What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Motorman55]

Second day of downsizing, rearranging and making space available in the garage for storing the '76 MGB along with the motorcycles over the winter.

'74 XLCH Sportster placed on a small lift and set in its storage spot. The handlebar and hand control levers were removed. Fuel tank, carb and fuel line are empty.

Just the beginning....

 

[Wrencher 160]

Rode the massage chair. In 4 days, my quality of life has greatly improved, 15 minutes at a time.

That’s great news

 

[SRU1436]

I test fit the new headers. I had to get these because the exhaust manifolds wouldn’t allow the oil dip stick tube to go into the block. I’m finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel. I’d like to get the engine in the truck and fire it up by October 1st. We will see.

 

[bugnut]

fiddled with 3d printing. Studied lights and connectors for the baja and laid out what might work for getting to be as i want, dual use as lightbar and as working lights

 

[bmwrd0]

Waiting for a McMaster order, so I started reassembling the Dalton apron as far as possible until the Woodruff cutter comes in. Also, started getting the pile of junk to go to the Restore out, only to be told I am picking up new patio furniture tomorrow, which will necessitate staging the junk as opposed to loading it.

So it goes.

 

[OccupantRJ]

F'all. Did some every day chores, flipped a breaker for the kitchen fan... FFS someone break something! Someone ask me to make something stupid!

Got my hours in. Bored. Took a walk. Confirmed it was too hot to take a walk. 97F. Took a drive to where I could find some shade. Too hot.

I can't believe what forty years of living in the high country--and being forty years older--has done to my heat tolerance. I used to hike and do hard outdoors labor at temps in the 120s, and just shrug it off.

Used to being the key words here.🥹

 

[OccupantRJ]

I got the 24 foot extension ladder off the hangers on the back of the barn this morning and set it up on the rear shed room shop roof edge 30 feet away. Whew! That was equal to about a half day’s work for an older fellow. Then I climbed up onto the main roof and cut off a bunch of encroaching pine tree branches, then blew off all the accumulated pine needles. Another job will be dealing with the car size pile off branches on the ground. I then drug that heavy *** fiberglass ladder behind me like a travois a 100 feet to lay on the ground in position for a roof check tomorrow. no way was I going to try to physically carry it a second time. Sure glad my ranch style roof is a 5/12 pitch.

 

[rollinlower]

all iv managed to get done is get the radiator support sprayed black and run some stuff on the printer lol

 

[Beerhippie]

SOS so far today.

Replaced nine "miracle lifetime" LED yard light bulbs. I guess the "lifetime" referred to is the lifetime of the bulb.



Now to find something else to make or fix for the afternoon.

 

[Outlawmws]

Replaced nine "miracle lifetime" LED yard light bulbs. I guess the "lifetime" referred to is the lifetime of the bulb.

And the Mfg/Supplier is long gone...

 

[Beerhippie]

And the Mfg/Supplier is long gone...

Oh, no--this is Brzzctaclto! They're still around--I bought four dozen from them this spring. Down to less that half that now.

 

[Outlawmws]

Oh, no--this is Brzzctaclto! They're still around--I bought four dozen from them this spring. Down to less that half that now.

So time to test that warranty. Sometimes they actually come through.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I swear new bulbs burnout 10 times quicker than the old school bulbs.

 

[Beerhippie]

I swear new bulbs burnout 10 times quicker than the old school bulbs.

If you're talking about the 125+ year old bulb in the California fire station, sure.

I reckon I replace a dozen of these bulbs every year--out of a hundred or so on the light strings out front.

 

[Outlawmws]

If you're talking about the 125+ year old bulb in the California fire station, sure.

I reckon I replace a dozen of these bulbs every year--out of a hundred or so on the light strings out front.

Livermore's Centennial Light Bulb

You have found Livermore California's World famous Centennial Light Bulb! Feel free to read the facts sheet, take a close-up look at bulb photos, tour Station #6, of our downtown of 1901. Learn about the 110th birthday party. Take a look at the Bulbcam, and be sure to leave your...

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[Beerhippie]

Livermore's Centennial Light Bulb

You have found Livermore California's World famous Centennial Light Bulb! Feel free to read the facts sheet, take a close-up look at bulb photos, tour Station #6, of our downtown of 1901. Learn about the 110th birthday party. Take a look at the Bulbcam, and be sure to leave your...

www.centennialbulb.org

Of course, one way to make a bulb last forever is to keep it cool by not making much in the way of light.

IIRC, that's a carbon-filament bulb.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

 

[Outlawmws]

IIRC, that's a carbon-filament bulb.

Yep!

 

[ambenz]

I swear new bulbs burnout 10 times quicker than the old school bulbs.

