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raskal

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Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Bib Overalls said:
My keys are still awol.
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you need something like this

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of course, I'd have to look all over the house for the 3 button part :D
 
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made a 4'x3' pegboard.took about 3 hours to do.ill add some paint tomorrow.
 
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Vegaman_Dan said:
Versus just buying it predrilled and cheap? It's only a couple of dollars more than standard hardboard.
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yes i'm aware . but truth be told, I was just THAT bored and looking for something to do in the garage.
 
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Cleaned up 10 lbs of PVC sawdust from the porch trim I finally finished routing arches into. That $hit is miserable to clean up.
 
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Bib Overalls said:
My prime set of car keys has gone missing. I know they are in the shop someplace. So today I spent six hours looking for them. The good news? The place is really spiffed up. Bad news? My keys are still awol.
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I'll never admit this publicly. But I may have lost my wedding ring within my first month of marriage. I may also have ordered a very similar replacement on the net and managed to get the wife to believe it was "in the other room" for the couple days it took to arrive. :willy_nil
 
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IONH said:
I'll never admit this publicly. But I may have lost my wedding ring within my first month of marriage. I may also have ordered a very similar replacement on the net and managed to get the wife to believe it was "in the other room" for the couple days it took to arrive. :willy_nil
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I've got that beat... lost mine ~18 hours after putting it on. Married on a cliff in Bermuda... lost it in the ocean the next morning. Good times.
 
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Just looked at it. Got folks visiting so another week and a half and they will be gone. Then take care of the wife with one on one time and then I can get in the garage for some work!
 
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91FE said:
Cleaned up 10 lbs of PVC sawdust from the porch trim I finally finished routing arches into. That $hit is miserable to clean up.
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Did a project on the mill once in white PVC. Looked like a snow storm. Got to love the static cling.
 
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Okay Kevin54, here's the emblems I've been restoring that I mentioned a couple days ago for a Pennsylvania customer with the Dodge 800 truck his grandfather bought new. First, a few "before" pictures of what I started with ...

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And here they are now ... far from perfection, but they're a lot better.

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Kinda cool to see the "before" and "after" all in one photo!

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I used the group pic on the left while I was working to make sure I got the colors in the right spots ... and then decided to just put it on top of the finished emblems inside the shipping box LOL

If you're on FaceBook, I have a regular feature on my shop's Fan Page called the Friday Powder **** where I show off the preceding week's work. Here's a link if anybody wants to check it out, send a Friend Request or Like the page.

Have a great weekend ya'll! Stay cool, stay safe, and above everything else, keep your powder dry. :D
 
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Re: what did you do in your garage today?

IONH said:
I'll never admit this publicly. But I may have lost my wedding ring within my first month of marriage. I may also have ordered a very similar replacement on the net and managed to get the wife to believe it was "in the other room" for the couple days it took to arrive. :willy_nil
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And you're on an internet forum saying what? :lol:

A buddy I worked with lost his. I had in my toolbox a wedding band from my first marriage. It had been in there for 20+ years. I told him I would "loan" him one, only joking. He said that it looked very close to his, so he borrowed it so he wouldn't get into trouble :wtf: Well guess what his wife found while doing laundry a week later? :lol:

He did mention that he got the borrowed one off in time before his wife noticed.
 
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Managed to snap one of the plastic heater core hose fittings off in the Grand Am. It was just as well, it's brittle sixteen-year-old plastic and the inside of that thing is all corroded and gnarly, but I hate having to tear apart dashboards just to get to the stupid things.
 
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OK, 5 years after I installed my first HIS in an R1200GS I have done it again. The basics are the same. The HIDs are now cheaper and smaller. The ballast is almost the size of a slim ballast, and I got the kit with two HIDs for only $27 off E-bay. No issues installing them, actually they were even easier, and they work without a fault in my 05 GS.

The photos will not come with descriptions, because you can get the info on the first few posts or this thread: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288538



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Jim :cool:
 
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Painted and put up the 1/4" pegboard .I do like the way it looks over my box, Id definitely like to add more board/pegs in the future.
 
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Absolutely nothing,didnt even go there,cooked and packaged dog food most of the day.If I had a kitchen down there,I'd have done it there! Now thats a concept....a kitchen in the garage!
 
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Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Bib Overalls said:
My prime set of car keys has gone missing. I know they are in the shop someplace. So today I spent six hours looking for them. The good news? The place is really spiffed up. Bad news? My keys are still awol.
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I do that all the time. I give it a few days and they turn up in a pair of pants or shorts in the laundry - just like this week.
 
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Assembled most of a 20 ton shop press that I pulled out of the dumpster. Fortunately I have a freakish amount of Grade 8 bolts so I was able to put it together with probably larger bolts than what was used originally.

I need to fix the fitting on the piston, then I can test it out to see if it leaks. If it doesn't then I'll probably get a new hand pump. If it does leak I'll probably weigh my options on what to do next....
 
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Installed the railing in the rental house, then came back and worked on fenders for a while, then quite early , tuned up the 46 Merc and 67Galaxie, then took them both out for a spin!

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I moved my new blast cabinet from the driveway where UPS left it, into the garage. Have a test at work on Monday, so I didn't get to assemble it...
 
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I completed the fab and dry fitting of a sleeve-hitch, attaching a winch and box scraper for my lawn tractor. Next job is to pretty it up with paint and complete the wiring.
 
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Re: what did you do in your garage today?

worked on my workbench some more...just need to add/do a few more things to it..















 
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I had the first beer in my new garage....

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blare said:
What power strip is that?
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Its the 4ft - 12 outlet power strip from HF. Thing is a great deal for the money.

Btw, I didn't measure the strip to fit my workbench at all. It just so happens that it just fit like a glove...even that peg board that was laying around the house fit like a glove. I was laughing so hard bout that earlier. :shocking::thumbup::bounce::thumbup::shocking:
 
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