Above 1200 Sq/FT Cleaning Up My Shop

[tym]

Since we're telling stories, it reminds me of one time in grad school when we were doing some experiment prep with the lab rats and I left a valve open on the isoflurane vaporizer. It was only after a few minutes of wondering why I was slowly getting more dizzy and tired that I realized (and corrected) my mistake. Good thing the room wasn't smaller or I would've been fast asleep! LOL.

 

[dchance]

Grandkids are a good way to enter your second childhood. Parents always seem to see things differently.

Dwight

 

[shortykorte]

Hilarious. Good comparison of a refinery oil drip vs. all the employees vehicles dripping oil in the parking lot. Thank God for Phd's and common sense science.
I may have to change my vacation plans so I can ride in you spaceship.


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[oldironfarmer]

Since we're telling stories, it reminds me of one time in grad school when we were doing some experiment prep with the lab rats and I left a valve open on the isoflurane vaporizer. It was only after a few minutes of wondering why I was slowly getting more dizzy and tired that I realized (and corrected) my mistake. Good thing the room wasn't smaller or I would've been fast asleep! LOL.

That was an interesting experience. Glad you weren't susceptible to any of the side effects!

Grandkids are a good way to enter your second childhood. Parents always seem to see things differently.

Dwight

Hmmm, I don't think I can ever have a second childhood, until I finish my first one. And that's not looking good.

Hilarious. Good comparison of a refinery oil drip vs. all the employees vehicles dripping oil in the parking lot. Thank God for Phd's and common sense science.
I may have to change my vacation plans so I can ride in you spaceship.


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Reminds me of the week benzene became hazardous. It was announced six months in advance, and when the day came the safety requirements took a quantum leap (I still love the smell, and it's a great hand cleaner). Our safety department had not prepared (or warned us) and I was in an intense meeting with the safety manager. In a kitchen out in the refinery (same building as my field office) and I commented that his cigarette smoke was a lot more hazardous than benzene. He took a long drag on his cigarette and blew a big puff of smoke in my face and said "yes, but benzene is controlled now and cigarette smoke is not."

That's when I thought "Thank God for common sense."

Sadly the space ship has been scrapped, however if you can stop by I can whip up a custom prototype and make you fly. We may need to post pictures on GJ, however.

 

[Guster]

Since we're telling stories, it reminds me of one time in grad school when we were doing some experiment prep with the lab rats and I left a valve open on the isoflurane vaporizer. It was only after a few minutes of wondering why I was slowly getting more dizzy and tired that I realized (and corrected) my mistake. Good thing the room wasn't smaller or I would've been fast asleep! LOL.

I used to visit my grandparents during holidays as a young teenager. Helping out with building and reno work. One summer holiday I was asked to put up this textured vinyl wall covering. This required pasting the wall with contact cement and then coating the vinyl in the dining room across the hall. Anyone familiar with vinyl wall coverings would know that they are a next level above frustration of doing wallpaper work and working with contact cement is next level again. Well surprisingly enough I never once cussed(my grandmother would have me soap my mouth if she caught me) or got angry thanks to the affects of glue solvent and confined spaces on a summer day.

Now, if the glue vapours weren't enough, my grandfather offered me some solvent to clean up the odd spots where the adhesive accidentally smeared over the edges of joints. While memories of this day are still a little blurry to me, I definitely don't recall much of what happened next. Woke up about half an hour later with grandmother wiping my face with an ice-cold face cloth, trying to revive me.

To this date they insist it was heatstroke.

Nothing to do with the fact that the solvent was actually CHLOROFORM!!!

 

[jbmatth]

Guster, right before your grandfather gave you the solvent on a rag did he ask if it smelled like chloroform? lol

Andy, I was at an air compressor training course yesterday to go over the new tier 4 compressors we will be using onsite. They have DPF and regeneration cycles that will make them a pain to use but will reduce emissions. While in the back ground you could see a huge cloud of black smoke from the scrap yard across the street from them burning who knows what.
JB

 

[oldironfarmer]

I used to visit my grandparents during holidays as a young teenager. Helping out with building and reno work. One summer holiday I was asked to put up this textured vinyl wall covering. This required pasting the wall with contact cement and then coating the vinyl in the dining room across the hall. Anyone familiar with vinyl wall coverings would know that they are a next level above frustration of doing wallpaper work and working with contact cement is next level again. Well surprisingly enough I never once cussed(my grandmother would have me soap my mouth if she caught me) or got angry thanks to the affects of glue solvent and confined spaces on a summer day.

