KwikFab
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Pigeons are so disgusting...we have a problem of our own here in our neighborhood and well, a bit harder to use a bb gun or anything that can damage property around us.
What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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Pigeons are so disgusting...we have a problem of our own here in our neighborhood and well, a bit harder to use a bb gun or anything that can damage property around us.
Outlawmws
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Flying rats.
KwikFab
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That's just part of the reason why I've taken to helping the stray cats around here (after they're fixed of course).
The worst part is when you see one walking around on its last leg, then it croaks and it vomits/urinates itself.
Bio-hazard by itself so we always take caution in bagging it up and throwing it away.
Beerhippie
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Feathered rats out here. I've been hired to clean out a couple of barns with my air pistols.
If you're in a rural area, 'though, they do make some good eatin'. A fair amount of breast meat on 'em, and a hell of a lot bigger than mourning doves.
Lawnmower repair. Darn Honda just quit on me during a mow, after only 20 years. 
One $13 China carb and tune-up kit from Amazon later, and she runs again. Not that I use it much these days, it's just a backup for the Ego mower, but I still want it to work.
Also installed these garage door opener braces that really should have been there all along:
These flimsy Clopay builder-grade doors are thin stamped metal, and you're not supposed to attach the opener bracket directly to them without additional support. I've been getting away with not having these braces for a long time, but when the spring went, the opener strained to open the unsprung door, and did a little damage up at the top of the support. I hammered it back into place, but I figure it's "Here's your sign" to install the braces I should have put there 20 years ago when I installed the openers. 2-pack for $25 at Amazon. (The third door already had one, which I put there when I replaced the door some years back.)
One $13 China carb and tune-up kit from Amazon later, and she runs again. Not that I use it much these days, it's just a backup for the Ego mower, but I still want it to work.Also installed these garage door opener braces that really should have been there all along:
These flimsy Clopay builder-grade doors are thin stamped metal, and you're not supposed to attach the opener bracket directly to them without additional support. I've been getting away with not having these braces for a long time, but when the spring went, the opener strained to open the unsprung door, and did a little damage up at the top of the support. I hammered it back into place, but I figure it's "Here's your sign" to install the braces I should have put there 20 years ago when I installed the openers. 2-pack for $25 at Amazon. (The third door already had one, which I put there when I replaced the door some years back.)
Old Man Roger
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When I was a kid our apartment complex was infested with pigeons after a large fire down town burned all the old wood buildings the lived on. The maintenance man gave us a penny a pigeon.lol We loved shooting BB guns with permission and filled trash bags full of pigeons. We thought we were great white hunters.lol
rcktpwrd
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wife and I started working on some Christmas display repair/upgrades. Testing lights and then sanding, prepping for painting, there is also a bunch of smaller cutout figures that got sanded, no pics of them
candy cane is about 8' tall and 4' wide
candy cane is about 8' tall and 4' wide
Beerhippie
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Plan was to go out for a drive this afternoon. Best laid plans and all that....
I stopped by the shop (I should know better) and heard a loud slurping sound. The glycol pump that runs our fermenter cooling system was sucking air--not good in a lot of ways.
I'm adding 90 gallons of 3/1 water/propylene glycol (food grade) to our glycol back tank:
I had 30 gallons of pure propylene glycol remaining in the 55 gal barrel. Topped it up with 25 gallons of water and I'm pumping it in with one of those little drill pumps. Looks like about 1 gpm, so it will be a while.
After that, I'll add another ~35 gal. of water to get my mix right. I'll add it a bit at a time and check with my refractometer to get the mix just right.
I stopped by the shop (I should know better) and heard a loud slurping sound. The glycol pump that runs our fermenter cooling system was sucking air--not good in a lot of ways.
I'm adding 90 gallons of 3/1 water/propylene glycol (food grade) to our glycol back tank:
I had 30 gallons of pure propylene glycol remaining in the 55 gal barrel. Topped it up with 25 gallons of water and I'm pumping it in with one of those little drill pumps. Looks like about 1 gpm, so it will be a while.
After that, I'll add another ~35 gal. of water to get my mix right. I'll add it a bit at a time and check with my refractometer to get the mix just right.
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larry4406
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Hopefully the leakage is external and not into the brew…Plan was to go out for a drive this afternoon. Best laid plans and all that....
I stopped by the shop (I should know better) and heard a loud slurping sound. The glycol pump that runs our fermenter cooling system was sucking air--not good in a lot of ways.
