What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[BMWBOB2]

I see things like that in my nightmares.

Me too…

 

[BMWBOB2]

I did absolutely nothing in my shop today either - not in the last week. But almost done painting my house!

 

[Beerhippie]

Parts for the alternator I tore down a month ago finally arrived! If you need alternator parts, and you need them soon, DO NOT order from alternatorbush.com! When I ordered them the receipt said the parts (reg and bearings) would be here the following Monday, April 20. They arrived yesterday. No shipping notification, no tracking #, no reply to email queries and no one returned my call.

Anyhow, time to9 get my spare alt back together!

Solder the rectifiers to the regulator/brush assembly:



Solder the windings to the rectifiers:



Shine up the slip rings:



Press in (and on) the bearings:



Repeat after me: A vise is not a bearing press. A socket is not a press anvil.

All back together:



and now I can take it apart again and remove the one goober solder that is potentially shorting the windings to the rectifier case and install the bearing retainer that is sitting on my bench.... Oh, well, NAPA closed at five, so I can't get it tested today anyway.

 

[GrayFlattop]

Parts for the alternator I tore down a month ago finally arrived! If you need alternator parts, and you need them soon, DO NOT order from alternatorbush.com! When I ordered them the receipt said the parts (reg and bearings) would be here the following Monday, April 20. They arrived yesterday. No shipping notification, no tracking #, no reply to email queries and no one returned my call.

Anyhow, time to9 get my spare alt back together!

Solder the rectifiers to the regulator/brush assembly:



Solder the windings to the rectifiers:



Shine up the slip rings:



Press in (and on) the bearings:



Repeat after me: A vise is not a bearing press. A socket is not a press anvil.

All back together:



and now I can take it apart again and remove the one goober solder that is potentially shorting the windings to the rectifier case and install the bearing retainer that is sitting on my bench.... Oh, well, NAPA closed at five, so I can't get it tested today anyway.

WHAT?!?!? A vice is not a bearing press?!?! I have so much to learn!

 

[Old Man Roger]

WHAT?!?!? A vice is not a bearing press?!?! I have so much to learn!

He been drinkin.

 

[nadogail]

With the assistance of my part time helper and his daughters boy friend, 10.Elevated Planter Boxes were assembled today. After the Landscape Cloth lining is installed they will have a Wholesale value of $800.
My materials cost about $180 and the labor about $350.
The work place and electricity are not costing me anything, the garage is my own and my Solar Panels have eliminated the electric cost.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Put some **** away. Did my nails. Held an emergency board meeting.

 

[GrayFlattop]

Took tools out to dig in the dirt and trim shrubs. Put tools away.

 

[Beerhippie]

Took alternator back apart. Sucked off some solder. Installed bearing retainer. Put alternator back together.

I'm getting pretty fast at this.

New Weller 200/260 Watt soldering gun is a POS. It works, but the trigger is very picky about the difference between on and off. I may try to take it back, but it's probably too late.

Weller ain't what they used to be.

 

[M.Brane]

Soldering guns are banned from my electrical toolbox. They are evil implements of destruction. Irons only.

 

[Beerhippie]

WHAT?!?!? A vice is not a bearing press?!?! I have so much to learn!

Someone posted a video of some poor fool breaking a vise while using it to press bearings over in the GTD forum. I was riffing on that. If I can't press bearings in with it, either the thing I'm trying to press the bearings into is too big, or the vise is a POS. That's my Chas. Parker 954 1/2. If it breaks pressing in a bearing, I'll eat it. With catsup. And an S-K 40530 socket was a perfect fit.

 

[Outlawmws]

Held an emergency board meeting.

I thought you were done with that?

 

[rktinc]

Dragged out my HotWheels after buying a display case. Finally experimenting with the bar decor a bit. I had a few extra cars so I ordered another case. Now it gives me a past time digging for the ones I don't have or the models that disappeared over the years that I just know I owned at some point as a kid. Like I need another hobby.

 

[Beerhippie]

Not a single VW Bus? Shame....

 

[rktinc]

Not a single VW Bus? Shame....

Yea it is on the list to find. They are pretty pricey. All in time. I have plenty of slots to fill in.

 

[bmwrd0]

Received parts (worm gear and worm, for the dividing head project) and started thinking about how to make parts (extractor for the 218).