Now, if the glue vapours weren't enough, my grandfather offered me some solvent to clean up the odd spots where the adhesive accidentally smeared over the edges of joints. While memories of this day are still a little blurry to me, I definitely don't recall much of what happened next. Woke up about half an hour later with grandmother wiping my face with an ice-cold face cloth, trying to revive me.

To this date they insist it was heatstroke.

Nothing to do with the fact that the solvent was actually CHLOROFORM!!!

Chloroform is a good solvent? I'll have to try it. In an enclosed area, of course. I did have an experience gluing PVC in a tight section of crawl space under my house, years ago. There was not room to roll over, and one beam I had to go under meant letting all my breath out then pulling my chest under the beam. There wasn't much ventilation, and I started to get worried about getting out.

But I did.

Guster, right before your grandfather gave you the solvent on a rag did he ask if it smelled like chloroform? lol

Andy, I was at an air compressor training course yesterday to go over the new tier 4 compressors we will be using onsite. They have DPF and regeneration cycles that will make them a pain to use but will reduce emissions. While in the back ground you could see a huge cloud of black smoke from the scrap yard across the street from them burning who knows what.
JB

DPF? Are these diesel construction and backup generators?

Credit exchange was all borne of situations just like that, refinery buys scrap yard and closes it in order to use the pollution tonnage the scrap yard inherited. It's all based on common sense, really.

NZ keep their corner clean at personal expense while we try to balance things out. Common sense?

 

[tym]

I used chloroform (and ether) in small amounts to prepare some slides (also in the same lab as my isoflurane experience). I remember wondering why the chemicals that are bad for you smell so nice!

 

[Guster]

Guster, right before your grandfather gave you the solvent on a rag did he ask if it smelled like chloroform? lol

Andy, I was at an air compressor training course yesterday to go over the new tier 4 compressors we will be using onsite. They have DPF and regeneration cycles that will make them a pain to use but will reduce emissions. While in the back ground you could see a huge cloud of black smoke from the scrap yard across the street from them burning who knows what.
JB

How would I know what chloroform smells like… Aaaah… very sneaky!

A lot of smaller scrap yards went bankrupt overnight when reducing leachate became a primary government concern. Most were run on bare soil with no cover and all manner of stuff would wash out of the scrap from dairy by products to transformer oils etc. To be honest they would burn paint and plastics off material to optimise the metal shipment weight. One particular incident involved a major fire when a bunch of drums with transformer oil caught fire. My favourite scrappy had to build a larger warehouse over a concrete pad with dedicated drain pots. They don’t store nice stuff anymore either but it’s a much better place to rummage now.

Chloroform is a good solvent? I'll have to try it. In an enclosed area, of course. I did have an experience gluing PVC in a tight section of crawl space under my house, years ago. There was not room to roll over, and one beam I had to go under meant letting all my breath out then pulling my chest under the beam. There wasn't much ventilation, and I started to get worried about getting out.

But I did.

Great solvent just like trichloroethylene, diethyl ether etc. etc. All are “dual purpose” solvents. Hehehe

I actually remember having to clean a filter for something at one of my part time jobs and the supplier instructions were to use chloroform. Pharmacies used to sell it too. I received a stern warning from the pharmacist about it not being a great anaesthetic due to being hard to control the required dose and patients hearts simply stopping on the operating table. I had to show him the supplier instructions and he still gave me the sly wink-wink afterwards before telling me just to be very careful and that it is more flammable than my grandma’s polyviscose nighty. Great now I have a mental picture of grandma in flaming undies… he should sell birth control instead!

Sure PVC solvent cement has some great stuff in it. Works well for making larger PVC tarps and had my own moments with it. Has that same cloying sweet smell as all the aromatic hydrocarbons. Might have to look up the MSDS to find out what’s in it now.

 

[oldironfarmer]

I used chloroform (and ether) in small amounts to prepare some slides (also in the same lab as my isoflurane experience). I remember wondering why the chemicals that are bad for you smell so nice!

No mystery there, everything fun I have ever come across is bad for you or illegal.

How would I know what chloroform smells like… Aaaah… very sneaky!

