What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[rd65]

Got the last coat of polystain on sink cabinet. Cut the hole in the floor for water & drain piping. The concrete guys didnt disturb the small tub I had set for them to pour around. Concrete there was only about 1" thick, easy work with rotohammer. Found a use for the 13" end lower cabinet, it will go over by the press for tools/parts.

 

[Mike65]

Yesterday & Friday I rotated the tires, checked the tire pressure, checked the brakes & changed the oil & oil filter in my 05 F150.

 

[niget2002]

Drywall is easier to repair than a door....

Not my problem.

 

[69charged]

Finally finished installing the **** blaster in my son’s megacab dodge. Sounds pretty damn good for 2 shallow subs. But sending them tons of power helps!! Just need to get some carpet.

 

[PhantomEB]

Cleaning up after I made a lot of sawdust, working on filling in gaps on the front stairs then side boards. Will skirt the lower half once I get the handrails on.

 

[PhantomEB]

If you’re taking that to work in the middle of winter, I think you should add heated seats and steering wheel.

Roger…..she does have heated seats out of a Subaru WRX. Just got to do research and figure out which wires.

 

[Jgaz]

Sanded the lid of recipe box (3x5 cards) that I’m making out of some left over pieces.

The lid is small and quite thin so I thought I‘d show my hold down method.

 

[Jay870]

Doing some rust-proofing and wiring clean up on the new equipment trailer.

 

[oldman_pottering]

The cover that goes over the engine in a van

thanks mate

 

[Beerhippie]

Cleaned some camping pots and pans of dust from storage. Blew down and refilled the brewery boiler. Sat and read some and surfed the interwebby. Sat in the blast of the swamp cooler (97 outside right now) and sipped some barley soda.

I think I need a rest now.

 

[niget2002]

She did it on purpose.lol

Doubtful. We already have 3.

 

[oldman_pottering]

Headed into the shed and grab sanders, scrapers,buckets etc etc and did this wall this weekend, we recently stripped fibro sheeting off the walls and uncovered the original boards which were coloured this horrible green, this weekend just gone I spent the majority of both days scraping the groove between the boards with a chisel to loosen the flaking paint, wire wheeled everywhere, sanded with 80 then 120, washed down and filled the gaps .............and ran out of filler with about 1 meter left
Middle photo shows the difference between start and finish, last photo shows completed except for the little bit of filler missing at top of the window where I ran out

 

[dwasifar]

Cobbled up a fix for my driver side visor on the Crosstrek. Loose pivot; go around a turn when it's over by the window and it swings over and hits me on the head. Turned out the base is cracked and not putting enough pressure on the pivot. I carved it a little to accept a tiny hose clamp and applied epoxy to keep the clamp from sliding up and out of position. Don't know if it'll hold but I figured I'd try rather than paying $100 for a new visor.

Also replaced the 25' rubber air hose on my HF reel with a 50' Metabo poly hose found on sale at Lowe's. Obviously the stop collar on the rubber hose was too big to grip the new hose, so I had to make a new one.



In the process I was reminded that my Hitachi drill bit set, while good in most respects, came with two 11/32 bits and no 23/64, which I missed having today.

 

[Bryan Burns]

Cleaned the schmutz off my workbench top.

 

[Beerhippie]

Cleaned the schmutz off my workbench top.

Benchtop properly cluttered, but enough room to work. Good job!

 

[Old Man Roger]

Doubtful. We already have 3.

That’s proof, she has a vacuum addiction.lol

 

[oldman_pottering]

Sanded the lid of recipe box (3x5 cards) that I’m making out of some left over pieces.

The lid is small and quite thin so I thought I‘d show my hold down method.

that's neat !

 

[niget2002]

Evap hose for the wife's car came in so I installed it. Hooked the smoke machine up to test and smoke started billowing out the back of the car... Great.

Pull the wheel and liner to get a better look and turned the machine back on. Saw the smoke and realized it was coming out of something that looked like an intake air filter. Makes sense, so put the car back together and cleared the code.

Cleaned up and took the car to get dinner and stop by O'Reilly to get some body clips to replace the ones I broke.

 

[Beerhippie]

Evap hose for the wife's car came in so I installed it. Hooked the smoke machine up to test and smoke started billowing out the back of the car... Great.

Pull the wheel and liner to get a better look and turned the machine back on. Saw the smoke and realized it was coming out of something that looked like an intake air filter. Makes sense, so put the car back together and cleared the code.

Cleaned up and took the car to get dinner and stop by O'Reilly to get some body clips to replace the ones I broke.

Shouldn't there be a check valve of some sort so air goes in but fumes don't go out?

 

[Wrench97]

Evap hose for the wife's car came in so I installed it. Hooked the smoke machine up to test and smoke started billowing out the back of the car... Great.

