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Mines a 2016 981S... I was able to rotate 360 degrees while still in the cabin... I settled with only doing 180 degrees... The seats need to be pushed all the way forward and fully reclined... The steering wheel needs to be pushed all the way forward and down... Work the headliner above the...

Yesterday I took my headliner to a local automotive upholstery company I've used in the past... Met with the owner of Tritex Corp. and he had the perfect fabric match and has done a number of Cayman headliners... Normally he charges $750 + tax, but since I had already pulled the headliner from...

Looks like a second handle / bar was welded onto the head of an adjustable wrench... I see some weld porosity on the head and some grinding / polishing on the add on piece... Seems to work well for her purpose...

Last year I noticed the fabric in my Cayman started to delaminate from the headliner structure... This is a common issue that plague the German cars made after their government mandated certain adhesive VOC reduction take place... The glue simply falls apart... Today, in the garage, I decided to...

I think the "portability" of it will come in handy when it's not convenient to do the soldering work on a table / benchtop...

This is what I copied from Eric O... I need to add a few pieces of heat shrink tubing on mine to the alligator jaws to protect the wire insulation from being pierced...

Not much in the garage today... I was watching Eric O on S M Auto do some wiring repair today and noticed he was using what looked like a DIY soldering aid using it to do a **** solder joint on some broken wiring... I thought, hey that's good, I would try and make one too... I seem to recall...

Just tell your wife you need to go to the grocery store for a gallon of milk...

OK... Pulled vs. Rolled... You'll never ever see it being used with rolled tubing... Different method, different tooling... Limitations to both...

Here is an example how an internal mandrel bender works, in this case for a round tube profile, but square is similar... The mandrel is stationary and the tube is pulled over the mandrel... internal mandrel bending

You would have much better success going with a fabricator that uses bending tooling / equipment that uses internal mandrels (sometimes called a "mouse")... The "mouse" is used on the inside of the square tube and its purpose is to resist the inward collapsing of the tube walls when bending... I...

Part deux today... Cleanup on the JD mower deck... Lots of grass buildup (I hate it when I have to mow the grass when it's wet)... More stuff... I inherited an old power washer from my FI when he passed away... It's one of my most appreciated tools in my garage... Makes life so much...

Today, in front of the garage, my JD 330 Garden Tractor got... A new transmission filter and 5 quarts of Type F transmission fluid... All the ball joints and king pins got greased... I also gave it a pressure wash...

Virtually everything needed to repair your 14" Rockwell-Delta Drill Press (aka DP220) is found here !

We used the same welded nut method on projects in my shop... We did find a slight shrinkage occurred to the nuts from the welding heat relieving the stresses in the nuts... When working with SS, we would run a tap through the SS nuts to reform the threads after welding... This step prevented the...

"A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT"

Yesterday I gave the second garage door the same treatment... All new panel trim with a gazillion miter cuts... S/W Bonding Primer dried... Today I'll start painting both doors with a final top coat of S/W paint...

My MINI Cooper has these plastic aerodynamic panels on the underside of the body... They cover the open areas around the suspension and get rid of air turbulence and give the underbody smooth airflow... The plastic panels are held on with small head metric screws... I wanted to spread out the...

There's gotta be a way to charge up your cell phone for free, while parked under the Interie...

I don't have any JIS screwdrivers... Until today ... This Vessel set of 4 arrived today... I'm impressed for $20.00 Seem like pretty nice quality...