I'm adding 90 gallons of 3/1 water/propylene glycol (food grade) to our glycol back tank:
I had 30 gallons remaining in the 55 gal barrel. Topped it up with 25 gallons of water and I'm pumping it in with one of those little drill pumps. Looks like about 1 gpm, so it will be a while.
After that, I'll add another ~35 gal. of water to get my mix right. I'll add it a bit at a time and check with my refractometer to get the mix just right.
Beerhippie
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The glycol solution is dyed deep blue. We once had a leak into a fermenter and it turned the beer bright green. ***** to have to dump 30 brewer's barrels (31 gal/bbl) of finished beer, but serving glycol to our customer base--even food-grade--would be worse.
Leaks are entirely external and I know where they are. It's just that we can't afford to hire a pressure vessel/sanitary cert welder from out of town to fix them. My TIG skills are not up to that job anymore.
The dye also makes it much easier to find a leak in a place full of dripping condensation.
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SMOKEYBEAR
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Kinda all over the place today, good bit of sanding on the table, 1st of probably 3 coats of Tung Oil, make a quick fixture to hold my little torch I use to heat up my makers mark ( I'm still certain there is a better way), fit 2 hammer handles, wedge currently drying with some final finishes tomorrow, and some clean up...
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Beerhippie
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Transfer complete. My estimate of flow rate was close--it took just under an hour.
Notice that I'm using a corded, gear-reduction drill to drive the pump? If you want to see what the magic smoke in your cordless drill looks like, running under load for an hour will do it.
I set up a cheap flow gauge to star adding water:
Then thought about it for a second. I now have no glycol to add if I overshoot the water, so maybe I better check the gravity before I add any. Damned good thing: The gravity was exactly where I wanted it (27 degrees Brix (same thing as degrees Plato, if you were wondering)) without adding any more water.
Adding the 55 gal of mix surprisingly didn't stress the cooling system at all. It stayed at a steady 23F the entire time.
While I was waiting for the transfer to complete, I had another chore I've been putting off for a warm, sunny day: Washing my office chair. After a long, dirty, sweaty summer, the upholstery was getting kinda' gross.
Drying in the sun.
Notice that I'm using a corded, gear-reduction drill to drive the pump? If you want to see what the magic smoke in your cordless drill looks like, running under load for an hour will do it.
I set up a cheap flow gauge to star adding water:
Then thought about it for a second. I now have no glycol to add if I overshoot the water, so maybe I better check the gravity before I add any. Damned good thing: The gravity was exactly where I wanted it (27 degrees Brix (same thing as degrees Plato, if you were wondering)) without adding any more water.
Adding the 55 gal of mix surprisingly didn't stress the cooling system at all. It stayed at a steady 23F the entire time.
While I was waiting for the transfer to complete, I had another chore I've been putting off for a warm, sunny day: Washing my office chair. After a long, dirty, sweaty summer, the upholstery was getting kinda' gross.
Drying in the sun.
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Beerhippie
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I prefer my Maker's Mark on the rocks.
Here's how I heat our company branding iron:
not that much different, give or take about a hundred years of technology.
SMOKEYBEAR
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I saw one of those at the flee market/ garage sale yesterday and passed on it. I don't know enough about them to evaluate before a purchase..I prefer my Maker's Mark on the rocks.
Here's how I heat our company branding iron:
not that much different, give or take about a hundred years of technology.
I prefer my Makers Mark in someone else's glass, not my favorite
welder4956
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Flung, put away, then replaced the drive belt on the riding mower...again. The first $17 Amazon special belt lasted for 1-1/2 mows before it was chewed up and jumped a pulley. I may have installed it incorrectly around the outside of a pulley belt guard, so I double checked the owners manual this time to be sure. Hoping there are no premature issues with the replacement belt.
pima67
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Should have saved that green beer for March 17th
Notgrownup
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M.Brane
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Gutted, and removed the R door on the Smashed Truck
. It was much lighter with everything removed, but not light. Only 3 more to go.
. It was much lighter with everything removed, but not light. Only 3 more to go.kaymccampbell
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It's definitely gonna be a long slow haul up a steep hill, but I'm getting there. Hopefully. However, this does seen the time of year that long covid does the annual nail me to the fence with something new and unusual again.
kaymccampbell
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So far, the best and most reliable way has been to disengage the ebrake, do your brake service, during assembly, pull the brake motor, manually retract the screw piston, then compress the hydraulic piston, reassemble, and engage and disengage the ebrake. Worked a treat for me.
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kaymccampbell
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Green beer and the whistling shits. Erin go bleagh!
kaymccampbell
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Gathered up a friend's loaner sander and a USBC cable for return.
