Kind of like an Okie from Muskogee?
What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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I would pay good money to see you do a burnout with those, and I suspect I'm not alone.And, the wooden wheels have made a return! We used them on the '65 C10 build ten years ago. It makes for a great way to measure for tire clearance and determine how much to narrow the axle.
SMOKEYBEAR
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1 fender is off. Quite the task. The plan is to finish prepping the trailer on this side, I still have some fasteners to cut off flush and drill out, some light sanding, priming and paint. I'll do that to both sides while I wait on the delivery of the carpet. 3 bolts per side have the heads under the rubber no slip treads, so I gotta sort that out as well. My OCD is going to require new spacers, you can see them zip tied to their location. No 2 are alike. The carpet step I'd consider mostly easy.
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DGersic
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Moved stuff from garage to shed. Moved other stuff from shed to garage.
Motorman55
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First I drove over to the NJ Motor Vehicle and transfered the Title, Registered and picked up the new license plates forthe MGB. It all legal for the road now.
1) Cleaned and polished the original 15" diameter steering wheel. I'm replacing the smaller 13" diameter custom steering wheel that's currently in the MGB. Its nice looking but I like the looks and feel of a larger wheel. Much easier to steer, especially considering these old MG's don't have power steering.
1b) Removed the small 13" custom steering wheel. (got to use my 'Stinger' puller set) and installed the old 15" wheel. Went on-line and ordered a small replacement part to make the old horn work. Should have that by the end of the week.
2) Installed new rubber pads on the clutch/brake/throttle pedals. The old ones were brittle/hardened. Much better feel under foot.
3) Installed a full strip of velcro along the underside edge of a vertical section of the trunk rug that covers over the DUAL speakers to keep it from sliding down.
NOTE TO SELF...Build some speaker boxes to fit over the back of the Duals and then trim that carpet section around them.
4) Found the little knob that hangs down behind the dash and reset the trip odometer.
5) Installed the new license plates. Going to look around for some decent looking chrome license plate frames to put around them.
That's it for today.
1) Cleaned and polished the original 15" diameter steering wheel. I'm replacing the smaller 13" diameter custom steering wheel that's currently in the MGB. Its nice looking but I like the looks and feel of a larger wheel. Much easier to steer, especially considering these old MG's don't have power steering.
1b) Removed the small 13" custom steering wheel. (got to use my 'Stinger' puller set) and installed the old 15" wheel. Went on-line and ordered a small replacement part to make the old horn work. Should have that by the end of the week.
2) Installed new rubber pads on the clutch/brake/throttle pedals. The old ones were brittle/hardened. Much better feel under foot.
3) Installed a full strip of velcro along the underside edge of a vertical section of the trunk rug that covers over the DUAL speakers to keep it from sliding down.
NOTE TO SELF...Build some speaker boxes to fit over the back of the Duals and then trim that carpet section around them.
4) Found the little knob that hangs down behind the dash and reset the trip odometer.
5) Installed the new license plates. Going to look around for some decent looking chrome license plate frames to put around them.
That's it for today.
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2001ZR2
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Located and used the hand truck I inherited from my father to bring the new 1000 pound lift table to the garage and assembled it. Bled the cylinder and resisted the thought of using my wife as weight to load test it.
So another day free from divorce proceedings
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kaymccampbell
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Dropped a new fanny pincher on the bench.
rd65
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Not in the shop, but just outside. Now that I have water to the shop, I washed the doors. Eight years of dust and grime, took a bit more elbow grease than planned but it is done. And of course, now the gutters look like hell, that will be a project for another day.
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BreeStephany
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Lately I've been bouncing between a few projects, a few I just started on a few weeks ago and one that has been at a standstill for over 2 years.
This weekend I spent some time in the garage making some pretty decent progress on restoring a 'orange label' Skil 107 10" wormdrive saw that I started stripping down 2+ years ago back in Montana and am finally getting reassembled here in Oregon.
When I get some downtime I need to stop by the hardware store and pick up a new Skil 95104L replacement cord whip and wait for a Eurton order of new brushes and brush caps to arrive and will have the saw back to running order.
