What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[crewchief888]

last sunday the front brakes on the wifes saturn vue decided to not release...

talked to my GM tech buddy on sunday, and we pinpointed it to the front brake hoses

of course we got slammed with a snowstorm mid-week, 10"-12" of heavy wet snow, and i'm still in "clean-up mode" here finally got around to ordering the hoses on friday night.

picked them up this morning, both both front hoses replaced, brakes bled, and back on the road by late this morning.

for once i actually worked inside the garage...

too bad it was colder inside than it was outside

 

[vartz04]

Cleaned up the shed (garage) Flipped my air hose reel around and sat and watched some shows on Netflix and smoked a cigar. Bunch of estrogen in the house for my sister in laws "diaper shower" so me and the dog hid in the shed.

 

[bodyguy16]

Ripped some osb to make "mouldings" for the attic access door in the garage. I camt wait to start painting!

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[jdepiero]

Got my 1955 Dodge Power Wagon finally started

 

[Dreaming]

Mounted carb number 2 to the cb550 rack of carbs. I might get these back together this year

 

[PCustoms]

Took down the "Paint Booth" (3-mil plastic stapled to ceiling and cardboard on the floor) and swept up a bit.

Did one last test fit and photo shoot before boxing it up for shipment:

 

[oldmxracer]

got my 1955 dodge power wagon finally started

sweet !!!!

 

[steveivy]

Friend came over and we installed two exterior doors in the new shop:

Shop side:





Garage side:



About 5 hours of work for two amateurs.

 

[titanjeep]

Took down the "Paint Booth" (3-mil plastic stapled to ceiling and cardboard on the floor) and swept up a bit.

Did one last test fit and photo shoot before boxing it up for shipment:

That is awesome! Nice work.

 

[56vette461]

Hey Crewchief888,

What is this "working inside the garage" concept. Such a concept is foreign to me

 

[pepi]

I dig the hell out of finding ideas that make so much sense it is nuts. This will work on any raw steal table or tool table surface. The Scotch-Brite pad will not harm the surface or distort it.

Tools required jitter bug, Scotch-Brite pad, wd40, and lacquer thinner, or wax and oil remover, if the lacquer is to strong for ya.

Have a look how these turned out, must have pushed that jitter bug around a whopping 20 minutes. It took longer to wipe down the surface.

It was just way to easy, the jitter bug was the unknown, not thought of before.

 

[jpickar]

What is a jitter bug?
John

 

[fatboy99]

What is a jitter bug?
John

It's an air operated orbital sander like used in a body shop

 

[jpickar]

OH, man do I feel dumb. I have one I just never heard it called that before! Where Have I been? Thanks
John

 

[rayra]

So last night and today I built a new set of tent / awning poles, using EMT metal conduit. I'd previously made a set out of PVC -
http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...compact-flexible-design?p=1864380#post1864380
and while those worked great, their overall volume was more than I wanted. I'd only made the PVC set because I couldn't find an affordable set of the old Coleman-style metal poles. I found some online but their pricing + shipping etc was just ridiculous.
The other day while cleaning up and re-arranging my garage workspaces I was messing with some conduit scrap and a subsequent discussion with my electrician-neighbor gelled the idea to make a set out of EMT.

The idea uses 3/4" ID EMT for the lower / outer half and 1/2" ID EMT as the upper / inner half, the riser. I found a variety of pipe-end plastic guard (meant to keep the raw pipe from chewing thru wiring) which fit close with the inner pipe in place. This was mostly to limit rattle and noise. The nice finished look is a happy byproduct.

I swiped the link-pins from the fatter PVC set mostly as a cost savings, but the larger size also provides a big hoop you can hang things from, like a wet towel, etc. They have a 5/16" dia steel pin, so I drilled all the holes at 11/32" to give me a little play for misalignments and such.

I used a V-notch block in my cheap drill press to help me center the holes in the pipes. I also center-punched the drilling locations to help start the 1/8" pilot holes. Stacked up some scrap to support the other ends of the poles as I did the drilling. Took some work with a ******* file afterwards to clean up all the flash and raised lips in the drilled holes.

