Alittle humor for today.
He forgot to say he wants to castrate the motherfucking engineer so he can not reproduce, other wise spot on.
The 5 Stitches Garage.
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He forgot to say he wants to castrate the motherfucking engineer so he can not reproduce, other wise spot on.
shortykorte
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cbacres
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Hey G, we're getting ready to deep fry it? Seen it was in a basket
How come it's brown? My algae is green? Lol
How come it's brown? My algae is green? Lol
Well, my “enabler” friends strike again. This one is curious of Craig and I can’t complain one bit.
Here’s my Reed 204 I picked up tonight for $25.
And good thing is I found a brother for my other Reed 204 I had.
Now I need to find more Vidmars and Lista for him to buy. Maybe we’ll join forces and go after Shorty?
Here’s my Reed 204 I picked up tonight for $25.
And good thing is I found a brother for my other Reed 204 I had.
Now I need to find more Vidmars and Lista for him to buy. Maybe we’ll join forces and go after Shorty?
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sean Buick 76
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Nice score on the vice/vise!
rmalkow2
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Full resto or just clean up and use?
Craptain
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Last time I was at his place he was using an import and had the good stuff in a drawer.
LOL. That should get him going.
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emeraldcoupe
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I almost sent that guy my number but just couldn't pull the trigger even for $25. nice score
Strouty
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Maybe I will come down there and show you guys how Lista cabinets are done.
I like the vise, in fact, I just sent one to another member, it was broken and he is making it into bookends. Pretty cool, I would not encourage cutting one of those up though.
I like the vise, in fact, I just sent one to another member, it was broken and he is making it into bookends. Pretty cool, I would not encourage cutting one of those up though.
Thanks man. I’ve really been searching for a while for a matching vise to one I already had. Basically what I had years ago with my matching Craftsmans on my welding table. I just couldn’t find right deal. I paid $45 for my other one. At $25 I’m paying the guys asking price and bringing it home.
Strouty
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If you cost average, you only paid $35 for each of them!!!
Well if I would’ve known the price we where finding Listas and Vidmars I would’ve never bought my 44s. So I’m just going with my plan. Now i think a trip down to CBACRES is needed. He’s our resident Lista Vidmar HO!!
I’ve seen those bookends done. Its nice repurpose for useless broken vise. I plan on using mine for a book and two on each end of my workbench LOL
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shortykorte
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Strouty, he's scared of Lista and Vidmar. On the other hand, Craig and I have several. Come on down and hook us up. Bring the label maker.
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cbacres
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Price tag scared me then after I seen Shorty and Craig picking these up for same amount I paid for my 44’s I was like..... F@CK!!! They are great cabinets but going with my Wall of China. LOL.
Damn, you pulled them out and moved again? You would do that stuff with the Lista/Vidmars
Grumblebum
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Thought you had gone and pulled the trigger on more 44's there for a second. 
Nice score on the vise.
GB
Nice score on the vise.
GB
cbacres
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I agree, now he needs a Vidmar/Lista that have the heavy drawers to keep his vises in. Maybe we can help modify one with a clear front so we can at least see them
Well, I’m still alive... just been taking some time off and taking care of other things. Its been a process dealing with my FIL passing. Its been very emotional time for my MIL and wife. The wife and my MIL have been making the house easier for her to take care of and the garage was left for me. Honestly, I really haven’t touched it and just this past weekend I started to go through the garage. Since his passing it was staging area for donations and downsizing of things in the house.
The garage was Bobs place. Even though his eyesight was deteriorating way before moving into this house he set it up to go out there and tinker around. I actually amazed he never hurt himself using out there being almost blind but I’m sure as hell not going to tell the man he couldn’t. He couldn’t drive or do much later in life but he would go out there, have a beer, and enjoy what be could do.
We just had recent community yard sale on Nov 4 which some things where able to sell some things and on November 10 we had my FIL service at the National cemetery in Bushnell FL. We waited for his grandson to return from Portland Oregon to have the service. They had a very special bond. It’s sure something wish I had because I grew up without any grandfathers. That probably explains why I always cherish my relationships with the older gentleman in my life. I considered them my “adopted” grandfathers sort of speak.
The FC crew stopped over the past weekend. Good times as always and mandatory lunch at Hooters.
Well, what did I get “Gerarded” with this time? Well I can’t say the guys did it to me but really it was my own doing this time. I guess when is it not really? LOL. I been looking at ways to go completely mobile and couldn’t figure out 2 areas. Chemicals and fasteners. So been hunting for solutions and figured legal size file cabinets would do the trick. Craig had some he was getting rid of some but it was going to been some time until he was ready. This past weekend they showed up.
Also in the meantime I found another smaller one.
I threw a piece of plywood under it and mounted some casters and it’s good to go for the time being. I also cleaned up this area.
Move the speakers down because I ran totes all on the top but this area most likely get redone soon because I got this now.
