What did YOU do today?

[scotts90ranger]

A TTB era Ranger would have WAY more frame flex that's for sure I have to put a bungee cord over the lid of my toolbox on the '90 since when it flexes one way the latches open and the lid pops up...

After the cooling system stuff today I had to mop the shop floor, was trying not to but I got coolant everywhere rolled it forward twice to keep my feet out of it and I still ended up spreading it everywhere... since it's been a while the water in the bucket was gross...

My shop is a disaster, sure I have around 1.5 bays open right now but one bay is solid and annoying me... but that's for a reason, the loft will be started in about a week and a half! Inlaws are coming up and I'm hoping to at least get the 8'x20' room made with a roof which will let me get a bunch of stuff out of the way... talked to a contractor friend yesterday and I get to barter for some things, he's gonna order me a 6x10x16' beam for the clear span portion and I might be able to get some lumber from him... He has several small engine equipment he wants to get running to sell so I'll do that for him, sounds like a reasonable trade to me

 

[Rick W]

Yep, digital read out

After I got home I kept tinkering on my brothers pocket knife... it's a Kershaw Leek I think (the bigger of the Ken Onion models) that fell out of his pocket while on a tractor and later he found it with the tractor tiller which kinda screwed it up to say the least , the handle scales were bent to heck and the stainless under it was tweaked, pocket clip broken off, two screws pulled out and one sheared etc... I spent some time with the arbor press and got everything pretty good but didn't have any 2mm screws so took it to Kershaw to sharpen and stuff and they put on a new pocket clip and new screws which was good and all but the threads in the handle scale were stripped when doing final tweaks at home so I took a 3/8" set screw with cupped tip and put that in the arbor press against the scale to shrink the metal around the threads. That worked for the most part, 2 of 3 hold tension good I'm going to rely on blue loctite for the third... gonna give it back to him for christmas with the two extras I bought, annoyingly they don't make any good farmer colors, everything will blend into the weeds, I a few years ago they had a bright yellow which was best but got bright orange this time...

Tonight I started working on clearing out the shop more, the week after Christmas the inlaws from CA are coming up and the father in law is going to help me build a loft in the shop which is MUCH needed... gotta get things cleared out in that area, getting close but have a lot to do in the next couple weekends. I've dropped my expectations down to more reasonable so I'm less worried

Just a thought from an old fart who has been tinkering with stuff for the better part of 55 years…

I’ve salvaged a lot of things like you’re talking about with that knife, where you can only get one or two threads to hold. Bang it around a little bit and it’ll be in pieces again.

What I did 55 years ago and I did again last week, is once I have it kind of screwed together right, I pull out the screws and put in a drop of superglue, and put the screws back in. If it twists or something is gonna strip out the screw, it will probably still fail. But most times the repeat failure is because the screw starts to back out and there’s not enough to hold.

I do it all the time with dollar store reading glasses…

My two cents, hope it helps

 

[Rick W]

And all good things come to an end. Goats are gone…

Nothing left, but the memories and the goat s***

Lincoln is afraid to go pee in the backyard now. The electric fence got him a couple times….

 

[Snoranger]

I started working on a built in bench in the closet to hide the plumbing and ductwork for the new laundry room.

The front is made of knotty white cedar tongue and groove planks, the seating surface is going to acacia, the walls are going to be the same cedar planks, and the trim will either be maple or walnut.

 

[Uncle Gump]

The wife is out of town on business until Sunday. She called today and said there was a package delivered and that I should open it. She also said she has a favor to ask of me....

The rest should be clear....

 

[SenorNoob]

Good luck.

 

[racsan]

wrapping gifts today. Really hate that, got it all done though.

 

[Betty White]

Just some tree trimming.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Just some tree trimming.View attachment 121412

Hmmm... Maybe you need to start on the top...

 

[Betty White]

Wish i could, pole saw wouldn't reach.

 

[racsan]

went out for some last minute shopping, needed a few other things that Id rather buy now than during the holiday break. Stopped at tsc for some pine shavings (chicken house) saw a nice bird feeder at the clearance area , thought “why not”- $5. of course grabbed a 35# bag of bird seed. next was harbour freight, rural king, meijers, got gas washed my escape & headed home. Wrapped my last minute gift , had dinner then went out to the garage to put some of the other stuff away. went looking for the bird feeder & its no where to be found. no tsc bag even. damn. got to thinking about it & the cart I used was one of those flatbed stlye you can easily load bedding, feed on. Had a small basket on the back. And thats where I put the bird feeder, in the bag-with the receipt. and its after 7. they closed at 7. Rural king has similar carts & I picked up 2 40# bags of chicken feed & $120+ worth of heavy carheart shirts for work wear. It just so happened the rural king cart had its small basket broke off so I had to carry the bag of shirts. Good thing I guess, Id rather lose a $5 bird feeder than over $100 in carheart shirts! Did happen to have a older bird feeder on hand. guess thats good or Id be mixing bird seed in with the chicken feed.

