Above 1200 Sq/FT Cleaning Up My Shop

[oldironfarmer]

Are you intending to cover the NMS wiring afterwards?

I think it is NM-B. And, no, I use exposed wire in my shop. It's really handy for trouble shooting and making modifications. Interestingly, Southwire says it is suitable for concealed and exposed dry locations. It meets my inspection requirements

Ok first time to comment here and it has to be a complaint I know. But your driving us OCD folks crazy by using white receptacles and ivory covers. LOL

Really it all looks real nice and is making me get off the couch and out to the shop more. I just got all my LED's up this weekend.

Need to work on the receptacles now.

I do believe I'm going to have to swing by one day in the spring to snag a broom off ya.

Glen

The question is why did I buy white receptacles? I had almost 200 ivory covers a friend got at an auction with other stuff and he gave them to me, probably twenty years ago. I've got about 140 left. The big question is will I buy white or ivory for the double receptacles and switches? I really hate to mix color schemes. I kind of like the two tone effect It gives you a nice target to hit

Will I be banned?

I have one question, is there really OCD in Tryon Oklahoma?

I'm about as far east of Drumright as you are west. You'd be welcome to come by anytime!

Thanks for the comments guys!

 

[Vieux]

Mounting of wires is made well and beautiful. I also think that such installation is correct and easier to find problems if they arise.

 

[drivesitfar]

Andy: i don't think we are going to ban you for mixing new white outlet covers with your old ivory colored ones, but curious why you bought the white ones. your hardware store and custom department at your shop seems to stock most everything so i'm guessing you just go to the store to see a few friends and get a few more jokes for us.

that's awesome that you are doing Zumba and no wonder you have so much energy to feed the cows, walk out and about the 160 acres and climb up and down ladders. i bet the electrical is getting hard to get up for every day, but the lights and all the progress is amazing.

i know that lift will be out of that box soon as Christmas is coming and you need a box to open.

cheers

 

[oldironfarmer]

Mounting of wires is made well and beautiful. I also think that such installation is correct and easier to find problems if they arise.

Always nice to get the Russian Vieux! I have the utmost respect for Russian inventiveness and ingenuity, making do with sometimes limited resources and quality of supplies. Glad you like the wiring. I think it is safe and effective but it is a bitter pill for those that feel it violates the National Electric Code. I am not required to strictly follow the NEC but many people are not only required to follow it, but in excess of the Code due to zealous inspectors. I'm really glad I live in a place where I can make my own choices

It's shocking what some people will do with wiring!

Andy: i don't think we are going to ban you for mixing new white outlet covers with your old ivory colored ones, but curious why you bought the white ones.

I really don't know. They looked new and fresh AND WERE THE SAME PRICE AS IVORY! I should have bought white covers at the same time but forgot. Then I was rummaging in my electrical cabinet for wire nuts and saw the old ivory covers. I was working on the scaffold and figured I could easily go back and change them... but now it's a trademark of my ocd (lower case intentional).

your hardware store and custom department at your shop seems to stock most everything so i'm guessing you just go to the store to see a few friends and get a few more jokes for us.

Sadly I go to a BBS where I don't know anyone, because of the selection and hours. I typically go after hours when I'm too tired to work in the shop. My frugal nature never tires, however.

that's awesome that you are doing Zumba and no wonder you have so much energy to feed the cows, walk out and about the 160 acres and climb up and down ladders. i bet the electrical is getting hard to get up for every day, but the lights and all the progress is amazing.

