What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[bugnut]

Not going to weld the bolt onto the remains of the connecting rod?

@kaymccampbell Welding it back together was my 1st thought. Then because it is a lever I thought needs to have a sleeve over it, went searching for a piece of black iron and came up empty. A quick look on ebay and $27 later a new factory correct piece was on it's way. Meant I only needed a functional clevis and locknut, which I have.

Today after a bit of yard work I assembled the new Q grill. Instructions did not include information on assembling the igniter and battery installation. Took hunting through the manual. Done, ready for a couple burns and then put to use. I do not plan on using this as a portable, so I'm hunting a decent cart for a home, for the grill and a 22lb tank.

 

[Jakeweldsalittle]

Looks like it didn't photograph the best, but I got one of my concrete countertops almost done. Polished to about 1,000 grit, pinholes filled with non-sanded grout, the finished out to 8,000 grit. Two coats of high gloss sealer so far. First coat really sucked into the concrete. Second coat seems to flow out on top a bit better. I'll check after work to see if it needs another one or if I can buff out what I have. For never doing it before, I was a little apprehensive about the process, but things have gone well. So far, the Mrs. is pleased, so I guess that's all that matters .

 

[Jay__Dub]

Just in case you think you may be stupid, hold my beer.

Decided to buff the brass float from my tractor carb, because it was pretty badly gummed up, instead of using steel wool, like a normal person, and naturally, it caught the edge, bent all to ****, and flew across the room. 40 bucks for a new one on crapazon.

Thank you, thank you very much.

 

[four.cycle]

^ just use salt and vinegar to clean brass floats. works great.

 

[Beerhippie]

it caught the edge, bent all to ****, and flew across the room

I refer to my buffing wheel as the "parts ******".

 

[Old Man Roger]

I refer to my buffing wheel as the "parts ******".

One of the most underrated dangers.lol

 

[kaymccampbell]

Dropped a jungle box on my chair and dried it off.

 

[rktinc]

nice land cruiser....

only has 269k miles on it

 

[Outlawmws]

only has 269k miles on it

My T-van has 55 K more than that, and is still going strong.

 

[Gangly]

Finally polyeurethane coated the flower/garden box, got it positioned in the back yard, and filled for the wife. We wound up putting zucchini, squash, onion, tomato, carrots, and bell peppers in it. Probably too many different plants for the box, but its purely for the fun of it so we'll roll with it.



I trenched along the fence to run some pvc underground for irrigation, but i haven't finished that since an "all stop" was called so that we could run to Home Depot for some pots and flowers to beautify the area around my small shop.


We had some excess soil so we made a herb pallet with the leftovers: peppermint, spearmint, rosemary, dill, parsley, and some others I can't remember.

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

Tightened up my Jock.
Rotated the tires on the dually.
Changed both fuel filters.

 

[Beerhippie]

Messed around looking at a couple of kitchen problems for the morning. The brand-new griddle has one burner that doesn't want to burn. It sort of flickers instead. I reckoned it was a problem for Staub's, who set it up and installed it. Called them, their head tech came by and it's a screwed up valve. I don't know if that was screwed up by the tech that set up and installed or what--and can't prove it was their fault. New valve ordered.

Fixed a leaking T&H Brass pre-rinse sprayer. these things have a rubber bumper at the working end that holds the sprayer plate, and they develop leaks fairly rapidly in constant use. But I replaced this one not too long ago. Took it off--one Phillips screw--and the bumper thing was put on backwards. I sure didn't so that--I've replaced dozens of them--so I suspect some helpful soul tried to fix it themselves. Replaced.

Then got to play outside for part of the afternoon:



That poor little tree. I think I planted it in around '18, after we lost 23 aspen trees in a couple of winter storms. It took off like gangbusters and I pruned it yearly for the first few years and established a good, strong scaffold.

Then I got too busy to do any tree pruning for a few (like five) springs and it got a bit out of control.

When we installed the pavers for the table pads, the boss man asked me to apply an herbicide to the pads that would last for a while. I asked at the local feed store, and they sold me some Aligar (IIRC--gobbledygook names are hard to remember), which I applied and it damned near killed every tree in the yard! Most survived, but took a beating. That little tree barely scraped through. The herbicide seems to kill the roots of the trees, as the damage was only on the side nearest the pad and started from the tips of the braches down--classic sign of root damage.

