What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[wolfhawk73]

SIMPSON pressure washer 3700 psi. Everything works but the output pressure is low. This thermal relief valve isn't in great condition.

I was thinking about picking up one of those. How do you like it other than this issue? My house, deck, and driveway take 24 total hours of work with my little 2300 psi - 2 gal/min model. I only do it all every other year just because of the time it takes. Plus, I maintain my mother's property, and I can never get everything done there in a summer (Big house, huge driveway/parking pad, carport, two decks, two docks, and a concrete walk along the top of the seawall).

 

[Beerhippie]

My head's too big for every straw hat available around here. Academy had Costas in XL, so I bought one each for my son and me. He just looked at me funny. I said "Just wear it to the beach next time you go. You'll see."

I wear a 7 3/4" hat size in long oval. Many hats come no larger than 7 to 7 1/2 and most are round. Filling the hat with warm water and letting it soak until it seeps out the outside softens the hat enough I can "reblock" it by wearing it until it dries. Works on felt, straw and palm. I also reshape the brim to my preference while it's wet.

 

[OccupantRJ]

I wear a 7 3/4" hat size in long oval. Many hats come no larger than 7 to 7 1/2 and most are round. Filling the hat with warm water and letting it soak until it seeps out the outside softens the hat enough I can "reblock" it by wearing it until it dries. Works on felt, straw and palm. I also reshape the brim to my preference while it's wet.

I also wear a larger hat so maybe we are a bunch of Big Head Todds.

 

[930dreamer]

I was thinking about picking up one of those. How do you like it other than this issue? My house, deck, and driveway take 24 total hours of work with my little 2300 psi - 2 gal/min model. I only do it all every other year just because of the time it takes. Plus, I maintain my mother's property, and I can never get everything done there in a summer (Big house, huge driveway/parking pad, carport, two decks, two docks, and a concrete walk along the top of the seawall).

It's worked well; this one sat for a few years while I was gone.

 

[zimman]

I moved in.
Zim

 

[wolfhawk73]

I also wear a larger hat so maybe we are a bunch of Big Head Todds.

That'll be my new nickname.

I don't know the exact size, but I can tell you this...every time I tried to buy a custom ball cap in my youth, it was always special order. I was always on the last one or two notches on the one-size-fits-all caps. The Costa is still a little snug, but it's stretchy and keeps it from blowing off my noggin.

 

[Mike65]

Earlier in the week I drilled out the spot welds holding the headlight extension mounting bucket from the passenger's side fender of the Mustang so I could straighten the front corner of fender. I got the fender straightened & I was able to access a spot that had a small ding in the fender which I also tapped out. Today I cleaned off all the surface rust from the inside of the fender & primed it. As soon as I get the welding bottle filled, I will weld the mounting bucket back to the fender.

 

[Outlawmws]

Same on a straw hat here. I keep mine ready to grab right beside the back door.

My head's too big for every straw hat available around here. Academy had Costas in XL, so I bought one each for my son and me. He just looked at me funny. I said "Just wear it to the beach next time you go. You'll see."

I bought a straw cowboy hat at Coachella (concert) for over $100 about 25 years back. I also spent $200 in water bottles at that effing venue. Who plans a concert in a desert in the hot part of summer, then gouges for water?

But the hat helped.

I wear a 7 3/4" hat size in long oval. Many hats come no larger than 7 to 7 1/2 and most are round. Filling the hat with warm water and letting it soak until it seeps out the outside softens the hat enough I can "reblock" it by wearing it until it dries. Works on felt, straw and palm. I also reshape the brim to my preference while it's wet.

I was always on the last one or two notches on the one-size-fits-all caps.

Same here and I also use Timms re-size method on my favored leather "Plainseman" hats.

 

[Beerhippie]

I bought a straw cowboy hat at Coachella (concert) for over $100 about 25 years back. I also spent $200 in water bottles at that effing venue. Who plans a concert in a desert in the hot part of summer, then gouges for water?

But the hat helped.

People selling water and hats?

Good thing I can't afford to go to Coachella and such. Not that I would anyway, having become pretty agoraphobic in my later years.

 

[Wrench97]

Makes perfect sense.
Unfortunately, if I were to drill two 4" holes in my wife's car I would probably hear things like:

"My car is making a weird noise now, do you think it is the holes that you drilled in my car."

"The gas mileage isn't what it used to be, do you think it is the holes that you drilled in my car."

"The floor mats are wet, do you think it is the holes that you drilled in my car."

Usually, she will help out in the garage and is hard working, so, it all balances out in the end.

We do a fleet of Escapes they range from 16's to 24's some have belly pans some do not, some at one time had them and have been ripped/left off none of the drivers have complained either way....

 

[bulletpruf]

In the garage today? Not a damn thing.

 

[TheClaw]

Took some PVC I had laying around and made a couple of things to hold things.

 

[DGersic]

After a phone call to the clutch pedal company, did a bunch of measuring and pondering. I think it’ll fit, though I’m going to have to modify the pedal arm.

 

[Jgaz]

Took some PVC I had laying around and made a couple of things to hold things.

Get yourself some more lengths of pipe and a lazy Susan bearing then make yourself one of these.

 

[rd65]

Exactly right. I mowed the yard yesterday (30" walk-behind) starting around 5:30p. Took about 1.5 hours. Then cleaned my pellet grill and straightened up the garage a bit. Didn't go in the house until 8:30. Soaked through all my clothes, and it was cooler yesterday than it has been for the last few weeks. I'll mow Mom's yard today. It'll be 91 (feeling like 99). At least she has a zero turn.

