What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Outlawmws]

Oh yeah:

Alright, which one of you made this?

 

[micromind]

Oh yeah:

Alright, which one of you made this?

That's just too funny!!

 

[bmwrd0]

Worked on getting an old lathe back in shape.

Cleaned of some **** over-paint, and test fitted parts to see if the motor I have will work.

 

[Beerhippie]

....

Today:
EARLY changed the left lo-beam on the DD toy. (2 months after changing the right... Buy those lamps in pairs guys!)

Stripping the white vinyl off the SS, it's taking a hot bath -one end at a time in SG in the USC and then comes off in sheets cold its a tiny piece at a time...

Not sure if its the heat, the SG, or the USC... but the center section will get some boiling water to see if heat alone was needed.. I know Hot tap water did nothing...

Otherwise avoiding the heat.

I've many a time told friends that, if replacing something on a rig that comes in pairs--or fours--replace them all. Why the hell do you think only the one that failed got used?

That vinyl **** on SS... I've posted my feelings before. Unfortunately, soaking a 23' tall by 12' dia fermenter in SG in the ultrasonic isn't really an option. Same goes for kitchen appliances....

 

[Beerhippie]

Oh yeah:

Alright, which one of you made this?

This does both in a smaller package:

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Waxed my truck. It's in my garage thread but someone might like this info:
I found these microfiber towels at Home Depot. Same size roll as ordinary paper ones. Tear off just like paper. They're very thin so don't hold a lot of water but I used them to wax the truck then washed with Dawn dish washing liquid to see if they'd hold up? Cleaned easily and looks like brand new. HIGHLY recommended. $9.99/roll but should last a very long time as they clean up so well.

 

[oldman_pottering]

I love Cubitron Xtract disks.

^^^^ this is good to know, have seen them and wondered

 

[KwikFab]

Oh yeah:

Alright, which one of you made this?

I may have made one some 1-2 years ago





'MORE LESS FIRE FIRE'

 

[Outlawmws]

That vinyl **** on SS... I've posted my feelings before. Unfortunately, soaking a 23' tall by 12' dia fermenter in SG in the ultrasonic isn't really an option. Same goes for kitchen appliances....

It was the heat, much hotter than our hot water from the faucet, I boiled some water in the teapot and slowly poured and pulled and I'm happy with no more vinyl!

Before, (but after the hot SG) - You can see the small "kick" I needed to make this follow the body couture:



and after - just boiled water and pulling more boiling water and pull, being careful not to burn myself...

I know this isn't an option either for large tings Timm, but maybe something small and irritating...

 

[Outlawmws]

I may have made one some 1-2 years ago

KwikFab for the win!

 

[partsguy5768]

Spent the day getting ready for next weeks 5 day, 5 tracks 800 mile drag and drive... wired up a two step, started loading the trailer including building some shelves, trays, hooks out of aluminum in the trailer. Fresh set of plugs in the car. Checked the car over etc... got the motorhome ready for the wife and son to follow to spend the night at each track...

Yesterday day in my Outdoor "garage" early check in and test and tune. Today 1s day of event. Car ran well until time to leave and head to the next track for racing on Wednesday. Emergency brake had a issue when we swapped out the slicks.. wrenching in the pits and on the road by 2.00 pm. Made it to Coos Bay oregon at 7.30 pm.

 

[Jgaz]

Worked on getting an old lathe back in shape.

Cleaned of some **** over-paint, and test fitted parts to see if the motor I have will work.

An old Logan lathe?

 

[PugetDude]

Picked up 4 sticks of 1/2"x 1 -1/2" rectangular tubing and a bag of weld tabs for my next welding project.

 

[bugnut]

Machine shop called, axle for grandsons trike is done, picked up. Initial assembly showed minor offset between sides. Looked through the bushing box, found an oillite with correct od/id. Fired up the lathe, polished and shortened, installed. Then assembled, all but the tires and wheels. Needs fired up and tested.
Then onto the tractor, hand throttle would not hold position, had purchased a maintenance/parts cd. Double checked assembly was about what I thought. Disassembled and reviewed. Friction disk was oil soaked, found a NOS part on the bay. Ordered and waiting will clean off oil and grease and prep.
Put half the tools away.

 

[bmwrd0]

An old Logan lathe?

Yes, sort of. It is a 1943 Montgomery Wards. Right around the time they just made Wards lathes before they came out with their own.

 

[Jgaz]

Yes, sort of. It is a 1943 Montgomery Wards. Right around the time they just made Wards lathes before they came out with their own.

Thought so. My project lathe (which I sold 90% finished) was also a Montgomery Wards lathe.
Mine was all Logan.

I’m sure you know this but there was still a lot of info and/or parts for these available from the
(I believe) Logan Actuator Co. in Chicago

 

[bmwrd0]

Yep, same model basically. I have the original legs also, but the tray is from something else, so I am going with a piece of butcher block counter top to save space in my tiny shop.

