What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[16again]

New ride needs fuel.
Needs a 250v 50amp receptacle.
Cut a hole in the wall for access to bottom of panel.
Will cut the box hole tomorrow. Maybe even run the 6ga wire only about 2 1/2’. That’s IF I feel I can deal with a Home Depot run.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

Bent a few sticks of 1/2" EMT and made a frame for the canopy for our patio swing. Had the fabric sitting in the basement for a few years, finally got around to making the frame and mounting it.

 

[bmwrd0]

Spent the day finding how much damage my tenants did before I paid to get them to leave. So, that was fun, and will cost me 10-12K. But I made a couple 100K on the place, which is nice.

Spent the rest of the afternoon scraping paint on the Dalton.

 

[amgent57]

Cleaned, organized, threw stuff out, watched tv, ate lunch...

Hard to believe I had a full dress Harley in there, it still looks crowded...

 

[kaymccampbell]

Spent the day finding how much damage my tenants did before I paid to get them to leave. So, that was fun, and will cost me 10-12K. But I made a couple 100K on the place, which is nice.

Spent the rest of the afternoon scraping paint on the Dalton.

IME tenants are ****. The day you get the bright idea to rent things out, just shoot yourself in the foot, head, whatever will keep you from renting ever again.

 

[amgent57]

Not everyone is cut out to be a landlord.

 

[wandrur]

As a unicorn tenant...I rented my house for five years. Didn't meet my landlord for over three because I never needed anything that I didn't take care of myself. In the end, the landlord liked me so much that he offered me first dibs on buying the house when he decided to sell it. It's where I've lived for five years now as my own place.

While I know I'm a unicorn, I'm just saying. Sometimes choosing to be a landlord can change someone's life.

 

[bmwrd0]

IME tenants are ****. The day you get the bright idea to rent things out, just shoot yourself in the foot, head, whatever will keep you from renting ever again.

The cost of repairs is kind of built in. They lived there for almost a decade, paid rent on time (mostly) every month, and didn't complain about things constantly. In turn the property gained a ton of equity, and the money they paid is more than covering this. I wouldn't be getting rid of them except I am selling (had the property long enough to make my money out of it, but not so long as to need drastic repairs) to free up cash to buy in a different part of the country that I plan to move to in roughly five or so years (halfway between my son and my brother). I would have loved for them to buy, but they couldn't swing it (expensive college town).

 

[DGersic]

Most of the afternoon being an amateur contortionist getting the HVAC box back in place, connected to the A/C and heater lines, sensor in place, and reconnected to power and ground. Still need to get the ducts and vents done.




Vacuum it down.




Charged up with nitrogen. Going to leave it overnight.




First coat of paint.




Hung up the Long Haul plaque.

 

[gearhead1960]

Filled the last bit of open space with Estate Sale finds. Fortunately, they were purchased for son #1 and they get delivered next month.

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

Get the boat out, go boating, and hire out the tree work. Makes sense to me!

If I had more equipment and time or was willing to look at it longer I could handle nearly all of it. I just don't have the time and would have to buy a new/ larger saw ( probably a 600 series Stihl which really wouldn't bother me) for the trunk and stump.

 

[Mike65]

Yesterday after riding my exercise bike, I installed the weatherstrip channel on the r/s door opening of the Mustang.

 

[bugnut]

rearranged, cleaned, swept, mopped and vacuumed. Whole lot of empty space in the shop. Trying to figure out how to rearrange for car parking.

added image-edit

 

[Beelzeboss]

I think this might be the first time I’ve ever seen someone use a Japanese V8 in an American car. Pretty cool.

Thanks man! It's a Canadian made Ford frame from 1946, Japanese made engine/suspension/gearbox/brakes/steering/etc. from 1991, and an Australian made body by me

 

[Higgy1300]

replaced the front coil over struts on the Mustang with double adjustable from strange engineering

 

[Outlawmws]

Knocked the carriage bolts out of the door where the upper pintle mounted, slip the strap over the pintle and drill new holes for the bolts. Install bolt and, finally,

Did you tack the hinges on the other side while you were there?

 

[PhantomEB]

Saturday was spent running around pulling whats left of my hair getting the bronco to fire up again.

had to pull the distributor out for this little upgrade to have a mechanical temp gauge along with my sniper tempature sensor as well the heater hose outlet off my water pump.


Turns out I was no where near TDC and a broken coil wire made things worse. Also removed a ****** switch for my electric coolant fan relay and replaced with one I definitely can tell when it’s on.

been tying up wires under the dash as well engine compartment and cargo box Since.

today is crawl under there, work with the wiring under there and tackle loose/missing bolts.