To make a protruding pin at the top of the pole, I used some 1/2" OD wood dowel in 1" lengths to fashion end plugs and drilled their centers to pass thru a 1/4"-20 carriage bolt, 2-1/2" long. Gives me a pin that sticks up about 1-3/8". These were glued in place w/ caulk. I was going to use epoxy, but held off in case I figure something better to use for a pin. All manner of things would work.

Then ends of the 1/2" pipes were wrapped in masking tape to bring them up to the inner diameter of the 3/4" pipe. Also to control rattle / noise.

The 1/2" pipes were drilled with a hole near the top, as were the 3/4" pipes, so the sets can be pinned in the 'closed' position. Then the 1/2" pipes were drilled in 6" increments for variable height settings for the poles. Down to about 9" from the bottom.

I sized my sets to 48" for the 3/4" pipe and 51" for the 1/2". About 52-1/2" overall, collapsed. Which will fit fine in my future 54" drawer platform. Fully extended they're a little over 7' tall, just fine for my vehicle awning project. Total cost for this set of 4 poles is about $33 and half a day of fooling around.

 

[bmxdad]

Started fabbing up a band-saw stand, made room for the new lathe that i pickup tomorrow, rewired my trailer, and hung a 25' air reel .... good day today

 

[firworks]

Tools got a bath today. On that CV I replaced, it tore and then spun and so everything behind the rotor was covered in green CV grease with black dirt in it. All the tools I used for the job were disgusting.

They're all shiny and nestled back in their toolbox now.

 

[Outlawmws]

So last night and today I built a new set of tent / awning poles, using EMT metal conduit. I'd previously made a set out of PVC ]

Nice job on the poles! did you use the same blue needs on the bottom (leaving it open) or did you use some cane tips for that? (closes it and it is less likely to sink into dirt, - less of a concern if you just use them on hard surfaces)

 

[polexican23]

Did a little pre-spring Spring cleaning and got my 65 vw steerimg box cleaned, painted and reassembled.

My buddy Taco is performing Q&A.

 

[ambenz]

Okay, checking lug tightness on my pony since I got to drive it around today (it was 60F here today!) and I couldn't find my lug key!
Well I eventually did find it and noticed I never registered my key number!
So if I lost it, I could never get a new key...so as a Public Service Notice...
Check and register your wheel lug keys people!!

After that was done, I had a "catch all box" that was failing next to my toolbox so I had some rearranging to do...cleaned up around my toolbox.

got rid of the cardboard box and used a bucket I had until I can figure out a better solution.

I worked on the second body of my RC car as I did a lot of tape and pin stripe work to get it to look like my human size Mustang.
I use the RC car for car shows, the kids really get a kick out of seeing my mini me.

More to come next weekend on that...

I got burned on a flea Market find and bought a Fender 10G amp for the same price as a new one, and this one had an issue!
Usually when I got something like this, I bench test it first and open it up.

Maybe it was good I got a used one, now I know the issues with this.

Opening the back, I notice broken plastic parts...

Noticed the gig plug was busted and that's where the plastic parts came from...

So I fixed it with some plastic and a zip tie...worked great! These plugs are so cheap, you would think they would make it out of metal as these plugs get yanked out a lot.
Well, I cleaned up the potentiometers and switches and it tested out great!

Last time I buy something on a whim....*sigh*
I suppose in the end, it all worked out and I have a better than new amp.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

A Fender amp without tubes?! Blasphemy!!

Tommy

 

[rayra]

Nice job on the poles! did you use the same blue needs on the bottom (leaving it open) or did you use some cane tips for that? (closes it and it is less likely to sink into dirt, - less of a concern if you just use them on hard surfaces)

same fittings on the bottom. Most of my stomping grounds are in the high deserts in SoCal. But a closed cap would be better in damp dirt

 

[kaymccampbell]

Went down and started chopping up steel studs for the soffit framing to wrap the ducts and plumbing. LOVE steel studs for this purpose. No splits or tons of screws or nails and the whole thing jiggling apart. Got a whole bunch of it done and sheetrocked. Ran out of corner bead and studs. And my angle widget for getting in tight corners died, too. The gears stripped.

 

[ckadams00]

Pulled out the mower and got it ready for spring. Pulled out the snow blower and got it ready to put away. Stripped all the paint off of a little Wilton 2" baby with powrarm, cleaned it up and hit it with a coat of self etching primer - almost ready for paint.