 

[Jay__Dub]

Hung some more signs I bought, that I don't need.

 

[rd65]

Verified the new strainer basket and faucet will fit the hand-me-down garage sink. Moved the mower & trailer out and back in. Sat with some FM going and a beer. Gazed over the mess that I need to get cleaned up. Too many projects going on at once. The early fall yard work rush is here.

 

[Jgaz]

Yep, same model basically. I have the original legs also, but the tray is from something else, so I am going with a piece of butcher block counter top to save space in my tiny shop.

I wish that mine had the legs.
I built the top frame of angle iron and plate then bent up some galvanized stock at work to make the chip tray.

 

[lolaetype]

HELP! Is there a JCA (Jerry Can Anonymous) I can join?

When I stumble across a can at a swap meet or garage sale I buy it if it's not trashed. Clean and coat the inside and strip and paint the outside. Then horror of horrors, I take them in the trunk of the car and fill them when I buy gas at Kroger and get my $1 a gallon off on 35 gallons.

Anyway I needed to neaten up where I store them so I made a shelf to hold the two plastic five gallon containers and the empty jugs I put used motor oil in to take to the recycler.

Oh, the oil drain tank on the left is a welding project. I cut out about a foot of the center section of a defective well pressure tank, welded the two ends together, welded a neck on it and added two pieces of PVC pipe to make a telescoping neck. The funnel is from a farm and ranch store; I made a grate out of expanded metal. Some casters from a discarded office chair completed it. I could have bought one, but what's the fun in that?

 

[niget2002]

Put a coat of poly on the daughter's desk last night. She would have helped but she came home from school early on Monday not feeling well. Needless to say, she was a bit behind in all her classes and had to work on homework/assignments to catch up.

This morning I did a second coat of poly.

On Thursday I'll have the daughter help me do a light sand on the desk to smooth everything and then we'll do a final 3rd coat. That'll be good enough for how it'll be used and the fact it's made from plywood. Hope to install it in her room on Saturday.

 

[welder4956]

Primed and painted the repaired door jamb. Gave it 2 coats of paint, let it dry for a couple of hours, then replaced the weather strip with new material. Glad to be done. I think it would have been faster to replace the whole door and jamb. But I spread the work over a few days and the labor is cheap.

Before:




After:

 

[2001ZR2]

Last night made first attempt to hang new power tool storage rack. Figured out where to hang and how. Discovered that I had assembled it wrong...mounting holes had opposing orientations. Partially disassembled and reassembled. Made sketch of mounting plan and called it a night. If time permits will try again tonight.

 

[oldman_pottering]

Hung some more signs I bought, that I don't need.

Don't confuse need with greed

 

[930dreamer]

I replaced the door screen, the screen was covered with a border which I haven't done yet, test fit. I have no eye for colors but this looks odd to me.

 

[nadogail]

Welded more parts on to the Disc Sander Stand. Removed rivets from more pieces of repurposed bed frame. Determined the finished height of the Disc Sander Stand. Working without a clear vision of the finished product has slowed me up; but now I have acquired the vision.
Tomorrow I will move the stand to a level floor and cut the vertical parts to my designed height.

 

[Beerhippie]

Welded more parts on to the Disc Sander Stand. Removed rivets from more pieces of repurposed bed frame. Determined the finished height of the Disc Sander Stand. Working without a clear vision of the finished product has slowed me up; but now I have acquired the vision.
Tomorrow I will move the stand to a level floor and cut the vertical parts to my designed height.

How long did you have to fast on the mountaintop?

 

[LeonardY]

Painted parts.

Spent most of the day cleaning old adhesive off the top od the window. Re-glued the seam. I'll glue the window back to the convertible top tomorrow.


Once that is done. I'm going to list it for sale.

 

[nadogail]

How long did you have to fast on the mountaintop?

I don’t fast well, actually I think better on a full stomach.

 

[rharman]

< snip >
I've many a time told friends that, if replacing something on a rig that comes in pairs--or fours--replace them all. Why the hell do you think only the one that failed got used?
< /snip >

Exactly why the repair bill for my wife's car jumped the other day. Needed 1 coil. But... It was on the rear bank so more labor to get to it. Had them do all 3 while they were there. Then, figured... Well, the front 3 are also 90k miles and 16 years old so do them as well.

 

[partsguy5768]

Yesterday day in my Outdoor "garage" early check in and test and tune. Today 1s day of event. Car ran well until time to leave and head to the next track for racing on Wednesday. Emergency brake had a issue when we swapped out the slicks.. wrenching in the pits and on the road by 2.00 pm. Made it to Coos Bay oregon at 7.30 pm.

