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CoryDH

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Had the laptop on the workbench. Ended up on the local community college website. Enrolled. Some credits from a degree over a decade old transferred. A class at a time gonna shoot for a mechanical engineering degree...not a typical "in your garage" task. But hell it happened.

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CoryDH said:
Had the laptop on the workbench. Ended up on the local community college website. Enrolled. Some credits from a degree over a decade old transferred. A class at a time gonna shoot for a mechanical engineering degree...not a typical "in your garage" task. But hell it happened.

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Son in laws father let me borrow his drill doctor 350.

I have a couple of bits that need to be sharpened. It's a learning process.

I hope the pictures show up ok, glare and all. Just home use bits.
 

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Despite the rain, I managed to get the headlights done. The instructions and video were OK, but they left out a few steps. None the less, I think they look good. I know they are not for everyone, but my old lights were pretty rough, and these were $200. If they do not last, not a big deal for my weekend driver.










 
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My son and I sorted through hundreds of early 1950s IHC truck sheet-metal pieces. The dry pieces went into dry storage. Everything wet is drying outside on the lawn. We will finish loading the dry storage trailer tomorrow.
I had to start rearranging the shop because my motorcycle is coming home from storage tomorrow. I have not seen the bike for 15 months. The motorcycle shop is changing ownership. The bike is a 1999 and has 32,000 miles on it.
 

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My son and I restore shop machinery, and we had finished up on a Supermax vertical mill recently that my son had purchased a couple months ago. It got sold and picked up yesterday, so he bought 4 tires for a ski boat and trailer that my wife pre-willed to him. It will be leaving soon, and I will be glad to get that storage spot outside back to use.
 
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Put my 2008 Versa on the lift . Getting ready to do a clutch replacement and some other things.
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I got the bear opener for christmas, does not work very well. but I always know where it is. don't have to search much when I really need a beer......

 
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Worked on restoring my Dayton horizontal bandsaw, oil change, installed the shelves on my welding cart, cleaned and finally rigged my welding helmet up with a toggle. It kept flashing while welding, so I think the sensors were taking a ****. A new lense is like 200 bucks so I soldered some leads to the test button and drilled a hole in the bezel so I could install a toggle.
 
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Kenstone1

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Got the MC out of the shed and parked it "IN" the garage.
Sprayed some "start you ******* fluid" into the airbox snorkel, pushed the starter button, nothing, then remembered it had a clutch switch/pulled it and it started right up.
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EOC_Jason

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Vacuumed up a ton of sawdust since it was raining the other day and I had to cut some plywood. Didn't think it was going to make *that* much of a mess or I would have hooked up my vacuum to it... lesson learned...

Moved some things around out of my way so I could put tools and stuff back up from my last project.

Hopefully with decent weather today I can replace the insulation panels on my garage door.
 
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Bob Smell

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I finished wiring the power up, to my old Plaid Stamps sign. My Dad, had some "Picker" in him, and I'm not sure, where he found this, in West Virginia.
 

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Started working on my conversion for this old Craftsman rolling thing... I believe originally it was to mount a RAS on top of, maybe some other tools as it has multiple holes on top.

My original plan was to mount a grinder & buffer back-to-back with a panel in between to keep the crud off each. But I use it so much as a rolling bench top that I don't want to loose that feature. So my plan is to figure out location for all the things I want to mount and get some flush-mount threaded nuts (can't think what they are called). Then when I want to use something I can just set it on top and bolt it down to the correct pattern. When I'm done back underneath it can go.

The original cart was just an open hole, my goal is to put a ~6" tall drawer up top, then have shelf space underneath. I wasn't sure if I wanted a full-depth shelf of half depth so I put 3 rows of holes. It has built-in pegboard on the sides, kind of cool. Not sure if I will hang anything though for now because with my luck I'll keep banging into stuff and it will just fall off.

Today I cut the plywood and drilled the holes for the adjustable shelf. I had to remove the top to slide the pieces into place. Then got it back together before running out of daylight.

Tomorrow I'll build the drawer and get that mounted, and cut a piece for the shelf after figuring out how the grinder/buffer will fit.

The drawer will hold all my buffing wheels & compounds so they won't get all nasty. If there is extra space then maybe some other wire/stone wheels and/or other accessories.
 

