What did YOU do today?

[pjtoledo]

recently broke a 8-32 screw off in an old distributor, steel screw in an aluminum housing.

decided to remove it today.
since there was still some good threads at the opposite end of the hole I made a pilot by center drilling a short 8-32 screw.

clamped the housing in a drill press and drilled the pilot hole

it was centered great, then opened it up to 3mm.
alternating between a bottom and taper tap from the good threads at the bottom it cut a few remnants then the last few turned out intact.

and success

 

[scotts90ranger]

So far I got the F350 into the shop but while there was a break in the weather I decided to torture myself and finish up the rock picking and weed pulling from the "free" fill dirt I got last summer... I wasn't too picky on the rocks just stuff 2" or bigger but I still picked up at least a couple hundred pounds of them and there was some weird weed kinda like teasel at least in the early stages that got introduced with the dirt so I pulled all I saw and it's now in the burn pile, probably 50 pounds of that too... blew the bead on the garden tractor trailer, but you'll get that on free trailers... I put fix a flat in it last year but that tire didn't take to that... I think I'm going to have to actually try to fix it or replace it... there's a reason the thing was free though, it's rusted the heck out and I don't have enough sheet metal to fix it...

Next is to get a final load of firewood for the year from the back shed then back to working on the F350...

 

[Bill]

I got up and went outside to see what the screaming was all about. Upon opening the door I saw some due running down the street while screaming like a little girl and a very big raccoon chasing him while growing and grunting. That dude eventually jumped into the bed of a pickup. So, don't mess with raccoons.

 

[Rick W]

I got up and went outside to see what the screaming was all about. Upon opening the door I saw some due running down the street while screaming like a little girl and a very big raccoon chasing him while growing and grunting. That dude eventually jumped into the bed of a pickup. So, don't mess with raccoons.

Everybody has their own preference on what they’d like to do in a bed and who they’d like to do it with. No judgment here.

 

[pjtoledo]

I got up and went outside to see what the screaming was all about. Upon opening the door I saw some due running down the street while screaming like a little girl and a very big raccoon chasing him while growing and grunting. That dude eventually jumped into the bed of a pickup. So, don't mess with raccoons.

racoons are frequent carriers of rabies. if their behavior is unusual stay away and call animal control to investigate.
stay even further away from a mommy raccoon protecting her young.

 

[pjtoledo]

bought some more steel today.
that disk is going to be a welding table, it's 3/8"

 

[scotts90ranger]

Yesterday I did end up doing some extremely rough body work on the F350, the front corners of the bed were cracked where they meet the front so I rewelded it and welded the inside corners and made some of the previous welds "less bad", didn't have enough energy or patience to make it more than 6" from the front on the bed rails, both sides need some love front to back... Then I put the new $70 JVC stereo in it which worked but pairing a phone to it is an exercise in patience as it's more complicated than any other pairing I've done on bluetooth... Finally got it paired tonight after I read the manual closer, you have to press the volume knob at one specific time that isn't obvious... Tonight I made the dash surround less janky, made some aluminum washers that fit in the screw holes real nice since there's almost no plastic left in those square holes, was going to epoxy it but ran out of patience... stuck the remote microphone right above the steering column at the cluster which covers some of where the automatic indicator would be so no biggie...

 

[01WHTRNGR]

Worked on fixing a misfire in my Pontiac Bonneville. Wire for cylinder 6 was almost chewed in half, got that fixed and it’s still misfiring. Threw in a coil pack and it’s a lot better now. Only one cylinder misfiring. Also found a white hood in the junkyard so it’s almost all the same color now.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Yesterday I fought with my newly used laptop again. Went through and updated stuff and deleted stuff, did most of the recommendations on how to cure the BSOD that keeps happening that I haven’t tried yet, tried processing a video again and the program crashed instead of the computer. Argh.

At that point I decided it was time to go work in my “shop” before I smashed the laptop, lol. So I went outside to discover that dad had “helpfully” moved my stuff that was in the firewood shed into my “shop” so I got to move all of that out of my way. Started sorting and straightening everything out in my “shop” and moved the last of my stuff out of the firewood shed except the wall art piece which will probably go over to my property.

Today I’ll probably continue working on getting my “shop” whipped into shape. Won’t be fully completed today but I should have it sorted enough to start using it. Want to try wrestling a steel shelving unit out of my one shed and see if I can make it fit in the “shop” shed, measuring its gonna be real close. Once the shelving is done, I can start organizing.

 

[01WHTRNGR]

Worked on fixing a misfire in my Pontiac Bonneville. Wire for cylinder 6 was almost chewed in half, got that fixed and it’s still misfiring. Threw in a coil pack and it’s a lot better now. Only one cylinder misfiring. Also found a white hood in the junkyard so it’s almost all the same color now.

Code for cylinder 2 misfire popped up in my way to class this morning.I was waiting for a code before throwing more parts on. Swapped the coil pack in in the side of the street and she’s back to running like new. Big relief. Came into spring break with 1 vehicle running and was hoping to end it with 2 after I fixed the Ranger. Actually ended spring break with no vehicles.

 

[Rick W]

Code for cylinder 2 misfire popped up in my way to class this morning.I was waiting for a code before throwing more parts on. Swapped the coil pack in in the side of the street and she’s back to running like new. Big relief. Came into spring break with 1 vehicle running and was hoping to end it with 2 after I fixed the Ranger. Actually ended spring break with no vehicles.

You’re just a kid, wait till you’re my age and you come out spring break with four or five vehicles that don’t run.

But it was spring break, did you get lucky “otherwise?”

 

[01WHTRNGR]

You’re just a kid, wait till you’re my age and you come out spring break with four or five vehicles that don’t run.

But it was spring break, did you get lucky “otherwise?”

Came out of it with an internship offer, so something positive at least.

 

[Rick W]

Came out of it with an internship offer, so something positive at least.

Not the “lucky” I was hinting at….

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Well, the metal shelving came out of my shed and after completely tearing it apart and re-assembling it, it is now residing in my “shop”. None of the shelf positions were going to come near working without moving and some yahoo chopped down the posts at some point (not me) and didn’t do a good job of it, so I cleaned up the cuts some and flipped the posts so everything would be even and put all the shelves back in. What a pain. Then I dragged the other shelving unit out of the shop and ground a bunch of screws off because it originally was a store shelf for 1-gal paint cans so the screws held dividers that I didn’t want. Got both shelving units back in position and started trying to figure out organization and that’s where we are at.

 

[Bill]

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