 

[Rick W]

went out for some last minute shopping, needed a few other things that Id rather buy now than during the holiday break. Stopped at tsc for some pine shavings (chicken house) saw a nice bird feeder at the clearance area , thought “why not”- $5. of course grabbed a 35# bag of bird seed. next was harbour freight, rural king, meijers, got gas washed my escape & headed home. Wrapped my last minute gift , had dinner then went out to the garage to put some of the other stuff away. went looking for the bird feeder & its no where to be found. no tsc bag even. damn. got to thinking about it & the cart I used was one of those flatbed stlye you can easily load bedding, feed on. Had a small basket on the back. And thats where I put the bird feeder, in the bag-with the receipt. and its after 7. they closed at 7. Rural king has similar carts & I picked up 2 40# bags of chicken feed & $120+ worth of heavy carheart shirts for work wear. It just so happened the rural king cart had its small basket broke off so I had to carry the bag of shirts. Good thing I guess, Id rather lose a $5 bird feeder than over $100 in carheart shirts! Did happen to have a older bird feeder on hand. guess thats good or Id be mixing bird seed in with the chicken feed.

A couple thoughts. I took a few returns to Home Depot a couple days ago. There was a guy standing in the exit area, and a couple people before me. After the first one, the gal turned around and told him he was standing in the wrong place. So he came around and stood behind me. I told him to go ahead, he was there first. I know what the SOB was thinking, this gray old man will never make it if I get in front of him. But when my turn came, I insisted. He turned around and said merry Christmas.

Then I had to run down to Lowe’s to get some double-sided gorilla tape that they didn’t have at Home Depot. I parked near the exit, because I knew it was right down one of those aisles, and then I went to where the returns are handled because it’s right there, and I knew I could pay and not have to walk halfway across the city to get to the cash registers. This time there was a guy in front of me with a bunch of stuff to return, and I had my gorilla tape. The gal asked me if I was returning something and I said no, I’ve just got bad legs and I don’t want to walk to the other end. Then, the guy who was in front of me, probably thinking about this white haired SOB will never make it, told me to go ahead. We wished each other a merry Christmas.

It actually happened a third time, I’ll spare you.

It all reminded me about five years ago, when I got a flat tire driving one of those Lincoln town cars on the interstate. I was moving slow, but I had it under control. Then this 45 year-old snot nose, pulled up behind me, and changed my tire for me. I was thinking, SOB, you don’t change tires for me, I change tires for you when you’re broken down! But I really did appreciate it.

Here’s my point. It’s been crazy times, but people are still basically good, and I believe things are about to pick up considerably.When they open in the morning, give them a call. I’ll bet they still have it, someone brought it back in, knowing that someone forgot it. I don’t know how far away it is, but at least you can get it back. I’ll even say a prayer for it.

And, BTW, Merry Christmas!

 

[scotts90ranger]

Spent most of the day dealing with the auction stuff from yesterday... Turns out the tractor with two forklifts my brother got has almost no clutch left, I had to push the top of the tire to get over the bump on the trailer ramps... that and it's a dang heavy mofo! We loaded it how looked balanced to me but it's hard to tell, should have looked at the air bag gauge... I think it only had a couple hundred pounds of extra tongue weight and for a 10k pound (estimated) tractor that ain't enough...

Conveniently with the blown clutch they're even available on Amazon, the tractor is an International 584 and looks to be one of the simpler tractors to split. All of the hydraulics do work which is nice, it doesn't have the side shift hooked up for the front mast but the cylinder is there so maybe we'll have to add that...

The second air compressor I got looks to be gently used and is apparently from 2021 and apparently is fairly spendy... It's a North Star with a 5hp motor and 3 cylinder single stage pump from the looks of it.

Annoyingly the cheap stereo I put in my F350 is dead, it wouldn't turn out a few days ago and we pulled it out today and the fuse was blown so we put another in and then there was some ozone smell... will investigate further later...

 

[Rick W]

Go to the pull apart and get some kind of cool shifter, like Hurst or eight ball…

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Back when shifter handles had threads on them, I would drill and tap pool balls for shifter nobs. Could probably glue them on nowadays.