A lot of smaller scrap yards went bankrupt overnight when reducing leachate became a primary government concern. Most were run on bare soil with no cover and all manner of stuff would wash out of the scrap from dairy by products to transformer oils etc. To be honest they would burn paint and plastics off material to optimise the metal shipment weight. One particular incident involved a major fire when a bunch of drums with transformer oil caught fire. My favourite scrappy had to build a larger warehouse over a concrete pad with dedicated drain pots. They don’t store nice stuff anymore either but it’s a much better place to rummage now.

Great solvent just like trichloroethylene, diethyl ether etc. etc. All are “dual purpose” solvents. Hehehe

I actually remember having to clean a filter for something at one of my part time jobs and the supplier instructions were to use chloroform. Pharmacies used to sell it too. I received a stern warning from the pharmacist about it not being a great anaesthetic due to being hard to control the required dose and patients hearts simply stopping on the operating table. I had to show him the supplier instructions and he still gave me the sly wink-wink afterwards before telling me just to be very careful and that it is more flammable than my grandma’s polyviscose nighty. Great now I have a mental picture of grandma in flaming undies… he should sell birth control instead!

Sure PVC solvent cement has some great stuff in it. Works well for making larger PVC tarps and had my own moments with it. Has that same cloying sweet smell as all the aromatic hydrocarbons. Might have to look up the MSDS to find out what’s in it now.

At a farm auction I bought a drum rack with two empty drums on it to get the rack and a nice rock bar under it. one drum was half empty. The other half was full. Sweet corn smelling solvent. Smelled way to nice to be safe. I used it for my first automatic transmission rebuild. rinse parts in it and you could see them flash rust. So I rinsed in it then right into an ATF bath. Great stuff!

The breadth of knowledge on GJ is astounding. Now if there were just a use for it we would be in demand!

 

[oldironfarmer]

Shop time has all been on the tractor and cleaning up for the ladies day out Saturday.

My helper hurt himself on the job and has been out for two weeks. He came back so I put him to making shelves. Between the studs in the mezzanine support walls.

Looking good!

Spent some more time with the loom to make sure it will work right Saturday. Doing good.

My selvage ***** but I'm a novice.

Next week, Stude

 

[Farmall450]

My first job out of school was a physics technician. Part of that job was operating the mercury still. I actually had a stock of around 500 pounds of mercury.

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Better not spill. Probably only a water cooler's worth, though

 

[oldironfarmer]

Better not spill. Probably only a water cooler's worth, though

They kept pestering me, so I bought the WD-9. They are supposed to deliver it Saturday.

 

[jbmatth]

DPF? Are these diesel construction and backup generators?

Credit exchange was all borne of situations just like that, refinery buys scrap yard and closes it in order to use the pollution tonnage the scrap yard inherited. It's all based on common sense, really.

DPF is Diesel Particulate Filter, sort of like a catalytic converter that traps the diesel particles so there isn't black smoke blowing out of the exhaust. It has to regenerate every so often so the engine dumps in extra fuel to get the exhaust gasses hot enough to burn the DPF clean. The big tier 4 air compressor they were showing was an 1800 cfm I believe, and when it is time to go through a regeneration cycle it will idle the engine and takes 30-45 minutes and won't make any air. The tech. has some control over when it will do this so we hope to do it at shift change so it doesn't shut off when people are trying to use impacts.

The refinery doesn't own the scrap yard, but I know we have bought some stuff back from them a time or two with "minor" up-charge for handling fees.

JB

 

[Rex_A_Lott]

All this talk of solvent reminded me of a funny story…
My first real industrial type job, other than some farm work, I was just a teenager, fresh out of high school. I had been to a semester of welding school, but had gotten this job to earn enough money to go back and finish up the course.
We had this degreasing machine that used trichlor. It had heaters in the bottom, a rack for the parts to sit on in the middle, and refrigeration coils around the top to condense the vapors to make them fall back to the bottom. Above it we needed to cut of some bracket and re-weld it. I was terrified to do it, because in my limited experience, anything with those sort of smells had to be highly flammable. The older guys assured me the stuff wouldn’t burn, and I finally got started. I was probably halfway done before I was fully convinced I wasn’t going to blow myself up.
Of course that was back in the days when we were still using R-11 for solvent too .
What does this have to do with this thread? Well, not much, but if you had a parts cleaner like that one you could really do some parts cleaning on your projects, it was an amazing machine. Good Luck

 

[oldironfarmer]

DPF is Diesel Particulate Filter, sort of like a catalytic converter that traps the diesel particles so there isn't black smoke blowing out of the exhaust. It has to regenerate every so often so the engine dumps in extra fuel to get the exhaust gasses hot enough to burn the DPF clean. The big tier 4 air compressor they were showing was an 1800 cfm I believe, and when it is time to go through a regeneration cycle it will idle the engine and takes 30-45 minutes and won't make any air. The tech. has some control over when it will do this so we hope to do it at shift change so it doesn't shut off when people are trying to use impacts.