Bingo on the electrical. I'm ready to be done, but I am hitting a stride, all the tools are collected and I'm getting quicker. It is great to walk in and switch on a light instead of using a flashlight to find a cord to plug into a light on the floor. Makes me feel modern.

i know that lift will be out of that box soon as Christmas is coming and you need a box to open.

cheers

I'm having UBD. Unopened box disease was first diagnosed on a small farm in Oklahoma. It's the weird satisfaction of having something even though it has not been seen. Just because a box arrives does not mean it needs to be opened prior to needing to use the contents. There may be boxes that go unopened for many years. Psychologists are studying the condition and have surmised it may be a fatal disease - people may die with it. In my case (the only verified case so far) it has gotten worse lately. The oldest unopened box dates from at least 1995: an 8-inch grinder bought on a lark, not needed, but held in reserve in the event of failure of one of the mounted grinders. An unusual condition indeed. And a 1/2" set of sockets, and I'd better stop, the guys with the funny "can't scratch your nose" jacket may come around again. I fear there are other closet cases of UBD lurking about.

Thanks again for the visits, guys!

 

[oldironfarmer]

No shed time today!

We finally have some weather coming, and I had three orphan bales I don't have home. I still have not gotten the Dodge with the bale spike running. My son in law was available so Bob got on the trailer and we went to load hay.

This little field is about three miles from the house, and right behind a friend's house.

Got back home and Bob put on his forks and got back on the trailer.

We went over to another friend's house. I had loaned a 250 gallon propane tank to them thirty or more years ago. He's died and they told me they were no longer using propane. I would like to have a tank for powering my foundry effort so Bob loaded it up for me.

It was a little too wide for the trailer, and I only had three pieces of wood to block it with, so Bob set it off center to clear.

It's home, set on blocks, downhill from any building, the only downside is the propane man will gripe (he's a friend) because it's so far from the driveway, he'll have to drag out a lot of hose. I think I'll just get a hose to use fuel the burners rather than bury pipe or tubing.

My goal of cleaning up is to quit hauling stuff home. And here I am taking a propane tank from an elderly widow. I must be one tough dude.

 

[Farmerjonathan]

That an old Artsway feed grinder either under a tree or a tree growing out of it? If so, wondering what your plans for turning that into someday.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Good eyes. I didn't notice it was in the picture.

It's an Artsway feed grinder. Had a neighbor give it to me years ago, I thought I would grind square bales of alfalfa. The feed auger is rusted out from feed having been left in it. But the chamber and unloading auger look great. I don't have any plans for it. It is under a tree but was not really under the tree when I parked it. My how time flies.

I wish it had a good home, but I've never advertised it.

Thanks for the visit!

 

[madoc1]

that yazoo mower sure brings back memories. when i was 13 my first job was in the lawnmower service dept. of a large retailer. this was in '56. i had to unbox and assemble and fill with oil the yazoos we sold. top of the line back then.

jim

 

[oldironfarmer]

Yeah I love old Yazoo mowers.

I bought this one at an auction for about $5 several years ago. It's in pretty good shape, good compression, not all worn out. I'd been keeping it inside until my cleanup started. I want to move it back in before winter. It's just the victim of neglect so I'm continuing the tradition.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Refrigeration guy came by today to pick up an old furnace blower to put in a house I'm rebuilding.

While he was there he checked the Coke box. The evaporator frosts up. He put on an access tap and said it had plenty of refrigerant. That's good because it's R-12. He immediately identified that the evaporator fan was not working. So I tore into it and determined it was bad wiring and a bad fan. He had a new one on his truck so we met late in the day and I got it at his cost.

Maybe I'll be drinking cold pop in a few days!

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, way to go..

 

[Craptain]

That's one way to get sidetracked from the "cleanup" I would be putting beer in there as well as pop.

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[oldironfarmer]

Andy, way to go..

Thanks! And thanks for the visit!

That's one way to get sidetracked from the "cleanup" I would be putting beer in there as well as pop.

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Didn't mean to get sidetracked, but the technician was coming by to pick up my used blower and he offered to look at it without a service call charge Then one thing leading to another it was just the right time to tear into it. Should get it back together this afternoon and see how it runs.

Sadly beer has never been a part of my diet, I live a quiet uneventful life, have never had the opportunity to say "hold my beer and watch this..."

 

[-Brent-]

You're rebuilding a house too? When do you work on that? You have some clones we don't know about?

 

[Farmerjonathan]

Always meant to ask, "you anywhere near Stillwater, Ok?" I was there in '77 learning to shoe horses at Oklahoma Horseshoeing school.

