Beerhippie
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That's Sir Paul to you, mister!
What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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That's Sir Paul to you, mister!
SMOKEYBEAR
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Oil change and fuel filter on the Excursion - No pics
Messed with my drill press. Made what I guess will be an adapter plate. Switch mounted, motor mount as well. It's 3/8 aluminum, over kill for the switch but seems appropriate for the motor mount. The motor has a different bolt pattern, so I'm sure counter sunk fasteners will be required. I may get lucky and the fasteners will align with the void of the original plate, if that's the case I'll flip it around. I found the drawings online, but I'm going to wait to have the motor in hand before I drill holes. I have a few sets of fasteners, I like the carriage bolts, easy to install/ adjust. Pics, no order
Messed with my drill press. Made what I guess will be an adapter plate. Switch mounted, motor mount as well. It's 3/8 aluminum, over kill for the switch but seems appropriate for the motor mount. The motor has a different bolt pattern, so I'm sure counter sunk fasteners will be required. I may get lucky and the fasteners will align with the void of the original plate, if that's the case I'll flip it around. I found the drawings online, but I'm going to wait to have the motor in hand before I drill holes. I have a few sets of fasteners, I like the carriage bolts, easy to install/ adjust. Pics, no order
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Itinerant
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Started another mower rebuild project, disassembling and cleaning. Need to get a tap so I can thread/pull the flywheel.
Beerhippie
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Got the timing covers back on the Brick with new gaskets. Reassembled the heat shield and exhaust system. Rig is almost ready to roll--but something seems to be missing--oh, yeah, a transaxle would be nice!
Just waiting now for the trans to get a ride back from Bend--probably this week. I figure one hard push this weekend and I can get to breaking in the newly rebuilt transaxle.
Just waiting now for the trans to get a ride back from Bend--probably this week. I figure one hard push this weekend and I can get to breaking in the newly rebuilt transaxle.
Metallitubby
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Had some other team members come up to help build a checklist for the new/old Pikes Peak car along with uploading a base-map using the Hondata FlashPro module.
*I also reached out to the team lead that built this car back in 2013, to get more information about the build and some of the neat/unique modifications this car has to wrap my head around next steps in the refresh process.
*I also reached out to the team lead that built this car back in 2013, to get more information about the build and some of the neat/unique modifications this car has to wrap my head around next steps in the refresh process.
racecougar
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Pieced together a front accessory drive for the '73 Mustang build. I need to swap out the AC compressor clutch for an 8-groove unit; the 6-rib belt here is just temporary. I still need to install the beauty cover on the idler pulley, too. We're running a Sanden 709 AC compressor, a Saginaw P-series power steering pump, a high performance water pump, and a 140 amp one-wire alternator.
Beerhippie
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Pieced together a front accessory drive for the '73 Mustang build. I need to swap out the AC compressor clutch for an 8-groove unit; the 6-rib belt here is just temporary. I still need to install the beauty cover on the idler pulley, too. We're running a Sanden 709 AC compressor, a Saginaw P-series power steering pump, a high performance water pump, and a 140 amp one-wire alternator.
That there is right purty!
smackey05
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Took the cover off my toploader... I think something is wrong with the 3/4 synchro.
LeonardY
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Pushed the go button on the CNC mil.
Pushed the go button the FDM printer.
Cleaned, tossed and organized while the machines were doing the work.
Pushed the go button the FDM printer.
Cleaned, tossed and organized while the machines were doing the work.
2001ZR2
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What I started with for lighting
What I have after getting all the 4 foot LEDs hung
The door up doesn't make it too dark.
So yes after fighting through the bad contractor issues the lights are up and work.
In typical GJ why just focus this? Start a side quest.
Free market place find before clean up.
Run the pieces on the wire wheel, 3 in 1 oil and pliers to loosen the detent on the extension, universal and ratchet.
3 cycles in ultra sonic cleaner and even the ratchet would move again. Was rusted solid before.
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One of my patch panel sections showed up in the post. Much more complete than I thought it would be.
Spent the afternoon removing all of the spot welds holding the fender stays and what was left of the wheel well from the panel.
Now that I’ve removed all the guts, I can start the mock up for the cut to graft this section. I am very fortunate that I came across a fella in Idaho that was willing to take the plasma cutter to his parts truck. I've got this whole section that I can use. Unfortunately, it's been cut right where it ties into the corner section, so I'll have to make several weldments on this piece to get one good panel that can be installed.