Wednesday I am to load it up on a trailer as is however it may be, hope for front locker and light bar but that’s not a necessity. This trip is to really find out what needs to be changed or fixed.

 

[bornbadbob]

I had a scary moment yesterday morning opening the garage door. The door lifted normally, but when it stopped at the top position, I heard a metal clanking sound followed by the sound of a small metal object falling onto the hood of my car. I turned around and noticed that one of the garage door tracks and fallen from the ceiling. The end of the track was hanging down ~18", now only supported by the brackets at the opposite end, just above the doorway.

I ran over and pushed up on the track to find that the door is much heavier than I had anticipated. Luckily, I had my phone in my pocket and was able to call my wife and get her to run down to the garage to help. My arms were getting tired fast standing on my tip toes, and pushing the track up towards the ceiling. I let go for a couple of seconds to get some blood circulating through my arms. When I let it down, the track started to pull away from the wall. I had to put my hands back up and hold it just as my wife runs in. She was of coarse immediately in a panic. There was a bit of bickering back and forth as the two of us tried to figure out what to do. Not only was I worried that the door was going to fall, I also didn't want it to land on the two cars parked below it. Both cars have a manual trans, which my wife doesn't know how to drive, so we had to come up with a plan for her to hold the garage door while I pulled the cars out.

She found a 2x4 in the corner of the garage that was coincidentally just long enough to prop up the track. I was then able to pull the cars out and get a step ladder to investigate what had happened. It turns out the nut had backed off the bolt that holds the track to the hanger in the ceiling. We located the hardware on the ground and I was able to get it put back together. Some of the brackets that hold the track against the wall had bent, so I had to loosen them and get everything back into alignment. I took the time to inspect every nut and bolt on the garage door to be certain that something like this doesn't happen again.

I got lucky and will make a mental note to recheck the garage door hardware yearly.

Get yourself some nylon lock nuts, I don’t think I have ever seen one back off

 

[zimman]

Fighting a battery/alt light for a month or so. Periotic but never a "no start" issue. Finally cleaned up some corrosion but battery terminal was froze on tight. Think about how you'd handle this one? Milwaukee took car of business. I use this tool many times of week from cutting fence to notching sheet metal.
For the record; did not fix the problem. Improved continuity but it's the alternator internal voltage regulator. Imagine that. LOL
Zim

 

[GrayFlattop]

Fighting a battery/alt light for a month or so. Periotic but never a "no start" issue. Finally cleaned up some corrosion but battery terminal was froze on tight. Think about how you'd handle this one? Milwaukee took car of business. I use this tool many times of week from cutting fence to notching sheet metal.
For the record; did not fix the problem. Improved continuity but it's the alternator internal voltage regulator. Imagine that. LOL
Zim

I’ve found that cut-off tool to be invaluable. It also comes in handy for plumbing “disassembly”.

 

[Outlawmws]

I’ve found that cut-off tool to be invaluable. It also comes in handy for plumbing “disassembly”.

Makes me very glad not to live in the rust belt..

 

[Gangly]

With all of the backyard garden and flower activities we've taken on this year, the wife and I decided it would be nice to have a hand washing station. We couldn't find one we liked, so we built one with some leftover wood, a motion sensing solar light, brass piping and fittings for the water faucet, and a small bucket for the sink. Two coats of poly and its done for now. The "sink" currently drains into a bucket below it that isn't shown, but I'll add plumbing soon to route the draining water elsewhere. .

We like it.

 

[Swanny1953]

Not in the garage, but using something from the garage - took the ‘40 Chev to a car show at Gas Monkey Icehouse and picked up best in show for pre-1979 car.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Installed the front half of the dashcam in the Escape. Left the rear wire hanging amidship. Installed the app. Configured most everything. The Android version is way better behaved than the iOS.

 

[Beerhippie]

Miserable dirty drizzly day again today, so I decided to clean up a spokeshave I picked up back in March:

Before:

During:





Ah, the joys of flattening the back of a plane iron!

Holding that little thing on the sandpaper was a PITA--until I remembered a trick I came up with a few years back:



A RAM Mounts magnetic base does the job like it was made for it. Only problem was, that iron is so small it leaves me nothing to grab when I want to remove it. I had to clamp the ball in a vise and use a screwdriver to push it off to one side.

I flattened the sole of the shave and the bottom of the clamp/chip breaker while I was at it.

Then sharpening. The shave iron is too short for my preferred jigs, so I was back to old-school hand sharpening. My DMT diamonds made short work of it.

I cleaned the body of the shave with a soft pad, tooth brush and Dawn.