 

[oldironfarmer]

You're rebuilding a house too? When do you work on that? You have some clones we don't know about?

I work on the house nights.

Actually I have a guy working on the house, all I have to do is a little management. The house was trashed when they finally moved out, it's getting a lot of new sheetrock, flooring, switches and outlets. And somebody broke in and stole funny stuff: kitchen faucet, heater blower, thermostat, and the remodeler's tools. He's pretty good, only he wants to do stuff better than I would. I just let him go. This was a repossession I will resell, we're also doing a renovation on a rent house, but that's another guy doing that. Again, he's better than I am so I just let him go and it always comes out nice. They are both really frugal and both have a Home Depot credit card in my name. The first was in my shop the other day cutting up 2x4's to make trim

Always meant to ask, "you anywhere near Stillwater, Ok?" I was there in '77 learning to shoe horses at Oklahoma Horseshoeing school.

East of Stillwater about 35 miles. We go there to shop sometimes. I graduated from OSU in Stillwater in 1971. I learned to shoo horses, but that's not too hard.

Thanks for the visits, guys!

 

[oldironfarmer]

Having a tough time getting progress on the shop. Today I put the fan in the pop box and verified that solved the problem of the evaporator icing up.

The old fan was bad, but a junction block was bad too, so the fan would not have run anyway. I stuck a standard junction block in but need to rewire the entire box. The old wiring is hard and brittle, it was tough to work it without breaking the insulation.

The power cord comes into this block, and was wired for black ground, green and white for power. I fixed that, darn GJ. A year ago I would have left it, the electricity can't see the colors.

Since the unit is holding R-12 from what looks like 1958 (no external taps until we added one) I'm hesitant to do much cleaning underneath. It may run many years if not disturbed and may fail if we try to pull the guts out to clean and paint.

After getting it cold, the coin changer started working. It now silently operates the dispenser when you put a dime in. Ready for cans And maybe bottle my own

I think I'll go the extra mile a preserve this old patina for future generations

 

[Bob Heine]

Andy, nice job on the Coke machine. I don't remember that I'm old until I see a post with a 1958 Coke Dispenser and remember how impressed I was with the flashy design when they were new

 

[Farmall450]

Got a friend with a WD-9 for sale. Its almost too heavy to move, and I really don't need another tractor.

Never heard of a 20v adapter. Works with 18v tools?

Thanks for the visit!



Thanks for the visits, guys!

How much is he wanting?
Yes sir they will, the 20v thing is essentially a marketing scam; that is only right off the charger.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/252518403711?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

 

[Farmall450]

So how about this lineup? From left to right - traditional Dodge Van, GMC pickup (1969ish), 64? Nova, Ford ******, 72 Nova.


They belong to my brother in law. Notice how I keep the grass carefully trimmed around them? I taught my cows how to do that.

Unfortunately the cows got to horsing around and pushed my road grader into the van

I asked him today whether he would sell them to me. He has stored them in my pasture for fifteen to twenty years. I'd like to have the GMC and 64 Nova. 1972 Nova would be nice but it is his deceased only son's car and he really wants it. Said it would start right up and has a hot rod engine and competition transmission. Told me today he would consider selling some, but he wants the van next to his well house for storage. I'm not really a Dodge Van type of guy anyway, but it would be fun to customize, maybe chop way down.

Oh well, at least I can dream...

Very neat road grader OP. Brother had a similar one at one time.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy, nice job on the Coke machine. I don't remember that I'm old until I see a post with a 1958 Coke Dispenser and remember how impressed I was with the flashy design when they were new

Wow! You are old! Actually I remember how nice the new 1957 Chevy our next door neighbor bought looked. Red and white. I only vaguely remember the stand up machines back then. One store had an all red one I remember. Seems like every place we bought pop was the box where you open the lid and slide the bottle to the changer were it had to be lifted out, and that pull was very hard when you could just see over the top of the box. In later years they modified all of those and they are shorter now. Good for kids, I guess. They did they same thing with counter tops in kitchens.