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Cut, ground, and welded, bolted together some tube. Painted and installed said tube to make a couple movable mounts for a set of flood lights for my shop wall.
Attached are pics of one. Each arm is 20 inches, allowing 40 inchs of stick out and it will allow 360 dregrees of the light to move. And also the light can be tilted 90 degrees down if need be. Probably Overkill but it will allow me to move the lights as I need them above my bench and front of shop to help avoid Shadows and help put more light where I need it.
I mounted them as high as I could without needing a ladder/stepstool/bucket to move them. I'm 6'2" so its still decently high.
They fold up nice and flat for general everyday use.
I'll only have to really pull them out for more focalized light, when I am rebuilding and engine or such.
Tomorrow I'll drill and tap some holes in the tube to allow me to use small plastic or rubber insulated metal clamps On the tube and down the wall to the electrical socket for the light cord.

If there was ever to much light in a shop, I have never encountered it.
 

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Beags86 said:
Cut, ground, and welded, bolted together some tube. Painted and installed said tube to make a couple movable mounts for a set of flood lights for my shop wall.
Attached are pics of one. Each arm is 20 inches, allowing 40 inchs of stick out and it will allow 360 dregrees of the light to move. And also the light can be tilted 90 degrees down if need be. Probably Overkill but it will allow me to move the lights as I need them above my bench and front of shop to help avoid Shadows and help put more light where I need it.
I mounted them as high as I could without needing a ladder/stepstool/bucket to move them. I'm 6'2" so its still decently high.
They fold up nice and flat for general everyday use.
I'll only have to really pull them out for more focalized light, when I am rebuilding and engine or such.
Tomorrow I'll drill and tap some holes in the tube to allow me to use small plastic or rubber insulated metal clamps On the tube and down the wall to the electrical socket for the light cord.

If there was ever to much light in a shop, I have never encountered it.
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Another member was just asking about finding a similar light for above his bench just the other day. Great idea.




Me, cut down some 1x4 pine for some door trim and found a piece of bead board I had stashed away several years ago.
 
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'beags86,' is that a Studebaker Lark in the avatar? There's a guy with a Lark here in so. Florida he was given new as a teenager by his parents, it now is tubbed & runs a 500+ cu. inch 'rat' motor. Looks pretty-stock from the outside, until he starts it. I always liked that bodystyle.

And you have one of those square Chevy 'C' series pickups, like another thread had featured in a CL ad, $2K asking price for the inoperable long-wheelbase/bed rustbucket it was. That thread generated some interesting comments.

I recall gluing the S&H Green Stamps in the booklets for my parents, probably 55 years-ago. There was a redemption store not-far from where I buy groceries, in the 1970's here in Florida. One time I was able to get something for myself from the booklets I glued stamps into for my parents, I cannot for the life of me recall what it was but I remember being pretty-pleased that I got it. I think you could turn-in some stamp books, and pay a reduced price for items, or do it all in stamps, but that took a lot more booklets, even for a family of seven like ours.

I think I would sell that Plaid Stamps luminaire and try for something more-transportation-oriented. Maybe something like this.
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Beags86

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driftpin said:
'beags86,' is that a Studebaker Lark in the avatar? There's a guy with a Lark here in so. Florida he was given new as a teenager by his parents, it now is tubbed & runs a 500+ cu. inch 'rat' motor. Looks pretty-stock from the outside, until he starts it. I always liked that bodystyle.

And you have one of those square Chevy 'C' series pickups, like another thread had featured in a CL ad, $2K asking price for the inoperable long-wheelbase/bed rustbucket it was. That thread generated some interesting comments.
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Yeah, that indeed is a studebaker lark. It's a 1960, wagon. It's stock.....for now;)

And it sitting next my 76 C10, which is definitely is not stock...
I saw the 69 c10 thread, I made a few comments, but there was to much stupid in there for me to go back now....
 
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Installed a cam and valve springs in the nova! Getting it ready for the turbo!

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Replaced the cylinders on the convertible top. They were shot!
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rattle canned my vfd enclosure in powermatic green. Got the vfd installed and drilled holes in the saw. Tonight i might get the holes drilled and the switches wired. Or remove the arbor to repaint the cabinet. Undecided.
 
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