What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Jazz1]

As usual swamped again. Today I put up hook to hang my new LED light. Bought last week,, been wanting one for years. Tired of getting burned by halogens!

 

[zcar751]

Last night after was working in the garage and noticed it was getting a little chilly, okay cold. The furnace was running but blowing cold air. I checked the temp and it was 39 degrees in the garage. Check the furnace and it was out of propane. So today I changed out the empty 100 lbs propane tank with a full one, not that big of a deal today in the day light and it was about 45 degrees.
With the heat working again I pulled apart one of my Bostitch finish nail gun to see if I could fix the leaking seal, and of course of all the O rings in the thing the one seal that is broken is a neoprene tapered ring. So I order a couple to fix both guns. Now I hope I can get it back together.
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[ryolse]

Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?

Added a hose off of my air compressor's auto drain that runs outside to cut down on noise. There's also a 1/8" barb fitting just in case the hose gets clogged so the air still has a place to go. I think I might redo the T and hose so that any remaining water in the hose can drain back and out through the 1/8" fitting.

 

[zmotorsports]

Tonight I helped my son reinstall the transmission in his truck.

Mike.

 

[PWRstroke_smoke]

Built a purple heart wood bench for the wife used 3/4" black pipe that almost has a blued gun barrel tone

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Project work for my wife.. We received back our plastic utility tables (long narrow ones that are common at church, school, etc. events), that I had loaned to my step mother to control the exit of my father's belongings to various auction houses over the years after his death. They were filthy after about 5 years serving this purpose in her garage.. so I spent some quality time cleaning them up (the weather was finally above freezing yesterday).

While in South Bend, we picked up several Rubbermaid tubs of items from my sister in law, many of which need to be sorted thru and consolidated, some for us to retain, some for us to pass along to the kids.. She'll be doing that today .. Not mechanic like, fabrication like, etc. but what I did in my garage / shop last light...

 

[marty1835]

recifying this issue..........but thats ok she needs some loving

 

[k-os]

Got a new tube and tire mounted on the front dirt rim for the KTM last night. Tonight I'll mount the rear once my rim lock shows up.

 

[polexican23]

unboxed my new Mr Big Buddy Heater, fired it up and did a little light cleaning of the garage.

 

[beakie]

Hey Beakie that looks like a great idea let us know how it works

so far, works great. compresses more where needed, less where not needed.
certainly better than the thin rubber "seal" that would deform around a slug if one were under it.

If that's caulk saver then my experience has been that it will compress. As the door seal gets older it will loose it's flexibility and easily overcome the caulk saver within. It works great - just be prepared to inspect it yearly and replace when necessary. It was never designed apparently to have constant pressure applied to it which is what happens since your door stays down probably more than it stays open.

I don't expect any different than what you say, but if I get a few years out of it, it's just a few $$ to replace anyway.
if it keeps me a bit warmer during these winter months out there, it'll pay for itself in no time.

 

[dcmus]

Finally cut some metal on my big, 20x120 inch, lathe. Big learning curve in front of me but headed in the right direction

 

[ryolse]

Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?

Started putting the pieces together of a rare and long since used Supercharger I bought for the Rally car last Fall. Still not sure if I'll ever even use it due to how little information there is on it and how worn out my 240k mile stock engine is. If I do it won't be until I have most all of the parts for a STi swap ready as backup when it destroys the engine.



http://s22.photobucket.com/user/ryo...mmer Sidewinder Autorotor Subaru Supercharger

 

[kaymccampbell]

Glued up a whole bunch of 4" PVC for the dust collector network. Finally have a drop at the ShopSmith. Next is wrapping it with a copper strand to bleed off static. Boy will an ungrounded PVC line give you a blast like a VanDeGraff generator. Nearly knock you on your @$$.

 

[Strouty]

I have seen static from PVC discharge, never had the "fun" of getting shocked. What is the strand, just wire or something special?

 

[zcar751]

Pulled the seats and carpet out of the Puma today, so I can take care of some minor rust on the pan before it gets out of control.
View media item 57088Carpet isn't in terrible shape just needs some cleaning and attention. Not bad for 30 year old carpet.
View media item 57089Made space on the shelves for this project last month so now they are filling up quickly.
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[bcos]

installed a bell on my daughters bicycle! and it worked!
Watching football... Looking at my bench and wondering why the tools haven't been cleaned and returned to their rightful place!!??

