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I recently made a banner, and today I hung it up in the garage. My wife had wanted a BMW banner for her side of the garage beside her BMW 128i Cab. I thought a banner of their 1983 F1 drivers championship winning car would be fun. I couldn't find any banners online showing the BMW F1...

Today in the shop, I changed the 2 flywheel bearings in my bike trainer for the second time in two weeks. First time I ordered from the usual Jungle store online place for everything. Description said SKF bearings & showed proper SKF box, bearing image showed SKF engraving. What showed up was...

Mine is 41" high. Built it 7 years ago and it has always seemed to be the perfect height for my 6'5".

I popped the new SKF brand bearings in the bike trainer last night. Oh so quiet (y) I broke open the 2 week old HiPicco brand bearings and was amazed how trashed they were. The inner race looked so rough and porous that it may as well have been made out of cast iron. The drive side of...

Arghhh….Crappy Amazon Bearings!!! A couple of weeks ago I changed the bearings on my bike trainer. After several years and roughly 5,000 Kilometres, the bearings on the heavy flywheel were getting noisy. The various internet forums all said that whatever you do, don’t use cheap Chinese...

Brrrr!!! it was a cold ride today. I am the Clydesdale on the left looming over everyone :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: I typically try to hide in the back of photos, but this picture was so rushed that I didn't have time to skedaddle away. Great 45 mile fast club ride despite the cold with 11...

It was time to make a BMW banner. My wife recently noted that I have all sorts of Ferrari books & memorabilia kicking around, but seem to ignore her BMW. She’s had the 2012 BMW 128i 6spd manual convertible since new, and it’s a blast to drive, so she’s right, time to hang a banner next to her...

Fun with making a Garage Banner. Over the Christmas break, I spent some time fooling around with the built in photo editing tools that came with the Mac laptop I bought last summer. The photo apps were reasonably similar to the paint & photo editing apps on my old Windows PC. I had figured out...

Thanks @mmsheb It's definitely going to be hung up on the workshop wall. I originally intended the Tool Wall for woodwork hand tools. Over the years, frequently used items like Hex keys, LED worklight, circular saw, etc have found their place on the wall, but even so, a meat tenderizer is a...

The other day my dad returned to me this meat tenderizer that I made 50 years ago and gave to my mom for Christmas. It is one of a number of my grade 10 metal shop projects he still has kicking around. I remember it being rather fun packing the foundry sand for the head and handle, firing up...

Ouch!!….My back hurts just thinking about bending over while hanging 5/8” sheets at the edges where you can’t stand up straight. Well done (y)

Today I repaired a minor issue in the garage caused by a detonated mortar round. While having breakfast one morning this summer, I heard the explosion and felt the house shake from the Dept of Defence detonating an UXO in the former Blair military range which starts only 3 houses away from...

For the past couple of weeks, I have been just puttering about building a closet in the garage to hide the car care ****. This morning I painted the doors and called this little project done. Of course, now that the eyesore pile of stuff has disappeared, the garage looks way to too bland...

I finished the new closet in the garage this morning. Rather pleasedb with the way it turned out and hid all the clutter. I found the bright blue bins looked a bit jarring, so I think I will build a simple cabinet to fill the space. For now, since I had the paint open, I just hit them with...

Sitting on my desk for inspiration is a 3” five layer Chinese puzzle ball my Dad turned. It has a solid 3/4” ball in the centre, within 4 concentric hollow spheres. It was turned from a 4” block from a limb that blew off the walnut tree in his backyard. A few years ago he borrowed my oxy...

Thanks @Ruxpin & @ChefRex It's nice to visit the kids, and see examples of his artwork proudly on display in their homes. Nicely said @Prospecter. I think it's partly my Dad's influence that contributed to my son switching from his prior career to finish carpentry. He is now a project...

The pain cave floor just needs some proper sweat stains under the bike :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Picking lemons in Maine in November… Awesome!!!

Those are beautiful pieces. Nice for them to be returned home to the family.

I wandered down to the shop, fired up the compressor, and blew the dust off some of my Dad's wood turnings. Five layer puzzle ball turned from a pruning from his backyard walnut tree. Open segmented Christmas ornament Dad made from his holly & walnut prunings.