What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Beerhippie]

The mug repair was a success--so far! Not only did the funky CA, brass and baking soda hold up to the curing temps of the engine enamel, but the gloss finish of the enamel nicely matches the glaze of the ceramic--for now.

Now I'm back to fighting the damned Rinnais.... Brew day tomorrow so we need hot water and I only have one Rinnai that will reliably heat to 185F. I have parts for a complete rebuild (new burner plates (old ones are cracked) and primary heat exchanger) on the way so decided not to try the franken-build idea and instead limp through the next few days and do it once and do it right.

 

[Beerhippie]

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.

Wise man!

I've never complained that a space had too many outlets--or too many 20A circuits.

 

[Outlawmws]

A young person seeing all those outlets will just say "Look at all the available places for charging stations! No waiting! Woo Hoo!

On that note, I went to a friend of my son's yesterday evening and helped them replace an outlet, - for a charging station...

 

[Beerhippie]

A young person seeing a ll those outlets will just say "Look at all the available places for charging stations! No waiting! Woo Hoo!

On that note, I went to a friend of my son's yesterday evening and helped them replace an outlet, - for a charging station...

The pub had me replace a bunch of outlets a few years ago with ones that had built-in USB-A charging ports... now all their cords are USB-C to USB-C.

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

Walked through my garage and a sign caught my eye, so I brought it inside again. I haven't had much time to mess with my cars or be in my garage. Sigh.

As I have said before we are redoing a house. I am fairly handy but every project on this house has tested me. It feels like it has sucked the last three years out of me.

One day a couple years ago, I was feeling really overwhelmed with all of the projects we had going on in life... and on top of them all also redoing a pretty large house.

I came out to the house to work on it and one of the existing sky lights was leaking all over my new hardwood floors. Another dagger...

To make a long story short... I had a guy come out and replace the skylight. An older gentleman who was an awesome craftsman. As he was figuring out the skylight, I was working on another part of the house. I walked by and grumbled something and he said...

"You know Jeff, this is a beautiful home on an amazing piece of land..."

I grumbled something about not being sure I would ever finish the place.

He replied... "Oh you will finish it, the thing is you just have to see it through, it's that simple." He remarked that many people can't do that, they give up too easily...

I honestly felt the hair stand up on my neck and I remember thinking... "Holy F, this guy is right..." It was almost religious how it felt to me on that day when I was really struggling to maintain my desire to continue.

So I had a sign made to remind myself... I move it around when I am feeling low, we are closer now and I can taste victory with this house, as we start to paint, I still sometimes place the sign to remind myself of his words...

 

[welder4956]

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Nothing. I'm a long way from the garage today.

Still nothing. Maybe next week.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Man what a view.

 

[Luntz]

Too dang hot here in middle Tennessee, no mini split in the garage of this rental, so I moved the garage into the sunroom.
1998 C5 Corvette seat was tired and 1 motor not working. Fun project.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Started to unpack and set up my lift.

 

[Outlawmws]

we are closer now and I can taste victory with this house, as we start to paint, I still sometimes place the sign to remind myself of his words...

Very similar to a writing quote that can be applied to most anything:

Neil Gaiman:
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard.”

 

[Cheesy1]

Bought wife a used Jeep with 180k miles 2 years ago. Lift and 35s. Need that to go to Walmart and the kids diftbsll practice ya know? Driving it reminded me of our old 2 ton grain truck as a kid. Wander all over the road. I just thought that was the nature of lifted jeeps.

Then I realized recently there was play in the track bar. Thought bushings were bad. Pulled off. Bushings solid. Start measuring bolts and bolt holes. Start reading online. In Jeeps infinite wisdom they put 14mm bolts in 9/16 diameter holes. Replaced the bolts with 9/16 grade 8s and the thing handles like a sports car now. Almost.

.0113” difference in bolt diameter was all it took.

Only took me 2 years to do it…

 

[bugnut]

Got busy and replaced the leaking valve cover gasket. As soon as it was removed could see the issue, it was the newer sandwich style gasket that has a metal middle core, glue or whatever used to hold the 3 pcs together had give up. New cork gasket installed. Ten minute test run and then a 75 mile test drive all is well, shes just leaking and dripping like a normal 4 banger.

 

[bulletpruf]

Helped my buddy swap in a new hub on his 75 year old Ford 8N tractor.

 

[jawstight]

Fabricated a shield to keep the majority of the oily and sharp bits on the bench (tool cart), that my drill press is mounted to.
Home Despot Sunlite corrugated poly sheet

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

and I can taste victory with this house, as we start to paint

You are wearing a respirator, aren’t you?? Lol

Joking aside, that was something I needed to hear. I take after my parents all too often when it comes to finishing projects, and I end up losing the motivation to see it through. Maybe I need to make a sign like that for myself.

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

Helped my buddy swap in a new hub on his 75 year old Ford 8N tractor.

there is one of these tractors for sale near my house, I wish I had the time and need for a tractor, because they just look cool!

