Recent content by ATate028

A little bit more progress happened in the last couple of months. Nothing happens fast when one works retail and the schedule is all over the place. I did finish the workbench and also made a second one. It's nice to have some mobile platforms... it's more convenient for working on full size...

Slow progress is still progress. I haven't done much in a little over a month. We decided to make some built-in pantry shelves to replace the wire shelves that keep sagging under weight. It's an easy enough project, so it's taking a couple of weeks, of course... but it provided the opportunity...

The wife got me a shop gift for Christmas. I'm a bit excited about it. A good shop clock is a must and I've liked this one ever since I saw my brother's... it helps I'm one of those guys who always likes to know the temperature, lol. The numbers are bright enough to see with all the lights on...

I will say that the HF pliers work well to remove a shower drain in the absence of the correct shower-drain-wrench. I first tried with a pair of standard Snap-on needle nose, but they had just a little too much flex and I wasn't comfortable breaking them if it came to that. I side loaded the...

It's been a busy time with the holidays and work (and all the wonderful weather we've recently had in the PNW) so not much has really been happening other than little (very little) bits of organizing here and there. One of the larger bits of organizing was a plan to get the Christmas stuff out...

I'm in.

Yeah. I was thinking about that and I was more worried about rain getting in since it has a habit of raining a lot here. So far that corner has been dry. No rats or mice either. We have indoor cats and the neighbors have some cats that roam the neighborhood, so we don't really have a pest...

Yesterday was about continuing the infrastructure upgrades a bit and organizing. The main task was putting the Halloween decorations away and shifting stuff around to get a bit more space in the garage. There wasn't much point to moving things just to move them so I put up the rest of the lights...

I was finally able to pick up my toolbox. Overall I'm happy with it, the end cabinet is narrower than I imagined it would be, it seemed bigger in the store. It's not really a full 15" wide and inside drawer width is only ~9.5". I'll have to come up with a new plan for my Ernst tray organizers...

They had them at one store out here in Olympia. I was looking for Wago levers, because at the time I didn't know Lowes doesn't sell them, and the Ideal levers were hidden on two hooks next to the push-in style connectors. They have them listed on the Lowes website too. -Allen

I got mine from Home Depot. I found some Ideal brand lever connectors at the nearest Lowes, but haven't had the want to try them out. -Allen

Thanks guys. One of the future plans is a shed to store the yardwork tools. There's a concrete pad that runs from the street to the backyard along the side of the house and ends in a gravel pad. It confused us when we first looked at the house and wondered what the old lady was parking there...

I don't post much, I mostly just lurk and re-appropriate ideas and get roped into tool collecting (like the vintage SK rabbit-hole I went down). It's been a busy few years, but this year more than the past few. New place, new job and finally able to afford a garage with an attached house. We...

Out here they've started using contract drivers, like an Amazon Uber. The only way to know the guy was delivering something was when he got out he had an Amazon vest and got the deliveries out of the car. Makes one a little suspicious 30 miles outside of town when you're not expecting some...

Yeah, that's what I meant. I was thinking of a pool table at the same time, because that's what it looks like, and somehow the word velvet just came out of the fingers. Random word association, lol. And thanks for the link, I wouldn't have come across that because I thought for sure it was a...