JimLL
Member
I'm a newbie who has been making and fixing just about everything imaginable for too many decades. But I'm now retired from everything but finally trying to finish my _own_ house and getting up firewood to reduce my electric bill. (I have a big old steel step top wood stove in the basement that I built a cabinet around to collect and distribute heat in ducts. Also direct heat from it warms the upstairs floors enough make it comfortable up here well below normal room temperatures, in addition to the basement itself.)
The first engine I messed around with as a kid was on an old Farmall Regular with a magneto. Our garage was a row of sumac out front and a small tool shed out back near the well where we got our water with a narrow well bucket on a rope.
The closest thing I have to a garage now is 7 feet of hoist track I built from scratch in the basement and hung from used full cut 2x12's on 12 inch centers. (I built it that way because I _hate_ bouncy floors.) I rebuilt the Slant-Six engine from my 1965 Plymouth Valiant with it - among other things.
I've earned a living as a wilderness survival instructor, carpenter, physician's assistant, heavy equipment operator, plumber, electrician, pharmacist, recreational director, writer and other fiddlings too numerous to mention. Some people call me a renaissance man, but I wasn't around during the Renaissance.
But enough of that...
JimLL
The first engine I messed around with as a kid was on an old Farmall Regular with a magneto. Our garage was a row of sumac out front and a small tool shed out back near the well where we got our water with a narrow well bucket on a rope.
The closest thing I have to a garage now is 7 feet of hoist track I built from scratch in the basement and hung from used full cut 2x12's on 12 inch centers. (I built it that way because I _hate_ bouncy floors.) I rebuilt the Slant-Six engine from my 1965 Plymouth Valiant with it - among other things.
I've earned a living as a wilderness survival instructor, carpenter, physician's assistant, heavy equipment operator, plumber, electrician, pharmacist, recreational director, writer and other fiddlings too numerous to mention. Some people call me a renaissance man, but I wasn't around during the Renaissance.
But enough of that...
JimLL