The refinery doesn't own the scrap yard, but I know we have bought some stuff back from them a time or two with "minor" up-charge for handling fees.

JB

Wow! That compressor scheme seems like logic and simplicity! And a system that has to be taken out of service sounds like reliability personified!! Good news engineers and technicians have job security.

I was sure the refinery did not own the scrap yard, if they did they wouldn't be burning. But in some designated pollution areas you can buy pollution credits from companies who have been approved for pollution levels they can avoid, and can make a lot of money selling their credits.

Our junk man came in several times with new valves, etc. saying do you really want me to haul these off? I was always glad he did but was pissed at whomever thought enough of the company resources to throw away new materials. And then there are things like crossovers removed for a turnaround which get hauled to scrap and cut up and nobody knows until it's time to reinstall them.

All this talk of solvent reminded me of a funny story…
My first real industrial type job, other than some farm work, I was just a teenager, fresh out of high school. I had been to a semester of welding school, but had gotten this job to earn enough money to go back and finish up the course.
We had this degreasing machine that used trichlor. It had heaters in the bottom, a rack for the parts to sit on in the middle, and refrigeration coils around the top to condense the vapors to make them fall back to the bottom. Above it we needed to cut of some bracket and re-weld it. I was terrified to do it, because in my limited experience, anything with those sort of smells had to be highly flammable. The older guys assured me the stuff wouldn’t burn, and I finally got started. I was probably halfway done before I was fully convinced I wasn’t going to blow myself up.
Of course that was back in the days when we were still using R-11 for solvent too .
What does this have to do with this thread? Well, not much, but if you had a parts cleaner like that one you could really do some parts cleaning on your projects, it was an amazing machine. Good Luck

I think you just hijacked my thread. Thank you! It's fun to go on side trips, and I don't have to pay for hijacked trips On the other hand, I still get reimbursed for every word in the thread so thanks for adding to my bottom line.

Now, interesting story. I had not seen a heated/refrigerated solvent system. It's a hot idea and pretty cool too!!

Thanks for the comments and hijack, guys!!

 

[oldironfarmer]

Started putting the Massey back together today. The bolts that hold the fuel tank to the battery box are tough to get to. I was able to get the right side in with my finger tips, but the left side was just not going to happen. There's the bolt head with rubber washer under it.

I could get a box end wrench in and that's how I got the old nuts off, but there is a flat washer to go above the nut. So I used a piece of aluminum duct tape around the nut and washer to hold them in the wrench.

Duck soup. (which, I might add, I've never had)

Cut up the old baler shield and broke it to match the side of the tailgate. Hmmm, wrong radius. Don't know how bad that will look. I may have to bend it again in a vise.

They called and surprised me with the WD-9 today instead of Saturday! It is an old beast, but no PTO.

It has live hydraulics, so it may be a Super WD-9. If so, that is a rather rare tractor. I'm glad to have it. I was needing another tractor.

 

[jbmatth]

Andy,
If the metal for the tailgate isn't folding at a tight enough radius try thinning the metal at that location with a small punch or even a grinder with thin blade. Hope that helps, and good looking tractor.
JB

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy,
If the metal for the tailgate isn't folding at a tight enough radius try thinning the metal at that location with a small punch or even a grinder with thin blade. Hope that helps, and good looking tractor.
JB

Well, it was actually folding at too tight of a radius. The existing is more rounded. I made me a right angle piece of flashing to go on top of the piece to be bent to give the brake die a greater radius. That works good but I need a thicker piece under the die as I got a greater radius but still not enough to match. A few more tries and I'll get there. I'm bending a thick 16 gauge or 15 gauge on my 18 gauge brake so a larger radius is good anyway.

 

[sublime68charger]

The Wd-9 will go nice with your line up!

