What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Beerhippie]

Clock enclosure is done:



Is it pretty? Nope. Is it hermetically sealed? Not really. Is it good enough? Yep.

The silica gel pack changes color as it gets saturated and can be refreshed in the oven. One of the reasons I chose the aluminum tape was so that it will be easy to replace the pack as it gets used up.

 

[Beerhippie]

Got the clock hung:



Then played with beer for a while:

 

[dcg9381]

Got the clock hung

Sure that's a clock? Looks like a doomsday timer to me.

 

[Beerhippie]

Sure that's a clock? Looks like a doomsday timer to me.

Doomsday timers stop at 12 o'clock--along with everything else.

 

[GrayFlattop]

Cleaned up a bit. I've been tripping over remnant rolls of various toolbox liners, I had them standing up like bowling pins and would bump into them - LITERALLY tripping. Anyway - put 'em up high since 90% of my drawers are lined.

Then, while cleaning, I decided that I'm not just going to pick something up and set it down in a random location. I've had this Wixey DRO for almost 5 years. Never got around to mounting it (largely because the frame didn't fit my planer as the instructions said). DeWalt has a recess in the scale and the double-stick tape they pre-applied didn't stick co-planer to the OEM scale. A few minutes to cut a polycarbonate shim 0.118 x 1 x 8" and now that task is off the list and I no longer need to keep moving the package around...


After calibration, I'd consider this "close-enough" for woodworking.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Cleaned, flung, put away. Reorganized. I've got a ways to go.

 

[Beerhippie]

Cleaned up a bit. I've been tripping over remnant rolls of various toolbox liners, I had them standing up like bowling pins and would bump into them - LITERALLY tripping. Anyway - put 'em up high since 90% of my drawers are lined.

Then, while cleaning, I decided that I'm not just going to pick something up and set it down in a random location. I've had this Wixey DRO for almost 5 years. Never got around to mounting it (largely because the frame didn't fit my planer as the instructions said). DeWalt has a recess in the scale and the double-stick tape they pre-applied didn't stick co-planer to the OEM scale. A few minutes to cut a polycarbonate shim 0.118 x 1 x 8" and now that task is off the list and I no longer need to keep moving the package around...


After calibration, I'd consider this "close-enough" for woodworking.

FFS! You've triggered my OCD!

Trim those damned zip-tie tails, PLEASE!

And use a pair of flush cutters for the sake of humanity.

 

[GrayFlattop]

FFS! You've triggered my OCD!

Trim those damned zip-tie tails, PLEASE!

And use a pair of flush cutters for the sake of humanity.

LOL - soon. I’ve got to pull down that old RG6 anyway. It was a remnant of the old directTV install.

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

Finished installing the hot side and revisited the cold side inter-cooler pipes. A simple task, very time consuming. 4 clamps per, but getting the orientation right took time and patience, add some OCD and it was a full adventure. I've done numerous car builds, turbo piping, boots, clamps ect..but this deal was a decent challenge. Modern diesels have zero working space, makes my 7.3 a breeze to service and repair when required. .

 

[M.Brane]

Cleaned, flung, put away. Reorganized. I've got a ways to go.

Don't we all? There's always hope.

 

[Lumpy102]

Don't we all? There's always hope.

I've pretty much given up

 

[Prospecter]

Cleaned, flung, put away. Reorganized. I've got a ways to go.

It's a never ending process. Your shop always looks amazingly well sorted, and I know it's because you work so hard on it. You give hope to the rest of us.

 

[DGersic]

Got my order for 3/4” rubbers, I needed two more to finish putting Time Machine back together. So that’s a step closer to being done. Flippers disassembled and parts cleaned.




Tinkering with this clock mechanism.



It has been running slow recently. It’s a “quartz” clock, shouldn’t ever run slow.