Put the car in race trim for coosbay.. My class was second from the bottom today and they got close to running my class and then had two oil downs ( both lanes) track destroyed. Oiled from startline all the way down the track into the pits. Race canceled, put the car back into street trim and off the Woodburn race way. Hit my two check points, ( did the " mandatory " trailer burnouts) Got in at 7.00pm will be making double runs tomorrow to make up for coosbay https://www.facebook.com/redwoodrally https://www.facebook.com/reel/1447592549849699/

 

[DGersic]

That flow switch looks like one for a pool chlorinator.

I know nothing of pool chlorinators. Are these things known to be particularly failure prone?

I bought this one:



and in August installed it inline with my sump pump outlet flow. In testing it with a garden hose in the pit, it worked great. Pit fills up, pump kicks in, switch closes, alert fires and my phone pings to let me know. Great.

Early this morning was the first real rain storm to hit since I was there. Cameras confirm heavy rain, sump pump definitely pumping, and the alerts started hitting my phone. Mostly great.

The rain stopped a while ago, but I’m still getting alerts. Cameras confirm rain stopped, and the pump is not currently running, there’s no output flow from it, but I’m still getting alerts every minute (service throttled to one per minute).

I‘m thinking that the switch must be stuck closed. It’s a thousand miles away, so I can’t just bop over to have a look at it. But it seems like something that shouldn’t fail in less than a month from installation.

I can disable monitoring of the switch, but that would be sad. If these switches are known to be unreliable over that short a period of time, I’ll just chalk it up to an inexpensive lesson learned.

 

[Jay__Dub]

Don't confuse need with greed

Yeah, I guess admitting you've got a problem is the first step....
....in this case, the problem is a decreasing amount of wall space.

 

[PhantomEB]

Work said just throw that dead Dayton fan and stand out. Another journeyman said the whole thing? Yep. I said hmmm I think I got a Dayton knockoff back at the garage that may fit. He goes well let’s bust it down to get out the door. If you can make one GOOD one out of one half ok one and a stand…why not.

Turns out my fan was a perfect fit. Now I got a high powered fan on a stand for the shop.

 

[rd65]

Opened door long enough to grab my bag of plumbing parts to return.

 

[Beerhippie]

Discovered another quirk of the old pub building.

I made a "backer board" to wall-mount something between studs--drywall anchors had pulled out. All the interior walls of the old building have studs on 24" centers--except this one, which has them on 16" centers. I'd made the board 28" long and now it's cut down to 20", pre-drilled and waiting for the touch-up paint to dry on the new cut end.

Then it's smooth down the second coat of spar varnish on the refinished table with some steel wool and get the third and final coat down. As soon as the overnight dew dries, that is.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I know nothing of pool chlorinators. Are these things known to be particularly failure prone?

I bought this one:



and in August installed it inline with my sump pump outlet flow. In testing it with a garden hose in the pit, it worked great. Pit fills up, pump kicks in, switch closes, alert fires and my phone pings to let me know. Great.

Early this morning was the first real rain storm to hit since I was there. Cameras confirm heavy rain, sump pump definitely pumping, and the alerts started hitting my phone. Mostly great.

The rain stopped a while ago, but I’m still getting alerts. Cameras confirm rain stopped, and the pump is not currently running, there’s no output flow from it, but I’m still getting alerts every minute (service throttled to one per minute).

I‘m thinking that the switch must be stuck closed. It’s a thousand miles away, so I can’t just bop over to have a look at it. But it seems like something that shouldn’t fail in less than a month from installation.

I can disable monitoring of the switch, but that would be sad. If these switches are known to be unreliable over that short a period of time, I’ll just chalk it up to an inexpensive lesson learned.

I've had the same one on my pool for 20 years. Mine is a Hayward. There's times that a brand name counts, and this is one of them. However, you would want to install it vertically. And you'd need a foot or more of straight pipe before it. And they're meant to run in clear water. A stream of **** or the wrong chemistry could possibly jam it in the closed position.

 

[Old Man Roger]

How long did you have to fast on the mountaintop?

Magic mushrooms

 

[Wrench97]

I know nothing of pool chlorinators. Are these things known to be particularly failure prone?

I bought this one:



and in August installed it inline with my sump pump outlet flow. In testing it with a garden hose in the pit, it worked great. Pit fills up, pump kicks in, switch closes, alert fires and my phone pings to let me know. Great.

Early this morning was the first real rain storm to hit since I was there. Cameras confirm heavy rain, sump pump definitely pumping, and the alerts started hitting my phone. Mostly great.

The rain stopped a while ago, but I’m still getting alerts. Cameras confirm rain stopped, and the pump is not currently running, there’s no output flow from it, but I’m still getting alerts every minute (service throttled to one per minute).

I‘m thinking that the switch must be stuck closed. It’s a thousand miles away, so I can’t just bop over to have a look at it. But it seems like something that shouldn’t fail in less than a month from installation.

I can disable monitoring of the switch, but that would be sad. If these switches are known to be unreliable over that short a period of time, I’ll just chalk it up to an inexpensive lesson learned.

Does it have a moving float or is just a electronic water sensor that may need to dry out?