Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT The "Glendora Garage"

[Dan in Pasadena]

I forgot to post the AFTER of the aluminum scoop shovel refurbish project from post #2652 above.

It works, It looks a lot better and the wood is no longer falling apart.
The rivet that attaches the shovel head was a bit loose - I hammered that to swell it and that fixed that. I couldn't find my very small triangular file so I couldn't square out the holes for the carriage bolts to sit flush with the metal surfaces. Oh well, I can live with it. I won't notice them....eventually!

On to the next thing that needs work.

PS: The shovel is now about 1-1/2" shorter than it was due to rot. But then?... So am I....and more or less for the same reason!

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Happy Labor Day!

Gonna need a LOT of labor to pay these prices, especially diesel since I own a diesel pickup. Fortunately it's a 3.0
Duramax and I get 19-20 mpg around town which consider amazing in a full size truck body. I've gotten a high of 26.7 mpg on a trip though it doesn't truly make the price any less horrible.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Happy Labor Day!

Gonna need a LOT of labor to pay these prices, especially diesel since I own a diesel pickup. Fortunately it's a 3.0
Duramax and I get 19-20 mpg around town which consider amazing in a full size truck body. I've gotten a high of 26.7 mpg on a trip though it doesn't truly make the price any less horrible.

It's one of the reasons I order onesie-twosie stuff online over going to the store. As well as saving up all my stops in one trip, unless it's an emergency. A trip to the store is minimum $10 in gas, plus wear n tear. Sure brings the price of half a dozen screws up into the ridiculous range. Going to an NWA meeting costs almost double that. 1 meeting a week makes it near $1000/year. I'm having a serious rethink about a lot of things.

 

[M.Brane]

Same boat here though the Tool Box Truck gets around 12 MPG. It weighs over 9K. I try to ride as much as I can because mid 30s MPG for the bikes, but temps in the 90s are a no-go for me these days.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I wish I could ride the Burg. My hips and vertigo aren't letting me stand it. Maybe over the winter i can do something about that.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

The other day I was talking to someone about family “Sunday drives”. They were incredulous. “You drove around with a car full of people with no particular place to go?!” Sounds ridiculous nowadays.


And remember my previous rant that prices NEVER go down. There MIGHT be an exception but I think the few exceptions are strategic. Yes, “old man shouting at clouds”!

 

[bugnut]

@kaymccampbell i'm with you on that. Try to avoid doing one and two stop trips, because it is 30 minutes travel minimum and then the fuel.

 

[PugetDude]

@kaymccampbell i'm with you on that. Try to avoid doing one and two stop trips, because it is 30 minutes travel minimum and then the fuel.

I just bought a second pipe and tube sander because the brown truck would deliver it for less than what a round trip to Phoenix would cost me to retrieve the one I have sitting under my weld table there.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Ok, home from RV-ing a few days in San Diego. The original idea was it would be cooler there - it was NOT. Just as humid. Pretty sure you guys in Florida/Deep South will be "playing tiny violins" for us. Local news says this has been record humidity for Southern California. They even printed this little chart and advised we've been at about 76-77 dew point so "oppressive". Hell yeah, and friggin awful. Normal for us is usually about 50 inland and closer to 60 near the beach towns.

Long ago in my working life I worked for Rockwell on the Shuttle Orbiter program and had to go to both Houston and to Florida. Bad as they were - and they were bad - neither was quite as humid as these last two weeks have been. But of course then I was in my 30's not my 70's.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Happy Labor Day!

Gonna need a LOT of labor to pay these prices, especially diesel since I own a diesel pickup. Fortunately it's a 3.0
Duramax and I get 19-20 mpg around town which consider amazing in a full size truck body. I've gotten a high of 26.7 mpg on a trip though it doesn't truly make the price any less horrible.

Reply to my own post above.

The same station is now priced at $8.59 for diesel. Holy guacamole! And it's the only station that sells #2 diesel in town that I've found. I don't use "Bio" or "Renewable" in my 3.0 Duramax as I was advised when I first got it and it has never thrown an emissions related code - fingers crossed it continues.

 

[rharman]

@Dan in Pasadena - Too bad there's no Costco with diesel in your area. Currently $7.80/gal at the business center in Commerce.