 

[oldironfarmer]

The Wd-9 will go nice with your line up!

Thanks! The old gas start dual fuel diesels are pretty neat. This one starts and runs well. At least it ran when parked.

Went out to check on mineral for the cattle and lo and behold they were almost all in the barn getting a sip of water and cooling their heels. So I shut them in and called the others. They came in and I wormed them all. Pretty good crop of young calves.

Weaned five calves from back in January, there were 15 little guys total.

Cleaned some more for the ladies day at the shop tomorrow. Then came in to make pie. The ladies offered to bring lunch so I offered to make pumpkin or cherry. They chose pumpkin.

I had to take a picture of the raw crust for the naysayer among them.

Son in law came by and got his, so now there are two.

Thanks for stopping in!

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, I have to agree they are some great looking calves you have They are certainly in a good paddock, so to speak and getting well cared for..

You never cease to amaze us with your multi disciplinary skills

Minus one pie, has that left you short???

Regards

 

[jimreed2160]

Nice work, Andy. Cows in one picture and REAL pies in another.

As for solvents, I have one of those stories. I was an active young lad and apparently became a problem. The summer I was 11, my mom locked out of the house during daylight hours. There was a water fountain hooked up to the outside faucet and lots of woods for bathroom needs. I was feral all day but had to return at dusk when she rang the bell on the porch. Next year she turned me over to my dad, so he took me to his veterinary hospital and I worked his hours until school started.

There are lots of stories here, but the solvent one involved WWII surplus ether. They kept some in the fridge but, hey, this was the 1960s and there was better stuff to use. But being frugal, they did not want to throw out good stuff. One slow afternoon I was tasked with cleaning up one of the exam tables. People complained about the sharp lower edge so one of the doctors wrapped it in adhesive tape. Fast forward a few years and the tape looked pretty shabby. I was given some used scalpel blades and the bottle of ether along with the following instructions:

"Use the blade to gently (no scratches) scrape the loose residue from the stainless table. Then use the ether on cotton to remove the stubborn stuff. The ether is a great solvent, but be careful or it will put you to sleep."

The ether worked great but it evaporated so quickly it made the table edge cold. It took me an hour or two to make the table shine like new. The receptionist complained about the odor but neither of us went to sleep.

I think our current crop of 12 year olds with their sheltered lives are missing something.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Pies look good and I haven't had breakfast yet! Hmmm wonder what mood momma is in?

 

[dlcwent]

Thanks! The old gas start dual fuel diesels are pretty neat. This one starts and runs well. At least it ran when parked.

Of course it did.

Went out to check on mineral for the cattle and lo and behold they were almost all in the barn getting a sip of water and cooling their heels. So I shut them in and called the others. They came in and I wormed them all. Pretty good crop of young calves.

Weaned five calves from back in January, there were 15 little guys total.

Cleaned some more for the ladies day at the shop tomorrow. Then came in to make pie. The ladies offered to bring lunch so I offered to make pumpkin or cherry. They chose pumpkin.

I had to take a picture of the raw crust for the naysayer among them.

Son in law came by and got his, so now there are two.

Thanks for stopping in!

Nice looking little guys (or girls) you have there Andy. I wasn't aware that their heels got hot.

Those pies are making me hungry.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy, I have to agree they are some great looking calves you have They are certainly in a good paddock, so to speak and getting well cared for..

You never cease to amaze us with your multi disciplinary skills

Minus one pie, has that left you short???

Regards

Thanks Steve! The corral is full of weeds this time of year, but it's where they go to eat all winter so the cows have a subconscious draw to it. They were all trying to flee from me to avoid getting sprayed with dewormer. It's like saying "vet" around your dog. One of the few words most dogs know.

Thanks for the kind words!! You know the "jack of all trades" line

The cows can always make a pie. The group coming are health conscious ladies who will each take a small sliver of pie, turn down the whipped topping, and say it is nice (while wondering how many pounds they gained for a small taste) so I'll have 3/4 of a pie left when they leave. I made three because if I roll it thin my pie crust recipe will make three crusts and I hate to throw it out. My son in law and recently widowed neighbor across the road will always take pie so I knew I could get rid of them.

Nice work, Andy. Cows in one picture and REAL pies in another.