Thanks Hurricane Irma. Well, don’t know if I should thank her
or not. I took tv in off back porch in preparation but coaxial cable seized itself and twisted coaxial connector out of the TV. So now it can only be run with RCA or HDMI. Since the back patio runs of straight cable and I have a cable box in my garage it got slated for the garage. Its going to be big difference going from a 19 to 32 in tv in garage. Its project on the list to get done sometime down the road.
Other recent acquisitions is 2 more vises.
A drill press vise I bought from Craig.
A pipe vise at a yard sale I could pass up for the price.
I even got a new car for the wife.
I just haven’t been spending tons of times out here as I use to. Hell, even nothing with casters has moved in awhile. I figured I would have everything completed in 6 months to a year of selling the WOC. I guess my “Garage Life” has just been moving at different pace these days.
The garage was Bobs place. Even though his eyesight was deteriorating way before moving into this house he set it up to go out there and tinker around. I actually amazed he never hurt himself using out there being almost blind but I’m sure as hell not going to tell the man he couldn’t. He couldn’t drive or do much later in life but he would go out there, have a beer, and enjoy what be could do.
We just had recent community yard sale on Nov 4 which some things where able to sell some things and on November 10 we had my FIL service at the National cemetery in Bushnell FL. We waited for his grandson to return from Portland Oregon to have the service. They had a very special bond. It’s sure something wish I had because I grew up without any grandfathers. That probably explains why I always cherish my relationships with the older gentleman in my life. I considered them my “adopted” grandfathers sort of speak.
The FC crew stopped over the past weekend. Good times as always and mandatory lunch at Hooters.
Well, what did I get “Gerarded” with this time? Well I can’t say the guys did it to me but really it was my own doing this time. I guess when is it not really? LOL. I been looking at ways to go completely mobile and couldn’t figure out 2 areas. Chemicals and fasteners. So been hunting for solutions and figured legal size file cabinets would do the trick. Craig had some he was getting rid of some but it was going to been some time until he was ready. This past weekend they showed up.
Also in the meantime I found another smaller one.
I threw a piece of plywood under it and mounted some casters and it’s good to go for the time being. I also cleaned up this area.
Move the speakers down because I ran totes all on the top but this area most likely get redone soon because I got this now.
Thanks Hurricane Irma. Well, don’t know if I should thank her
or not. I took tv in off back porch in preparation but coaxial cable seized itself and twisted coaxial connector out of the TV. So now it can only be run with RCA or HDMI. Since the back patio runs of straight cable and I have a cable box in my garage it got slated for the garage. Its going to be big difference going from a 19 to 32 in tv in garage. Its project on the list to get done sometime down the road.
Other recent acquisitions is 2 more vises.
A drill press vise I bought from Craig.
A pipe vise at a yard sale I could pass up for the price.
I even got a new car for the wife.
I just haven’t been spending tons of times out here as I use to. Hell, even nothing with casters has moved in awhile. I figured I would have everything completed in 6 months to a year of selling the WOC. I guess my “Garage Life” has just been moving at different pace these days.
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jbmatth
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Glad to have you back and posting again, but am sorry to hear of your loss.
Wishing you the best,
JB
Wishing you the best,
JB
rmalkow2
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Good update and don't worry about the pace of progress as it will figure itself out. I find my project pace at home ebs and flows with time and I'll get really busy for a season and then slow down for a break.
Good that you got some local buddies there to have a laugh and enable you to get more garage stuff once in awhile especially when dealing with a family loss.
Looks like some nice upgrades there and more coming when the new TV is installed.
Keep it up!
Good that you got some local buddies there to have a laugh and enable you to get more garage stuff once in awhile especially when dealing with a family loss.
Looks like some nice upgrades there and more coming when the new TV is installed.
Keep it up!
Craptain
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I am not so sure about "local" I am about 1 1/4 hours away, cbacres about 2 hours if he doesn't get distracted by sales, and Shorty is over 3 hours. However Gerard is such a great host it's worth the drive. And oddly it's the kind of friendship I don't really have closer to home.
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krcoomer
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Great to hear from you G and thanks for the status update. I am reading this while eating lunch after putting in a dishwasher for my uncle who is blind. When they moved to Ocala in 1990 and moved back here about 10 years ago his tools moved with him. If he can get out to his garage he will pull out exactly what you ask for. When one of us uses something it goes back exactly as it was. It is cool to me that you were able to wait for the grandson to come back before having Bob's service. You said you are just now getting into his garage in the cleaning process. I would suggest that you look for an "heirloom" tool or something that maybe you clean up or maybe you keep as is to give to his grandson(s). I have a few tools that I have either been given or purchased at estate sales of some of the men who have guided, encouraged or inspired me along the way. It is flea market fodder to some, but it means a lot to me when I look at or actually use a tool that my grandfather, one of my uncles or the man who lived across the street from me growing up had used in the past.
As for the TV, we cut our cable a few years ago. An Amazon firestick is pretty cheap and is a great way to add some content through the HDMI port without cable involvement. YouTube is pretty useful in the shop sometimes.
I always envy y'all in Florida for getting together. It looks like a great time. I will be envying you for something else this weekend. It was 71 here yesterday. I just heard this weekend will be in the teens and they said the dreaded "S" word.