After:





No great effort went into cleaning. It's a $40 tool new, and used prices are the same. I'll put it to use.

 

[Jgaz]

Miserable dirty drizzly day again today, so I decided to clean up a spokeshave I picked up back in March:

Before:

During:





Ah, the joys of flattening the back of a plane iron!

Holding that little thing on the sandpaper was a PITA--until I remembered a trick I came up with a few years back:



A RAM Mounts magnetic base does the job like it was made for it. Only problem was that iron is so small it leaves me nothing to grab when I want to remove it. I had to clamp the ball in a vise and use a screwdriver to push it off to one side.

I flattened the sole of the shave and the bottom of the clamp/chip breaker while I was at it.

Then sharpening. The shave iron is too short for my preferred jigs, so I was back to old-school hand sharpening. My DMY diamonds made short work of it.

I cleaned the body of the shave with a soft pad, tooth brush and Dawn.

After:





No great effort went into cleaning. It's a $40 tool new, and used prices are the same. I'll put it to use.

I love the Ram mount idea!
I've used rigged up methods to do the same thing but that looks pretty slick

 

[PhantomEB]

Cleaned up wires under hood and under dash.

moved the battery into a dead space spot behind the seats. Other side will get the same once I get another battery.


measured up for flat bar to be cut and drilled at work To secure it to the floor. I got a lot of welding to do this fall.

then it’s clean up wiring back there and tackle bolts and leaks.

 

[2001ZR2]

That pry bar was believed to have been appropriated by one of my sons or left at pick n pull. Found in a plant bed next to my driveway.
Spent some time cleaning it up today...pitted pretty bad so not going to ever be perfect but it will be a usable tool again

 

[Outlawmws]

That pry bar was believed to have been appropriated by one of my sons or left at pick n pull. Found in a plant bed next to my driveway.

So borrowed by SWMBO (Or a kid) for weeding?

 

[Beerhippie]

I love the Ram mount idea!
I've used rigged up methods to do the same thing but that looks pretty slick

One thing to keep in mind: I couldn't use the RAM magnetic base on my DMT stones, as they're ferrous steel. It put far too much pressure on them to get a good edge and far too much for the diamonds. All the flattening was done on sandpaper-on-glass.

 

[bulletpruf]

More work on the John Deere 350.



Finally got a snapped off bolt removed from the reverser mount.



Got the hydraulic filter and fluid changed.

 

[dscheidt]

Miserable dirty drizzly day again today, so I decided to clean up a spokeshave I picked up back in March:

Before:

During:





Ah, the joys of flattening the back of a plane iron!

The only part of the back the blade that needs to be flat is the bit behind the edge. Doing more doesn’t hurt anything, except for time.

 

[Beerhippie]

The only part of the back the blade that needs to be flat is the bit behind the edge. Doing more doesn’t hurt anything, except for time.

True, but with an iron the length of its width, may as well do the whole thing.

 

[Jazz1]

I checked the brake fluid in my recently acquired motor car…this involves pulling back carpets at toe board, removing access panel and brake and clutch pedals to provide full access to master cylinder.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I checked the brake fluid in my recently acquired motor car…this involves pulling back carpets at toe board, removing access panel and brake and clutch pedals to provide full access to master cylinder.

Some kind of mid-late 50s Oldsmobile?

 

[Beelzeboss]

I made the new gearbox mount for my hot rod, as well as shortened the donor car driveshaft.

 

[16again]

Finished up the the 250v outlet install for the new Tesla. Just need to patch the access area I cut in the drywall for access to panel for the 6ga wire.

 

[OccupantRJ]

Finished up the the 250v outlet install for the new Tesla. Just need to patch the access area I cut in the drywall for access to panel for the 6ga wire.

My workshop walls are painted plywood. When I installed it I left a removable panel from the electrical panel to the top of the wall. It has been removed several times for wiring projects and has proven to be quite beneficial.

 

[Jazz1]

Some kind of mid-late 50s Oldsmobile?

1956 Olds 88 bone stock down to the worn king pins that are on my to do list…324 cu in, 3 on the tree manual. No power nothin’.

 

[OccupantRJ]

I installed a previously repaired wheelbarrow tire and did a front end alignment on it, then removed, disassembled, and cleaned the sticking Mac air bleed solenoid on one of the air compressors after I noticed no air hiss on shutdown. The shuttle valve had just gotten a bit gummy over the years. I had done a 13 hp Predator repower project on my Club Car Carryall 2 about 5 years ago, so took several pictures of various details to send to my local friend @gearhead1 for inspiration and to hopefully save him some hassles on his recently acquired Taylor Dunn utility vehicle project.