Well it's time i get back at this. Been 3 weeks since i posted, and plenty going on, but not all garage worthy. Working a lot more than i used to, since it's from home now, it doesn't take much to make dinner then sit back down and work, and before you know it, it's 830 and time to knock off for the night. I try to wind down for an hour or so every night rather than work till i drop. It's also tough trying to get things done without going to the store. Lots of UPS showing up. We're under a severe lockdown in Michigan, and i'm sure everybody knows by now. It's no fun for sure, and probably completely overdone at least here in the sticks.
My computer server died after 10 years, so i ordered a bunch of new hardware and have started to rebuild things, when i wasn't working in the shop. Wife wants her DVR back. All the movies are on that thing.
Last week Sunday i had another gallbladder attack. That got me out of a monday of work and took me down for most of the week. Around Friday i was getting better enough to putter around the house and work on the tractor.
I've been working on the tractor, and it's fuel system issues, got everything rebuilt, even ran a new fuel line out of copper. Clear glass filter, silicone heat shielding, new ignition and it's still coughing now and then. I'm done with it. On Sunday i went and bought a diesel engine to swap into it. Not right now, i'll suffer until i get another mower going and then i'll worry about it. Might be a good winter project if i can get a snow plow going.
I've also been working on cleaning the shop up. I reasoned clearing floor space was priority #1, so i can move cars around and get lifts going. Once a lift is up, i can stack cars and really make some progress. This air handler was taking up a huge amount of real estate. So time to whack it out. I started by setting up scaffolding.
Then hung unistrut on the ceiling. Lagged into 3 truss members.
Then mounted unistrut onto the air handler. It's pretty solid.
Then put fasteners into the strut and coaxed the wife and boy out to help hoist the thing onto the scaffold. They were not amused.
We did manage to get it hung though. Loosely on carriage bolts. Once it was hung, i worked through 3 different lengths bolts until it was tight to the strut.
Then we slid the a-coil into it's home. It's not sitting quite right, so i need to get the literature and see what's wrong. It only goes in one way so i probably need to jiggle it around a bit. Once that's done, i'll throw covers on it and start planning hard lines. I still need to get a compressor ordered and a vfd to drive it. That's another 500 dollar bill.
That's about all i had in me today.
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