Spent the afternoon removing all of the spot welds holding the fender stays and what was left of the wheel well from the panel.
Now that I’ve removed all the guts, I can start the mock up for the cut to graft this section. I am very fortunate that I came across a fella in Idaho that was willing to take the plasma cutter to his parts truck. I've got this whole section that I can use. Unfortunately, it's been cut right where it ties into the corner section, so I'll have to make several weldments on this piece to get one good panel that can be installed.
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Beerhippie
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You don't need no stinkin' synchros--just learn to double-clutch!Took the cover off my toploader... I think something is wrong with the 3/4 synchro.
Mike S.
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I picked up some knuckles from the salvage yard to upgrade my front brakes. I also decided to buy my own ball joint press instead of renting one from the local auto parts store.
I didn't realize how large the Icon press was going be until I opened it. It's a lot larger than the OEM Tools press that AutoZone sells/rents. It's a tight fit, but it worked like a charm.
I ordered new OEM wheel bearings today from the dealership.
I didn't realize how large the Icon press was going be until I opened it. It's a lot larger than the OEM Tools press that AutoZone sells/rents. It's a tight fit, but it worked like a charm.
I ordered new OEM wheel bearings today from the dealership.
Got the cross beam mostly welded up, rough as assholes but is square and works as intended. Is under a van in the pics so lack of head room limits things, will experiment with cribbing high when next ive a car over the hole, which will be sooner id than like, cos daughter has a mini, its due an MOT in feb and the door handle has decided to stop playing, cos mini 
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reminds me of a few years ago doing a 65 fairlane... Notice the open doors.. they dont come that way...Clear coated. Not perfect, but I can live with it.
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Outlawmws
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Since you guys are doing models, this is one I did well over 20 years back as a "concept" for a 4X4 four door Ranchero. The real deal would have been the front of a wagon and the back bed/window of a Ranchero, on a 2X4 box tube frame I would have built for it. I could just never come up with the cores needed.
Long past where a lot of them were in bone yards, and a rear ended wagon and a front crashed Ranchero could be sourced...
I found my first Samurai and never looked back...
Long past where a lot of them were in bone yards, and a rear ended wagon and a front crashed Ranchero could be sourced...
I found my first Samurai and never looked back...
Beerhippie
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I mostly spent money today--mine and the company's. Spending other people's money is fun--mine, not so much. Ordered some new stainless steel handles for the brewery Tassalini butterfly valves. The plastic handles they came with lasted over a decade but are slowly wearing out and falling apart. I'd ordered some new plastic handles a few years ago, and the new ones have almost all fallen apart already. The stainless ones were $20 each more than the plastic ones--a no-brainer.
The Brick transaxle rebuild is paid for and waiting for a ride home--hopefully, sometime this week. Please send money.
Now I'm back to fiddling with the solar lighting out front. Damned thing worked for a couple of days but that was that. I decided to charge the new LiFePO4 batteries I put in the system fully. I didn't have a charger for the LiFePO4 cells.
Now I do. I'm also doing some math and it looks like on days like this, I'm just not generating the power to keep the lights on for four hours after sunset. I think I can squeak by with three hours, which should be enough. It's a heavy, freezing fog today and my Fluke says the two panels are producing about 0.1 Amp total. That's pathetic, but it's what we get. I have thirty AH of batteries, but with the panels only producing about 90 Watt-hours of juice, I'm not fully charging them over the course of a day. Even the 90 WH estimate is high, as the sun goes behind the mountains well before actual sunset and there's some shading by trees during the day.
I may have to replace my two 5 Watt floods with something lower-draw.
I went over to work on the Vanagon yesterday and found this:
On the rear carpet of the Brick. Looks like I have some carpet cleaning in my future. Who'da' thought that a coolant additive would freeze? Obviously not me. Lesson learned.
This was waiting when I got back to the TG shop:
It's for the new trans to keep it healthy.
The Brick transaxle rebuild is paid for and waiting for a ride home--hopefully, sometime this week. Please send money.
Now I'm back to fiddling with the solar lighting out front. Damned thing worked for a couple of days but that was that. I decided to charge the new LiFePO4 batteries I put in the system fully. I didn't have a charger for the LiFePO4 cells.