As for solvents, I have one of those stories. I was an active young lad and apparently became a problem. The summer I was 11, my mom locked out of the house during daylight hours. There was a water fountain hooked up to the outside faucet and lots of woods for bathroom needs. I was feral all day but had to return at dusk when she rang the bell on the porch. Next year she turned me over to my dad, so he took me to his veterinary hospital and I worked his hours until school started.

There are lots of stories here, but the solvent one involved WWII surplus ether. They kept some in the fridge but, hey, this was the 1960s and there was better stuff to use. But being frugal, they did not want to throw out good stuff. One slow afternoon I was tasked with cleaning up one of the exam tables. People complained about the sharp lower edge so one of the doctors wrapped it in adhesive tape. Fast forward a few years and the tape looked pretty shabby. I was given some used scalpel blades and the bottle of ether along with the following instructions:

"Use the blade to gently (no scratches) scrape the loose residue from the stainless table. Then use the ether on cotton to remove the stubborn stuff. The ether is a great solvent, but be careful or it will put you to sleep."

The ether worked great but it evaporated so quickly it made the table edge cold. It took me an hour or two to make the table shine like new. The receptionist complained about the odor but neither of us went to sleep.

I think our current crop of 12 year olds with their sheltered lives are missing something.

Being all on your own all day at 8 to 12 was just a wonderful part of my childhood. I had a wonderful mom, but she thought she should teach me how to work. So I had to do some outdoor sweeping a couple of times a week. It killed me. I could see there was not much value and my arms and legs each weighed 1,000 pounds as I was trying to work. I have since figured out that personality, as well as work ethic, are about 90% genetic. Kids raised the same take different paths. I'm frugal and my brother is not. Has nothing to do with my sweeping shores. As soon as my chore was done I was off to the woods. In northern Georgia there were always pine trees to be chopped down to make the required log cabin. I always had an axe, and a hatchet, but a double bit axe was my choice as it would cut deeper with less effort. And I was always covered with pine pitch Some days my mom would send me with a Mason jar with an egg and milk in it so I could make scrambled eggs for lunch. It never occurred to me I should not be making camp fires and using my axe in the woods. Oh the liability...

Thanks for dropping in, guys!

 

[tym]

Nice work, Andy. Cows in one picture and REAL pies in another.

As for solvents, I have one of those stories. I was an active young lad and apparently became a problem. The summer I was 11, my mom locked out of the house during daylight hours. There was a water fountain hooked up to the outside faucet and lots of woods for bathroom needs. I was feral all day but had to return at dusk when she rang the bell on the porch. Next year she turned me over to my dad, so he took me to his veterinary hospital and I worked his hours until school started.

There are lots of stories here, but the solvent one involved WWII surplus ether. They kept some in the fridge but, hey, this was the 1960s and there was better stuff to use. But being frugal, they did not want to throw out good stuff. One slow afternoon I was tasked with cleaning up one of the exam tables. People complained about the sharp lower edge so one of the doctors wrapped it in adhesive tape. Fast forward a few years and the tape looked pretty shabby. I was given some used scalpel blades and the bottle of ether along with the following instructions:

"Use the blade to gently (no scratches) scrape the loose residue from the stainless table. Then use the ether on cotton to remove the stubborn stuff. The ether is a great solvent, but be careful or it will put you to sleep."

The ether worked great but it evaporated so quickly it made the table edge cold. It took me an hour or two to make the table shine like new. The receptionist complained about the odor but neither of us went to sleep.

I think our current crop of 12 year olds with their sheltered lives are missing something.

One of the labs in grad school was ruined by ether. The stuff's pretty volatile, add they had a supply in a fridge. The fridge failed, and the ether went boom, setting of the sprinklers.

 

[oldironfarmer]

One of the labs in grad school was ruined by ether. The stuff's pretty volatile, add they had a supply in a fridge. The fridge failed, and the ether went boom, setting of the sprinklers.

Ouch! That's a tough one!

Interesting day today. My Zumba teacher and two friends came over to do a few crafts. They brought a great lunch!

They were interested in everything: broom making, sock knitting, pottery and weaving.

We all had a great time, they were very knowledgeable and worked well together. They stayed over five hours and wanted to try tractor driving...

Back to the Massey Ferguson!

 

[Bob Heine]

Andy, you have created the biggest "Chick Magnet" in Oklahoma, probably the whole USA. I'm thinking driving 49 miles in a Corvette last year was a waste of my time.