Cleaned off bench, took photos of junk.

EDIT: NOW WITH PICTURE!

 

[Beerhippie]

Yea it is on the list to find. They are pretty pricey. All in time. I have plenty of slots to fill in.

Damn--I'll have to take a look at my small collection.

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

A twenty-year old?

Well, after all:

He… *snip* …has no work history

Good grief, I’m six years older than this kid and I’ve been working full time for half his lifetime already. Does he not have a father in his life?

 

[kaymccampbell]

I thought you were done with that?

So did I. Someone had to call and run an emergency board meeting to approve renewing the building lease, because if not we'd miss the renewal deadline, and then have to renegotiate a new lease in this crazy market. I'm still president until 1900 on Thursday. At that point the new puppy can think he's running the show, until he comes up against my bylaws. The president role ain't what it was the last time he was on the board, I made it a manager/leader role, not the boss. He'll either grow or quit.

 

[welder4956]

Put tools away and cleaned up from installing the door opener, installed the opener light on the wall, programmed the opener to the phone app. Then grabbed the hedge trimmer and cleaned up the front bushes,

 

[DGersic]

Washed, clay barred, and waxed. Cleaned the glass. Changed the oil and filter.

 

[Beelzeboss]

I finished off all the M12 mounting holes on my CNC table and did a final skim pass



They're on a 75mm grid. I would have loved a 50mm grid but it would just about double the time taken to machine it, this will have to do for now.

 

[gearhead1960]

Dragged out my HotWheels after buying a display case. Finally experimenting with the bar decor a bit. I had a few extra cars so I ordered another case. Now it gives me a past time digging for the ones I don't have or the models that disappeared over the years that I just know I owned at some point as a kid. Like I need another hobby.

I need one of those cases for all my original Matchboxes. Where did you order that from?

 

[gearhead1960]

Not a single VW Bus? Shame....

You mean like this? Here's my survivor....






Oh yeah, in case you were wondering @Beerhippie, the tires are reinforced (extra loads)....

 

[Jakeweldsalittle]

That shelf is nice and good that you "re-purposed it".....but what I really am diggin are those shop "solvents"!

Yeah I guess repurpose wasn't exactly the correct term, since it is serving the exact same purpose . I'm not displaying the same trophies on it that my son was though.

 

[Hooked]

Took alternator back apart. Sucked off some solder. Installed bearing retainer. Put alternator back together.

I'm getting pretty fast at this.

New Weller 200/260 Watt soldering gun is a POS. It works, but the trigger is very picky about the difference between on and off. I may try to take it back, but it's probably too late.

Weller ain't what they used to be.

I have an older version which has had the same trigger problem since new. I haven't used it in years for that reason.

 

[aka Larry]

I removed all the lighting on my 4'x7' utility trailer so I can replace them all for the third time. I'm using the 3/4" round gromment mounted ones this time with bullet connectors so they can be easily replaced individually.

You can stay tuned for pics when I get finished, but fair warning if you don't like lots of lights (25 total), keep scrolling.

 

[gearhead1960]

Not a single VW Bus? Shame....

Yea it is on the list to find. They are pretty pricey. All in time. I have plenty of slots to fill in.

...but, but wait, there's more.....got to looking at the Matchbox collection and....this....



...but since we're on VW's....here's the Rally race team....

...and the support vehicles.....

...this is why I need a display case, because along with these guys, I have period Lambos, Ferrari's, Ford GT40's, Lotus', plus assorted other mudane vehicles and construction equipment..... Clearly, no garage queens here. I played with these many times.....and when nobody is looking...still do....

 

[cody1325]

You mean like this? Here's my survivor....






Oh yeah, in case you were wondering @Beerhippie, the tires are reinforced (extra loads)....

I really need to finally break down and get one of those. I have three of the Maisto knockoff from the '90s and '00s; and so far, I have most of the Lesney castings Maisto copied during this era.

 

[Beerhippie]

I'm pretty sure I have the same one. I forgot to look last night.