 

[cleason]

organized my electrical material, waited for paint to dry on new coffee table i built.made in america furniture,with recycled wood.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Replaced the fuel lines, fuel petcock and carb drain gasket on Jake my Snapper snow blower.

Tommy

 

[cleason]

sold mine when i left western ny

 

[Kev442]

Jimmy developed a raw gas odor when I filled it up at Christmas. I had it parked, but decided to check it out Monday. Took it for a 100 mile ride, still odor but no wet or drip. Fired it up Tuesday AM, finally a drip. Put it in the garage to get the slush and snow dry and dropped the tank Friday afternoon. Today I cleaned up the mess, fuel lines and brake line runs through there, so those have to be changed before the parts arrive on Friday. Going to be -10 the next few days, so I'm not going to heat the garage until Wednesday.
Here's a picture of 19 Wi winters dirt and rust. Frame is scaly but still solid all the way back.

 

[Kevkx125]

Hooked my battery tender to my street bikes battery.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I have seen static from PVC discharge, never had the "fun" of getting shocked. What is the strand, just wire or something special?

Today, I lit up the DC and fed it 20 gallons of **** to make sure everything was still playing nice after I did the work and not thinking, cause the rest of the system is grounded. Any way it nearly knocked me off my step stool.
Just a bare copper strand from a 6 gauge ground cable. Wrapped spirally around it and a really short duct screw driven every foot or so, with the tip just piercing the inner shell. Then it's run to the house ground.

 

[CoogarXR]

A few weeks ago I picked up a used cadet 220v hanging heater. I got out to the garage early this morning and got that hung up. I got lucky and there was an old 220 line from the previous owners hot tub. I chopped that off and put a new outlet on it. Then I had a nice warm garage for the next task. I dropped the tank in my astro van and replaced the fuel pump.

When I was done, I swapped some new socket rails in my toolbox.

Pretty productive day!

 

[Just A Beginner1]

I worked on a Trolley garage door opener system today.

It uses a spinning tube (driven by a heavy duty motor and belt/pulleys) to raise a heavy wooden door. The spinning tube has a trolley that pulls the door up the track and towards the motor where a shut-off switch stops the process when the garage is fully open.

To lower the door the motor reverses and the trolley lowers the door gently back to the closed position.

The trilley has 16 wheels that contact the tube and provide the 'grip' to lift and lower the door.

I am repairing some of the worn rubber wheels by replacing then with some spare new wheels I purchased some years ago.

The job is about 1/3 finished so will continue tomorrow.

JAB-1

 

[jakes29]

Put together a new to me pull-up and dip station for the gym garage while using my new mr buddy propane heater

 

[Tron]

installed a new garage pc that i got from a local auction.

 

[BoostAddiction]

Finished up a new hardware storage system. I used to have my hardware in Schaller boxes in my Lista cabinets, but wanted to reclaim that space.

When I saw what SOJ had done with the HF storage cabinets, I took the idea and ran with it. Well, maybe I just walked with it- Mine isn't anywhere near as nice (I don't have the space, or more importantly, the carpentry skills he has), but it looks good from home, as we used to say.

In my case, I integrated it into an existing stair I had built long ago. That staircase had a portion with shelves which I removed and built a sort-of cabinet to hold the HF boxes. The "cabinet" part is just 2X10s with a white laminate top. The center divider is 1X10 stock.

I used 48 pieces of 2" aluminum angle, each about a foot long, to hold each side of the boxes up. Seems plenty strong, even for the really heavy boxes.

I painted it to match the rest of the existing staircase, and it looks like it was all planned and built at once (sadly, by the same person...)

Here's a pic:

I used my trusty Brother P-Touch printer for the labels, using the same font as the ones on the rest of the cabinets in the shop (though printed in white instead of black for contrast against the black plastic of the HF boxes.)

Thanks to SOJ for the idea!

 

[Jazz1]

Friend brought his GMC pickup in garage(its -25C) to replace exterior door handle that broke off in his hand. Cheap plastic ****..Obviously so common problem the local parts house stocks them. I do like how GMC fastens interior to door...no fasteners to break and it was a quick painless job..but plastic door handles!

 

[ryolse]

Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?

Finished up a new hardware storage system. I used to have my hardware in Schaller boxes in my Lista cabinets, but wanted to reclaim that space.