As for the TV, we cut our cable a few years ago. An Amazon firestick is pretty cheap and is a great way to add some content through the HDMI port without cable involvement. YouTube is pretty useful in the shop sometimes.
I always envy y'all in Florida for getting together. It looks like a great time. I will be envying you for something else this weekend. It was 71 here yesterday. I just heard this weekend will be in the teens and they said the dreaded "S" word.
Bob Heine
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Gerard, Kenny has a great idea. Don't forget to save one of your Bob's tools to feature in your garage.
I also have to thank you for the "Everything on Wheels" organization theme. Because of my workbench height, some of my things don't have room for wheels but I am putting cheap little casters on scraps of plywood to make it easier to get to the stuff I only need once in a while.
A few years ago I bought some small nylon casters so I could use just the wheels. We have three treadle sewing machine bases turned into tables and one of them is on the patio. The steel wheels were going to leave stains so I replaced them with the nylon ones. Because a bulk purchase was the cheapest way to buy the little casters, I had quite a few left over.
This jar was full a couple of weeks ago. In the past few weeks I've used 16 of them to make a dolly for the reciprocating saws. When I just set them on the floor under the table saw, it was hard to drag them out. Now I just pull the dolly out and the handle is right there.
The first dolly I made (no picture) has four 5-gallon buckets on it, for scrap steel, scrap aluminum, scrap plastic and scrap wood. The last two dollies hold my electrical supply bins, one is full of electrical wire and the other is full of boxes.
Thanks for the idea -- it's making my life a little easier.
I also have to thank you for the "Everything on Wheels" organization theme. Because of my workbench height, some of my things don't have room for wheels but I am putting cheap little casters on scraps of plywood to make it easier to get to the stuff I only need once in a while.
A few years ago I bought some small nylon casters so I could use just the wheels. We have three treadle sewing machine bases turned into tables and one of them is on the patio. The steel wheels were going to leave stains so I replaced them with the nylon ones. Because a bulk purchase was the cheapest way to buy the little casters, I had quite a few left over.
This jar was full a couple of weeks ago. In the past few weeks I've used 16 of them to make a dolly for the reciprocating saws. When I just set them on the floor under the table saw, it was hard to drag them out. Now I just pull the dolly out and the handle is right there.
The first dolly I made (no picture) has four 5-gallon buckets on it, for scrap steel, scrap aluminum, scrap plastic and scrap wood. The last two dollies hold my electrical supply bins, one is full of electrical wire and the other is full of boxes.
Thanks for the idea -- it's making my life a little easier.
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Thank you man. Actually, there is one maybe 2 items that aren’t going anywhere. One is a drill press that I brought down to my house and other is his Dewalt radial arm saw.
He bought this thing brand new and the thing has more projects under its belt than I moved my place around.
Funny story is I’m moving the garage around the other night and needed to cut some hardboard for bottom of a milk crate. I fired up the saw and few minutes later my MIL comes out tearing up. She said I thought to myself hearing the saw run “what’s Bob building now?” She told me what she was thinking and with a big smile said it was good to hear it running.
My son isn’t into wood work or garages I should say anything like me. I could easily bring it down to my place and “make” a place for it. Its hard to put into words but I feel it should stay here until my MIL is no longer with us.
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sean Buick 76
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Sorry to hear about the father in law passing, my condolences.
Yeah it may bring back some nice memories if she hears that saw in the garage once in a while if you use it there... I am going to build a new shed just for my Dewalt radial arm saw, its just so big!
Yeah it may bring back some nice memories if she hears that saw in the garage once in a while if you use it there... I am going to build a new shed just for my Dewalt radial arm saw, its just so big!
Gerard, Kenny has a great idea. Don't forget to save one of your Bob's tools to feature in your garage.
I also have to thank you for the "Everything on Wheels" organization theme. Because of my workbench height, some of my things don't have room for wheels but I am putting cheap little casters on scraps of plywood to make it easier to get to the stuff I only need once in a while.
A few years ago I bought some small nylon casters so I could use just the wheels. We have three treadle sewing machine bases turned into tables and one of them is on the patio. The steel wheels were going to leave stains so I replaced them with the nylon ones. Because a bulk purchase was the cheapest way to buy the little casters, I had quite a few left over.
This jar was full a couple of weeks ago. In the past few weeks I've used 16 of them to make a dolly for the reciprocating saws. When I just set them on the floor under the table saw, it was hard to drag them out. Now I just pull the dolly out and the handle is right there.
The first dolly I made (no picture) has four 5-gallon buckets on it, for scrap steel, scrap aluminum, scrap plastic and scrap wood. The last two dollies hold my electrical supply bins, one is full of electrical wire and the other is full of boxes.
Thanks for the idea -- it's making my life a little easier.
That’s great bob. Some of the simplest things make a big difference. It also helps with those Florida bugs that like to make a home with anything left on the ground. There’s no fun being on hands and knees and bug comes out of hiding to say hello.