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Bob, the reason I talked about my Bonney wrenches, hopefully didn't go unsaid... Meaning that there was a deeper feeling behind all of this. My thoughts are that I'd like to buy some Evaporust this year and fill my 10 liter (litre?) ultrasonic (super duper cleaner) with something else this...

Bob, long time no speaky... From me of course. I was out in the shop, listening to music, then glanced over to an open toolbox, overflowing, of course, but recognized at least one Bonney wrench... ( I've been reading the Bonney thread ...). Sure enough, I could recognize a Bonney wrench. Lot...

Yah, sure Squankum... Everyone has that equation memorized... Ha, just funning you. Lots to unpack there. I recognize PI and a couple of things. What gets me in trouble is K to the 11th power with a subscript of lower case "e". Same with A to the 7th power and a subscript of lower case "L"...

Happy anniversary Bob and Liane! Glad to hear that your legs are doing better. Great job on fixing the fence.

Bob!!! Hope you are feeling better with your leg issues. By now you probably know about Cheryl. I've been doing housework this week, but tonight, I actually went out to the shop and cranked up my stereo... It would be the first time since we lost her. It really kinda felt good, listening to...

I'd agree with that. The fact that dino (conventional) oil prices are becoming much closer to synthetic oil prices. But I still think of my Dad (bless his heart) that still believed that he was going to put in conventional oil into an oil change into a customer's car, just because that's what...

My Dad used to work for a Mopar dealership, many moons ago.. One day, an oil company representative came in with a demo, to try to prove to them, their worth of their product, synthetic oil. I won't mention names, but the guy proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that his company's oil was...

I still use dino oil in my 70 year old Farmall tractor, but wouldn't be against to putting full synthetic in it next time. In my case, dino oil is a bit cheaper than synthetic. I think the leaded gasoline verses unleaded fuel made bigger waves in the public eye than a change in what oil goes...

A few years ago, (ok many years ago). Fram used to sell a filter for dinosaur oil, and another one for synthetic. By the looks of this box, they've figured things out and this filter can handle both. But I wonder how many people use fossil oil anymore...

I have on occasion, taken a used oil filter (mostly Fram) and cut the end off in the band saw to take a look at the pleated paper insides. In every case, the filter mat'l looked good, just dirty. Fleet Farm does sell, in a lot of cases, three levels of filters for each application. Basic...

Thank you Squanky. That makes me feel better. I didn't change oil filter, and always use Fram filters. I know Fram is not everyone's favorite.

At the time I was buying only 94 lb sacks of cement powder, (a full cubic foot), it would cost me about 5 bucks per sack. I haven't checked lately, but pretty sure prices have gone up a bit.

In other words, I'm kinda done, mixing my own cement in this day and my age, but still have the mixers... I wonder if I have enough left in me to do one... more... slab... For a four post hoist...

Kay... Magic concrete costs money. Something I don't have. You did better'n myself with my limit being about 10 x 10 slab, every single weekend for about five years... Or maybe about the same.. When it came time to pour the pit walls, my Dad came to help, but limited himself to wheelbarrow...

My second container, I'd put some of my machine tools in. Some of the smaller machines that are still in the fallen shop. As far as putting pavers for a floor (in the middle) would prevent me from installing a two-post hoist, and most likely not a four post hoist. A four post hoist, I think...

This is quickly getting old, not having a heated shop, with a pit, etc... I'm starting to hate working on cars, outside. For many reasons. One being the winter temps. Another is, middle of summer, try to work on an engine, outside... In direct sunlight. Since I wear glasses 24/7... (Ok...

Bob! Long time, no speaky... (My fault). I've been changing my oil all day long, today and more to go... Ha. I'm sure you read about some of this on the "Pull up a Chair" thread. I'm trying one of these plastic pump jugs, pump the handle, creates a vacuum and ***** the oil out through the...

Ha, no. But it's interesting that you bring that up. Since I'm now poa, and My sister is not anymore, that creates some real issues as far as payment goes toward the nursing home, for the time being. We'll work through some issues for long term.

@Squankum, that's exactly why I made my own pulley, and stocked plenty of bearings on my shelf... But I've since learned about preventative maintenance, through ASE webinars. Their recommendation is to replace the pulley each and every 100,000 miles. They also said, that at that point, that...

@Squankum, my policy used to be, let the bearing fail, be stuck at the side of the road, and then you fix. In most cases, you wait many hours for AAA to come by, to help, if they have nothing else to do, that day. I'm not complaining. They are very doggone busy, every time I ask for help...