How much is he wanting?
Yes sir they will, the 20v thing is essentially a marketing scam; that is only right off the charger.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/252518403711?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

I'll check and see if the WD-9 is still available. By the time I get back to you it may have been sold and headed here

Very neat road grader OP. Brother had a similar one at one time.

Thanks! It was thrown in as part of the Bobcat purchase. Converted to tongue operation and they didn't do a very good job but the cows seem to enjoy it. I'll get a picture of the left wheel, it needs a boot or something.

Thanks for stopping in guys!

 

[Farmall450]

I'll check and see if the WD-9 is still available. By the time I get back to you it may have been sold and headed here



Thanks! It was thrown in as part of the Bobcat purchase. Converted to tongue operation and they didn't do a very good job but the cows seem to enjoy it. I'll get a picture of the left wheel, it needs a boot or something.

Thanks for stopping in guys!

Same here. Interesting how it still has a spoked rim!
I guess I'll just have to get it and the SMTA in one fell swoop

Thanks for posting OP!

 

[drivesitfar]

Andy: great work on the Coke machine and isn't it good to have friends with the right parts and tools.

you and Bob aren't THAT OLD. hell i still remember my Dad paying $1,800 for his new 63 VW bug that i drove 5 years later around the neighborhood. ok i was 12 when i started driving, but still you guys aren't that old especially with all that you both you and Bob get done and have time to talk about it.

Andy i found this picture a few years ago when looking for storage ideas and i'm thinking it might be one of your neighbors. or maybe it's yours with all the property it sounds like you own.

cheers and have a great SATURDAY!!

 

[jbmatth]

Andy,
I finely was able to catch up again, I was playing auditor in Borger and I am always welcomed with open arms when I start off by saying, "Hello, I'm JB, I'm with the audit team and I'm here to help.".

You have done great work on the addition and are coming along nicely, you'll be all done wiring before you know it.
JB

 

[oldironfarmer]

Same here. Interesting how it still has a spoked rim!
I guess I'll just have to get it and the SMTA in one fell swoop

Thanks for posting OP!

I load for free

Andy: great work on the Coke machine and isn't it good to have friends with the right parts and tools.

you and Bob aren't THAT OLD. hell i still remember my Dad paying $1,800 for his new 63 VW bug that i drove 5 years later around the neighborhood. ok i was 12 when i started driving, but still you guys aren't that old especially with all that you both you and Bob get done and have time to talk about it.

Andy i found this picture a few years ago when looking for storage ideas and i'm thinking it might be one of your neighbors. or maybe it's yours with all the property it sounds like you own.

cheers and have a great SATURDAY!!

Thanks, a well equipped service technician is worth every penny.

Bob is exactly THAT old. I am many days younger.

I don't believe that is a mansion, probably a motel. Or it just might be a condominimum. Looks like a great place to stay on vacation.

Andy,
I finely was able to catch up again, I was playing auditor in Borger and I am always welcomed with open arms when I start off by saying, "Hello, I'm JB, I'm with the audit team and I'm here to help.".

You have done great work on the addition and are coming along nicely, you'll be all done wiring before you know it.
JB

Go easy on the guys in Borger. I have ever only met one guy who claimed to like Borger.

If I could ever get back in the shop I would have the wiring finished. Had family in today, but that is OK

Thanks so much for the visits!

 

[oldironfarmer]

Possible snow this week, and temperatures below 15 (-10C) degrees.

Told Bob to get his overshoes (rubbers) on. Said he needed help (I think his belly is getting too big).

Back feet are the hardest. I wire them to the wheel, then drive forward enough to place the loose end.

And I kind of boxed him in with the trailer.

Lift the front over (pretty good strain, he has heavy overshoes)

Grab and pull with the button hook. These were too far apart to pull together in one grab.

Then take another bite and pull.