Anybody ever “fix” one of these? There’s not much in the box. I had it apart, there is a circuit board with a coil used as an electromagnet, and what I assume is a quartz crystal, unmarked. This gets a battery to run on. The magnet gets pulsed once a second, causing a gear on a donut magnet to turn 1/2 rotation. Then there are a half dozen gears to turn that in to hands moving.

I have repaired a lot of things, can only think of a few times when a crystal has failed, and those have been complete failures. No oscillating at all. I wouldn’t expect a crystal to oscillate at the wrong frequency. I could replace it, but being unmarked it’s going to be a guess as to specs.

The path for battery voltage is kinda crappy. The metal terminals have an end bent up at about a 30* angle. Installed, the circuit board presses a couple of contact pads down on to the bent up end. It all looked clean, but that seems like a pretty weak physical path. I added some tension by bending them up a little bit.

Since reassembly, it seems to be running ok and keeping time.

 

[Beerhippie]

Anybody ever “fix” one of these?

If a new battery doesn't "fix" it, a new action costs around $10 and they're pretty much all the same.

 

[Hooked]

Not necessarily IN the garage but FOR the garage. Got the old Lenovo to boot up and read my Ford service manual CD and saved copies to both laptops. Running out of excuses for my lack of progress on the F350 project.

Wish I could have gotten my old Lenovo to boot up to move things to the new one. No bueno but the local PC shop managed to pull files from the old hard drive. However, lost all my old emails.

 

[Beerhippie]

Wish I could have gotten my old Lenovo to boot up to move things to the new one. No bueno but the local PC shop managed to pull files from the old hard drive. However, lost all my old emails.

Buy a cheap external drive case to match your old HDD. Now the old drive can be seen as a drive by your new computer.

 

[esben57]

If a new battery doesn't "fix" it, a new action costs around $10 and they're pretty much all the same.

There are German mage units and far eastern. Couple of quid extra but I buy the German make.

 

[Beerhippie]

There are German mage units and far eastern. Couple of quid extra but I buy the German make.

Point being, they all fit.

 

[esben57]

Point being, they all fit.

Better quality. Tried both.

 

[Outlawmws]

Not to disrupt the lighting discussion, but I thought Timm and other VW bus fans would enjoy this:


This is what happens when you fart in a smart car...

Also note the License plate!

 

[PWC Repair]

Well, some of you know we've been building our son's house........thread here---> https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/the-not-a-garage-cabin-build.539906/
There was VERY little waste but some smaller cutoffs of lumber and sheet material.
TODAY, I helped my wife in my shop office. She wanted a different counter setup and needed more file space. We built it just high enough for the new file cabs. And she is shelving it out for greatest efficiency of space.

 

[Roger M]

Piling on to my earlier post regarding the heater core replacement on the old Cougar.

After completing that job, the water pump decided to leak. It must have been on its way out for some time, because the bearing/shaft is pretty sloppy. I had a new one on the shelf, along with a timing chain set.

I started on this project a couple of days ago, and was rewarded with a snapped bolt in the timing cover. I tried the extractor tool route, only to snap that tool off in the bolt.

There's a a local welder down the street from me that's going to weld a bolt to the stub. Hopefully I can ease it out with an impact driver.

Seems like these car projects never go the way that you hope for....

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

@Roger M

older Ford, water pump, timing chain cover...guaranteed challenge with the bolts in the water jackets. I have a lifetime membership to that club.

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

Wrapped up my drill press project. Random challenges for no reasons during re-assembly, but I wrapped it up as the sun set. I'll take a few more pictures in better light before I put in back in its place.

So much better with the new motor, mounting plate, switch, cord and bearings...although I have a decent chunk of change in it. It was my Gdad's, was in his shop since I was a kid, he raised me..its not going anywhere. I may at some point purchase a modern drill press, I'll have two I suppose..

 

[Beerhippie]

Not to disrupt the lighting discussion, but I thought Timm and other VW bus fans would enjoy this:


This is what happens when you fart in a smart car...

Also note the License plate!

WTF izzat?