The it got whacked by the ugly stick:



A really big ugly stick. That was October past, in another storm. It lost all the scaffold branches on the near side.

So, in a case of "tough love", I chopped the hell out of it. Sometimes, you just need to hit reset.

It'll get better.

Then got set up for some beer photography tomorrow AM. We have a new release!

Glad I got out for a while today--more snow is forecast for the rest of the week, starting right about now.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Hung the last 2 crank phones I’ve had laying around for way too long. Masked up some wood parts from an old wringer washer that my daughter had touched up. Going to spray the letter work and then probably hit the rest with some urethane.

 

[kaymccampbell]

We had the phone on the far right growing up. And a party line. We were 2 long, 2 shorts IIRC. Calling out was entertaining.

 

[jblnut]

Kind of in and kind of near the garage ….. made a new hydraulic hose for my tillage disk today. $54 fitting on one end, $14 fitting on the other and $5/ft for the hose. Good grief lol.

 

[BMWBOB2]

Made a necklace and earrings for a good friend

 

[Beelzeboss]

I continued slowly chipping away at the custom flywheel that's hiding in this steel billet.

 

[Outlawmws]

Made a necklace and earrings for a good friend

Is the green materiel glass?

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

We had the phone on the far right growing up. And a party line. We were 2 long, 2 shorts IIRC. Calling out was entertaining.

We were Line 26 Ring 2 If you were 2Ls & 2Ss you must have had quite a number of homes on your line. There might have had just as many on the other ring side of the line. We had IIRC 3 homes we could hear and 3 we couldn’t. But if you went on the line you may have caught one of the other families chatting away. Then you could rubber neck (listen in) without being detected. Except for the quiet click that the active participants could hear when you picked up a slight click occurred and the volume of the call would subside just a little bit.

 

[BMWBOB2]

Is the green materiel glass?

Yup. Proper 12, I believe

 

[Jgaz]

Kind of in and kind of near the garage ….. made a new hydraulic hose for my tillage disk today. $54 fitting on one end, $14 fitting on the other and $5/ft for the hose. Good grief lol.

You’re making the hoses yourself, correct?

 

[Beerhippie]

We were Line 26 Ring 2 If you were 2Ls & 2Ss you must have had quite a number of homes on your line. There might have had just as many on the other ring side of the line. We had IIRC 3 homes we could hear and 3 we couldn’t. But if you went on the line you may have caught one of the other families chatting away. Then you could rubber neck (listen in) without being detected. Except for the quiet click that the active participants could hear when you picked up a slight click occurred and the volume of the call would subside just a little bit.

Marybel? This is for me! Please hang up.

3 longs.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Marybel? This is for me! Please hang up.
3 longs.

I’ll check to see what Ernestine has to say about the matter.

 

[Outlawmws]

I think we managed to miss party lines (Or I was too young to ever be on the phone), but friend's had them for sure.

in HS there was this odd number you could call and it was like a party line and you would holler out your number or take down someone else's number, and make a direct call. we actually got addressees and met some girls once. They were WAY younger than us, so we bailed.

 

[nadogail]

Removed the old stainless steel sink from my workshop, found that i had purchased the wrong style angle stops.
Replacement angle stops will arrive tomorrow morning.

 

[DGersic]

Spent most of today diagnosing and mostly repairing a water leak in to Dad’s crawlspace. Rigged a sprinkler to wash down suspected leak areas. Then had to run down and crawl back to the far end of the crawl space to check for water coming in. Repeat until drips found.

Found that when the siding guys did the sump pump eject, they caulked it, poorly.



That cut I’m holding open, no caulk over that. Also, they used a huge blob of caulk, which cracked around the pipe. Which one was leaking? Dunno. Needs fixing.

Started scraping off the new caulk, digging out the old caulk that was behind it. Then the pipe came out.


The last joint, where it leaves the coupler and goes out through the wall, had no glue. Just a slip fit, and not a tight one. So, pump eject water could also have been leaking there, and ending up in the crawlspace. Yay.

Couldn‘t find any PVC cement in Dad’s supplies, and had to run to Menards anyway. Got some cement, glued in that last piece. Then spray foamed the gaps around the pipe. I’ll go back over the outside with caulk later, once the foam cures.

 

[Beerhippie]

I think we managed to miss party lines (Or I was too young to ever be on the phone), but friend's had them for sure.

