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CoogarXR

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Took my wife's Worx weed eater apart to see why it stopped working. Ahh, one of the wires broke off the motor inside the head. Soldered it back.on, put it back together and she's back in business.

***** trying to do stuff after carpal tunnel surgery. Gotta take it slow...
 
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I bought a new Chevy pickup in 2001
I bought a set of mud flaps from the dealer and put them on.
In 2006 I bought another new pickup and transfered the old mud flaps over.
6 years ago I bought a very low miles 2013 pickup at an auction and transfered the mud flaps over.
A week ago I bought another very low miles 2018 Chevy PU at an auction.
The old mud flaps are still just fine.
Today I took the mud flaps off the old one and will put them on the "new one" tomorrow.
Maybe I'm just a cheap *** but this makes me happy somehow.
P S 25 years, most of 400K miles - and still counting - out of a set of mudflaps. I only wish cars and pickups lasted so long.
 

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Changed the oil on the Alfa, somehow managing to keep the garage floor clean in the process. Gave myself a panic when I started the car and the oil warning light immediately came on and would not go off. Did I forget the drain plug? Leave the filter loose? After investigation (which involved removing the air intake box again, as the oil filter hides behind it), turns out I accidentally knocked the wire off the oil pressure light sending switch while changing the filter. Doh! :rolleyes:. All's well that ends well...
 

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I bought a new Chevy pickup in 2001
I bought a set of mud flaps from the dealer and put them on.
In 2006 I bought another new pickup and transfered the old mud flaps over.
6 years ago I bought a very low miles 2013 pickup at an auction and transfered the mud flaps over.
A week ago I bought another very low miles 2018 Chevy PU at an auction.
The old mud flaps are still just fine.
Today I took the mud flaps off the old one and will put them on the "new one" tomorrow.
Maybe I'm just a cheap *** but this makes me happy somehow.
P S 25 years, most of 400K miles - and still counting - out of a set of mudflaps. I only wish cars and pickups lasted so long.
I understand! I have a pair of air horns that have followed me around for 40+ years and are on their 4th vehicle....:ROFLMAO:
 

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IMG_8580.jpegCleaned this carb on my friends wood splitter for the second time today, Homfs GX690 engineIMG_8609.pngjust found a good video and I guess there is 2 idle jets below this screw that I hadn’t taken out. IMG_8604.jpegHe was running regular gas and hadn’t used the splitter in 2 years.
I’m going to give it one more cleaning and take those 2 idle jets out that I missed this time. This is the fuel that we took out of the tank
 
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Outlawmws

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P S 25 years, most of 400K miles - and still counting - out of a set of mudflaps. I only wish cars and pickups lasted so long.

I understand! I have a pair of air horns that have followed me around for 40+ years and are on their 4th vehicle....:ROFLMAO:


I think I have a key ring that went that long...
 

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Told my wife that today was a “spa” day.

I moisturized my hands with “man lotion” (ATF and motor oil). I exfoliated my knees, shoulders, and the back of my head (garage floor grit). I even massaged (bruised) my arms.

Working on the transmission project. Got everything disconnected, driveshaft out, all bolts loose, and have the trans sitting on the ATV jack, with my floor jack supporting the back of the engine at the oil pan.

Tomorrow I’ll remove the crossmember, and lower the trans. I wanted to get that done today, but had to spend time on the phone tracking down a missing parts order (never shipped), arranging transportation for a minor surgery on Thursday, and cooking dinner.
 

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In the garage today? Chasing my tail.

I removed the new top roller that I installed on my dozer last weekend.

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Disassembled it and harvested the $140 (!) seal from it.

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Disassembled and cleaned the old top roller that I had removed from the dozer last weekend, and installed the $140 (!) seal in it.

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Reinstalled the old roller with the new ($$$) seal. Works great. New top roller is now my spare top roller.

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Nice Rock Island Vice.
 

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Told my wife that today was a “spa” day.

I moisturized my hands with “man lotion” (ATF and motor oil). I exfoliated my knees, shoulders, and the back of my head (garage floor grit). I even massaged (bruised) my arms.

Working on the transmission project. Got everything disconnected, driveshaft out, all bolts loose, and have the trans sitting on the ATV jack, with my floor jack supporting the back of the engine at the oil pan.

Tomorrow I’ll remove the crossmember, and lower the trans. I wanted to get that done today, but had to spend time on the phone tracking down a missing parts order (never shipped), arranging transportation for a minor surgery on Thursday, and cooking dinner.
Is cleaning under your nails considered a manicure? :unsure:
 

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Took my wife's Worx weed eater apart to see why it stopped working. Ahh, one of the wires broke off the motor inside the head. Soldered it back.on, put it back together and she's back in business.