Pull until the holes line up

Put in the bolts and tighten them up. The other side went in one pull

Grabbed a bale and went out to feed. That's the bull. he was not impressed. This is old hay, always try to feed it first but this is really old. I haven't touched 2015 hay yet, and this is 2014 or 2013 summer hay. The cows still have grass, but it is not very palatable this time of year. They will decide whether this hay is worth eating.

Second bale they have all crowded around to eat. I feed two bales so nobody gets shoved away.

This little field did not have much grass when I moved in in 1985. Rock is shallow. It is terraced and used to be a corn field, and cotton. Erosion in the 1930's took away the topsoil. I've been feeding hay in it for twenty years or more. Start at the far end and fill up row after row. By the end of the winter it will be covered in manure and wasted hay. It now grows good grass all over, but the rock is a little shallow so when it gets hot and dry the grass suffers.

The bull is the only one with a blue ear tag, that's him just to the left of the bale. The cows moved away because I came up with the second bale. He's munching on a big bite of hay. Another satisfied customer!

Took a little bale out to the heifers. This old oak is in my hay yard. I just love to look at it.

Here's some bare rock in the heifer pen. The previous owner had sold top soil out of this field on the other side. Bare clay soil there, but after feeding for years there is good top soil and good grass, so this year I'm coming over here to feed and build up the soil. This will be porous rock which will give up water and support grass with only a few inches of soil.

Here's my other road grader.

Ran when parked!

Thanks for looking in!

 

[Farmall450]

That cat grader is even cooler! I'm going to need a bigger trailer than I can legally pull.
Not that that's ever stopped anyone before. Nice tracks on the bobcat. We chain up the skidsteer when it gets bad; almost got a galvanized set for our Case 85XT from the neighbor but the chains work pretty well and are easier to put on/don't destroy the pneumatic tires.

EDIT: COVER THE CAT EXHAUST!!! Can't let that go to waste!
My dad's aforementioned TD6 suffered from an uncovered exhaust (PO)...let's just say it wouldn't have too much compression, it all gets out the holes in the sleeves

 

[dlcwent]

Andy, two road graders. Now I'm really impressed. "ran when parked"

 

[jbmatth]

Andy might be a man of mini talents, but he is also a man of many things that ran when parked. I'm sure most will run again, you might just have to replace the ignition system, fuel system, and misc. engine parts like the intake, exhaust, valve springs, bearings, cam, pistons, crank, and the block.
JB

 

[Ajustable]

Let bob know I like his winter boots. Bob needs compliments eh? Happy bobs means happy Andy!

 

[oldironfarmer]

That cat grader is even cooler! I'm going to need a bigger trailer than I can legally pull.
Not that that's ever stopped anyone before. Nice tracks on the bobcat. We chain up the skidsteer when it gets bad; almost got a galvanized set for our Case 85XT from the neighbor but the chains work pretty well and are easier to put on/don't destroy the pneumatic tires.

EDIT: COVER THE CAT EXHAUST!!! Can't let that go to waste!
My dad's aforementioned TD6 suffered from an uncovered exhaust (PO)...let's just say it wouldn't have too much compression, it all gets out the holes in the sleeves

Bring a big trailer! The CAT Motor Patrol is definitely for sale, I just have no use for it. It was spitting wet exhaust and smoking but still had plenty of power. I think I have a set of injectors for it, just the little inserts. We finish graded and ditched 3/4 mile of road on my development with it in 2002. The pony motor doesn't run so we pull started it each time. An M Farmall would start it just fine. Really not an issue unless you killed it with the blade in the ground. Then you hand cranked the blade free. Many turns. Has power steering. I never got back with anyone to pull start it and drive it the 12 miles home. Now it has three flats, but they would probably come up. I kept a can over the exhaust for years. Either they would blow off or kids would steal them. It's been open a couple of years, but CAT's are pretty good to not fill up with water, unlike IH. When I was out there yesterday and took the pictures I didn't have a can so I took the air precleaner off and put it over the exhaust. I despise open exhausts.