I am in the process of tracking down someone to hopefully make some 'reproduction' nameplates.
The guard nameplate I think I could restore with a little filler to fill in the deeper scratches and wouldn't be that difficult, but I think the other plate would be quite an investment of time to get it back to 'original' condition.
This weekend I spent some time in the garage making some pretty decent progress on restoring a 'orange label' Skil 107 10" wormdrive saw that I started stripping down 2+ years ago back in Montana and am finally getting reassembled here in Oregon.
When I get some downtime I need to stop by the hardware store and pick up a new Skil 95104L replacement cord whip and wait for a Eurton order of new brushes and brush caps to arrive and will have the saw back to running order.
I am in the process of tracking down someone to hopefully make some 'reproduction' nameplates.
The guard nameplate I think I could restore with a little filler to fill in the deeper scratches and wouldn't be that difficult, but I think the other plate would be quite an investment of time to get it back to 'original' condition.
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larry4406
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"I am in the process of tracking down someone to hopefully make some 'reproduction' nameplates."Lately I've been bouncing between a few projects, a few I just started on a few weeks ago and one that has been at a standstill for over 2 years.
This weekend I spent some time in the garage making some pretty decent progress on restoring a 'orange label' Skil 107 10" wormdrive saw that I started stripping down 2+ years ago back in Montana and am finally getting reassembled here in Oregon.
When I get some downtime I need to stop by the hardware store and pick up a new Skil 95104L replacement cord whip and wait for a Eurton order of new brushes and brush caps to arrive and will have the saw back to running order.
I am in the process of tracking down someone to hopefully make some 'reproduction' nameplates.
The guard nameplate I think I could restore with a little filler to fill in the deeper scratches and wouldn't be that difficult, but I think the other plate would be quite an investment of time to get it back to 'original' condition.
Sounds like a job for @mattblast
rzims
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Would love to see pics....
racecougar
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You mean you wood, right?
coldh2o
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You mean you wood, right?
It would leave a heck of a skidmark.
Started the week off with a call from #1 son-in-law asking to use outer shop for summer rubber swap on the V70. He was raised in a mechanically adverse family so when we started more than 2 decades back he adopted a "mature" C2 (Audi 5000 avant) and started learning and doing maintenance and repair. He now takes great pride in especially keeping his V70 on the road at well over 300k kms. We usually have grandsons with us for changeover but this was one of those flashback times when there was just the 2 of us. Brought his own impact and inflator and did all of the brake inspections, wheel swaps, corrosion protection stuff with me pretty much passing tools. This was the last one for the season, but next year will include adding a car from storage to the fleet as #1 grandson gets his learner's license this year. Kid is already quite able to do most maintenance and minor repairs from his time in shop and on farm. Problem is: we want him to drive mom's 99 Golf while he has his eyes on my '92 Golf Country.
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Well, the old penetrating oil in dead cylinders must have freed up the valves on Fergie. Finally got it running, and moved over to it's summer home on the other side of the yard. I know the rings are bad, it's still smoking like it used to, but the compression is good enough for now, and I drained some oil, and topped up with about 30% guesstimate of Lucas to see if I can stretch it out a while.
I want to pay that new car off this year before embarking on any more significant purchases.
I don't do debt. Debt is prison.
I want to pay that new car off this year before embarking on any more significant purchases.
I don't do debt. Debt is prison.
Link in your post is broken. You want this: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum...her-skil-resto-skil-107.535813/#post-11610770
Larry4406 is exactly right. Here's Matt's thread.
rzims
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Beerhippie
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I put on my ditch boots this AM and beat the Reed Canary Grass in the ditch into submission.
This is a stop-gap measure until I have time to get in there with a shovel and dig out the roots. This nasty introduced grass will completely take over and block creeks and ditches. It will fill in a pond in a few years to where it can be mowed.
It took one and a half batteries to get through that thick, three-foot-tall weed. I think that accidentally hitting the water with the strings--which will **** the trimmer head right down--uses a LOT of juice.
Now for lunch, then sharpen the mower blade and get back to the weekly mowing schedule.
