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Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT Glemans Foibles in Florida

Workspaces sized between 265 and 485 squarefeet.
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My trusty microwave, of nineteen years, pooped the bed. Microwave shopping wasn't fun and I ended up with a lower tier GE model that was almost a drop-in fit for the old one.


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A blast from the past! The vinyl clad kitchen from the seventies peeks out!

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Progress was made on the Drill Press.

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Quill spring and handle. I wish I would have installed this before putting the head on the pillar.


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The table counterweight is a nifty piece of redneck engineering.

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I hemmed and hawed about the color and ended up with Rust-oleum Metallic Champagne Bronze 313142 for the castings.
 
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Table lift, quill and depth-stop installed.

I'm holding off the motor mount, motor rehab until next spring and leave it in working but ugly condition.

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I'll try to find a compatible Craftsman motor in the meantime, if not the GE will get cleaned up.
 
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Back in Fl and lining up my projects.

Garage Sailing netted me another piece kitchenware. A All-Clad sauté pan.

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Slowly but surely I'm replacing my cookware with nicer stuff as I thrift and garage sale then.

So far I'm 24 bucks into my nicer pot and pan collection.
 
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Time to tryout my Christmas present!

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I've been wanting a us cleaner for years but it was a low priority for me. This is a 15L model for 159 bucks on Amazon.

My test subjects:

A pair of needlenose pliers.


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A Greenfield die.

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Various sockets. A couple are sps with plastic inserts.

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I'm trying Dawn and water for the sockets, Simple Green for the wrenches and nut drivers and Evaporust for the die and pliers.

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My dishwasher went on strike last week and I had to wait on a door lock from Bosch.

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I'm not a fan of doing appliance repair but this washer was surprisingly nice to work on.

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12 torx screws all the same size had to door apart and ready for a dropin replacement.

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I guess 50 bucks for the switch and an hour of my time beat the repairman so I'm going to chalk that up as a win.
 
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Some of this weeks fun.

I was adding a drawer set to a ClosetMaid system I put in last year.

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The jackass installer(me) didn't set the verticals to the correct width so drywall patching and painting was called for.

Since I have everything yanked out I'll look into a lighting solution before reassembling. This bedroom has no ceiling lights at all so I may end up doing that along with the closet.


I ran across a bad breaker helping out a neighbor.


I can't recall seeing a failure like that.
 
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Now that I wrapped up the exterior painting. I've decided to tackle the irks in my garage.

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The box is my roll of solar cover for the spa.

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The uv is real, the old cover is about 10 months old.
 
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I did a purge of the shelves and first cabinet. 1000034750.jpg

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I've been buying one set of these rolling cabinets each month in anticipation of redoing this garages storage without blowing up my budget.

I lost my shoe rack, apparently I owned twelve pairs of shoes and will relocate them to the spare closet.
 
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First cabinet cleaned and down.

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That line in the stucco is my main water line and 2 inches too tight to relocate the three bay cabinets to the left.

The plan is to cut down the cabinets to two bay and stack them vertical. I'm thinking I'll still have enough room to mount one of those Karcher car washing stations above the cabinets and run a line to my hot water heater on the other side of the wall.

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First cabinet is cut. I'll have to figure out something to do with the offcut cabinet.

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The barley sodas and conditions in the garage convinced me to stop for the night.

The floor has a good slope and I'll bust out the laser to lineup the cleat in the morning.
 
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I ended up using tapcons on the cleat and bodies so I don't have to worry about throwing too much weight in them.
 

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I scored a bunch of these anti-fatigue or gym mats last year and never could figure out what to do with them.

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They became drawer and shelf liner for my metal cabinets. A little thick but seems to work great.

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Thriftstore parts drawers tucked in.

I have two more but too wide to fit.
 

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The table counterweight is a nifty piece of redneck engineering.

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Just caught up on this thread. Nice work on all your projects.

I'm curious... Is that counterweight factory original? I'm asking as I rigged up my later model Craftsman with a very similar home-grown version to offset the weight of the MDF table I built. The PVC pipe is filled with about 25# of lead shot. Did this in 2012.

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Just caught up on this thread. Nice work on all your projects.

I'm curious... Is that counterweight factory original? I'm asking as I rigged up my later model Craftsman with a very similar home-grown version to offset the weight of the MDF table I built. The PVC pipe is filled with about 25# of lead shot. Did this in 2012.

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The previous owner, my neighbor, made it out of scrap.

It's really well made and fitted. He was a welder in a powerplant and really experienced with customizing equipment.
 
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The weather has been too nice for my garage projects.

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My todo list from last year grew a few new Items.

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A garage sale grinder project.

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A Craftsman DP motor refurb.

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A Honda Spree with no start, oil leak and various mystery problems.
 

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The weather has been too nice for my garage projects.

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My todo list from last year grew a few new Items.

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A garage sale grinder project.

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A Craftsman DP motor refurb.

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A Honda Spree with no start, oil leak and various mystery problems.
I had one of those Honda sprees! Loved that pos. Had to bypass ign switch with a toggle because it didnt come with keys. We rode that thing till it blew up.
 
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After a week, I couldn't stand looking at the mess of cables.

After pulling everything out, I was able to jigsaw a notch out of the back of the workbench.

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A dicey position to cut but it worked out.

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Now I just have to find some cable ties to straighten everything out.
 
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