Pull the wheel and liner to get a better look and turned the machine back on. Saw the smoke and realized it was coming out of something that looked like an intake air filter. Makes sense, so put the car back together and cleared the code.

Cleaned up and took the car to get dinner and stop by O'Reilly to get some body clips to replace the ones I broke.

That is the vent valve, you need a scan tool to close it or you can plug the hose, buy doing so won't tell you if the vent valve is operational, they do have a high failure rate on some GM's.

 

[niget2002]

Shouldn't there be a check valve of some sort so air goes in but fumes don't go out?

Yes. That part got replaced last year

That is the vent valve, you need a scan tool to close it or you can plug the hose, buy doing so won't tell you if the vent valve is operational, they do have a high failure rate on some GM's.

This is on a tube off of the valve.

There's a tube coming off the top of this thing going to the white valve thing behind the phone in this picture. The bottom of this black canister has big vent openings and what looks like white filter paper in it.

I took this picture to try and look up the part number but haven't gotten that far yet.

 

[niget2002]

Yes. That part got replaced last year


This is on a tube off of the valve.

There's a tube coming off the top of this thing going to the white valve thing behind the phone in this picture. The bottom of this black canister has big vent openings and what looks like white filter paper in it.

I took this picture to try and look up the part number but haven't gotten that far yet.

Google search says this is part of the fuel filler tube. You can see it in the top of the picture.

Not sure how this all works, but so far the light hasn't come back on.

 

[BuyMyGarage]

Replaced the positive cable to the starter on the tractor, usually when it won't start its the ground to body connection, but this time the positive battery connector was very rusty.
Replaced the man door gaskets, destroyed by mice and 20 years of wear.
Assembled a new shelf, started re-organizing.
Took 3 unneeded items to the curb
Organized a little better

 

[oldman_pottering]

she has a vacuum addiction.lol

that *****

 

[bulletpruf]

Maintenance day at the shop.

The welder got swapped over from .024 to .035 wire.



Broke the blade on the bandsaw yesterday, so that got replaced.



New grinder wheel for the grinder.



New disk and belt for the sander.



Cleaned the filters on the mini-splits, too.

 

[larry4406]

Moved and purged more.

Have half the garage now mobile on either casters or skates.

Tomorrow will power wash half and hopefully start the Racedeck. It’s been acclimating in the garage for over a year so I think it’s ready.

While floor is drying from power wash will go get a saw blade TBD for table saw to rip the tiles. Need to center off the 16’ garage door and run wild to the ends.

Thinking of the attached HF blade.

 

[welder4956]

Worked on the riding mower. Adjusted the air pressure in all 4 tires, then leveled the mower deck and sharpened the blades.

 

[58Yeoman]

Started sanding on the 67/500 Corvair now that the temps have fallen to a civilized temperature with low humidity. Got the roof, hood, left front fender, top of the right front fender, half of the front end and part of the driver door done. Fixing flaws as I go.

 

[Jay__Dub]

Got the brakes on my F2POS done on the front. Beat the back wheel off, and was really hoping it was an emergency brake shoe problem, but no, of course not. The pads were rust welded to the bracket. I have no idea how the hell the wheel was even turning, but I'm glad I checked it, as it was getting plenty hot.

The truck sat all winter, because I had to put the new starter in, but I'm old, so I didn't do it in the cold weather laying in the driveway. Maybe that caused them to rust weld in place. Not sure.

So I did clean up the bracket, and lubed the pins, cleaned out the slots for the pads. The caliper looks okay. At least I'm going to try it. So pads tomorrow hopefully, and get that done.

 

[Wrench97]

Got the brakes on my F2POS done on the front. Beat the back wheel off, and was really hoping it was an emergency brake shoe problem, but no, of course not. The pads were rust welded to the bracket. I have no idea how the hell the wheel was even turning, but I'm glad I checked it, as it was getting plenty hot.

The truck sat all winter, because I had to put the new starter in, but I'm old, so I didn't do it in the cold weather laying in the driveway. Maybe that caused them to rust weld in place. Not sure.

So I did clean up the bracket, and lubed the pins, cleaned out the slots for the pads. The caliper looks okay. At least I'm going to try it. So pads tomorrow hopefully, and get that done.

We have a customer that lets the E350/450 buses sit all summer til the colledge wakes back up last week at least one or two of have that issue every year. The other issue is the batteries are dead and some don't come back to life....

 

[Mike65]

Cleaning up after I made a lot of sawdust, working on filling in gaps on the front stairs then side boards. Will skirt the lower half once I get the handrails on.

Did you build over concrete steps?

 

[Beerhippie]

Out front of the shop this afternoon. It's below 90 for a change, so a good time.