 

[78C-10]

I built a bench to set my two top boxes on. I'll probably be building a carbon copy soon as a work bench.

 

[copperbob]

Well...i am rebuilding a 350 transmission for my '71 Buick skylark convertible. This is my first time doing a transmission. I have it stripped out, clean and painted. Started the rebuild and wish I knew more....hahhaa

 

[6S1284]

Built some cubbies under one of my workbenches for power tools and such.

 

[vwracer]

Picked up a buggy frame from the painter and hung a few parts on the loose ends.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Well...i am rebuilding a 350 transmission for my '71 Buick skylark convertible. This is my first time doing a transmission. I have it stripped out, clean and painted. Started the rebuild and wish I knew more....hahhaa

Transmissions aren't hard, just complicated. Make sure everything is extra clean and remember or write down where everything goes. One little ball on the wrong side of the plate or in the wrong channel and you get to take it down and do it over. If you can swing it, get a good rebuilt or new converter. Trying to flush one on the cheap will just fill your fresh rebuild with **** at best.

 

[Ping Pong]

Put the blower back on the race car and fired it up before heading to Gainesville. Planning on doing the points race and the National. Wife is looking forward to 2 weeks without her resident whack job.

 

[BaMaDuDe87]

Started on this work bench for the attached garage.

 

[NICKS]

2003 BMW X5.
Debadged with 2 stage paint correction using HD cut and HD Polish on microfiber pads, topped off with Meguiars M21 paint sealant

 

[Brad Beam]

Picked up a buggy frame from the painter and hung a few parts on the loose ends.

What make of buggy frame is that?

 

[mike528]

Cleaned and painted the covers for the baseboard heater in the half bath

 

[NewShockerGuy]

I had a spare set of hella super tones from when I had them on my WRX... I since bought new ones for my STi, thinking these were bad, when in reality it was the relay that was bad...

Re-painted the grills bright red, and installed them on the truck. Now I have the two stock horns and the two front facing supertones.... it's LOUD AF!

I'll get better pictures, these are ******.

Really simple to wire up, incase anyone needs the info or it helps someone:

Relay:

Pin 30: + battery
Pin 86: blue signal wire of exsiting horn wire (There was black and blue wires)
Pin 85: Ground
Pin 87: + wire going to horns.

(Then just ground each horn to the body/frame/metal on metal..etc.)

Works with my keyless entry/panic and pressing the horn switch.

-Nigel

 

[Jazz1]

Glued top rail of this interior frame for my car. I will start installing if i can stay focused. Cleaned up a 6/12v battery charger that someone destined for the dump..Charger works, ordered amp gauge from China for $3.99. These old chargers are handy as a low amp power source for projects,,

 

[brownsmustang]

Started the organization, set up phase now that the temps are bearable.

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[vwracer]

The buggy frame was made by ProTech. I have had it for about 30 years. It was the first buggy I built. They were made by Kansas City somewhere.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Unloaded some "new to me" stuff, including an older than me drill press. I'll get some pics up tommorrow.

My apologies to anyone waiting on the pictures. I got way too busy this weekend. The local volunteer FD is clearing out a house for a possible training fire. The house belonged to a hoarder, she passed away and the township ended up with it. We started cleaning it out. We filled a 20 yd dumpster with scrap metal, filled a 40 yd with trash, another 20 yd with trash on Saturday. On Sunday, they came out, picked up the scrap metal, weighed and dumped it, brought it back out. We started on the garage, had another pile of scrap and filled that 20 yd dumpster about 3/4 with trash, still have a back corner of the garage and another back room to clear out.

The scrap metal dumpster weighed 6k lbs and there is more.

 

[exranger06]

I decided to see what all the hubbub is with those Costco LED lights that everyone here loves so much. Picked one up at BJ's yesterday, and hung it up today. This is my new "underhood" light. It illuminates the engine bay when I'm working on cars. I realized how badly I needed one after replacing the thermostat and radiator in my truck a few months ago. I need a permanent outlet to plug into; that's on my list of electrical upgrades that I'm working on. You can see some comparison pics with the light on and off. I'm pleased with it.