Bob loves his rubbers. They are kind of hard to pull on but they give a lot of flotation. He almost got stuck in quicksand on a hillside with a load in the grapple but he wisely dropped the load and pushed back with the grapple and walked right out. Wet weather spring there I didn't know we had or I would have told him to go around. They also help with stability, longer where the ground contact is and more weight.. I can tell the difference in capacity and tipping. Bob don't seem to notice, if you tip him over he just keeps humming along.

Andy, two road graders. Now I'm really impressed. "ran when parked"

Not true without a picture, eh? I'm a little frustrated having the CAT stuck 12 miles away but not enough to pay a wrecker to load and move it.

Andy might be a man of mini talents, but he is also a man of many things that ran when parked. I'm sure most will run again, you might just have to replace the ignition system, fuel system, and misc. engine parts like the intake, exhaust, valve springs, bearings, cam, pistons, crank, and the block.
JB

Hoo boy! Isn't it the truth! Of course the quantity of parts required to get something running is substantially dependent on the idiosyncrasies of the mechanic. Out of necessity I tend to not replace parts which do not need to be replaced. Most guys just can't understand that. I hear things like "brake pads looked surprisingly good but I replaced them because I had it disassembled". Same with rod bearings. If the clearance looks good I leave them alone. I've known guys that replaced perfectly good cranks to try to make the engine "perfect". If it will start and run and carry good oil pressure it will be good for a couple of thousand hours and not much of this old equipment will ever see a couple of thousand more hours. some day I'll tell you about my Red Submarine.

Let bob know I like his winter boots. Bob needs compliments eh? Happy bobs means happy Andy!

I'll tell him, but it will be a couple of days, he's sleeping in and probably won't even wake up today. I think everybody needs compliments, even those who deny it (maybe not shallow compliments). Happy Bob happy Andy No more headaches for Bob.

Shop day today, so I need to get out and get the cows fed and get in the shop

Thanks for the visits and each comment. The variety of experience and advice from that experience is what makes GJ great!

P.S. I just went to post and was not logged in (I had been logged out). I never lose a post, just hit the back button, copy post, hit thread title just above, log in, then paste and preview. Works every time, even if I have to hit the back button two or three times.

 

[drivesitfar]

Andy: great posts as per usual. just an FYI. i stay logged on all the time i'm on GJ's site and i think there is a box you can check so you won't be logged off again. another thing i learned early on was that my threads come up with the most recent posts and i think you can set that up in your GJ profile if you don't have it set up that way already.

was the missing topsoil issue from maybe in the 30's when the depression was going on cause i sort of remember that in my US history class?

so i have a question for you since you have a CABOOSE in your yard. have you ever thought of maybe putting a RR track on your 160 acres and getting an engine to pull that caboose around the property? one of my land developers loved small trains and before the crash of 2006 he had one fairly small development of 60 acres of 1 acre lots that he was going to put a small train track maybe covered too around the property. he ended up selling the property prior to developing after the market soured so trains didn't happen.

have fun in the shop today maybe making a bit more progress on the light and maybe a little more work on the old COKE machine.

cheers

 

[Farmall450]

Bring a big trailer! The CAT Motor Patrol is definitely for sale, I just have no use for it. It was spitting wet exhaust and smoking but still had plenty of power. I think I have a set of injectors for it, just the little inserts. We finish graded and ditched 3/4 mile of road on my development with it in 2002. The pony motor doesn't run so we pull started it each time. An M Farmall would start it just fine. Really not an issue unless you killed it with the blade in the ground. Then you hand cranked the blade free. Many turns. Has power steering. I never got back with anyone to pull start it and drive it the 12 miles home. Now it has three flats, but they would probably come up. I kept a can over the exhaust for years. Either they would blow off or kids would steal them. It's been open a couple of years, but CAT's are pretty good to not fill up with water, unlike IH. When I was out there yesterday and took the pictures I didn't have a can so I took the air precleaner off and put it over the exhaust. I despise open exhausts.