At 53, I finally discovered the magic of a wide-brim, floppy, breathable hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, and Dr. Berg's electrolyte mix. I've never traditionally used either. Just can't take that sun like I used to.

I've had this hat since our honeymoon in 2012, it's been on every vacation we've taken since then and it's always on my head when I'm out in the yard. As much for being a sweat band as for shade. And sunscreen on my face always since my skin cancer spot removal last November.

 

[TurnipTruck]

Well, the free boat is now worth at least $1500 with all the wood/tires/hitch/argon/baby outboard.
I have too many coats of sealer on the decking and it’s taking forever to cure, so I moved the boat over to the other side of the garage out of the way until it does cure.
I have some upholstery to do to cap the fishwell before the rain lets up in ten days or so, otherwise it’s ready to ferry the dogs around the lake.


While I wait, I stuffed the trailerable manlift inside so I can finally repair all of its ails for a big roofing project coming up soon. It was supposed to rain all day, but it decided to blow 50/ gusts to 60mph instead.

I found some kinda relevant circuit schematics and am having to translate from Danish to English, but it’s annoyingly slow progress. I did discover a bad wire was causing an extra 70 ohms of resistance on an 18ohm coil. I had a chunk of twisted/shielded cable laying around to replace the bad wire so now it spins left AND right.


I didn’t have the outriggers fully extended so it got a little tippy when I telescoped out the door.

The latest problem du jure is the bucket control will do everything except raise, while everything works from the turret, so I may have a high resistance selector relay.
Oh, well. The grass is blown dry so I better mow now or bale it when the rain stops in two weeks.

 

[bmwrd0]

Just little things

pulled the leather off of this rusty old box before it goes to scap, as I am getting more things cleared out, which was the other project, getting the truck filled with junk for the Restore or the scrapyard.

Also, the wife volunteered me to go help her friend get her new place ready for habitation, which consists of who knows what at this point, as the two of them aren't the best at describing actual problems.

 

[Outlawmws]

Also, the wife volunteered me to go help her friend get her new place ready for habitation, which consists of who knows what at this point, as the two of them aren't the best at describing actual problems.

A picture is worth a thousand words...

 

[Wrench97]

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Won't take too much work, maybe she'll give him the old car out front when he's done.....

 

[Matt018888]

Finally started the miter station in my shop. 24' feet, I'm not looking forward to building drawers lol

 

[niget2002]

Pulled the rudder off the kayak to silicone the holes.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Finally started the miter station in my shop. 24' feet, I'm not looking forward to building drawers lol

Nice, I used to have a radial arm saw set up about half that size that I miss.

 

[Matt018888]

Nice, I used to have a radial arm saw set up about half that size that

I have a build on my ras aswell on here https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/finished-my-delta-14-ras.522482/

 

[Beerhippie]

Pretty much spent the day sweating--indoors and out.

I've been hoping to get in a camping trip to Hat Point--one of the higher places I can drive to in the county. However, Hat Point sits at around 6K ft elevation, between two river canyons of around 1K ft. elevation and it's now monsoon season, so afternoon thunderstorms are almost guaranteed. After far too many close calls over the years, I'm a bit lighting adverse, especially when on a high ridgetop between canyons.

May still do it anyway. Man's gotta face his fears, even if it does kill him.

 

[Outlawmws]

Nothing says you gotta camp on the top of the peak/ridge Timm, and after getting blown out of two different camps by high winds, I look for more sheltered camp sites.

 

[rharman]

Took some PVC I had laying around and made a couple of things to hold things.

Get yourself some more lengths of pipe and a lazy Susan bearing then make yourself one of these.

Here are my contributions to this idea. Benchtop is 8" diameter, the two floor models are a 14" sonotube cut into two different heights. The shorter floor model has various diameters and heights of PVC arranged on the inside. The taller has 1/4" plywood in an X shape to divide it into quarters. These things have been so handy over the years.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I have a build on my ras aswell on here https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/finished-my-delta-14-ras.522482/

That’s an awesome setup, mine wasn’t anywhere that nice..lol It was an old 220v craftsman that was already set up in the shop when I bought a property. I used it quite a bit while doing an extensive rehab on the same property which I sold. The shop was awesome, wish I had here.

 

[TurnipTruck]

Fixed the manlift!
When one of the controls wouldn’t work from the bucket but would from the platform, I naturally suspected a wiring problem, since I just replaced a bad wire, and the thing is forty years old. But if you jiggle the loose switch just right…

I needed to fab this white nylon clamp to keep the Boom Up switch halves married together:


Then a test drive!


The 2014 8D batteries needed a quart each of distilled water and are on individual desulfator chargers instead of the onboard gang charger. The specific gravity is low, so maybe they need some more acid. They passed load tests and the voltage is good.

EDIT: looks like you don’t add acid since only the water evaporates.

 

[Beerhippie]

Nothing says you gotta camp on the top of the peak/ridge Timm, and after getting blown out of two different camps by high winds, I look for more sheltered camp sites.

It's pretty much a razor-back ridge. The few places to camp that aren't on the main ridge are on spur ridges that are equally exposed.

Been blown out of a few campsites and had a few tents blown to pieces in this country. Wind can be nasty, but nothing like the Wrath Of Zeus coming down on you!