Skyman
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Let's hope this year will be free of such miseries for you.
Outlawmws
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Cleaned Grout early AM bleached sprayed the remainder late AM adn I just touched up where some of that was missing or eroded grout.
Pulled my sons Tent cot out and shop vacuumed the dust off the cover. He wants to use it this year hunting to get off the potentially wet ground...
Pulled my sons Tent cot out and shop vacuumed the dust off the cover. He wants to use it this year hunting to get off the potentially wet ground...
Beerhippie
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Looking through the boneyard for something I can make an intake for my new air cleaner and snorkel set from.
I came up with this
Just need to weld that angle on. A fifteen-minute job!
I'll swap the MIG over to SS wire and Tri Mix and git it done. Remove the general-purpose steel wire and fit the SS spool in. Start to feed it down the whip... it gets right up to the gun and then a bird's nest at the feed roller. F me! I installed a Teflon liner a couple of years ago and it seems using that for regular wire has worn it out. F' it! I'll just put the regular **** back in there... nope. Ain't happening.
I bought this stinger and gun from Oxarc a few years ago. When the steel liner wore through (in about a year), it became obvious that Oxarc doesn't carry liners for their own, branded whips! I was able to cobble together the end parts of the liner to make a generic PTFE liner work and I guess I'll have to do that again.
So I'll be working on my TIG skills for a bit....
I came up with this
Just need to weld that angle on. A fifteen-minute job!
I'll swap the MIG over to SS wire and Tri Mix and git it done. Remove the general-purpose steel wire and fit the SS spool in. Start to feed it down the whip... it gets right up to the gun and then a bird's nest at the feed roller. F me! I installed a Teflon liner a couple of years ago and it seems using that for regular wire has worn it out. F' it! I'll just put the regular **** back in there... nope. Ain't happening.
I bought this stinger and gun from Oxarc a few years ago. When the steel liner wore through (in about a year), it became obvious that Oxarc doesn't carry liners for their own, branded whips! I was able to cobble together the end parts of the liner to make a generic PTFE liner work and I guess I'll have to do that again.
So I'll be working on my TIG skills for a bit....
Built some fastener boxes.
rcktpwrd
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WIfe got the first coat of white paint applied
Outlawmws
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gearhead1960
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Exactly the method I used on my Mini/BMW and Subaru Outback. Worked like a charm and no codes.
Beerhippie
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The main problem with my TIG welding isn't something that can be fixed with practice: Manual dexterity and eyesight have degraded enough to make it difficult.
Fortunately, this isn't sanitary, pressure or structural, so I can goof around some. It would be nice if it looked halfway decent, but it'll be eight feet in the air so....
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Fordguy1964
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Finished rebuilding the ultra rare and expensive Autolite 4100 C3OF-AJ carb. Then got it mounted on the car. I only have to get the engine filled with antifreeze and the gas tank filled with gas and she is ready for a test run. Can't wait to be able to take it around the block for the first time since tearing it down. As soon as the exhaust gets here I'll be ready.
Matt018888
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Threw out my collect I on of wires that I will never use.
Going thru my FIL stuff inspired this. Please show your support it was a very difficult momemt.
About a year ago, I finally went through my hoard of computer cable stuff. OMG.... So much junk. Including a bunch of RCA cables from when we had DirectTV or some such nonsense. Coax from when we had cable TV, even an old parallel printer cable. Threw away a ton.
A couple of days ago, I pull out the box as I'm looking for a particular USB cable. And.... I come across 3 or 4 of these! I doubt I need even one so they got tossed. But, true to form, I did keep one.... Just in case!
kaymccampbell
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You better hang onto them, they're coming back again. I've got two brand new devices with those power ports. Kinda blew my mind there.About a year ago, I finally went through my hoard of computer cable stuff. OMG.... So much junk. Including a bunch of RCA cables from when we had DirectTV or some such nonsense. Coax from when we had cable TV, even an old parallel printer cable. Threw away a ton.
A couple of days ago, I pull out the box as I'm looking for a particular USB cable. And.... I come across 3 or 4 of these! I doubt I need even one so they got tossed. But, true to form, I did keep one.... Just in case!
I've only seen them on HP and Dymo printers as I recall. Of course, any new printer will come with one.
kaymccampbell
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CNC devices, automotive test tools, digital o-scopes, too. Lotsa fun. Some stuff doesn't come with cables. Good thing I've got a box full of weird ****.
larry4406
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Did the disengage procedure not work?