 

[Craptain]

I was waiting for that report. Is your teacher the one in the pink top? Quite the cutie.

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[1/2 Cup]

Andy, you have done well..

How did the pies go?

Bob, Chick Magnet now you have me thinking as we now have documented evidence...

 

[Bighead38]

I was waiting for that report. Is your teacher the one in the pink top? Quite the cutie.

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Yeah I wouldnt be able to focus with her teaching anything. Maybe a hands on *** Ed course would keep me focused.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Ok now you're just bragging!

 

[dlcwent]

Andy spends a day with three lovely ladies and he only shows us two pictures. Hummm?

Me thinks there's more of a story to tell.

 

[Sunbimmer]

Ok now you're just bragging!

This made me laugh out loud

 

[shortykorte]

I was waiting for that report. Is your teacher the one in the pink top? Quite the cutie.

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Leave up to one of those guys from Florida. lol


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[power wagon]

andy, your a lucky man, to be able and want to keep busy doing the things you enjoy,while so many people are unhappy,,its a great feeling to wakeup in the morning to be busy doing what you enjoy,so far I don't know the meaning of being bored and I don't think you do also, these are for when we get old

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy, you have created the biggest "Chick Magnet" in Oklahoma, probably the whole USA. I'm thinking driving 49 miles in a Corvette last year was a waste of my time.

They want to come back and bring more friends.:bounce

You know, it just depends on which 49 miles you drove. One mile in the right place can be a good thing.

Of course these ladies are great friends and spend a lot of time together. There was no jealousy or tension, just laughter and fun. They do a lot of cross stitching and knitting, and since I inexplicably knew some things about fiber arts that they didn't know they were eager to watch and learn.

I always thought a chick magnet was a refrigerator thingy.

I was waiting for that report. Is your teacher the one in the pink top? Quite the cutie.

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My Zumba teacher is the one in the green top. The third lady is her life long friend and learning to be a ReFit instructor, and we go to her classes sometimes. I had just met the lady in the middle, my Zumba teacher told me I would like her. And I did, she was unassuming and did the best as closing toes in the socks I had knit for them. You can barely see the socks in their hands behind their phones.

Andy, you have done well..

How did the pies go?

Bob, Chick Magnet now you have me thinking as we now have documented evidence...

It was a great day, rarely do I have visitors who are interested in such a wide variety of my hobbies. They were up for tractor driving lessons and green wood woodworking but we ran out of time. They also wanted to see sand casting but all we had time for was to make half a sand mold to demonstrate how well the sand holds up. I invited them back with their families for a cool weather hay ride and cookout. They also want to see where I dig the clay in the creek bed.

The pies, unfortunately, didn't last long. The ladies ate more pie than I expected and claimed they enjoyed them. I think I make good pies but I can only attribute it to using the recipe on the canned pumpkin instead of trying to make something special.

Yeah I wouldn't be able to focus with her teaching anything. Maybe a hands on *** Ed course would keep me focused.

Interesting how intense aerobic exercise goes. It's a little like car racing. If you get to enjoying the scenery you'll inevitably wind up wrecking.

I don't take too many "how to do it" type courses, I pretty much learn on my own. I'm not really sure what a *** editorial course would entail.

Ok now you're just bragging!

(note to everyone else: Bobby's a big one to talk, check out him with his chick magnet, Miss Vicky. Hasn't turned out that well for me)

Andy spends a day with three lovely ladies and he only shows us two pictures. Hummm?

Me thinks there's more of a story to tell.

I'm so embarrassed, apparently I spent the whole day and never thought of you

This made me laugh out loud

Leave up to one of those guys from Florida. lol


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Yeah boy

It was a good day.

 

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I finished weaving the muffler that's been on the loom for years. The green yarn was very old, given to me by my wife's cousin, and it keeps breaking. I have learned how to deal with it, but there's still about 30 ft of warp I'm going to pull off and burn

Spent today working on the Massey Ferguson tractor. Putting a manual steering from another model on it as this model had only a few build and the power steering was a weak spot. Only a few parts available and I have little confidence it would work very long if we did fix it. As part of the swap I made a battery box support bracket to make up for gaps in the two steering box designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

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I had to read that a few times to get it. (Okay I'm a little slow) So you're saying that MF didn't have good luck with power steering???

Your bracket looks like it might be the right color.