Whatever it is, it looks like it would make a nice life-raft for the Vanagon!

 

[kaymccampbell]

Wrapped up my drill press project. Random challenges for no reasons during re-assembly, but I wrapped it up as the sun set. I'll take a few more pictures in better light before I put in back in its place.

So much better with the new motor, mounting plate, switch, cord and bearings...although I have a decent chunk of change in it. It was my Gdad's, was in his shop since I was a kid, he raised me..its not going anywhere. I may at some point purchase a modern drill press, I'll have two I suppose..

Definitely worth the effort. It's gucking forgeous.

 

[jblnut]

This morning we got the disc moved over and got blades on one wing installed. I used the lawnmower to do the hydraulic things. Probably the only time I like all the emissions **** on it is when we run it in the shop and it doesn’t smoke or stink.


We stopped for lunch (pork chops, potato’s and a Busch Lite each) and started in on the other side. We briefly talked about going into business rebuilding discs for others but didn’t get too far without laughing and agreeing we couldn’t charge enough to do this again anytime soon. The last of the new disc blades are going on !!


Pops folded it back up while I made the rounds and checked all the pets on the property. I thought the shop looked rather neat from the outside with the lights on so I snagged a Polaroid of it.

 

[Outlawmws]

WTF izzat?

Whatever it is, it looks like it would make a nice life-raft for the Vanagon!

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[PWC Repair]

Piling on to my earlier post regarding the heater core replacement on the old Cougar.

After completing that job, the water pump decided to leak. It must have been on its way out for some time, because the bearing/shaft is pretty sloppy. I had a new one on the shelf, along with a timing chain set.

I started on this project a couple of days ago, and was rewarded with a snapped bolt in the timing cover. I tried the extractor tool route, only to snap that tool off in the bolt.

There's a a local welder down the street from me that's going to weld a bolt to the stub. Hopefully I can ease it out with an impact driver.

Seems like these car projects never go the way that you hope for....

Perfect application for the little HF Titanium flux wire welder. You just use a nut one size larger placed over that. HAVE THE CORRECT SIZE WRENCH AT THE READY!! Weld the nut in, smack it a couple times with a small ball pein while it's still red, quickly use the wrench and turn it out. Works probably 98% of the time.

 

[Fordguy1964]

Been a little cold lately so I haven't wanted to get out there much. But the show must go on. I decided I would make a jig to help me mount the doors on my wagon. Since I have relocated, I don't have the friends down here that I had on Ohio that would help me hold doors.

I had some left over steel angle from when they shipped my lift to me and since it was free and I have a welder I decided to use it.

Here I decided what I needed and cut it up.
This is the beginning of the jig.

I have an old transmission jack base that goes on a floor jack that I'm going to use. It was set out by someone's trash cans one day about 7 years ago. I always thought I would make use of it but didn't know what for. This is a good of a time as any.


Thoughts are that I will make arms and a base to sit the door edge onto.

 

[PassnThru]

Wish I could have gotten my old Lenovo to boot up to move things to the new one. No bueno but the local PC shop managed to pull files from the old hard drive. However, lost all my old emails.

Don't give up on that right away. I find it odd that they got your files back but not your email - maybe they were on a damaged part of the hard drive. But your emails were in a file on the hard drive and they got your other files back for you so that doesn't add up for me. I've recovered things from non booting hard drives before for myself and others so find a friend that understands how to throw a hard drive into a working machine and take another look - there is a big difference between a hard drive that won't boot and a hard drive that still functions but won't load Windows.

 

[oldman_pottering]

Is the job change a good one, or just the usual corporate nonsense? Either way, like Tom Bodett, We'll leave the light on for ya.

It's a good change, I left the car dealership and took a job working for a local haulage company, we mainly travel to Sydney from Taree area which is about 3.5 hours each way driving singles only so it's pretty cruisy, my wife says I am a lot less stressed, just deliver, reload and come home. I have to re- adjust to some diff hours etc but it's all good.
Thanks for leaving the light on

 

[Beerhippie]

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Now, THAT was extremely weird!