This is a stop-gap measure until I have time to get in there with a shovel and dig out the roots. This nasty introduced grass will completely take over and block creeks and ditches. It will fill in a pond in a few years to where it can be mowed.
It took one and a half batteries to get through that thick, three-foot-tall weed. I think that accidentally hitting the water with the strings--which will **** the trimmer head right down--uses a LOT of juice.
Now for lunch, then sharpen the mower blade and get back to the weekly mowing schedule.
gearhead1960
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Cleaned up the work bench….
BreeStephany
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Thanks for noticing the issue with the link, its updated, and sometimes I just need to remember to come to GJ and use the search function first! This is exactly what I am looking for! HUGE help!
kaymccampbell
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You don't have one? It grabs stuff when you squeeze a trigger and lets you pick things off shelves or the ground without having to climb or bend. Back in the day they were called Italian Fanny Pinchers.Sounds like Kay has a new kink, or is indulging on an old one...
rzims
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Outlawmws
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Ah, never heard them called that. New Kay term! Nope, I don't have one; I have like five or six..
One by the garbage cans because I have a corner lot and everyone (especially the passing HS students) think its a dump. Another on the other side of the house, because seem of the little bastards lob it over the fence. One in my van for camp sites. two in the garage; one of those near the man door for house use 'cause, ya know, Cats... Probably at least one more I forgot about..'
They are really cheap at estate sales.
I want a really long one for the van for the beer and soda cans a-holes toss in the dirt roads that way I can do it from the window...
Either that or a barbed nail on a stick...
Now here is one that would really be a fanny pincher:
Originally used for grabbing tissue samples - I'll leave the rest to your imagination...
I got it or grabbing stuff out of lantern founts...
pancholasvegas
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Put some time in yesterday and today -
Having trouble fitting the tailgate, I opted to try and fix the oblong shape that should be round on the tailgate mount. I welded up some rod with a large ball bearing on the end of it, as a makeshift pipe expander to try to help.
It worked, kind of. I now know that these trucks have a bushing in the tailgate - and I know now it needs replaced alongside the other repairs.
Started off bracing each side to proportions to prep for insertion of the floor center.
This was the just the start. We had quite the operation on, as we kept working things into place. It had all my straps on it at one point.
Once the floor was mounted up, the floor was plug welded to the wheel wells and the filler panels (black pieces). The filler pieces are plug welded to the side panels.
Next we began fitting the rollpan.
With the rollpan measured and scribed, I trimmed it up and started tacking with the TIG. Ran out of time for the day, but I should be able to fuse this piece together in the next day or so. Then I’ll be able to epoxy the piece and plug weld to the body, and we can fill in the final floor section.
Having trouble fitting the tailgate, I opted to try and fix the oblong shape that should be round on the tailgate mount. I welded up some rod with a large ball bearing on the end of it, as a makeshift pipe expander to try to help.
It worked, kind of. I now know that these trucks have a bushing in the tailgate - and I know now it needs replaced alongside the other repairs.
Started off bracing each side to proportions to prep for insertion of the floor center.
This was the just the start. We had quite the operation on, as we kept working things into place. It had all my straps on it at one point.
Once the floor was mounted up, the floor was plug welded to the wheel wells and the filler panels (black pieces). The filler pieces are plug welded to the side panels.
Next we began fitting the rollpan.
With the rollpan measured and scribed, I trimmed it up and started tacking with the TIG. Ran out of time for the day, but I should be able to fuse this piece together in the next day or so. Then I’ll be able to epoxy the piece and plug weld to the body, and we can fill in the final floor section.
2001ZR2
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Beerhippie
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Don't you need a really stout one with big teeth to pick up cats?
I do need to get one for the Brick. Aholes leave messes in the woods.
GrayFlattop
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Put up a few small shelves in the front part of the garage. Now the media for the vibratory tumbler is up off the floor and I no longer have to step over it. There is enough room left over for a few bottles and cans of cleaning supplies as well as my stock of glue boards.
Then I made another mess of aluminum chips with a router and swept up said mess. Finished up by filling several hanging baskets with some colorful annuals.
