Backpack Hunter
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Cleaned up, sanded, painted, and put in place another box under the workbench.
What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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Cleaned up, sanded, painted, and put in place another box under the workbench.
77Mini
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Positioned the columns for my lift.
Outlawmws
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Kay, I can't remember; you did paint right? If not it never seems to end...
IMO use a good shop vac with a wide brush attachment, and then either hose out the shop floor, or damp/wet mop it.
Outlawmws
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Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?
That almost looks like it had been kinked which can compromise a line.
Get a line made up by a shop.
While switching from a "Industrial" to "Automotive" fitting on my Husky extended tank drain valve assembly I noticed that it had bubbled out of the braided line. Almost as spooky as finding out your friend who was left for dead while hanging from a cross just came back as a Zombie.
Not so sure I want to go back to using this line. Any suggestions? Guess I could go with a solid line, but I wanted it to be flexible when moving the 33 gallon tank around.
That almost looks like it had been kinked which can compromise a line.
Get a line made up by a shop.
rmalkow2
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Ran out the last little bit of gas in the snow blower to put it away for the season. I know it's Michigan and, not technically the end of March yet but that's it for me. If it snows again I'll wait for it to melt. I need that little bit of space back in the garage so into the storage shed it goes.
Gidge
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Thanks Outlaw -- your way makes more sense, and better retail value for the new component if you ever decide to sell it.
Happy Easter to you and yours !
bobcatdan
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Mostly drank coffee, read the Sunday paper and listened to the Sunday morning polka jamboree. Besides that I pulled my road box out of the truck to go threw it, clean and organized.
R-Savage
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Hung a rack today to hold some hoses and such, Going to be getting rid of the alien nails that are in the studs.
TheOtherChris
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Yesterday I finally got around to running the 240v cable to the compressor in the barn.
glider
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crewchief888
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cleaned up ad put away 3 weekends worth of tools i had scattered all over. 
cleared out a spot on the bench, and checked out the extent of the damage to the winch.
powered it up, and check to make sure it still works, and it does
straightened out the bent mounts for the solenoid, "repaired" the solenoid cover box,
started scrounging around for some electrical parts for a friends jeep build,
got sidetracked
when i found a switch out of an s-10 electrically actuated 4x4......
double pole single throw switch i'm gonna use to run the winch....
then snapped a pic of blitz keeping the garage easter funny free
cleared out a spot on the bench, and checked out the extent of the damage to the winch.
powered it up, and check to make sure it still works, and it does
straightened out the bent mounts for the solenoid, "repaired" the solenoid cover box,
started scrounging around for some electrical parts for a friends jeep build,
got sidetracked
when i found a switch out of an s-10 electrically actuated 4x4......double pole single throw switch i'm gonna use to run the winch....
then snapped a pic of blitz keeping the garage easter funny free
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JimVonBaden
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Got some engine assembly done. Looking decent.
kaymccampbell
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I did paint. It's just the dust is inside everything. I just have to be patient and keep vacuuming and blowing it out of things. Over and over. Eventually it will get dilute enough that I won't notice. The damp mopping will come after I get the floor roughed up and tiled. Then I'll be trying to get concrete and drywall dust up.
Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?
Not sure the max safe pressure but, perhaps, a spare tire hose extension?
Not sure the max safe pressure but, perhaps, a spare tire hose extension?
BaMaDuDe87
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Worked on the cabinet some more and made a poor man dust cyclone for my little 6 gallon shop-vac.
Over all look:
Dust cyclone:
Over all look:
Dust cyclone:
IPACA9
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Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?
Started moving some stuff from the floor on the right side of the garage up to the left side mezzanine I've finished. Now I can start on the right side with the stairway and move on to the catwalk between.
It'll be nice when done and free up my floor.
Started moving some stuff from the floor on the right side of the garage up to the left side mezzanine I've finished. Now I can start on the right side with the stairway and move on to the catwalk between.
It'll be nice when done and free up my floor.
Blue XJ
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Re: what did you do in your garage today?
I guess I never posted a finished pictures of this, but we had another child so I had to upgrade the original design to make room for a second child. It's too cold out for the little guy still, so here's a picture of big brother and some diapers to test out the new trailer the day I finished it.
Built a wagon for my son. Just need to stain the wood, paint the handle and finish polishing the wheels and it will be done.
I guess I never posted a finished pictures of this, but we had another child so I had to upgrade the original design to make room for a second child. It's too cold out for the little guy still, so here's a picture of big brother and some diapers to test out the new trailer the day I finished it.
Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?
I've had it going straight from the 90 degree fitting to where I have a quick connect fitting threading it to the the compressor foot
I saw on HD customer reviews "The maximum pressure was not stated on the package. I contacted Husky via Home Depot and was informed by product representative that the maximum pressure is 175 psi". My tank is labeled as 150 but the gauge has never gone above 140
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polexican23
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Those Costco LED work lights aren't no joke. I got a pair for my birthday last week and finally got them hung yesterday.