I first encountered them in the early-mid '90s. It was a remote part of a remote county in a remote region of the West.

 

[Dusten]

only has 269k miles on it

mine has about that many... kilometers. lol

 

[jblnut]

You’re making the hoses yourself, correct?

Yup. Gates hose and fittings.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Kind of in and kind of near the garage ….. made a new hydraulic hose for my tillage disk today. $54 fitting on one end, $14 fitting on the other and $5/ft for the hose. Good grief lol.

Better than the $450 the dealer charges.

 

[kaymccampbell]

We were Line 26 Ring 2 If you were 2Ls & 2Ss you must have had quite a number of homes on your line. There might have had just as many on the other ring side of the line. We had IIRC 3 homes we could hear and 3 we couldn’t. But if you went on the line you may have caught one of the other families chatting away. Then you could rubber neck (listen in) without being detected. Except for the quiet click that the active participants could hear when you picked up a slight click occurred and the volume of the call would subside just a little bit.

Our whole road was on one line IIRC. We had a couple snoops that would pick up on every call, and this one witch that would never get off the phone, even in emergencies, which is why we all got dial service installed for free.

 

[FLHCHAZ]

Carboard Aided Design

 

[jblnut]

Better than the $450 the dealer charges.

Agreed. It was a $150+/- hose. The 90 degree swivel oring fitting being $54 was a bit of shocker. When I make a hose I put the fittings I use into a restock app through AutoValue and saw it was $54. Good thing it didn’t leak. That’d have made me a bit grumpy lol.

 

[jblnut]

Carboard Aided Design

That’s the kind of CAD I can get behind !!

Sort of like GPS on our farm. The Guy Provides Steering in most of our machinery.

 

[larry4406]

Spent most of today diagnosing and mostly repairing a water leak in to Dad’s crawlspace. Rigged a sprinkler to wash down suspected leak areas. Then had to run down and crawl back to the far end of the crawl space to check for water coming in. Repeat until drips found.

Found that when the siding guys did the sump pump eject, they caulked it, poorly.



That cut I’m holding open, no caulk over that. Also, they used a huge blob of caulk, which cracked around the pipe. Which one was leaking? Dunno. Needs fixing.

Started scraping off the new caulk, digging out the old caulk that was behind it. Then the pipe came out.


The last joint, where it leaves the coupler and goes out through the wall, had no glue. Just a slip fit, and not a tight one. So, pump eject water could also have been leaking there, and ending up in the crawlspace. Yay.

Couldn‘t find any PVC cement in Dad’s supplies, and had to run to Menards anyway. Got some cement, glued in that last piece. Then spray foamed the gaps around the pipe. I’ll go back over the outside with caulk later, once the foam cures.

The sump discharge piping is a mix of electric conduit and actual plumbing PVC coupling? Yikes!

 

[DGersic]

The sump discharge piping is a mix of electric conduit and actual plumbing PVC coupling? Yikes!

I don’t think it’s conduit. It’s old grey PVC, 1968 vintage, original to the house.

 

[sailor_lou]

Removed the snowblower and reinstalled the loader on my compact tractor.

 

[WisJim]

Hung the last 2 crank phones I’ve had laying around for way too long.

I remember party lines when I was in early grades in a small Wisconsin village. Then we moved to a bigger small town with no party lines but operator assistance for all calls--those operators knew everything happening in town. When we moved a couple of years later, the phone company was redoing the system and they were stockpiling all the old removed equipment in an empty lot nearby. The lead covered cables fascinated me, and I kept a chunk for years. But if I had known what the future held, I would have grabbed some of the old wall mounted crank phones that were piled in heaps waiting to be hauled away.

 

[Jay__Dub]

Our whole road was on one line IIRC. We had a couple snoops that would pick up on every call, and this one witch that would never get off the phone, even in emergencies, which is why we all got dial service installed for free.

We had 4 on ours when we first got married, lived out in the sticks. It was bad enough the landlady snooped the house when we were at work, and everybody knew everybodies business on the damn line. I was glad to see the end of that nonsense when we moved to the big chitty. I wasn't ordering hits, or selling dope or anything, just to be clear.

 

[gearhead1960]

Found a spot....

for my (new to me) short step ladder I received from my son. It was a cast off from the AWS part of the Jungle. They were getting new ones and these were destined for the trash bin unless the employees took them home....he snagged three of them for distribution to the family....