What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Joshua_Russo]

Busy day, whole family in the shop prepping signs, gifts, fire kits and other stuff for a sale next week.

Most popular fire kit style is the 'post-apocalyptic' where I purposely rust and weather the tin with sandpaper, hydrogen peroxide, and salt. That's what's going on in that picture.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

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[Outlawmws]

You just gave me an awesome idea, but I don't personally have the room for it.

An electrically-motorized v8 with cutaway sections so you can watch the rotating assemblies do their thing....right in the middle of the garage between bays.

Hey, I can dream...

How about a scale model?

 

[titanjeep]

Made a logo for our basket and then Installed the basket on my wife’s X3 for an upcoming trip.

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How did you make that logo, it looks really nice.

 

[YeahPete]

Added more power to my sons power wheel.

 

[smalltown]

YeahPete nicely done !

 

[dneiding]

Cut out some rust, welded in some new metal on my 83 Chevy Truck.

 

[adamgayton81]

What did you do "IN" your garage today?

How did you make that logo, it looks really nice.

Lol thanks. It was on my Cricut Air...I can make anything up to 12”x24”...it cuts very thin sheets of wood too


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[Swingpress]

What did you do "IN" your garage today?

More cleaning. This time in the basement work area. I need MORE STORAGE!!!

Also, just put up 75lbs of deer meat back from the processors! 18lbs of deer summer sausage!!!

 

[EOC_Jason]

Added more power to my sons power wheel.

lol, that gave me a thought... The tool companies need to come out with some power wheels that you can use their battery backs with... Though if that happened when you go out to your garage to work they will be dead because the kid forgot to put it on the charger...

 

[Floodedkiwi]

Happy Thanksgiving all y'all.
Gunna spend a few quiet hours cleaning in the garage before going to the family get together...
Cheers

 

[Kent_B]

I'm taking a break from garage cleaning myself for a few minutes. My son won't get home until tomorrow and we have a rear brake job scheduled on his car. I'm prepping for that and we'll have the turkey & fixin's on Saturday. I was just thinking that I'm thankful for a dry spot to work on it with all my tools handy.

Happy Thanksgiving, gang!

 

[TheClaw]

Instead of paying $700 to add some 220V to my garage (we've moved) I rewired the motor on the compressor for 110V. Except now the pressure switch leaks. Won't hold more than 80psi.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Walked through to whack the boiler control.

 

[jkherd]

Added an hour meter to my air compressor so I can keep better track of the hours on the oil. Still have a few things I would like to accomplish today.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Working on a shelf for the fire house, going to try to clean a few things up on a back wall of the bay floor and do a little painting to.

 

[EOC_Jason]

Added an hour meter to my air compressor so I can keep better track of the hours on the oil. Still have a few things I would like to accomplish today.

Ooo... I totally forgot I had a 240v hour meter laying around here doing nothing... I could add that to my compressor too... Not that it sees much use but it would be cool to have...

 

[jwh]

Got the starter out of my 01 F150. Thank you GJ for making me buy all those tools:
Milwaukee M18 Fuel Impact wrench
Kroil
Lots of sockets and extensions from Sears and Harbor Freight!

John

 

[Kent_B]

Changed out entry door lockset while my son did rear brakes on his car. Good times.

 

[EOC_Jason]

Weather hit like 70 today so I washed my truck.

 

[pinesdune]

Finally finished the rebuild job from hell, new roof and side panel repairs to my camper, 22 days and I can finally have my shop back to play next week once the last of the glue dries over the weekend and I spend a couple days cleaning up the mess

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[isb cornbinder]

I did some serious Googling for a bracket to fit an air-conditioning pump and the alternator to our Cummins 4bta. I found two companies that make this bracket. One is in Kalispell, Montana and the other is in Arizona.

https://duiser.com/shop/diesel-conversions/cummins-4bt-and-6bt-accessory-mount/#prettyPhoto[product-gallery]/0/

https://www.dieselconversion.com/high-mount-a-c-bracket-4bt-cummins-quick-mount.html

 

[SKT]

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Uh oh...

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[jkherd]

Ooo... I totally forgot I had a 240v hour meter laying around here doing nothing... I could add that to my compressor too... Not that it sees much use but it would be cool to have...

That was the reason why I set mine up, that and I wanted a more accurate way to track the hours.

 

[A**holes Garage]

Finally finished up the side armor plates, spare tire swing out carrier;

 

[fordkid88]

Installed a profusion heater in the garage last night While my buddy came over to skin a deer(apartment life...). We didn't have a place setup to hang it from the ceiling so I had him do it from my engine lift.

 

[WhiteSSP]

Primed and painted my new workbench base and assembled part of the top on it. Need to buy a sheet of oak plywood for the drawer fronts, and some solid oak planks to edge the top.

All made of 3/4" BC ply, 100# soft close full extension 22" drawer slides, kilz primer and latex interior flat black paint.

 

[bulwnkle]

Walked through to whack the boiler control.

I have to do the same to my sump pump switch a few times a year.

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[Crazyjake8493]

All I did in mine was load up a bunch of tools to take to a buddy's house. There, we changed my muffler, his oil and rotated tires, and changed front brakes on another buddies truck. Also had a few beers by the wood stove.