Now I do. I'm also doing some math and it looks like on days like this, I'm just not generating the power to keep the lights on for four hours after sunset. I think I can squeak by with three hours, which should be enough. It's a heavy, freezing fog today and my Fluke says the two panels are producing about 0.1 Amp total. That's pathetic, but it's what we get. I have thirty AH of batteries, but with the panels only producing about 90 Watt-hours of juice, I'm not fully charging them over the course of a day. Even the 90 WH estimate is high, as the sun goes behind the mountains well before actual sunset and there's some shading by trees during the day.
I may have to replace my two 5 Watt floods with something lower-draw.
I went over to work on the Vanagon yesterday and found this:
On the rear carpet of the Brick. Looks like I have some carpet cleaning in my future. Who'da' thought that a coolant additive would freeze? Obviously not me. Lesson learned.
This was waiting when I got back to the TG shop:
It's for the new trans to keep it healthy.
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Beerhippie
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****. Shopping around for 12V PAR36 LED bulbs with lower wattage ratings than the 5W ones I'm using. No luck.
Wondering about adding a resistor to reduce the wattage, but not sure if that works with LED.
Maybe I can get by with swapping the two batteries over each day--one on the charger, one on the lights.... PITA, but it should work. I'll test it out tonight.
Ultimately, I'll need to change the very nice-looking and bright PAR36 floods for something with a lower draw. I had some cheap crappy landscape lights on there previously and they worked just fine even on the shortest of days--with only 14 AH of batteries.
Wondering about adding a resistor to reduce the wattage, but not sure if that works with LED.
Maybe I can get by with swapping the two batteries over each day--one on the charger, one on the lights.... PITA, but it should work. I'll test it out tonight.
Ultimately, I'll need to change the very nice-looking and bright PAR36 floods for something with a lower draw. I had some cheap crappy landscape lights on there previously and they worked just fine even on the shortest of days--with only 14 AH of batteries.
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Outlawmws
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It will dim the LED, however the resistor is burning the electricity anyway... maybe a solid state VR?
kaymccampbell
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Unclamped, then reclamped the drafting board. Some of the glue is being bitchy.
Found the missing dogeater chute clamp. Made new spacers. Modified the bolt heads. Installed new bigger bolts and nylocs, upside down from original. Tested and adjusted.
Designed a magnetic laser burner hold down in CAD. Printed one. Need to buy magnets.
Fiddled with Linux to clean up an unwanted software.
Did some research for a potential future project.
Found the missing dogeater chute clamp. Made new spacers. Modified the bolt heads. Installed new bigger bolts and nylocs, upside down from original. Tested and adjusted.
Designed a magnetic laser burner hold down in CAD. Printed one. Need to buy magnets.
Fiddled with Linux to clean up an unwanted software.
Did some research for a potential future project.
Beerhippie
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I ordered two of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF44ZZGL/?tag=atomicindus08-20
They use a 2W 2-pin bulb, so I should get back the run time I used to have. In the meantime, I'll just keep swapping batteries. We're closed until Thursday, so I have plenty of time to charge both the 15 AH batteries with a 1 A charger.
They use a 2W 2-pin bulb, so I should get back the run time I used to have. In the meantime, I'll just keep swapping batteries. We're closed until Thursday, so I have plenty of time to charge both the 15 AH batteries with a 1 A charger.
SMOKEYBEAR
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Some drill press progress.
After burning through 9? belts, the base/ lower table surface is mostly flat and rust free. A bunch of wire wheel and paint removal work. I even de-burred some of the rough casting mess careful not to go over board and start a never ending chase of perfection. Just cleaned it up a good bit. 3 pieces in primer. Temp was up today so I went for it. Thursday has a high of almost 60, so maybe some color Thursday on the primed parts. I have them in the house to cure and keep the cast iron temp with the paint up to room temp for Thursday.
Motor gets delivered tomorrow. I'll get some work in Wednesday afternoon with it.
Doing some casual searching for a work light, wire it to come on with the drill press. I haven't found one I like yet... LED preferred
After burning through 9? belts, the base/ lower table surface is mostly flat and rust free. A bunch of wire wheel and paint removal work. I even de-burred some of the rough casting mess careful not to go over board and start a never ending chase of perfection. Just cleaned it up a good bit. 3 pieces in primer. Temp was up today so I went for it. Thursday has a high of almost 60, so maybe some color Thursday on the primed parts. I have them in the house to cure and keep the cast iron temp with the paint up to room temp for Thursday.
Motor gets delivered tomorrow. I'll get some work in Wednesday afternoon with it.