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

You are wearing a respirator, aren’t you?? Lol

Joking aside, that was something I needed to hear. I take after my parents all too often when it comes to finishing projects, and I end up losing the motivation to see it through. Maybe I need to make a sign like that for myself.

Now I am starting to think it is probably not victory but it is just paint I am tasting!

Everybody needs some sort of sign!

 

[Old Man Roger]

there is one of these tractors for sale near my house, I wish I had the time and need for a tractor, because they just look cool!

Tractors are like welders, once you have one you find hundreds of uses for it. And like welders, get the biggest one you can.lol

 

[ronr80]

I worked on a C-7 Corvette grand sport , here was he cabin filter , this is a $100,000 car boys have a look at your cabin filter , it takes 2 minutes . I see lots of them like this some even have pine cones in them. R

 

[Prospecter]

Tractors are like welders, once you have one you find hundreds of uses for it. And like welders, get the biggest one you can.lol

And one is never enough!

 

[bulletpruf]

there is one of these tractors for sale near my house. I don't need one and I can't afford one right now, but I'm going to buy it anyway because I want it.

Fixed it for you...

 

[Outlawmws]

Fixed it for you...

Because what are friends for?

 

[Beerhippie]

Today is dedicated to cleaning all our event service gear after Saturday's street dance downtown.

One down:



One-and-a-half to go:



I built all of that gear, from the jockeyboxes to the cleaning rig.

I've got to add a bulkhead fitting to the red box. It uses a plate-type chiller, which requires drainage. Getting the bulkhead fitting to seal on a cheap cooler should be a challenge.

Dog is my bosses' insane Border collie. He's also known as "the weather dog" as he can predict thunderstorms (and only thunderstorms) an hour in advance--which is what he's freaking out over in the picture. He's also one hell of an obsessive fetcher--and really no good for anything else. Definitely not a petting kind of dog.

"Hey! Get off the keyboard and throw the gawddamned ball! Worthless human....."

 

[lolaetype]

I spent Saturday removing the driveshaft, exhaust and transmission from the F150, Relatively easy with a lift and transmission jack. Sunday I cleaned everything and replaced the clutch, pressure plate and slave cylinder and prepped everything for reassembly. This morning I reinstalled the transmission and am now taking a break before I torque the bolts and install everything else. The dealer wanted $1,600 + tax(labor rate of $185/hr). My parts, including a transmission jack from Amazon, came to about $400.

 

[bulletpruf]

I spent Saturday removing the driveshaft, exhaust and transmission from the F150, Relatively easy with a lift and transmission jack. Sunday I cleaned everything and replaced the clutch, pressure plate and slave cylinder and prepped everything for reassembly. This morning I reinstalled the transmission and am now taking a break before I torque the bolts and install everything else. The dealer wanted $1,600 + tax(labor rate of $185/hr). My parts, including a transmission jack from Amazon, came to about $400.

Pics or it didn't happen!

 

[Beerhippie]

Waiting for the power to go out... weatherdog was right--it's a rip-snortin' toad-floater!

 

[Beerhippie]

I spent Saturday removing the driveshaft, exhaust and transmission from the F150, Relatively easy with a lift and transmission jack. Sunday I cleaned everything and replaced the clutch, pressure plate and slave cylinder and prepped everything for reassembly. This morning I reinstalled the transmission and am now taking a break before I torque the bolts and install everything else. The dealer wanted $1,600 + tax(labor rate of $185/hr). My parts, including a transmission jack from Amazon, came to about $400.

And it's done right--or, at least, you know who's to blame if not.

 

[niget2002]

Started cleaning, flinging and tearing down tool set ups as I finished my kitchen cabinet pull out project.
3 cabinets, six pull out trays.

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

I wanted to do our cabinets this way also, but my wife refuses to let me cut the center supports on the double doors. So we're getting 4 smaller drawers in each cabinet.

 

[Jgaz]

I wanted to do our cabinets this way also, but my wife refuses to let me cut the center supports on the double doors. So we're getting 4 smaller drawers in each cabinet.

I admit I was a bit concerned about taking out the center stile on the three cabinets.

The center style gives no support to anything other than the two doors when they are closed. The stile does nothing to support the top, due to the fact that each cabinet has a full width drawer above the two doors.

I had several ideas of how to add stiffness or support but it was not at all necessary in my case.

 

[KwikFab]

Cut more stool parts

 

[niget2002]

I admit I was a bit concerned about taking out the center stile on the three cabinets.

The center style gives no support to anything other than the two doors when they are closed. The stile does nothing to support the top, due to the fact that each cabinet has a full width drawer above the two doors.

I had several ideas of how to add stiffness or support but it was not at all necessary in my case.

Yeah. I know that it's only for show.

My dad did the same thing as you. Of course, my dad's method of doing it came out a bit hackish because he used the tools he had at hand and it left a big crooked gap at the top/bottom of the stile. And since that's the only one my wife has ever seen like that, she thinks if I did it, it'd look the same.

