What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Old Man Roger]

Converting a HF trailer to pull behind my Harley Trike

I recommend painting the whole thing with rust oleum orange and black, for that Harley look lol That, and you know that harbor freight red paint turns pink when you put it in the sun lol

 

[nateo]

Got out to the shop last night and turned (foreshadowing pun) this:



Into this:



The wood is Cottonwood from a tree I cut down this spring. It's light and likes to tear out if I'm not careful (hence the roughness inside the flutes of the honey dipper) but I think it came out OK. I totally lucked out when I landed that knot right in the middle of the handle bulb, I think it looks awesome.

Now I'm just waiting for the mineral spirits I wiped it down with to evaporate (it's pretty stinky at the moment) and then it'll get a wax finish for cutting boards and salad bowls.

The rest of this particular bit of wood has been fed through the planer and is on it's way to becoming another baby rattle, coupled with a bit of curly birch (maybe) I salvaged from my in laws' firewood pile. No idea how that one is going to turn out!

 

[ptgarcia]

Got out to the shop last night and turned (foreshadowing pun) this:



Into this:



The wood is Cottonwood from a tree I cut down this spring. It's light and likes to tear out if I'm not careful (hence the roughness inside the flutes of the honey dipper) but I think it came out OK. I totally lucked out when I landed that knot right in the middle of the handle bulb, I think it looks awesome.

Now I'm just waiting for the mineral spirits I wiped it down with to evaporate (it's pretty stinky at the moment) and then it'll get a wax finish for cutting boards and salad bowls.

The rest of this particular bit of wood has been fed through the planer and is on it's way to becoming another baby rattle, coupled with a bit of curly birch (maybe) I salvaged from my in laws' firewood pile. No idea how that one is going to turn out!

That's awesome. Honey is my Achilles heel; I absolutely love the stuff.

 

[nateo]

That's awesome. Honey is my Achilles heel; I absolutely love the stuff.

Thanks, up here it's maple syrup country and I almost never think to get out the honey. This summer we had a number of friends buy new homes and decided to leverage the local community market for housewarming gifts. We found local wine, local honey, and a woodturner who had honey dippers made from local wood. Unfortunately he was one short, so this is my attempt to fill the gap.

I might need to make another one for us to keep since this one worked out pretty well.

 

[nateo]

Nice. I don't know what size mine is. All I remember is I got it on Craigslist for $20 because the guy had lost the keys for it.

I got a similar deal. Turns out you can buy replacement keys on eBay for a couple bucks!

 

[niget2002]

I got a similar deal. Turns out you can buy replacement keys on eBay for a couple bucks!

I took the locks off and took them to a locksmith to make me a key. He couldn't get a key to fit 'perfect', so he just gave me what he had free of charge. They work good enough, but I honestly never lock it. If someone wants to steal something out of a trailer tied to the back of a Harley, more power to them. The tents and stuff I have in there isn't worth the effort to lock it.

 

[Metallitubby]

That turned out really good.

 

[BuffettFan]

Purged some **** since it's junk week, hooked the new-to-the-garage TV to the surround sound.
Football and NASCAR will sound better now.

 

[555]

Picked up glass from a broken window.

 

[sweetk30]

CLEANED IT UP BIG TIME ....... from the last few months of just drop and go work as its been outside work season for me and no real shop time .

 

[Arne73]

Cleaned out the birdseed storage cabinet. Chipmunk got in, tore into the bag, ate, **** and couldn't get out. Found him croaked and stinking. The rest of his family will continue to tear up my yard.

After that I re-stacked the remaining lumber for my deck project so I can fit my car back in the garage.

 

[welder4956]

The rest of his family will continue to tear up my yard.

Double Bubble gum does the trick. Slice a piece into small thin pieces and place near their trails or holes. Use latex gloves while cutting and handling to keep your scent off of it.

A more effective solution is a hawk nesting in your backyard, but that's harder to pull off. A pair of hawks took up residence in a tall tree in my back yard and has pretty well eradicated the squirrel/rabbit/chipmunk population around my house.

 

[Arne73]

I'll give the bubble gum a try. I've got a pair of retail hawks nesting out back but they haven't got these guys - yet.

 

[Notgrownup]

I recommend painting the whole thing with rust oleum orange and black, for that Harley look lol That, and you know that harbor freight red paint turns pink when you put it in the sun lol

I will have to cross that bridge…eventually I guess

 

[BuffettFan]

Cooked some smashburgers and Oklahoma onion burgers on the Blackstone.
Damn. They were goood!

 

[Wheelingit]

Checked the operation of the carbon dioxide detector in preparation for winter closing of building.

 

[jonshonda]

Squared the ends of these 2x10 white oak slabs for a mountain bike trail project. Then loaded them on the skid steer and drove (rather then haul on my shoulder) them to their final destination.

 

[wolfhawk73]

I added casters to my 20ton press so that I can move it around the shop easier. I had a broken HF moving dolly (not the one in the picture, but another where the wood frame broke), and I repurposed the casters from that with some u-bolts to attach it to the press's frame. The casters are the right height, where I'll be able to slip a couple of 4x4's underneath the frame to immobilize it when I need to use it. The u-bolts from the local True Value were not quite wide enough, so I put each one in my vice to "flatten" the U and open them up a bit to fit over the channel of the press frame and match the width of the mounting holes of the caster wheels.

I needed casters that size last year. It was cheaper to buy that dolly than it was to buy the same sized casters.

 

[nadogail]

Located a previously unknown spare LED Candelabra lamp saving a trip to the store for a replacement.

 

[sweetk30]

finished cleaning a bit . then finished a full service on a friends cub cadet push mower . oil change . clean air filter . drain bad gas and wash out fuel tank . pulled the carb and dropped the bowl and removed the fuel junk from some bad gas or ethanol separation . sharpened the blade and then tested it out and did some of my lawn with it and she works good now .

 

[BuffettFan]

Started a project for Mrs Fan.
A hanging blanket/throw display shelf.
The inspiration:


My cipherins:



A very rough mock up to determine final dimensions.


Start cuttin and gluing in the a.m.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Attempted to rebuild two turbo tips for the PW. Got one good one. And one that's too low pressure, cause the bore is just worn out. I'm thinking about machining a new nozzle for it. I'll have to see if I have any brass rod stock.

 

[gearhead1960]

Did an oil change on my son's Mazda 3.

 

[nateo]

Glued up a handful of plywood scraps to make consumable faceplates for the lathe and started work on a (really) long overdue project to mount a sundial in the yard.

 

[niget2002]

I lengthened the tongue on the one I pulled behind my nighttrain. It helps keep it from wobbling side to side and added a place for my cooler.

speaking of this little trailer.

spent some time in the shop modifying it just a tad. We no longer have this particular cooler and we're using the trailer this weekend, so I had to bend the hooks out for the somewhat larger cooler to fit.

 

[oldmxracer]

Finished getting the new main wiring harness installed in the CHINA PILE OF **** side by side ( that was not done with out problems ) and it put back together and took it a ride only to find one side of the rear axle has NO bearings left in the carrier ! Be carful buying this ****, 89.4 hours 546 miles to date 1. New drive belt ( that the manual stated motor out of the frame to do ) did not have to, 2. broken transmission gears , motor out and split cases 3 lost spark tore down to the frame and new main harness installed ! Glad it is not mine !

 

[ZRX61]

I have an inordinate amount of detailing *stuff*, I had a half assed attempt at sorting some of it out today.

 

[smackey05]

Started organizing it. I bought some containers for my microfiber towels.

• 1 Container for Microfibers to be used on Body Panels
• 1 Container for Microfibers to be used everywhere else
• 1 Double sized container for used Microfiber towels.