Bob loves his rubbers. They are kind of hard to pull on but they give a lot of flotation. He almost got stuck in quicksand on a hillside with a load in the grapple but he wisely dropped the load and pushed back with the grapple and walked right out. Wet weather spring there I didn't know we had or I would have told him to go around. They also help with stability, longer where the ground contact is and more weight.. I can tell the difference in capacity and tipping. Bob don't seem to notice, if you tip him over he just keeps humming along.

Now I'll have to invest in a semi
Oh wait, that takes money and a CDL, which I couldn't get for 2.5 years anyhow

 

[realvc]

The first new car I remember was a 1956 Chevy that our neighbor had. They had a son my age that showed where the gas cap was located behind the left tail light. That was the coolest thing ever at that time. Then I saw where some of the Cadillacs gas caps were located.

There was cold drink box like you were talking about that you had to slide the bottles around and pull out that was filled water at the corner store up the street from our home way back in the day. I think it was before 1958.

Today my memory was jogged in two different ways that covered the same time period.

It is always a fun time here on your thread.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy: great posts as per usual. just an FYI. i stay logged on all the time i'm on GJ's site and i think there is a box you can check so you won't be logged off again. another thing i learned early on was that my threads come up with the most recent posts and i think you can set that up in your GJ profile if you don't have it set up that way already.

I haven't found the "stay logged in" box yet. I tried newest on top and it disoriented me

was the missing topsoil issue from maybe in the 30's when the depression was going on cause i sort of remember that in my US history class?

The dust bowl days, my dirt went to Arkansas and they won't bring it back. I asked...

so i have a question for you since you have a CABOOSE in your yard. have you ever thought of maybe putting a RR track on your 160 acres and getting an engine to pull that caboose around the property? one of my land developers loved small trains and before the crash of 2006 he had one fairly small development of 60 acres of 1 acre lots that he was going to put a small train track maybe covered too around the property. he ended up selling the property prior to developing after the market soured so trains didn't happen.

I used to tell people I asked my wife for a train set for Christmas and all she got me was a dumb old caboose. I thought about buying a box car and coupling it to the caboose for storage, but they typically come with out the trucks. Not sure why the caboose is usually sold with trucks. Maybe they are light duty but they look like regular springs and wheels.

I have a young friend who maintains and operates steam locomotives. He would love for me to get a train or even steam tractor. The problem with trains is you get tons and tons of steel in just a little track. 90 pound rail is very light rail, and that weighs 30 pounds per foot (90/yard), 1,000 ft of track, (2,000 ft of rail) weights at least 30 tons and that is not a very big loop (300 ft diameter circle).

have fun in the shop today maybe making a bit more progress on the light and maybe a little more work on the old COKE machine.

cheers

Fun in the shop words to live by!!

Now I'll have to invest in a semi
Oh wait, that takes money and a CDL, which I couldn't get for 2.5 years anyhow

I'll wait. Believe me, at Bob's age 2.5 years flies by. Sorry, meant my age. Wish I could figure out how to edit this computer stuff.

The first new car I remember was a 1956 Chevy that our neighbor had. They had a son my age that showed where the gas cap was located behind the left tail light. That was the coolest thing ever at that time. Then I saw where some of the Cadillacs gas caps were located.

There was cold drink box like you were talking about that you had to slide the bottles around and pull out that was filled water at the corner store up the street from our home way back in the day. I think it was before 1958.

Today my memory was jogged in two different ways that covered the same time period.

It is always a fun time here on your thread.

I forgot about the boxes with water in them. Some of them didn't have coin changers, you just pulled the pop out and paid the lady. Kind of like a convenience store is now, come to think of it.

Not too many new cars in the circles we traveled in in the fifties. My dad got a promotion and bought a new 58 Oldsmobile Super 88 4 dr HT, I remember seeing 55,555.5 on the odometer. He then started buying new ones about every three years.