So, I'm stuck with this other method. At least the drawers I'm using could be used both for individual drawers or one big one, so maybe in the future she'll let me cut the cabinets and put two larger drawers in. Or maybe once I get the smaller drawers done, she'll see how much cabinet space she looses from all the extra hardware and let me redo it. Who knows.

 

[rcktpwrd]

Spent a couple hours sweating profusely in the garage earlier changing out the rear leaf spring shackles from 'stock' ones to shorter 1" lift ones. I had to use a step bit to clean/open up the bolt holes a bit, mainly to clean out the powder coating. One zerk broke off, I was able to remove the broken part and install what was left of it but the spring and ball disappeared, otherwise a fairly straight forward parts swap.


The truck has a flip kit in the back so it sits 6-7 inches lower than stock but the original 200+K mile springs are pretty worn out so any load in the bed makes it sag and there is very little suspension movement left. On the plus side the worn springs make for a softer ride so I'm not too eager to replace them plus that's a big pain in the ***...

We went to Carlisle, Pa for the truck nationals this past weekend, 850 miles round trip. The shackle lift worked perfectly, the rear only bottomed out a couple of times and it wasn't harsh when it did! It also changed the pinion angle just enough to eliminate 95% of the driveline vibration that I haven't been able to get rid of.


Today I fixed a super annoying high pitched whistle from the carburetor. It only happened at certain RPMs. I found a vacuum cap on a timed vacuum port that had a hole in it!

 

[Jgaz]

I was very concerned about getting a clean cut on the top and bottom and actually practiced a couple different ways to make those cuts.

The way that worked well for me was to use this saw and make the cuts by hand.

JORGENSEN Japanese Flush Cut Saw, 5 Inch Pro Double Edge Pull Saw, SK5 Flexible Blade Wood Handsaw, 18/25 TPI Blade with Soft Grip Handle for Hardwood & Softwood Woodworking, Wood Trim - Amazon.com

JORGENSEN Japanese Flush Cut Saw, 5 Inch Pro Double Edge Pull Saw, SK5 Flexible Blade Wood Handsaw, 18/25 TPI Blade with Soft Grip Handle for Hardwood & Softwood Woodworking, Wood Trim - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

I purchased my saw at Home Depot.

This saw, combined with a one inch guide block and a shim on the inside at the cabinet bottom allowed me to make a thin kerf, clean cut. The guide block and interior shim gave me a flat reference surface to help keep the blade flat and square to the bottom and top rail.

Ive seen your work here. I’ll bet your cuts would put mine to shame. ( and mine were pretty decent)

You are correct in that you will lose a lot of space with two pullouts instead of one. But you already know that

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

Today is dedicated to cleaning all our event service gear after Saturday's street dance downtown.

One down:



One-and-a-half to go:



I built all of that gear, from the jockeyboxes to the cleaning rig.

I've got to add a bulkhead fitting to the red box. It uses a plate-type chiller, which requires drainage. Getting the bulkhead fitting to seal on a cheap cooler should be a challenge.

Dog is my bosses' insane Border collie. He's also known as "the weather dog" as he can predict thunderstorms (and only thunderstorms) an hour in advance--which is what he's freaking out over in the picture. He's also one hell of an obsessive fetcher--and really no good for anything else. Definitely not a petting kind of dog.

"Hey! Get off the keyboard and throw the gawddamned ball! Worthless human....."

jockeyboxes good potential band name, if I ever start shredding again

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

We went to Carlisle, Pa for the truck nationals this past weekend, 850 miles round trip. The shackle lift worked perfectly, the rear only bottomed out a couple of times and it wasn't harsh when it did! It also changed the pinion angle just enough to eliminate 95% of the driveline vibration that I haven't been able to get rid of.


Today I fixed a super annoying high pitched whistle from the carburetor. It only happened at certain RPMs. I found a vacuum cap on a timed vacuum port that had a hole in it!

You mean you found a whistle where a vacuum cap should be!

 

[Beerhippie]

jockeyboxes good potential band name, if I ever start shredding again

It's a pretty established name for these event service doohickies--and a lot easier to say than that! The nice thing with a jockeybox is that, outside of extreme temps, there's no need to ice the kegs--the ice goes in the jockeybox and cools the beverage via a heat exchanger. In the case of the four-tap, SS coils (50' long); for the two-tap, a chiller plate (***** compared to coils).

Jockeybox is also Western vernacular for glove compartment.

When I "shredded", it meant skiing or snowboarding with little or no regard for personal safety.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Walked through. Washed my hands. Scanned and emailed some documents.

 

[Outlawmws]

Cleaned/cleaning stuff, and put said stuff away, cut more ivy.

 

[nadogail]

Disassembled more Bedframes and now have more than enough usable steel to build a wheeled table for my Disc Sander.

I will be cutting and tacking Tuesday.

 

[Outlawmws]

Disassembled more Bedframes and now have more than enough usable steel to build a wheeled table for my Disc Sander.

I will be cutting and tacking Tuesday.

Suggestion: either use a torch, plasma cutter, abrasive chop saw, or an angle iron shear for cutting.

I've killed a lot of band saw and Port-A-Band blades in the hard spots in almost all bed frames.