It must be that time of year, as the Toy up and shed both its side mirror glasses in one twenty-four-hour period two weeks ago:



The new ones arrived today. Apparently, Carparts dot com's free shipping involves long-distance snails.





That'll take some of the guesswork out of backing up.

Stupid easy one-tool (10mm socket on 1/4" spinner bar) job. The new ones don't have the internal adjuster levers--BFD. OMG--I gotta open the window to adjust the mirrors (which is a one-and-done, as I'm the sole driver of this rig).

 

[Metallitubby]

Put track-day tools/supplies away and organized the shop before I swap cars in the shop from lift to flat-stall.

 

[FLHCHAZ]

Laid the new trunk pan in the project Riviera and realized that I am still going to have to fab at least 2 more panels....

 

[Kent_B]

For the few of you here that read my posts, he did well on his first lesson!

Way cooler'n than the trombone I was forced to play in school.

My daughter texted me this morning and said something was dragging on her car and making terrible noise. Told her to drop it in front of my garage and I'd look at it later.

This is another reason not to have oil changes done at quick change places. Exhaust system is rusted out behind the catalytic converter. If she'd taken it to a good place, I'm sure it would have been caught before it left the chat. Now she can decide if she wants to fix it or take on a car payment.

 

[Beerhippie]

The kitchen manager asked me this AM if I wanted an easy, fifteen-minute job....

On my **** list, right next to the idiots who invent new, unneeded and unasked-for fasteners, is the jackass who invented this "protective" wrap for stainless:



LATER THAT DAY:



There are three of those.

It gets a little easier from here on out. The green aerosol sprayer is acetone. I spray it around the edges of the wrap and anywhere there is visible damage. It seems to seep under the film and somewhat loosen the grip.

CONSIDERABLY LATER THAT DAY:



An hour and fifteen minutes for a fifteen minute job. Not bad.

IKEA is purely amateur hour when it comes to assembling flat-pack furniture.

 

[kaymccampbell]

The kitchen manager asked me this AM if I wanted an easy, fifteen-minute job....

On my **** list, right next to the idiots who invent new, unasked-for fasteners, is the person who invented this "protective" wrap for stainless:



LATER THAT DAY:



There are three of those.

It gets a little easier from here on out. The green aerosol sprayer is acetone. I spray it around the edges of the wrap and anywhere there is visible damage. It seems to seep under the film and somewhat loosen the grip.

CONSIDERABLY LATER THAT DAY:



An hour and fifteen minutes for a fifteen minute job. Not bad.

IKEA is purely amateur hour when it comes to assembling flat-pack furniture.

Imagine having to peel the rubber wrap off 2000 sqft of standing seam roofing.

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

Got a cellular 5k wifi router for the shop/garage and as a backup for the house in case our cable modem ever goes down.

Now I can start to put a couple of cameras out there as I get the place set up.

I will also have the cameras connected to small missile launchers which can take out thieves, burglars or other unsavories remotely.

Ok, just the cameras for now...

 

[Beerhippie]

Imagine having to peel the rubber wrap off 2000 sqft of standing seam roofing.

Imagine having to peel that protective wrap off a 12' dia X 28' tall fermenter that's been sitting outside in the sun for a year. That took about a week. Imagine just how much stainless steel wrapped in that **** there is in a brewery and commercial kitchen.

This afternoon, I need a couple of 1/2" stainless steel collar stops for mounting my new rinser to our canning line. Now, a stainless steel stop collar just ain't something you run out and buy in Bumfuck, OR, so it looks like fab time! Note: If I did buy stainless collars, the set screw wouldn't likely be SS, anyway.

A 5/8" stainless nut fits right fine on a 1/2" rod. We have loads of them--we used to buy them by the hundred for equipment anchors when building out the brewery. I have a lot of 1/4"-20 stainless screws, too.



I use a pilot hole for anything over about 1/8" inch. It makes my bits over 1/8" last a lot longer and makes for a better job of it.



Oh, calm down and don't git yer ******* in a knot! I'm just starting the tap by hand in the 'press to get it started straight. I'll finish the tapping by hand in a bench vise.

Did I mention that I love gun taps for through-bored holes? I can't believe how easily it tapped this often problematic 304 SS.



There ya' go. I'm going to make a couple more right now as, looking at that picture, I realized they're just the thing for another part of the mount--and I'll have an excuse for some TIG time!

 

[Beerhippie]

Got a cellular 5k wifi router for the shop/garage and as a backup for the house in case our cable modern ever goes down.

Now I can start to put a couple of cameras out there as I get the place set up.

I will also have the cameras connected to small missile launchers which can take out thieves, burglars or other unsavories remotely.

Ok, just the cameras for now...

Better make sure you have your insurance updated to include defensive missile launches.