top of the stairs was off. Went to check the breaker and it was tripped. Reset - trip - reset - trip - ****.
Removed the arc-fault breaker and switched it for another, it tripped too - ****.

Got out the multi meter and found a high resistance between hot and ground, about 40k ohms. First thought was a critter, lizzard crawled in a box and got himself fried enough to trip. Started looking and couldn't find him, but behind a couple of wall switches I found some black spots on a ground wire, like it had been arcing. Then noticed a lot of green goop coming out of a wire nut holding all the hot wires together.
Pulled the wirenut off and it was full of green goopy copper corrosion, which I think had enough conductivity to cause the trip.
Forgot to take a pic, but cleaned it all up, and replaced the undersized wire nut. They had stuffed 6 14ga wires into a yellow nut, no wonder it caused a problem.
Everything working now, an hopefully it will keep working for the next 20 years.

I think that's my luck for the month.
 

Jgaz

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Started cleaning, flinging and tearing down tool set ups as I finished my kitchen cabinet pull out project.
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No way would I have gotten this project done as quickly without the mini split in the garage.
110 days make working in the garage tough in the afternoon with just a fan
 

pancholasvegas

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I’ve had this little anvil in the garage for longer than I can remember - as wimpy and cheap as it is, it’s actually been fairly handy for odds and ends.

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Unfortunately, it hit the floor during a project I was helping someone with the other day.

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Whenever it’s used for something, it resides in the jaws of the bench vise, so it doesn’t impact function, but I do still have each piece so I figured I’d see what I can do.

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I cleaned up the pieces and fitted them up. After some careful work and quite a bit of swearing, I got them together. I used some silicon bronze filler rod and my TIG machine. One thing I’ve noticed about silicon bronze, every time I think I’ve gotten better, I make a mess again! This was some NASTY metal as well, as to be expected with this cheap casting.

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After getting everything cleaned up, I peened and dimpled the area quite a bit so it wouldn’t stand out as sharply. Wiped it down with some corrosion inhibitor and the repair is hidden enough for me. It’ll go right back on the bench for the next time service is required.



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SMOKEYBEAR

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Trying to be productive while the temps are down here, I don't have pictures of everything.

Under hood/ secondary fuel filter on my 2019 F350 removed/ replaced so I could replace the CCV filter. I've done a bunch of research on the CCV filters for the Ford 6.7 Ford is on their 4th? version going into 2023+. The '23+ version tested the best on crank case pressures and ect..it even out performed deletes that vent to the atmospheres and or routed to the exhaust to burn the last bit of crank case vapors. Patience was key here, 2 of the bolts are a challenge to remove.

Lower/ primary fuel filter replaced to keep the service intervals the same.

I'm researching "disaster kits", and secondary filter relocation kits..its a Ford 6.7 thing.

Upgraded my car wash cart. The previous one was a HF deal, didn't roll well in the grass. Husky has a new version with large tires, had to have one. The HF one was so frustrating I found myself not wanting to use it.
 

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