 

[Demon69]

Every now an then you get lucky with this stuff, but the pair o china jacks i just bought must have been friday night efforts. The uprights runout about quarter inch at the top causing the carriage to bind even worse than it does at the bottom, and with the jack mechanisms caked in paint and probably in need a good debur to work nice, i know what im doing tomorrow

 

[Beerhippie]

My work is cut out for me today:





We had a little breeze early this AM, gusting up to around 70 mph. Willows just love to shed a million little branches. Winds must have blown from all points of the compass, as the branches are everywhere.

Having been hot and dry for a couple of weeks, the wind blew up a bit of a dust storm, with just enough rain to leave a thin coat of mud on everything.

That's wheel barrow #5 so far. Wind is still blowing hard enough to make the pick-up tricky--gusting to maybe 30 mph.

 

[BuyMyGarage]

Made lots of future trouble sitting in the garage with my phone.

I went through the hot deals section tagging each interesting thread with a "watch" and "email".

Then spent 2 hours stacking previous purchases to make more room. Why did I need a Ryobi track saw track, I don't have nor even need a track saw.

 

[Outlawmws]

That's wheel barrow #5 so far. Wind is still blowing hard enough to make the pick-up tricky--gusting to maybe 30 mph.

Maybe a leaf blower heading with the wind and deal with the piles when it calms?

 

[Old Man Roger]

Every now an then you get lucky with this stuff, but the pair o china jacks i just bought must have been friday night efforts. The uprights runout about quarter inch at the top causing the carriage to bind even worse than it does at the bottom, and with the jack mechanisms caked in paint and probably in need a good debur to work nice, i know what im doing tomorrow

If that video wasn’t so old I’d suspect it was AI.lol That thing doesn’t flex or move on inch while theyre jacking it up. I’d gladly use it for big *** tires, but I dont think I’d jack a car up with it.

 

[Beerhippie]

Maybe a leaf blower heading with the wind and deal with the piles when it calms?

Not a bad idea--aside from the larger branches. It's now gone on to pouring rain with 25+ mph winds. Lovely weather. Yesterday was shorts and sandals, 93F. Spring in the mountains is sooo much fun!

 

[Demon69]

If that video wasn’t so old I’d suspect it was AI.lol That thing doesn’t flex or move on inch while theyre jacking it up. I’d gladly use it for big *** tires, but I dont think I’d jack a car up with it.

Haha yeah, these entry level jacks are rated to 800kg each (£200 each), that bimmer is only about 300kg per corner on the front so they arnt really working that hard. The frames seem beefy enough, but sloppy made, nothing that cant be put right by shimming the uprights but shouldnt have to eh. The old high lift style jack used to drive them!? never gonna be a strong selling point
Theres air over hydraulic or electric screw driven models, pricing £800 to £2400 each, theyre rated to 1500kg

I like the idea of jacking under the wheel to get the height, then you can block the car up any way you want. This guy doesnt block under the car but easy done.

As things stand, im not exactly convinced

 

[Beerhippie]

I mean, FFS!

My fully-loaded wheelbarrow just quite literally BLEW AWAY! It went tumbling across the parking lot, scattering the load everywhere. At least it went downwind.

I'm using a leaf rake to move everything I can downwind (leaf blower was too slow), but I'm freezing my *** off. 25-30 mph winds at 40F will do that. Inside for a little warm-up and back at it. I need to get as much as possible moved before opening, as willow branches are very brittle and will be even more of a mess if they get run over.

Yesterday I was looking for shade and today I'm flirting with hypothermia.

 

[Beerhippie]

Now I can move on to the rest of the yard, where the cottonwoods have dropped branches big and little. At least the wind has died down--for now.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Haha yeah, these entry level jacks are rated to 800kg each (£200 each), that bimmer is only about 300kg per corner on the front so they arnt really working that hard. The frames seem beefy enough, but sloppy made, nothing that cant be put right by shimming the uprights but shouldnt have to eh. The old high lift style jack used to drive them!? never gonna be a strong selling point
Theres air over hydraulic or electric screw driven models, pricing £800 to £2400 each, theyre rated to 1500kg

I like the idea of jacking under the wheel to get the height, then you can block the car up any way you want. This guy doesnt block under the car but easy done.

As things stand, im not exactly convinced

I don’t know man, that thing looks sketchy as hell. And if you really look at it, the bolts that hold those plastic wheels are holding the whole thing up.

Notice the guy always steps to the side too, just incase that thing decides to shoot out from under the wheel.lol