Then I made another mess of aluminum chips with a router and swept up said mess. Finished up by filling several hanging baskets with some colorful annuals.
nadogail
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completed the assembly of my new bucket garden. the nursury that had bought planter.boxes was closed, I.will be some of the money i made from them plants
Outlawmws
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Naw I don't even want to contemplate picking up a 17-1/2 pound cat like that.
But Cats means Cat toys, and Cat toys means batting them around, and batting them around means under stuff they go...
bugnut
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Dr appointment and Costco trip not much time in the shop. Neighbor stopped over and we discussed ideas about front fender and chain guard on the trike. A beer was opened, then another neighbor stopped over and another beer, and another, we now have a quorum and another beer. Not much actual activity got accomplished but caught up on the neighborhood doings!
jblnut
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Sidewall repair. No more leaking so it should be good to 150+MPH or more.
It’s a gauge wheel on a field cultivator so it’ll see 6.5MPH max. These things get the snot beat out of them so we’ll see how long this one lasts. They usually get punctures from stubble so I toss the absolute shittiest tires on that fit and if they go flat oh well, finish the day out and try again tomorrow lol.
It’s a gauge wheel on a field cultivator so it’ll see 6.5MPH max. These things get the snot beat out of them so we’ll see how long this one lasts. They usually get punctures from stubble so I toss the absolute shittiest tires on that fit and if they go flat oh well, finish the day out and try again tomorrow lol.
gearhead1960
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Why don’t you fill them with foam?Sidewall repair. No more leaking so it should be good to 150+MPH or more.
It’s a gauge wheel on a field cultivator so it’ll see 6.5MPH max. These things get the snot beat out of them so we’ll see how long this one lasts. They usually get punctures from stubble so I toss the absolute shittiest tires on that fit and if they go flat oh well, finish the day out and try again tomorrow lol.
jblnut
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Same reason I haven’t stopped drinking Windsor. There are better products out there, but I like to stick with what I know
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gearhead1960
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Cleaned out the passages of the HF Predator Chipper before commencing to use for the season. Tomorrow, oil gets changed.....
larry4406
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Washed the 304ss BBQ grill grate rods and laced them together.
Will square and weld another day.
Will square and weld another day.
Got a slightly cupped and twisted piece of walnut shimmed and secured on the sled to run it thru the planer. I‘ve got about a 1/4” of material to play with.
This is the start of another run of boxes using up less than perfect material that is “in stock”
I either use it or put it in the burn barrel.
This is the start of another run of boxes using up less than perfect material that is “in stock”
I either use it or put it in the burn barrel.
Beerhippie
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Mow, mow, mow the grass...
Two weeks growth in an unirrigated area of the yard. So thick I had to use the lowest speed and take half-passes. That's done for the week.
Two of these arrived yesterday:
Installed one on the Brick:
I installed it as close to the center of the rig as possible so it would be less visible... but too much ground clearance. I'll have helpful strangers walking up to tell me "Dude, there's something dragging under your car".
They're supposed to be non-sparking anti-static grounding straps, but according to the label, they're anti-ground straps, so maybe they'll take a little weight off the rig.
Hoping that takes care of getting shocked every time I get out of the rig. One more to go for the Toy.
Two weeks growth in an unirrigated area of the yard. So thick I had to use the lowest speed and take half-passes. That's done for the week.
Two of these arrived yesterday:
Installed one on the Brick:
I installed it as close to the center of the rig as possible so it would be less visible... but too much ground clearance. I'll have helpful strangers walking up to tell me "Dude, there's something dragging under your car".
They're supposed to be non-sparking anti-static grounding straps, but according to the label, they're anti-ground straps, so maybe they'll take a little weight off the rig.
Hoping that takes care of getting shocked every time I get out of the rig. One more to go for the Toy.
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kaymccampbell
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That planishing hammer will give an interesting pattern.
Shined up with Swpeet discs just to learn how to use them.
Teaching myself cold blueing as well.
Just making a couple usable tools look nice so I can learn for perhaps better ones.
What I started with for reference.