I have been marking everything I buy with dates bought. LED light bulbs get a date when I start using them, just to really see if the claim match the facts. Rattle paint cans, drill batteries, even waterheaters and furnaces are date labeled....piece of mind mostly to see if my perception matches reality.

 

[Beerhippie]

piece of mind mostly to see if my perception matches reality.

I expect and require reality to match my perceptions, damnit!

'Cause FREEDUM!

 

[Outlawmws]

Of course, one way to make a bulb last forever is to keep it cool by not making much in the way of light.

Another way to shorten the life of bulbs and other electrical gear is to increase voltages. As has happened over the past century:

We have all seen:

110V
115V
117V
120V

and most households are supplied with 121 to 123V... I k now I'm always over 120 when I check and I check anytime I think my DVM battery is low, as it will show it way high...

 

[kaymccampbell]

SOS so far today.

Replaced nine "miracle lifetime" LED yard light bulbs. I guess the "lifetime" referred to is the lifetime of the bulb.

I swear new bulbs burnout 10 times quicker than the old school bulbs.

I expect and require reality to match my perceptions, damnit!

In the incandescent/fluorescent days, I'd change at least a bulb a week, sometimes several. Since converting everything to LED, I've changed 3 bulbs between 2 houses. All power supply issues. The tiny electrolytic caps they use seem to be their Achilles heel.

 

[Beerhippie]

Another way to shorten the life of bulbs and other electrical gear is to increase voltages. As has happened over the past century:

We have all seen:

110V
115V
117V
120V

and most households are supplied with 121 to 123V... I k now I'm always over 120 when I check and I check anytime I think my DVM battery is low, as it will show it way high...

One of our local electricians used to carry incandescent bulbs rated for 130V. We used 'em in our drop lights--it took more than a gentle bump to break the element.

All of our lights in the brewery and pub are now LED. They last significantly longer than incandescent or CFL did (remember I was (and still am) the one replacing them). They don't last forever, 'though. The CFL were the worst of the lot, especially in places where they were turned on and off frequently, like bathrooms. They really sucked in the cold. At <-10F, they barely worked. I was very happy when some poor fool took the last box of them I had in stock--even free they were hard to get rid of.

 

[shaymus]

I picked up an airplane kit. It's a Glasair 2 that was started in the late '90s and sat in a barn for a while. Need to install pallet racking so I can store the parts off the ground so they don't get damaged triple-handling stuff moving them around. Before I install pallet racking, I need to finish the walls with something. Looking at Trusscore or something like that. Any suggestions? Don't want drywall or plywood.

 

[Beerhippie]

Clocked out and got to work on the project I picked up at a yard sale this AM:





Ready for the electrolysis vat and then some paint. Ordered a rebuild kit for it. A Hi-lift jack for $30 and some elbow grease ain't bad.

Deposited some money in the bank--sold some Coleman lanterns--and spent it on this:



From Rocky Mountain Westy, the same folks who made my front bumper. Now I'll have an actual tow/recovery point on the front of the Brick. Should be here early next week.

 

[zimman]

Finished another shelf, moved a shelf section from the house to the garage and turned that one into two shelves. Did I mention the shelves. LMAO. Holy **** I got a bunch of ****. Almost ready for the Mustang and the other tool boxes in storage.
Three departments. Welding and Fab, Woodworking and tools and hardware. LOL I'm going to build a wall between the welding and carpentry. No need for fires. LOL
Zim

 

[Beerhippie]

It's slow going, but it's going:



I really need to buy a wire wheel for one of my bench grinders.

Once again, the portable vise pays off. That's a LOT of rust dust that isn't in the shop.

The rail is ready for paint:



While I was working on those, the light dimmed and turned red. Looking up



Yeah, that'll do it. Hoping that's just a plume from the big Hagen fire over by Tollgate and not something new and closer. INCIWEB shows nothing new, but it might not have made it up yet.

Meanwhile the "small" parts are getting the scrubbing bubbles in the electrolysis vat:



I love rust removal not requiring elbow grease.

Back to wire wheeling.

 

[Beerhippie]

Whew. That's done.



If I were paying myself for this, it would have been cheaper to buy a piece of pipe.

I think the rail and handle are going to be blue and the rest black. Why blue? The off-road crowd all paint their stuff red. Reason enough for me.

 

[M.Brane]

SOS so far today.

Replaced nine "miracle lifetime" LED yard light bulbs. I guess the "lifetime" referred to is the lifetime of the bulb.



Now to find something else to make or fix for the afternoon.

I have a couple strings of those same lights. One is going on 7 years old. So far I've only had to replace one bulb, but they don't get lit a lot especially this time of year when it's still light out when I go to bed.

 

[badmatt]

Sanded the epoxy filler, god damnit that sucked. And rinsed the floor down one last time and wet vac’d.

Tomorrow I’ll be giving it one last sweep and vac.