When I saw what SOJ had done with the HF storage cabinets, I took the idea and ran with it. Well, maybe I just walked with it- Mine isn't anywhere near as nice (I don't have the space, or more importantly, the carpentry skills he has), but it looks good from home, as we used to say.

In my case, I integrated it into an existing stair I had built long ago. That staircase had a portion with shelves which I removed and built a sort-of cabinet to hold the HF boxes. The "cabinet" part is just 2X10s with a white laminate top. The center divider is 1X10 stock.

I used 48 pieces of 2" aluminum angle, each about a foot long, to hold each side of the boxes up. Seems plenty strong, even for the really heavy boxes.

I painted it to match the rest of the existing staircase, and it looks like it was all planned and built at once (sadly, by the same person...)

Here's a pic:


I used my trusty Brother P-Touch printer for the labels, using the same font as the ones on the rest of the cabinets in the shop (though printed in white instead of black for contrast against the black plastic of the HF boxes.)

Thanks to SOJ for the idea!

I'm a big fan of the HF boxes due to the different sized yellow containers, the prices and mostly because when I go to events I can easily load everything up. Only downside is they don't sell the bins separately so I have lots of the smaller black boxes that aren't used along with the larger yellow containers.

Do you happen to have a link to what you were talking about with what SOJ did with theirs?

 

[BoostAddiction]

Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?

I'm a big fan of the HF boxes due to the different sized yellow containers, the prices and mostly because when I go to events I can easily load everything up. Only downside is they don't sell the bins separately so I have lots of the smaller black boxes that aren't used along with the larger yellow containers.

Do you happen to have a link to what you were talking about with what SOJ did with theirs?

Here's the link: http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=289281

He really did a great job- check out how the boxes are actually mounted.

 

[nadogail]

Tried out the new Profusion 5 KW Garage Heater, will pretty up the install this coming week.

 

[firworks]

I took the detent out of the slides on my HF 44" and now the drawers open and close nice and smooth.

 

[napa68]

Fixed the power window motor in my 95 F250 PSD. Replaced the headlights as well.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Finished up a new hardware storage system. I used to have my hardware in Schaller boxes in my Lista cabinets, but wanted to reclaim that space.

When I saw what SOJ had done with the HF storage cabinets, I took the idea and ran with it. Well, maybe I just walked with it- Mine isn't anywhere near as nice (I don't have the space, or more importantly, the carpentry skills he has), but it looks good from home, as we used to say.

In my case, I integrated it into an existing stair I had built long ago. That staircase had a portion with shelves which I removed and built a sort-of cabinet to hold the HF boxes. The "cabinet" part is just 2X10s with a white laminate top. The center divider is 1X10 stock.

I used 48 pieces of 2" aluminum angle, each about a foot long, to hold each side of the boxes up. Seems plenty strong, even for the really heavy boxes.

I painted it to match the rest of the existing staircase, and it looks like it was all planned and built at once (sadly, by the same person...)

Here's a pic:

I used my trusty Brother P-Touch printer for the labels, using the same font as the ones on the rest of the cabinets in the shop (though printed in white instead of black for contrast against the black plastic of the HF boxes.)

Thanks to SOJ for the idea!

Not a damn thing wrong with that. It looks good, don't beat yourself up or sell yourself short.

Honestly, the only thing I would do now is to move your extinguisher up beside the white board so it is in plain site for other to see in an emergency.

 

[619DioFan]

Fixed the power window motor in my 95 F250 PSD. Replaced the headlights as well.

That is one really nice looking truck.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Forgot to mention, sorry got sidetracked looking at that killer hardware storage, but I broke out the Lincoln arc welder and burned through a few rods for practice.

 

[JimVonBaden]

Back from 14 days in Europe.

Finished the paint on the tins, wet sanded and polished the Rustoleum pain, and waxed it. I put them on the frame to see how they would look, with the new decals, and to get them out of the way for the next phase, the motor!

 

[stg454]

Fixed the power window motor in my 95 F250 PSD. Replaced the headlights as well.

That is a great looking truck. My favorite body style.

 

[jrhaas60]

Joined Garage journal and ripped more pegboard and shelves off of my walls in prep for insulation, sheet rock and cabinets.

 

[ichabod]

cleaned up a broken, beaten rag can I got from work.