I still want one.... Lift it a bit, big tires; the ultimate in-yer-face off road vehicle!

 

[oldman_pottering]

Cleaned up a bit. I've been tripping over remnant rolls of various toolbox liners, I had them standing up like bowling pins and would bump into them - LITERALLY tripping. Anyway - put 'em up high since 90% of my drawers are lined.

Then, while cleaning, I decided that I'm not just going to pick something up and set it down in a random location. I've had this Wixey DRO for almost 5 years. Never got around to mounting it (largely because the frame didn't fit my planer as the instructions said). DeWalt has a recess in the scale and the double-stick tape they pre-applied didn't stick co-planer to the OEM scale. A few minutes to cut a polycarbonate shim 0.118 x 1 x 8" and now that task is off the list and I no longer need to keep moving the package around...


After calibration, I'd consider this "close-enough" for woodworking.

thats awesome ! Id like one of those on my thicknesser

 

[GrayFlattop]

thats awesome ! Id like one of those on my thicknesser

Just looked up on Amazon - currently $73 usd, it would be interesting to know how much it costs in your neighborhood. Purchase history shows I paid less, as I bought it in January of 2016. How embarrassing that it was sitting around uninstalled for that long. Of course, my job was really intense then, so I just never got to it. The woodshop became a cluttered mess that is just now getting addressed.

 

[Hooked]

Don't give up on that right away. I find it odd that they got your files back but not your email - maybe they were on a damaged part of the hard drive. But your emails were in a file on the hard drive and they got your other files back for you so that doesn't add up for me. I've recovered things from non booting hard drives before for myself and others so find a friend that understands how to throw a hard drive into a working machine and take another look - there is a big difference between a hard drive that won't boot and a hard drive that still functions but won't load Windows.

To expand on what happened. I do have the email 'files' but was not able to get Thunderbird to move everything to the new installation. What was really interesting is my old 'trash' and 'sent' folders 'magically' showed up in the new install. hmmmm
I suppose if I ever feel the NEED to reference those old emails I figure it out but haven't felt the need in the past 2-3 months.
Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[kaymccampbell]

thats awesome ! Id like one of those on my thicknesser

And you can make your own with a cheap Chinese digital caliper and some swear words. I had thoughts about it once, but since my planer gets dragged out of a cabinet, and slammed back into it, I couldn't attach such a delicate thing to it.

 

[Hooked]

Now, for the garage/workshop. Spent some time reassembling the mower deck on a friends Kubota ZTR (I may have posted about this same machine several months back). A second blade drive assembly crapped out -- started vibrating terribly -- but was caught much earlier so I thought we would get by with just bearing replacements. One bearing was destroyed and during assembly I discovered the bearing would not seat properly so had to get a new housing as well.
While mounting it on the deck I spun the other two blades and discovered the third blade may have a worn bearing -- it has a 'catch' every half rotation. So I'll be tearing that one apart either today or Saturday to assess the damage.

 

[Jure]

Installed the rsc clutch lever,it feels great!

 

[Beerhippie]

Added 80 gal--so far--to the glycol back in the shop. The 55 gal. drum of concentrated propylene glycol arrived two days ago. It's been warming in the shop--this stuff is thick, and being cold don't help any.





One 5 gal. bucket at a time.... The flow meter in the hose in the first pic is so I can calibrate the bucket. There's no 5 gal. line on it.

It's one bucket of glycol--extremely heavy--and two of water. Now I'm adding straight glycol to bring the gravity of the soup up to the desired 27 Brix (gotta love brewer's measurements). Add five gallons, wait... check with the refractometer... add another five... wait... rinse and repeat.

While I wasn't doing that, I played with food some more:



This week's special. Locally-raised buffalo (bison) burger w/gouda cheese, bacon and candied jalapeno peppers. Yum!

Back to taking gravities and lugging buckets....