 

[PassnThru]

I finally have a half way decent air system. Replaced the oil free Craftsman compressor with an oiled compressor on a Black Friday deal. Hose reel is bigger than I need - it's a half incher - but FIL bought it for me for Christmas at TSC for the $49 price when they ran out of the 3/8 reels. A few adapters later and it's in service.
Yes - I have already hung my Christmas present. We'll work that out later - they brought it to the house because they didn't want to store it or wrap it.


I'm not sitting on it until after Christmas

 

[Joshua_Russo]

Still getting ready for the craft sale, but paused to finally do some overdue chain maintenance on the daily driver. New thing for me, as my old bike has a shaft drive.

Measured chain wear/stretch, and it was well within service limits. Measured and took out 20mm of excess chain slack, then carved a wheel/driveway protector out of a box and cleaned and lubed the chain.

I love wax-based chain lube from back in the bicycle racing days, and this Dupont stuff goes on easy and dries non-sticky. So far I like it, plus it's available at Walmart.

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[kaymccampbell]

Tossed case of water in the dumbwaiter and pushed the button.

 

[padroo]

I bought a new 2016 Prius a couple weeks ago and removed the tires and put mud flaps on.
Purist Prius owners don't install them because they say it hurts your gas mileage.
I had trouble finding the right ones, my Toyota dealer couldn't get them. Kind of strange for a two year old car.

I traded in or gave my old 2008 Prius to them, it was the best car I ever owed, and did I mention I got great gas mileage.

 

[PhantomEB]

Got my buddies engine crane to support the bronco up while I raised the coil bucket height thus lowering the whole truck. One side done, other side today but only half to see which I prefer overall. Not going for the low slung rock crawler look but a truck that looks like a truck and is pretty stable.

Need to pick up a new ram though, this one pukes when it retracts so that's on the list today as well fill up my solvent tank.

 

[Oldsmobile]

An Allen wrench adventure.

I had two boxes of miscellaneous Allen wrenches, and a couple of partial sets from those HF kits. I was feeling motivated to sort and organize, and then I got started, and quickly lost my motivation with all those !&*($! unmarked wrenches.

A quick detour to GJ showed that the Bondhus sets were quite respectable. I bought them, and decided that I'd just scrap the boxes of miscellaneous unsorted wrenches.

And for some reason, I decided to tackle it again after I'd purchased the replacements. It was slow going at first, but many of the larger ones were marked so I could measure and compare. When I realized that my quarter-inch sockets would help me identify sizes too, it got a lot easier.

So, here are some before, during, and after pictures. I still rarely need Allen wrenches, but the organization pleases me.

 

[Oldsmobile]

The rest of the pictures...

 

[Outlawmws]

Oh God, now I want a second drill index bulk box to keep Allen's in...

 

[peter2772000]

Slapped on the ugly stock rims and Blizzak winter tires on my FJ. Discovered that while using my CH air-drill, my cast-iron compressor couldn't keep up wit the demand of my drill. Compressor's a Campbell Hausfeld 6hp (*rolls eyes*) 60 gallon from the late 90's. Rated at 10CFM @ 90 psi. My drill consumes 9 cfm @ 90 psi, yet my pressure dropped to & maintained 75 psi while using the drill to brush the corrosion off the backside of the aluminum hubs. I never noticed a lack of capacity while using my sandblaster, which I assumed would need more air than a measly drill.

So, do I order a ring kit, would that be enough? It'd kill me to have my compressor not working after tearing it apart & waiting for the replacement parts. Kinda hoping I could order the parts in advance, make it a same-day deal.

Opinions?

 

[Niteman9]

https://m.harborfreight.com/5-hp-145-psi-twin-cylinder-air-compressor-pump-60754.html

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[Outlawmws]

So Far for me: First yesterday' - I finally got back to the table saw/welding bench area where the switch from the old mid 50's small, low, Craftsman Roller (long sold this past summer along with the double Table saw..), and cleaning the drawers, and in particular the slides in the SO KR- 300 Rolla-Bench, I traded for in the spring. It will become my "new" welding bench, complete with some LED Lighting modules (the original lights are long gone...)

I debated restoring it with the full paint routine, but it's becoming my welding bench, not a show piece, so I decided on deep cleaning and refurbishing where needed. (a couple slide latches don't catch for example).

Today I loaded up the drawers with the contents from the old box (which had been boxed up since I sold the other box) started very basic rearrangement of the space occupied, (lots more to go) and made sufficient space in the disaster I created when I sold the old roller and Table saw, to get the old 1937-40 8" Atlas made Craftsman Table saw in on the retractable wheel typewriter table that is becoming its stand into the area (before a big storm hits).

Also I finally started cleaning up the baby Wilton vise, I picked up this summer...

Probably more to go unless this storm slams in... (I stopped for lunch)

 

[Streetbu]

Spent 4 hours cleaning, picking up, sorting, throwing out, etc. Hurt my back last year, had surgery, all fixed now, but lost motivation working on the project car. In the process the garage became a catch all and that made me want to go out there even less. Time to get off my **** and back to work. A few more evenings this week and I can find my tools, and my car to get the frame back underneath it!