They lit up my 9x25 garage pretty dang well.
They lit up my 9x25 garage pretty dang well.
Rewind97
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Dust cyclone:
You got me on this one........what is a "dust cyclone"?
Outlawmws
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Ever seen those cone shaped dust collectors on big shop collecting systems? It allows the dust to get settled out before exhausting the system. Same thing here in a bucket sized "cyclone"
steveivy
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What did you do "IN" your garage today?
I'm totally making one of those bucket cyclones.
I'm totally making one of those bucket cyclones.
Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?
Anybody around you make custom hydraulic hoses ?
While switching from a "Industrial" to "Automotive" fitting on my Husky extended tank drain valve assembly I noticed that it had bubbled out of the braided line. Almost as spooky as finding out your friend who was left for dead while hanging from a cross just came back as a Zombie.
Not so sure I want to go back to using this line. Any suggestions? Guess I could go with a solid line, but I wanted it to be flexible when moving the 33 gallon tank around.
Anybody around you make custom hydraulic hoses ?
Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?
Sadly not for $20... I'm actually looking into having 3 sections that total 9' of brake hose and the cheapest I've found around here comes to $350. Seems like they are fairly "popular" so perhaps I just got one of the duds. I think I'll go to HD on Friday and get another one and drop this one off at the Customer Service desk.
Sadly not for $20... I'm actually looking into having 3 sections that total 9' of brake hose and the cheapest I've found around here comes to $350. Seems like they are fairly "popular" so perhaps I just got one of the duds. I think I'll go to HD on Friday and get another one and drop this one off at the Customer Service desk.
Dennis Leigh Henry
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Helping my son learn all the finer points of running a manual SBL 10K.. Knurled some aluminum today.. will be turning some ODs and threading tomorrow and grinding a tool bit or two.... Ah.. the smell of heavy cutting oil in the evening at home... LOL
My wife doesn't quite appreciate that smell, so the candles are going full blast!!
My wife doesn't quite appreciate that smell, so the candles are going full blast!!
Drained part of the trans oil in the JD rider and replaced what I took out. Then I replaced the fuel filter on it.
Once the mower was done, pulled my truck into the garage for it's 12k mile oil change.I realized just how small my garage is with the newer truck. Since I was rotating the tires too, I had to pull it forward just a bit more. While the wheels were off, I waxed them too. Notice the blue shop rag between the hood and beam.
Then I had a D'OH! moment.
Once the mower was done, pulled my truck into the garage for it's 12k mile oil change.I realized just how small my garage is with the newer truck. Since I was rotating the tires too, I had to pull it forward just a bit more. While the wheels were off, I waxed them too. Notice the blue shop rag between the hood and beam.
Then I had a D'OH! moment.
IPACA9
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Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?
Wife helped me move the two 14" deep x 29 ft long LVLs over from the left side of the garage to the right. Strapping them to one of my dollies was really handy. They weigh about 180lbs and I didn't want to have my wife lifting since she had shoulder surgery about 9 months ago. She helped steer while I rolled them out the big door and around to the side door. Maybe tonight I'll get the 6x6 posts set and hoist the beams into place.
Wife helped me move the two 14" deep x 29 ft long LVLs over from the left side of the garage to the right. Strapping them to one of my dollies was really handy. They weigh about 180lbs and I didn't want to have my wife lifting since she had shoulder surgery about 9 months ago. She helped steer while I rolled them out the big door and around to the side door. Maybe tonight I'll get the 6x6 posts set and hoist the beams into place.
PassnThru
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Re: What did you do "IN" your garage today?
Tonight's task was finding out the pressure drops I've been getting when connecting 7' to 60' of hose to my 3 stage Ridgid WD1680 / Dust Deputy AXD001004 / Dust Right 45556 setup that's typically in a closet off of my garage. The pressures were read with a 0-5" Magnehelic while a Kill A Watt meter was connected to the vac. Here's how the "test bench" was setup in the layout I typically have it when in the closet. The Magnehelic reference point was in the middle and "level" with the outer edge of the inlet.
And here's all of the fancy number stuff. I was planning on making a pretty and easy to read graph but my motivation has gone down hill for the night. Basically I need to up my vacuum suckage because once it get's through the 60' when cleaning dog hair up in the house it has very little suckage left in it. But just taking a quick look over it what does it all mean... apparently nothing. The only interesting thing I regularly saw was when measuring off of the Deputy with no hose was not only that the gauge would bounce back and forth by +/-1", so I took the median of the reading, but it also read higher. I'm guessing the smaller inlet size of the Deputy increased it's velocity causing the higher reading while the Deputy's configuration caused the irregular readings. However once a hose was put on the needle would read constant as it did with all of the other configurations.
And if you are still reading any of this and care to know, this is how the system is setup in my garage closet. I have the Dust Right as the 1st stage because it does a better job at catching the larger stuff without clogging while the Deputy does a better job at catching smaller particles that have blown past which usually only leaves a very fine film going on to the vacuum.
