Recent content by gwellwood

These (though the US site might be different): https://www.homedepot.ca/product/commercial-electric-4ft-white-linkable-shop-light-3200lumen-4000k-50000hours-1pk/1001512104 Slim design. They do not come with a switch, so I wired one in. Decently bright. I kinda wish they were available when I...

Added LED lights from Home Depot ($15 each) at the workbench:

I tapped into a couple light fixtures and added a pair of retractable extension cords that were on sale at Princess Auto. These shut off when the lights are shut off, which is fine. '61 Apache is well underway. Entire build is being done as a video series...

1066sqft, British Columbia. Only it turned out to be 1065 once I finalized my design. I was legally allowed to build up to 1076sqft, but I could not make that work without making a wall 33' 2-3/4" or something, and I decided it wasn't worth it. It is, essentially, the biggest I am legally...

The V8 Firefly is up on Bring-A-Trailer. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1987-pontiac-firefly/ I am very much affiliated. Curious how much it goes for.

The chopper bike was one in a series of courses I took to get up the next step on the salary grid. This one was a self-directed course, where I put together a booklet for students to design and build their own chopper bike (me being a shop teacher and all). If does have a functional Springer...

Don't mind the mess, gentlemen....

Brought home an LQ4 6.0L LS and a 4L80e with ECU and harness for $1000CDN ($765US) for the '61 Apache. Screaming deal.

Trying to get the shop more organized and tidier (hahahahahahaha, yeah). Princess Auto had a sale on 25' retractable hose reels at $60 CDN, so I bought two. They won't reach all the way across the shop, but I have a 50' one in the house garage that I'm going to bring over. I merely cut the leg...

A while back I paved the right side of the driveway to have a better access past the house garage. I had been driving over on the dirt for quite some time to pack it all down, and figure out where the asphalt needed to be, then paved it earlier this year. Today I widened the section beside...

Got the fence put mostly back together. Three sections rebuilt. Need to buy two more boards. The brown post is new - I had to dig the broken/rotter stub out of the 3.5" square in the concrete using a 6 foot wrecking bar, a 3.5" holesaw on a Makita Wrist-Breaker, and a shop vac. Shop vac for...

I'd -like- to keep the patina, but I can't stand the rust. If it was patina and rust-free, I'd totally Comet Wash it, and clear-coat it. But it's not at all rust free (though it's better than most you can find up here). Since I want to drive it (as a daily, rain/snow/shine, from here on into...

Compressor Shed siding done. Yay! (Fence is disassembled so I can replace a rotten fence post).

Updates.... Last fall I finished (enough to be road-worthy) my V8 Pontiac Firefly, which was a blast until the 170hp 305 V8 went south this May. I built a mild 350 V8 (ported heads, Lunati cam, big-block throttle body) which I just got back on the road this July. I've been building my...

The car in the pic is my Lotus Super 7 replica (documented build link). Built 11 years ago to the tune of $5700CDN (prolly $4000US at the time). It was built from a book of plans and a couple hundred feet of steel. My Chevy (documented build link):