Matt

 

[kaymccampbell]

Rode the chair, read, hung out with the kids.

 

[niget2002]

Built a new chicken waterer.

Unpacked an Amazon order.

Tried to decide if I was going to start setting up a protoboard for the circuit I'm working on. Decided to go back in and continue watching lord of the rings that I started before dinner.

 

[Shadowdog500]

I never thought it would happen, but I became a tool polisher!

My 25 year old Bosch router had oxidation on the aluminum and was difficult to change position in the base. I got the two apart and spent time last night removing most of it with a Scotch Brite pads and WD-40. I also ordering Flitz polish on Amazon. Tonight I decided to put the buffing wheel on the grinder and buffed it out with a white compound buffing bar. It came out better than I thought it would.





This was literally a couple seconds to see if it would work.


Probably took about 5-10 minutes max to polish the rest of it out so it slides like new.
I may hit it with some Flitz when it arrives followed by a protectant like Boshield.

 

[DGersic]

Getting near the end of the TKX install project. Finalized the hydraulic lines routing, finished up the wiring harness modifications, put all of the carpet back, installed the shifter and its boot.

 

[Murby]

Putting up new LED lights.
A few years ago, I bought a 6 pack of 4 foot Barrina LED lights on Amazon.. Within about a year, every one of them was burned out..

Then for Christmas 2024, a buddy of mine bought me a 6 pack of the 8 footers for my new barn.. Now they're all burning out too. Out of the 6 of them, 4 of them only light up on one side. Two light up on both sides, but all lights have about 20% of their leds burned out and dark.

My barn has gone from "Wow, I almost need sun glasses in here", to "all the lights are on and I still need my headlamp to see what I'm doing"

Chinese garbage.

So I did some homework and bought an 8 footer from MaxLite through ProLighting... 11,000+ lumens, color select, power select, 100,000hr life expectancy, and 10 year warranty. They're also $90 each so I bought one to test...

All those positive Barrina reviews on amazon must either be fake, or these people aren't using their lights very often. My best estimate is that Barrina lights only burn for about 300 hours and that's it. Both the 4 footers and the 8 footers burned out in the exact same pattern.. After a couple hundred hours, I noticed some of them were missing an LED emitter or two.. then a month later, most were missing at least five or six.. a couple months after that, most were missing every 5th or 6th emitter and some didn't even light up on one side or the other.

So that's what I did today.. Putting up a new 8 foot LED linear strip light to test it.

 

[rharman]

I have been marking everything I buy with dates bought. LED light bulbs get a date when I start using them, just to really see if the claim match the facts. Rattle paint cans, drill batteries, even waterheaters and furnaces are date labeled....piece of mind mostly to see if my perception matches reality.

Done that for years. We do boxed, bottled, & canned food as well.

 

[rharman]

Whew. That's done.



If I were paying myself for this, it would have been cheaper to buy a piece of pipe.

I think the rail and handle are going to be blue and the rest black. Why blue? The off-road crowd all paint their stuff red. Reason enough for me.

 

[rharman]

Second day of downsizing, rearranging and making space available in the garage for storing the '76 MGB along with the motorcycles over the winter.

'74 XLCH Sportster placed on a small lift and set in its storage spot. The handlebar and hand control levers were removed. Fuel tank, carb and fuel line are empty.

Just the beginning....

When I started selling HD parts, I had zero knowledge of the HD line. I was a Yamaha guy through & through. I used a mnemonic to remember the difference between kicker & electric start Sporties. XLCH was "Cick Hard" - (pardon the spelling).

 

[Old Man Roger]

If you're talking about the 125+ year old bulb in the California fire station, sure.

I reckon I replace a dozen of these bulbs every year--out of a hundred or so on the light strings out front.

I got 6 in each bathroom and 6 in the kitchen, all have been replaced in the 3 years I’ve owned this house.

 

[Fordguy1964]

Got the garage and new toolbox put away enough to get back to work on the projects in the garage. It will take a while before I figure out what I like and don't like about the new layout of my toolbox. I'm spring some stuff. Anyway so I started like this.

And after it was all said and done I ended the evening like this.

Valves are set at a cold lash setting of .022 which will have to be adjusted once I get it all together and up to operating temp. In really happy to be back to work on it. I'm waiting for my exhaust system that I ordered to come in. Only a couple weeks left. I can't wait to finally be able to drive it some distance. So far I've only been able to drive around 3 miles before it puked all of the coolant out of it.

 

[SRU1436]

Livermore's Centennial Light Bulb

You have found Livermore California's World famous Centennial Light Bulb! Feel free to read the facts sheet, take a close-up look at bulb photos, tour Station #6, of our downtown of 1901. Learn about the 110th birthday party. Take a look at the Bulbcam, and be sure to leave your...

www.centennialbulb.org

Livermore is in the next town over from me.