 

[PugetDude]

@Dan in Pasadena - Too bad there's no Costco with diesel in your area. Currently $7.80/gal at the business center in Commerce.

~$6.00 in AZ

 

[kaymccampbell]

~$6.00 in AZ

It was $5.47 at Sam's the other day. Gas was $4.02.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

A relative has a Costco that sells diesel but it isn't #2 so I won't use it.

 

[M.Brane]

I use this in my trucks. I try to avoid questionable fuel, but have used it on occasion without a problem.

 

[kaymccampbell]

A relative has a Costco that sells diesel but it isn't #2 so I won't use it.

If you're worried about contaminants, I used to install these huge filter-separators with a gigantic bowl on all my diesels. They were sorta like a Dahl, but bigger. It's been 45 years so I don't remember who made them, but they worked a charm on ****** diesel. I even had one on my boiler and furnace and water heater when we heated with oil.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

I honestly don't know why I was advised to use only #2 by the dealer's service manager but over time I have come to trust the guy a lot. He has saved me literally thousands of dollars in a number of different ways. So I trust the guy and he has dealt with these trucks since they came out in 2019.

He also advised not to screw with the trucks software. Don't "tune" or "delete" it. This small 3 liter straight six manages to put out a LOT of power to tow over 9000 lbs and supposedly get over 30 mpg. In my case the highest I've gotten is 26.7 mpg but I consider that fantastic.

Now thinking about the idea of the #2 diesel I would think the issue isn't what it might contain more than what it does NOT contain vs. Bio or Renewable.

 

[rharman]

I saw an article today noting that diesel prices in some areas have "broken" the station displays. They can only go up to $9.999.

Saw a similar comment about the pumps in (some?) locations. You've gotta think pump manufacturers planned ahead though. Maybe some very old models though.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I saw an article today noting that diesel prices in some areas have "broken" the station displays. They can only go up to $9.999.

Saw a similar comment about the pumps in (some?) locations. You've gotta think pump manufacturers planned ahead though. Maybe some very old models though.

I remember in the 70s, when the pumps couldn't go over $.999, and they started tacking stickers with 1s on them. Guess we'll see that again.

 

[rharman]

I remember in the 70s, when the pumps couldn't go over $.999, and they started tacking stickers with 1s on them. Guess we'll see that again.

Makes me wonder, if they can't do pricing over $9.99, if maybe they can/will program the pumps to calculate at the half-gallon level.

At one retailer I worked for, bulk candy was so expensive that they listed the price at the per half-pound level so as not to scare people off.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

I remember in the 70s, when the pumps couldn't go over $.999, and they started tacking stickers with 1s on them. Guess we'll see that again.

I worked for Sears from '70 to '76 in high school and college. One of those years I transferred to the gas island thinking it would be "fun" - it wasn't!

The gas was from Standard Oil - usually the most expensive gasoline. It's laughable now to think there would be "gas wars". For those reading this too young to know that was when stations lowered their prices in competition with other stations. At one point I pumped Chvron gas for as low as 36.9 cents a gallon.

In 1975 I was still in college, a "commuter" school about 60 miles round from my parent's home. A guy at school was selling a '70 Corvette that was pristine except he'd hit something with the right front fender so it needed repair. BUT, I was intending to teach Auto Shop. Yeah I know, probably no high school offers "shop" classes anymore. Anyway I could have easily repaired and painted that Corvette fender but I didn't buy the car for $1500 (probably could have gotten it for $1000) because gas had risen to 55 cents a gallon!

 

[rharman]

@Dan in Pasadena - I remember filling up my motorcycle gas tank for $0.50 (total) back in the early 70's. Good old "Terrible Herbst" - cheapest stations around.

Gas war prices were as low as 25-35 cents/gallon.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Gas war prices were as low as 25-35 cents/gallon.

I remember it well.
My dad worked part time at a gas station on weekends. I remember in those days every intersection's four corners had a gas station. He worked at stations that don't exist anymore and haven't for a long time:
- Signal Oil
- Enco - no, NOT Esso or Exxon in those days.
- Union Oil (the Pegasus that I just called a "flying horse" as a kid) before it changed to ARCO.
and on and on.

And there are probably a whole bunch more that were never here on the west coast.

 

[Tommo3]

The simple solution is to sell fuel with the price displayed by the litre like most everyone else does. Lots of room on the pump displays then!