Tonight's task was finding out the pressure drops I've been getting when connecting 7' to 60' of hose to my 3 stage Ridgid WD1680 / Dust Deputy AXD001004 / Dust Right 45556 setup that's typically in a closet off of my garage. The pressures were read with a 0-5" Magnehelic while a Kill A Watt meter was connected to the vac. Here's how the "test bench" was setup in the layout I typically have it when in the closet. The Magnehelic reference point was in the middle and "level" with the outer edge of the inlet.
And here's all of the fancy number stuff. I was planning on making a pretty and easy to read graph but my motivation has gone down hill for the night. Basically I need to up my vacuum suckage because once it get's through the 60' when cleaning dog hair up in the house it has very little suckage left in it. But just taking a quick look over it what does it all mean... apparently nothing. The only interesting thing I regularly saw was when measuring off of the Deputy with no hose was not only that the gauge would bounce back and forth by +/-1", so I took the median of the reading, but it also read higher. I'm guessing the smaller inlet size of the Deputy increased it's velocity causing the higher reading while the Deputy's configuration caused the irregular readings. However once a hose was put on the needle would read constant as it did with all of the other configurations.
And if you are still reading any of this and care to know, this is how the system is setup in my garage closet. I have the Dust Right as the 1st stage because it does a better job at catching the larger stuff without clogging while the Deputy does a better job at catching smaller particles that have blown past which usually only leaves a very fine film going on to the vacuum.
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LS6 Tommy
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You need a much bigger vac to run hose that long, like one for a dust collector, or maybe even just get one for inside the house?
Tommy
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Which after dealing with air and water pressures everyday at work for 12+ years I understand and agree it's time to go all Tim "Toolman" Taylor on the project and look into a higher capacity Dust Collector. My biggest complaint there is I'm already short on space and was hoping that the cheaper and smaller space taking Shop VAC would be more useful and fit all of my wants. The current shop VAC that I have is a Ridgid WD1680, but I might start looking into the Central-Machinery 31810. However the Central-Machinery 31810 really ***** compared to the Rigid, literally, at 660 cfm versus the shop vacs 167 cfm. Unfortunately neither of the Cyclones are rated for the higher CFMs that the 31810 is capable of. The Dust Deputy AXD001004 is only rated at a "max" of 150 cfm and I was unable to find the max CFM of the Dust Right 45556. However it does state everywhere they are made for Shop VACs while their larger 4" 34367 model is often shown/stated to be used with "Dust Collection systems".
So then I'll have to figure out how to cram not only the Air compressor, shelves and other items in the closet but also the larger dust collector and a cyclone such as the Super Dust Deputy AXD002030A which takes up a larger space plus it uses a drum. Then I'll have to either find a place to store the existing cyclones in case I happen to use them again or just sell them.
The other option that I've been toying with is keep using the current cyclones and build my own 250-300cfm blower and control the pressure with motor speed controller or a some sort of relief damper system on the inlet side. I would then place a filter on the inlet side to catch anything the cyclones don't instead of a bag that expands and will knock out whatever happened to be mistakenly placed near it.
While the wife does like the idea of not declogging the house floor vacuum every weekend from dog hair, she and I are not sold on it a true Central Vacuum system until higher priority items are taken of first.
bry@n
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I installed a the new upper control arm and bracket into the mustang. Also put in a new panhard bar. Swapped out a few electrical outlets for ones that match the paint now.
painted on some of that magic eraser paint on a few walls. Hoping it works out. it would make chores, tire rotations and oil change intervals a lot easier.
painted on some of that magic eraser paint on a few walls. Hoping it works out. it would make chores, tire rotations and oil change intervals a lot easier.
A**holes Garage
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I BBQ and entertain a lot and find myself using multiple coolers for refreshments spread throughout the back yard. There are too many, and they all are ugly sitting on tables, etc.
Big party’s need big coolers. Thought I’d fabricate my own patio cooler enclosure for the Coleman 120 qt cooler. I’ve seen hundreds of wooden examples on Google images, but since I don’t work with wood, steel it is. I've always liked the old, rivet, painted, industrial look.
Big party’s need big coolers. Thought I’d fabricate my own patio cooler enclosure for the Coleman 120 qt cooler. I’ve seen hundreds of wooden examples on Google images, but since I don’t work with wood, steel it is. I've always liked the old, rivet, painted, industrial look.
Jeeper
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Nice work on the cooler.
So I assume you'll be backing it in next time
Well, it does have a back up camera, so I shouldn't hit anything.
Started a little restoration on this drill press.
Rust removed on the base and table. Primed the bottom of the table and POR15 on the bottom of the base.
A**holes Garage
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Outlawmws
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Wow, how heavy is that cooler lid now? Seems like a lot of work for a beer! gonna need to do a LOT of 12 oz. curls to build lifting strength! 
It should keep the younger kids and maybe some of the ladies out...
It should keep the younger kids and maybe some of the ladies out...
Outlawmws
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Nut, what are those things on the DP table? 