Doing some casual searching for a work light, wire it to come on with the drill press. I haven't found one I like yet... LED preferred
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kaymccampbell
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Don't wire it to come on with the drill motor. You won't be able to see to set up the press before you drill.
DGersic
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Pushed Farfalla back to the lineup, and pulled the next game in to the shop.
Cleaned, waxed, new rubbers installed. Glued a broken plastic, waiting for the glue to set so I can finish putting this one back together.
Cleaned, waxed, new rubbers installed. Glued a broken plastic, waiting for the glue to set so I can finish putting this one back together.
niget2002
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Helped the son clean up his side of the workbench. He was losing pieces from not being organized.
bulletpruf
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One of the rear MagneRide shocks blew a week or two ago. Replaced with OEM.
Whoever designed the rear suspension/shock setup was an engineer, not a mechanic. Access was not great.
Whoever designed the rear suspension/shock setup was an engineer, not a mechanic. Access was not great.
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Not in the garage since it won't fit inside, but Tool Box Truck
got new LED headlight bulbs, new wipers, and a seat cover. The side windows got the Barkeeper's Friend buffer treatment. Hopefully I'll be able to see where I'm going in the dark/rain, and the hole in the driver's side of the lower seat will be kept at bay.
got new LED headlight bulbs, new wipers, and a seat cover. The side windows got the Barkeeper's Friend buffer treatment. Hopefully I'll be able to see where I'm going in the dark/rain, and the hole in the driver's side of the lower seat will be kept at bay.Beerhippie
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We need to have a discussion re: Ohm's Law.
I'd do this in a heartbeat with an incandescent bulb, as that's purely resistive load. I just don't know exactly how the driver for an LED reacts to added resistance.
rd65
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27 ouside, 40 in the shop, and 46 under the sink. Water heater seems to keep the water lines plenty warm under the sink. Finally got the rest of the tools put away from the sink project. Changed the engine oil and cleaned the carb on the pressure washer. Spark plug was fine, needs a new air filter. Drained fuel from the hand held blower as well as the backpack unit. Handheld fuel was about 25% water, not ideal. Transferred fuel from my premix can into a clear gallon jug, no water. Broke down an old 2' flourenscent light fixture, not worth trying to source a bulb. Disassembled wife's Kitchenaid mini food processor, thought for sure I could source a new gear wheel, not to be.
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Hmm, that is something to think about, I typically find myself chasing more light after its setup though, May take some trial and error to see what I prefer. I have no light currently.
welder4956
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Tried to start the riding mower to move a utility trailer in the yard, but the battery was dead. So, I hooked up the battery charger and then killed time by working on adding a nailer strip to the top plate on the gable ends of the garage. I picked up some 1 x 4 x 10 boards at HD, then notched them out to fit around the wiring penetrations for wall outlets and switches. One end of the garage is finished, now to do the other end and start installing ceiling insulation batts.
Jay__Dub
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Starter wouldn't catch on the snowblower. Turned out 2 bolts were loose. Odd that both of them were. Anyway, not knowing the torque spec, I tightened them to, "I'm freezing my nuts off thats good enough".
I'm surprised these things don't shake apart with all the abuse they take.
I'm surprised these things don't shake apart with all the abuse they take.
DGersic
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Look for “sewing machine light”. There are many. Magnet mounted, LED on a flexible stalk for easy repositioning.
DGersic
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Starter wouldn't catch on the snowblower. Turned out 2 bolts were loose. Odd that both of them were. Anyway, not knowing the torque spec, I tightened them to, "I'm freezing my nuts off thats good enough".
I'm surprised these things don't shake apart with all the abuse they take.
I’ve had to weld parts of mine back together. The old Tecumseh Snow King is a vibrating 10HP monster.
This^^^
I use this magnetic base light from Lee Valley at my bandsaw and have used it many times at my drill press.
I also really like this magnetic HF light for the drill press.
Shown here it mounts to a steel plate on the backside of the wooden fence.
Man I always wanted a pinball machine . Would love to have a Vintage KISS Pinball machinePushed Farfalla back to the lineup, and pulled the next game in to the shop.
Cleaned, waxed, new rubbers installed. Glued a broken plastic, waiting for the glue to set so I can finish putting this one back together.
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Outlawmws
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The shadowing shown here is why the ring lights are a better solution for DPs and mills in particular - even more so with small bits and accurate centering to marks:
Still an improvement, at least to my old eyes.The shadowing shown here is why the ring lights are a better solution for DPs and mills in particular - even more so with small bits and accurate centering to marks: