What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[engineer2]

Save the receipt for your FlexZilla hose. It'll make getting a replacement much easier.

 

[Duisky]

Finished up restoring this mower for a friend of mine.

Always wanted to restore a cylinder mower.. I stripped it all, straightened out (most of) any dings, made up the decals, and re-assembled it, whilst he painted it. The drum needs sharpened then it’s ready for use.

 

[Duisky]

Also cut out a deer silhouette using the plasma cutter.

I liberated some scrap plate that was 1/8th” thick, roughly sketched a stag shape and traced it with the plasma. Not prefect, but not bad for an evenings work with no access to a printer/projected to get a more ‘correct’ shape; by all accounts it was really just a test to see what the plasma could do, and if a silhouette would look decent. I think I’ll cut a plywood template to follow for the other couple I hope to make.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Also cut out a deer silhouette using the plasma cutter.

I liberated some scrap plate that was 1/8th” thick, roughly sketched a stag shape and traced it with the plasma. Not prefect, but not bad for an evenings work with no access to a printer/projected to get a more ‘correct’ shape; by all accounts it was really just a test to see what the plasma could do, and if a silhouette would look decent. I think I’ll cut a plywood template to follow for the other couple I hope to make.

Around here, that thing would be ringing all year round.

 

[HPRifleman]

Finished up restoring this mower for a friend of mine.

Always wanted to restore a cylinder mower.. I stripped it all, straightened out (most of) any dings, made up the decals, and re-assembled it, whilst he painted it. The drum needs sharpened then it’s ready for use.

That looks great but I'm curious why the carriage bolts were painted red.

 

[mrb1]

Helped a kid who rolled his suv right in front of my place.. I was in and out of the house and garage this morning when I came out and found this. Must have missed it by a minute or two. "City boy" driving on a 1-1/2 lane country road. Swears he wasn't on his phone. Came in at sat at the workbench til the sheriffs and wrecker showed up. Clipped my neighbors mailbox, over corrected and then rolled probably two times before ending in the ditch on it's top. 25 years old, no insurance, no warrants. Not hurt at all, was wearing seatbelt.

 

[niget2002]

Vacuumed all the fur from my great pyranees out of my truck. Used one of those little fur scrape thingies. Worked great.

 

[Flat Thunder Channel]

Nada the last few days. The whole family is fighting a cold. I guess our bodies didn't like the recent 40 plus degrees of temperature change.

 

[Matt018888]

Started setting up my metal bandsaw for wood. Added kreg fence and miter gauge! Works pretty good.

 

[Duisky]

Around here, that thing would be ringing all year round.

Could well happen here too… I’ve moved it out the way a bit so if does happen any collateral damage would be into a bill.

That looks great but I'm curious why the carriage bolts were painted red.

To be honest, I didn’t look too hard to find some new UNF carriage bolts, so just painted the old ones to match the reel. For whatever reason, in my mind, I thought they should be red to liven up the sides a bit!

 

[Swanny1953]

Not in MY garage, but. . . . .
Here's the story.
We finally convinced my in-laws to move from Nashville to Texas to be closer to their grand and great-grandkids as they are in their early 80's and don't have any support network there. The move was scheduled for this last week, and is now complete - well, all the stuff came off the moving van yesterday and is in the new house at least. Now, here's the rub.
My father-in-law, who has been in generally very good health, had a sudden and massive heart attack and died on Monday, 4/18, one week prior to the scheduled move. He had a 3 car garage, a "big" garage where he worked on restomods and restoring cars, and a 2,600 sq ft barn. He was in the final stages of restoring a 1969 SS396 Chevelle for my BIL's best friend - only windshield and rear window install, engine startup, headliner, driveshaft and exhaust to complete. Thankfully, he had a very handy right hand man to complete the build, and he got the glass installed and the initial engine startup completed last Saturday. Now, he has to arrange the headliner and exhaust install without my FIL around and with me in DFW. Thankfully (again, that word), Doug is a great guy and has agreed to complete the build without my FIL around. I had to leave a bunch of my FIL's tools there for Doug to finish up the Chevelle and then build a big block engine that FIL had all the parts for and was planning to build. Getting all the remaining tools down here will involve at least another 2 trips between DFW and Nashville with FIL's box trailer.
Now for the in the garage part. FIL had already trailered down a '69 Nova, '74 Corvette convertible and '39 Buick business coupe. I trailered his '65 GTO tri-power, 4-speed factory air car down on Thursday. Part of today was spent: 1) trying to figure out why the Nova won't fun for **** (no obvious issue like swapped plug wires, damnit); 2) loading the gun safe with all the weapons that I had to transport separately from the moving van; 3) unpacking several of the moving boxes from the various garages to see what we have and try to come up with a plan to put it all away (we have the 10 lbs. of stuff and 5 lbs. of storage area issue), 4) trying to track down a parasitic draw issue on the '65 GTO that has drawn the battery down to nothing on 3 occasions in the last 2 weeks. I can't say I was successful with anything other than getting the gun safe unlocked (had to track down the combination in all the moved stuff), but at least that is done. Like most things, the other projects will live to see another day of attempted solutions.

 

[Mr. Roboto]

Started to assemble my new roof rack.

 

[jimkinney]

Cleaned up most of the sawdust from the flooring project, 3/4" red oak leaves a lot of fine dust.

Repaired the soap dispenser drawer on mama's washer again. Cheap plastic ****.

 

[BlakeTheCarGuy]

Cleaned some on the basement. Didn’t really get anything accomplished there except finally got pops to part with some boxes that had gotten wet many floods ago. Then went and spent too much money on tools lol. Of course HF is out of the pliers wrench every time I go to get it lol. Went to HF and Lowes walked out with tools from each. Mainly went to HF for the pliers wrench and the new Bremen locking pliers that are curved jaw but are deeper curved which I managed to get.

 

[Outlawmws]

In the house - Moving a couple of shelves and hanging a large painting above my 1880's roll top desk. recovered the painting from my moms house, post moving her into assisted living. It was old when we got it, and its been in her living room for 53 odd years.

 

[ZRX61]

Almost used my new Doyle dikes for the first time, then didn't.

Pulled a piece of garage trim off to get some paint color matched.
Picked up the paint & associated gubbins.
Spent five minutes looking for my one claw hammer
Put the trim piece back.
Caulked the garage door frame trim etc.
Spent ten minutes looking for the cap for the tube of caulk.
Amazon showed up. (the company, not some big titted redhead with the kind of body that would make the Pope kick a nun.... unfortunately)
Fitted four spiffy new RS valve stem caps to the Camaro
Fitted two spiffy Camaro RS shoulder pads to the seat belts.
Put more new tools away.

 

[Balor]

Started to assemble my new roof rack.

Mr. Roboto who is the roof rack made by?

 

[PhantomEB]

Continuing on with organizing my shop, was gonna throw out short cutoffs but looked at a 5 gallon pail and some milk crates to put on the far side of the steel rack. Now I need to figure out what to do with the short pieces….. chainsaws hung ready for time I can look at them one at a time, plus tire skates off the floor.

 

[welder4956]

4) trying to track down a parasitic draw issue on the '65 GTO that has drawn the battery down to nothing on 3 occasions in the last 2 weeks.

Sorry to hear about your FIL and you are going through all this. On the battery drain, check the alternator for a bad diode.

 

[welder4956]

Continuing on with organizing my shop, was gonna throw out short cutoffs but looked at a 5 gallon pail and some milk crates to put on the far side of the steel rack. Now I need to figure out what to do with the short pieces….. chainsaws hung ready for time I can look at them one at a time, plus tire skates off the floor.

Love that rolling rack for storage. I need to make one for myself. Is the sheet storage part of the rack, or is it just stacked behind it?

Edit: I just did a search and found your pics in the welding projects thread. I definitely need to make one of these.
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/show-us-your-welding-projects.121477/post-9543652

 

[nadogail]

Leaving in 10 minutes to look at Motor Cars on Main Street, our local annual car show, my son will be driving me.

 

[ZRX61]

Painted the door frames...
Dug out my Dewalt jigsaw as I'll likely be using it to cut wriggly tin for the side gate project.

 

[Gurp]

Done come cleaning and organizing in the mini shop. Getting ready to pull the motor on the parts bike.

 

[nadogail]

Leaving in 10 minutes to look at Motor Cars on Main Street, our local annual car show, my son will be driving me.

Had a nice time at the local car show; the highlight was the 1909 International Harvester Auto Wagon, It was 30 years old when I was born. Saw one Studebaker and three Packards, no Hudsons. There were a lot of Fords with Chevrolet engines.

 

[PassnThru]

Washed the 'kids' car and pulled it in the garage to wax it. It had lots of years of spotty wash jobs and no waxing while my parents owned it but I've been able to get it presentable over the last few years just cleaning and waxing it.
When I got it there was a bad clear coat problem with the rims - it was flaking and corroding badly. Not wanting to buy new rims for it and not wanting to do the prep and time for a proper paint job - I used plasti-dip on them. Looked great - but brake dust and plasti-dip is not a good combination when it doesn't get regular washings. I broke down and used some Eagle One tire and rim cleaner today and it did a great job of taking the brake dust off - but left my black rims looking very spotted and gray.
I tried some tire shine but that didn't help. Then I used the wax I used on the car (Meguiars Ultimate) as a last resort - and now the rims are blacker and shinier than they were the day we painted them.
Go figure - I didn't even know you could wax plasti-dip.

 

[cpttuna]

some pics after I made room in the garage for the zero turn

 

[cpttuna]

I had collected a bunch of the free blue Harbor Freight tarps in the las couple of years. I sat in the garage today with the hot glue gun and made 2 tarps for the 5X8 utility trailer 4 layers thick out of those tarps.

 

[Outlawmws]

I've used contact cement to make new hems (with Paracord inside) on tarps I've cut to shape.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Switched the F150 to Sylvania Silverstar headlights. Didn't realize the average life of them (on the package) is only 150 hours...

If you actually get 150 hours out of them it'll be a miracle. Mrs. LS6 like them for her last CRV. I must have replaced them every year...

Tommy

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Finally swapped out the old Craftsman Clean 'n Carry shop vac for the freebie Hoover GUV. Organized a little. Very little.

Tommy

 

[Mr. Roboto]

Mr. Roboto who is the roof rack made by?

JCR Offroad

 

[rmckee]

Spent some time configuring the shop-light layout... originally had planned for 3 rows the length of the garage, but with the shadows I ended up switching to 6 rows running the width. End result was far greater even coverage, wired in 2 zones so I don't have to be under operating room light at all times if I don't want. These are the 8-foot 5000K Barrina fixtures off Amazon. For $10 a fixture, even if I have to replace them every few years it's still a great buy.

In the end I will accompany these with recessed 4" cans that will be more in the 3000-3500K range, and dimmable. The end goal is to have 2 different shop light modes, and a more relaxed "beer drinking" mode that won't burn my retinas.

Camera exposure settings are identical, so the difference in luminosity is accurate.



3 rows front to back



6 rows side to side



Exterior view

 

[Motorman55]

Saturday...Packed up a few things and made a run to the recycler/dump and got some stuff off the floor and up onto shelves as I continue to prep for building the new office space in the garage. Gonna be tough making everything fit in already small garage and still work.

Then I went for a nice ride on my 74 FLH Harley. Note to self...PRIORITY #1....ride both my Harleys more often this year.

 

[ZRX61]

Slowly but surely reclaiming my tool cart as a tool cart instead of a storage rack with wheels...It will be nice to use it as intended. There's still all sorts of junk on it though. Will make an effort today to get it done.

It's not one of the newer designs of cart, it's an old PressSteel item.. & yes, that it a newer stainless toolcart to the left of it, but that contain mostly sheetmetal tools in the drawers... & a pile junk on top of it... That will be the next project.

 

[ZRX61]

Some progress. Not sure why I need quite that many 3/4in Jacob chucks on there.. & a block of graphite.
Bottom shelf needs yoga mat. I just ordered two from Amazon but they're for my main toolbox.
I have two of these carts, pulled them out of a dumpster at VNY airport many years ago.

 

[rd65]

Switched the F150 to Sylvania Silverstar headlights. Didn't realize the average life of them (on the package) is only 150 hours...

I ran the Silverstars in my wife's Pilot, would burn out at least one a year. I had Silverstar Ultra in my F150 for years. I put Ultras in the Pilot and got a good 2-3 years out of them. Just had to replace one last month.

 

[ZRX61]

Some progress, but still stuff on there that could be on a shelf... including a box of black iron & brass air system fittings & two boxes of aircraft hardware... & the rattlecans can go in the rattlecan cupboard.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Some how, while cutting a zip tie off a wrench set, broke my EDC knife. Also fired up the eood burner to get of some old paperwork... yeah, I need to buy a shredder.

 

[ZRX61]

More progress. I put the pile of oil change pans & funnels, plus all the paint stuff in my fire cabinet. Cleared space on a shelf & then put my DW sawzall & biscuit doodad on the shelf along with the Delta mortising attachment gubbins for my drill press. Found a ratcheting screwdriver & bit kit so that's moved to the tool cart for now.




Not sure where this will live, most likely on a bookshelf in the house...




Found a manual...

 

[ZRX61]

FINALLY!!! at 2.30pm I remembered WTF I went out there to do first thing this morning.... Put a new belt on the sander. I also put three vises away in the fire cabinet & had a minor clean up under one end of the workbench.

Actually having a productive day



And yes, that's a Z1 cylinder head back in the corner.