 

[PassnThru]

I went up in the attic above the attached garage and reduced many, many years of keeping boxes just in case. Now I have a huge pile of cut up cardboard that needs to be burned.
I did try something new this time - quite a few of the boxes collectively contained enough Styrofoam to completely fill up my trash can so it would have taken a few months to get rid of all of it. I did have a gallon of Acetone - and I used it. A little messy - a little labor intensive - but the volume of waste at this point is a tiny fraction of what it was. I was surprised that it actually took close to a half gallon of it to do so - not sure of the reason but it does seem to lose effectiveness after a bit - it just stops dissolving anything.

 

[vwpieces]

I did try something new this time - quite a few of the boxes collectively contained enough Styrofoam to completely fill up my trash can so it would have taken a few months to get rid of all of it. I did have a gallon of Acetone - and I used it. A little messy - a little labor intensive - but the volume of waste at this point is a tiny fraction of what it was. I was surprised that it actually took close to a half gallon of it to do so - not sure of the reason but it does seem to lose effectiveness after a bit - it just stops dissolving anything.

Gasoline works too and cheaper.
Makes a big ball of GOO.

 

[BuffettFan]

Gasoline works too and cheaper.
Makes a big ball of NAPALM.

FTFY

 

[rd65]

Not today, but yesterday afternoon went out to survey the damage from Wednesday night lightening storm. Hopefully the tree doesn't end up dying. It is tall enough that it could reach the shop if it were to fall.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Not today, but yesterday afternoon went out to survey the damage from Wednesday night lightening storm. Hopefully the tree doesn't end up dying. It is tall enough that it could reach the shop if it were to fall.

Bye tree!

 

[kaymccampbell]

Serviced the boiler. The auto vent on the same riser as the TP valve coughed its last this morning, and puked water all over, somehow causing the boiler to shut down. Replaced the vent with a manual one. Cleaned the core. Brushed the sooticles off the burners. Blew things clean n dry. Sponged up the mess. And, refired the boiler.

Fixed the right rear tire on the lawn tractor. Something punctured it. String plugs to the rescue.

 

[FMB4]

HVAC filter R&R. Cut two 10" wide x 8' long particle board 'strips" to ~ 48" lengths for a G shelf project. Made a wood cat scratching 'post' by attaching 2" x 1/2" fir strips horizontally to an existing cat tower (our big 16+ # male Maine C cat likes to scratch wood). Put our gas lawn mower up for the season and brought out our Toro snow thrower for the winter. Plan on test running the Toro ST this weekend. The excitement was almost more than I could deal with.

 

[BuffettFan]

Finished building the shelf/hanger thingie for Mrs Fan.
The inspiration:


My version, awaiting her decision on the finish:

 

[TobeyA]

My wife has a neuro disease that impacts her balance. But she really likes to work outside and garden. We looked at all terrain walkers, and they are $$$$. So I took her cheap walker and adapted 12" bicycle tires to it.

Rears were easy. The front forks from one of the bikes just barely slipped over the walker legs. Just needed a bolt to pin them in place.

The fronts took two iterations to get right. But I think I got the axle location about right this time, relative to the caster pivot.

I collected 4 toddler bikes of Facebook marketplace for their front tires. I think I paid a total of $35 for the 4 bikes. Including the price of the walker and supplies, I'm in it for right at $100.

 

[vwpieces]

My favorite lawn chair had a blow out. Trash picked about 30 years ago.
Certainly don't make them this nice and thick tubing any more. Comfy too.


Not going to pay $70 for a new one I bought a roll of webbing.
Guess I forgot to take a pic of this one finished. But I had more than enough left to do a couple more Old chairs.

 

[harley jim]

Not today, but yesterday afternoon went out to survey the damage from Wednesday night lightening storm. Hopefully the tree doesn't end up dying. It is tall enough that it could reach the shop if it were to fall.

It's probably already dead.

 

[PhantomEB]

Put the zip out windows back on the truck, now they not kicking around on the shop floor.