***** trying to do stuff after carpal tunnel surgery. Gotta take it slow...
only takes 6-9 months to get all the strength back
 

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Sharpened the push mower blade, oiled its air filter with Uni foam filter oil. Started it up and let it run for a couple of minutes. Checked the oil.
Crawled under the 4Runner 8-10 times fetching tools so that I could get the front 02 sensor wire unplugged. Sometimes I hate working on cars. 45 minutes to free up the harness and unplug a 30 year old connector. I really want a lift.
Fielded two texts and a phone call from old employer. Seems the water guys think they warped the blade in their Hycon HRS 400 ring saw. No one in that dept knows how to change the blade. ??? Work wanted to know where I sent it for repairs. I didnt send it anywhere, I repaired it. Boss asked if I would be willing to come down and change the blade, if her boss ok'd. Sure, why not. Boss must have said no because my boss told me they were just going to buy another saw. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Guess that is how the city fixes the problem. Only thing is, the saw doesnt come with the blade they use to cut pipe. It isnt hard to change, but it isnt just a bolt affair either. Holy ****, gov't at work. Pic is a couple blade changes ago. Surprisingly, not many injuries there.
 

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zachgeo

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***** trying to do stuff after carpal tunnel surgery. Gotta take it slow...
Ugh. I had something called De Quervain Syndrome in my left hand, which is similar to carpal tunnel. I avoided surgery and tried various exercises my doctor recommended, to no avail. Oddly, when I broke my left wrist picking pears (I don't want to talk about it :LOL:), by the time I recovered from that the De Quervain's went away! Anyhow, wishing you speedy recovery from the surgery - hopefully you will be back to full painless range of motion soon.
 

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With great trepidation I measured and cut casement trim for the last of the windows. I have been waiting on Infinity to come back and do it, gave up and did it myself. Only screwed up one piece, but glued and installed touched up and checked off the box. Did find that the roller on my chop saw stand had started rusting so another project found!
 

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Changed the oil on the Alfa, somehow managing to keep the garage floor clean in the process. Gave myself a panic when I started the car and the oil warning light immediately came on and would not go off. Did I forget the drain plug? Leave the filter loose? After investigation (which involved removing the air intake box again, as the oil filter hides behind it), turns out I accidentally knocked the wire off the oil pressure light sending switch while changing the filter. Doh! :rolleyes:. All's well that ends well...
Made you looook!🤭
Or it is oil‘s well that ends well?
 
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Heat gave us a break here this evening ( heavy thunderstorms) so I assembled the fishing rod holders I built. Put them in place to get a visual, they still need a finish, I'll handle that next week or so when I get time. They will sit a bit as I have other things to get done. No complaints, I made them to be utilitarian, not fine woodworking pieces.
 

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jim

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Just little stuff. Cleaned out the truck, then washed and vacuumed it, before adding door edge protector. I seems that once I started wearing an AFO on my left foot I need to open the drivers side door all the way to get in and out (which is still a bit of a hassle) and in a parking lot that can led to bumping other cars. So, took care of that. Then changed out some broken plastic on one of the new Webleys, only needing my smallest roll pin punch and a light hand.
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What plastic part broke on the Webley and where did you get the parts?
Pictures please.
 

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Sharpened the push mower blade, oiled its air filter with Uni foam filter oil. Started it up and let it run for a couple of minutes. Checked the oil.
Crawled under the 4Runner 8-10 times fetching tools so that I could get the front 02 sensor wire unplugged. Sometimes I hate working on cars. 45 minutes to free up the harness and unplug a 30 year old connector. I really want a lift.
Fielded two texts and a phone call from old employer. Seems the water guys think they warped the blade in their Hycon HRS 400 ring saw. No one in that dept knows how to change the blade. ??? Work wanted to know where I sent it for repairs. I didnt send it anywhere, I repaired it. Boss asked if I would be willing to come down and change the blade, if her boss ok'd. Sure, why not. Boss must have said no because my boss told me they were just going to buy another saw. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Guess that is how the city fixes the problem. Only thing is, the saw doesnt come with the blade they use to cut pipe. It isnt hard to change, but it isnt just a bolt affair either. Holy ****, gov't at work. Pic is a couple blade changes ago. Surprisingly, not many injuries there.
Ai will change it for them. Ain’t much I like more than a disposable mindset. It is such a wonderful way to acquire goodies for myself from the real world challenged.
 

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With great trepidation I measured and cut casement trim for the last of the windows. I have been waiting on Infinity to come back and do it, gave up and did it myself. Only screwed up one piece, but glued and installed touched up and checked off the box. Did find that the roller on my chop saw stand had started rusting so another project found!
Scotchbrite for the win!
 

