What did YOU do today?

[85_Ranger4x4]

Update, I can get a new distributor for about 65 bucks delivered. The car is pristine, so that’s the way I’m going to go. I fear I may have damaged the housing when I drove the gear back on.

But here’s the number two question. The distributors come with a steel gear or with a cast-iron gear. Mine has a bronze gear. The difference is because of the tappets and roller cam, etc. bla bla. I don’t know any of that. But I would assume I need a cast iron gear to replace my bronze gear Since it’s the softer compared to steel, and apparently the steel are for higher output engines.

So if I have bronze, I go with the cast-iron gear?

Steel - roller cam (your has)
Cast Iron - flat tappet (trucks in the late 80's)

Easiest solution, bring the engine to the next TRS event I come to and you won't have to stress over it ever again.

 

[lancasterpunk29]

Pheasants are tough birds, a dog is almost a necessity to be effective. Grouse seem to die a lot easier and they are weak runners. A friend of mine calls them flying livers. If cooked like liver they come out pretty good! Pheasants are definitely more table friendly though; they're basically an imported chinese chicken.

Y’all are making me miss my hunt club back home befor the cartel took over the desert. we used to do pheasant and chukar hunts .

 

[Shran]

heading out of Cheyenne sucked.

I hear they got dumped on. I just got rain at my place in Rapid... that picture was from Deadwood. What brings you out this way?

 

[bobbywalter]

I hear they got dumped on. I just got rain at my place in Rapid... that picture was from Deadwood. What brings you out this way?

work

 

[MaicoDoug]

What a find-

I have a background in LCD panels, used to work at the company that makes those outdoor drive through fast food LCD order displays. So I've seen quite a bit of LCD displays, well at one of the local pawn shops (the one I've scored big at in the past) there is a little 27 inch curved LCD monitor made by Samsung. The clown, (no kidding, he was dressed up for halloween) tells me that all their monitors are half priced. OK, so turns out this monitor is some sort of 240Hz sweep rate, crazy resolution gaming display, out the door for $30. 1 year old-Score. Thanks Homey (he did not know who Homey the Clown was).
Homey the Clown, paying off his debt to the community on work release.

 

[Curious Hound]

Decided to attend the Halloween party at my favorite brew pub tonight.

I'm Chewy. The old hag is Ashley, my favorite bartender.

 

[SenorNoob]

Helped my uncle better setup his wood stove and mowed about half the yard.

 

[Curious Hound]

Decided to attend the Halloween party at my favorite brew pub tonight.

I'm Chewy. The old hag is Ashley, my favorite bartender.
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Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

 

[racsan]

got some chicken supplies, defrosted the deep freezer & put the new light bar on my escape.

 

[scotts90ranger]

After I fixed the daily driver tonight I took some measurements and framed up a end wall for the firewood shed which I decided to just build in the shop then install and attach to the boat shed corner post with some cutoff 4x6 pieces and 1/2" allthread and screwed to the shed on the other end. Was going to have two posts close together but after looking they would have been 4" apart which would be hard to install siding... gonna take some shortcuts and go another way that will work just fine... Now I just gotta go to the end of the garage and grab the T111 that I pulled off of that and see if I can scavenge some...

 

[Uncle Gump]

 

[Jim Oaks]

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Pittsburgh looks a lot different than I remember it.

 

[Uncle Gump]

My wife has this thing for clocks... yes I said clocks.

1000 sqft house... 10 clocks.

It's fall back tonight... so I changed batteries in the smoke alarms and set all the clocks.

 

[SenorNoob]

Are they cuckoo clocks?

 

[Curious Hound]

I needed to do some video editing today. But woke up with a headache and couldn't get the motivation to do that. So I worked on a couple shop projects that have been hanging around in my head for a while. First, I finished making and installing suitable guards on a 6" bench grinder that was my dad's. All it had was castings that went between the motor and wheels that had a lip around the circumference of the wheels. So I made end guards. I also made lexan eye shields over each wheel opening. Today was just the last bits of that job. Then I made a set of aluminum jaws for one of my bench vices. For about $10, I came away from a local metal supplier with enough aluminum to make several sets for both of my vices.

The work table I built from scrap a few weeks ago. The grinder is mounted to a plate that is bolted to the "Unistrut channel" along the front of the table. With a 7/16" wrench, I can loosen it in seconds and slide it to the other end of the table or remove it completely.

The vice jaws with the original.steel jaws lying on top.