I worked in a filling station during the sixties, even in college. I used to know where all the gas caps were hidden. And a 65 Mustang was not obvious for being so in your face. I remember trying to find my first one, and no, the tail lights do not pop out to reveal the gas cap. They don't soda out either. That's just not the right word. Had a coworker that bent a few tags trying to find gas caps. He had a fresh start every day, so it became my job to train him. He could usually use a refresher after break too.

Glad you enjoy the thread, I'm having a blast, thanks to all the nice folks that stop by. Laugh at me or laugh with me and we'll all be laughing when they come to take us away.

Ya'll come back, hear?

 

[oldironfarmer]

Great day in the shop today!

Finished straightening up the wire runs

That's as good as it's going to get, they just won't straighten any better

Then I pulled the wire for the compressor and kilns. I've really been missing my big compressor but it is going to be in the way of running wire but I think I'm done (except for lights in the paint booth). I put in a 50 amp breaker for the kilns and happened to find an old disconnect with a 30 amp breaker. I used it for years for temporary construction power. Kind of ugly inside.

Didn't take long to clean up. I'm going to use that for a junction box, take the 50 amp circuit on down to a socket and branch the 30 amp to the compressor. Looked around and found some old primary welding cable. Type W rated 90C and 2,000v. #8 3 conductor, very fine strands. I got it from the refinery, someone had wired up three phase welding machines with 3 conductor, no ground wire. On welding machines. I got about 300 ft as they were throwing it in a dumpster in 75 ft lengths. I've used it for extension cords, etc. So I cut three feet off to use improperly as permanent installation cable. It is hard to work with so I trimmed it in a vise.

Disconnect is on top, socket on the end of Type W is below

I do not clock screws, it is a waste of time. I will not do it. I refuse to do it.

Then I cut loose the old air line into the wood shop and ran a new line from the foundry room.

My heat shield is a piece of sheet metal screwed to a board. If I get the metal too hot the board will smolder instead of what I'm protecting. A board make good insulation and gives you early warning if it gets too hot. I used that the last time in 06 in this room and it was still laying there I've got to start picking stuff up, but when I looked around and found it I was glad it was right there. What a plan

I use a wet paper towel to make sure I don't get the valve seat too hot.

Got this junction soldered and next need to support the line.

I had put the #6-2 w/ground on a 1x2 laid on edge against the wall.

The copper barely sticks into the foundry room. I can slide it farther to solder it.

To hold the tubing on the 1x2 I need clamps. I cut some 1" oak, clamped two together, and drilled a 7/8" hole on the seam with a Forstner bit.

Then trimmed off waste

And I think it will hold the tube on the rack.

Get them up tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping in!

 

[sublime68charger]

Love the old cat grader!

Also all the other work as well!

 

[NedNorton]

Andy,

You too are in this group...

I know that I haven't been posting lately but I wanted to let you know that during the time we were in the ICU your thread, among others, help pass the time. Just thought a thank you was in order.

I will add, you make me laugh and that is priceless.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, two road graders. Now I'm really impressed. "ran when parked"

Dan, I have heard that story before..

 

[drivesitfar]

Andy: you sure get a lot done in a day and amazed you still have the energy to post and spend a few minutes to post all the good comments. WELL DONE!!

so i'm wondering how you soldered that T to the left of the new weld/solder where you had the safety piece of metal and wood (BTW nice plan leaving that where you could find it 10 years ago)? i'm guessing you soldered that maybe over on a bench and then just did some simple extensions where you showed us and one on the other side of the wall?

nice job clocking those screws and until i heard a couple comments about shop dust gathering in the grooves of the screws when they are horizontal i think that was my preferred method instead of vertical.

i have a question on the safety factor of your CUSTOM holder for your pipe. since i'm guessing you cut the piece of wood in half with a bandsaw why didn't you continue to cut the trim out on a bandsaw too instead of a table saw? or did you make both cuts on the table saw? looks like it worked and i didn't hear you lost any fingers so another quality job.

i still have a hard time looking at your plumbing and wiring, but it's starting to look more normal.

enjoy your Saturday today!!

NED: nice post and i agree Andy's humor will infect anybody and make them feel better. GET WELL SOON!!