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Heat gave us a break here this evening ( heavy thunderstorms) so I assembled the fishing rod holders I built. Put them in place to get a visual, they still need a finish, I'll handle that next week or so when I get time. They will sit a bit as I have other things to get done. No complaints, I made them to be utilitarian, not fine woodworking pieces.
I don’t even fish, but I love organization, so I like those.
 

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Took the day off and then an hour later, out to the garage. So hard to Not Work. Anyhow, cleaned up and what a mess it was. I need a curtain to divide the metal working from the wood building. Did the Google thing and of course everything is a stack (thousand dollars for us old folks) I'm going to string a wire and hang a $10 tarp, maybe two. LOL
Otherwise a rest day.
Zim
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Took the day off and then an hour later, out to the garage. So hard to Not Work. Anyhow, cleaned up and what a mess it was. I need a curtain to divide the metal working from the wood building. Did the Google thing and of course everything is a stack (thousand dollars for us old folks) I'm going to string a wire and hang a $10 tarp, maybe two. LOL
Otherwise a rest day.
Zim
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Toss a little more money at it and get a couple of those HF welding canvasses. They definitely don't melt or catch fire with the bigger hot blobs.

Lordy I hate spellfuck, it keeps turning blobs into *****.
 

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only takes 6-9 months to get all the strength back
Its weird how some aspects of my hand strength returned pretty quickly (like closed-fist grip strength, lift strength, etc) but things like individual finger strength are totally gone. Like it would be a real challenge to press a spray can nozzle right now. And things that require finess are shot. Like trying to cut a thin slice of cheese off a block. Nope. I'm only about 10 days in though. I get my stitches out tomorrow .

Hey, at least once I get healed up, I get to go in and do the other side!
 

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Toss a little more money at it and get a couple of those HF welding canvasses. They definitely don't melt or catch fire with the bigger hot blobs.

Lordy I hate spellfuck, it keeps turning blobs into *****.
LOL, It's not so much the welding but the grinding and coping. I can't stand that fine metal dust under foot. Drives me insane. I've looked at welding curtains and canvass is a great idea. Funny, I love the smell of canvass.
Zim
 

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I fixed a crippling flaw in the design of my otherwise favorite camp chair: It had no cup holder! That cannot stand!

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Installed a Bar Buoy, 'cause, y' never know when things are going to get rowdy in the ol' lawn chair!

The cage of the Bar Buoy fits into a dove-tail mount on the chair, so it won't get broken off in transport.

A piece of scrap aluminum angle, drill and pop-rivets. Now to find something to do with the rest of the afternoon--aside from testing the Bar Buoy.
Funny coincidence i see this now. My folks visited from TX and on the way to my house, they found these and thought i could put these to good use.

 

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Camping cleanup refill. repair, and put away:

Repairs were:
  • fixing the twist lock on one of 4 low side poles for the tarp canopy. (rusty pivot screw)
  • superglue a cracked amber globe sucker is not old, but is Asian made, I picked up last year on another Coleman outing.
Cleanup and put away continues today (Slow going as I have to rest my back periodically; but the back is actually getting better!

Globe repair details: you get some super glue beaded up on the cracks and flex the glass a bit to get it into the crack. Let it dry, then razor blade the excess off so the surface glass inside and out are smooth and clean. (if you leave it,it will burn on and it can't really be removed and shows a lot)

This one was a "V" shaped 2 crack and was probably started at an edge imperfection as it thermally cycled. You can see where that bit flaked away:

I'll temp cycle it today but I and others have done this before with good success. a couple of globes were actually reassembled. (older irreplaceable globes).

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What is going on here? A brick sanitary man hole now concrete lined?
Thats the one, well partially at least, easier to form an concrete than brick up and backfill the voids under the existing slab. Loose and crumbling brickwork (someone previously repaired but didnt use engineering bricks) over the top 3 or so courses made the decision for me, after id bought the bricks naturally :bounce:
 

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Thats the one, well partially at least, easier to form an concrete than brick up and backfill the voids under the existing slab. Loose and crumbling brickwork (someone previously repaired but didnt use engineering bricks) over the top 3 or so courses made the decision for me, after id bought the bricks naturally :bounce:
Just remember.....this is in the "old" world. We like to think that in "merica", the "new" world, we're more advanced than a brick s**tter drain.... :ROFLMAO:
 

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Just remember.....this is in the "old" world. We like to think that in "merica", the "new" world, we're more advanced than a brick s**tter drain.... :ROFLMAO:

Yeah, right; San Francisco still has wood water mains over 100 years old in places I'd bet NY and Boston and other places back east have them even older...
 
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