JimDaddyO wrote:all (well, once). The basement could then go to rent as storage space. My wife suggests we reno the upstairs into our home, but there is no water feed to that side.

Given the amount of work your putting into the place, I’d give the shop some prime real estate, whether that be in an existing structure or in a new shop building.

Did a little bit of a lot today.

Started out pulling a seat out of my Jeep and cutting a hole in the floorboards over a unibody frame rail(planned on pulling the carpet to see if getting in from the top was even possible) to assess the rust inside and further plan my repairs to address the issue. Also ordered both center and rear frame stiffeners…[Read more]

I’ll update on both work and home over the past cweek or 2.

Work:
Pushed out 68 bales rather than the usual 40ish, so production was way up. Haven’t figured out why. The buyers truck driver quit, so they haven’t being picked up, meaning I barely have room to move around and not run into things with a skidsteer.

Home:
Monday I had an accident…[Read more]

Guess my previous reply disappeared.

Take your time and before you know it you’ll be running the machine on muscle memory. 3500hrs on a 262D skidsteer and I actually have to think if someone asks how to do something. I spend 8-10hrs a day in that machine ad run almost entirely on muscle memory.

Toays shop time was spent working on the belt…[Read more]

JimDaddyO wrote:Took out 3 stumps in the yard as practice for digging the septic system tomorrow. It’s harder than they show on the internet. I haven’t got it down yet. Moving more than 1 function at a time is pretty hard. They all seem to move at a different speed…lol.

Not sure how old that machine is or how it’s set up. On the CAT kidst…[Read more]

Not many finds today. I got 2/3 of a huge machinist step block/strap clamp, missing the step block for $1, and $9 DVD’s for $1/ea. Trying to complete a few movie series that I only have part of with the latter.

GTokley wrote:Belleville, ON

I’m not going to a fraction of what I used to. I’ve got more than my share of rusty tools I’ve cleanup up…[Read more]

For most of the past year, I’ve had Fridays off, so no work today.

Stated out the day hitting some yard sales, Posted about that in the yard sale find thread. My 4yo nephew glues himself to me “with Gorilla Glue”(his words, when I’m around, so needless to say I had a tail.

Then spend some time with the aforementioned nephew playing…[Read more]

I’ve finally got some new scores. Didn’t go to any last year. I’ll be going out again tomorrow. Both of the towns I’d found lots of good stuff at in the past have their sale weekends this weekend. We hit one early this morning, although most sales weren’t open. Lots of people out. We’ll be driving through that town tomorrow, and heading to the…[Read more]

I’ll give an update for over the weekend until tonight. I.e. my 4 day saga of soaking in gear.hydraulic oil.

Saturday: went out to change the PCV valve on the Jeep. Found out I didn’t have all the parts so started digging into the source of some front end issues and noises. That evolved into a spider gear replacement(already had parts), which…[Read more]

Got a lot done in the shop today.

Pulled this oldie, from the days when natural selection was allowed to do it’s thing, out and got it running again. Needed new fuel lines and a carb cleaning and it runs just like new.

I do get a bit nervous knowing it doesn’t have a chain brake, but it is ~27 years old and just won’t die. I’ve got 3 other…[Read more]

Miamicuse wrote:

Dustincoc wrote:
Spent some time out in the shop this morning making a Craftsman Versastak insert for the Bosch 18v grinder I just bought.

did you get the new X-lock grinder? If so how do you like it?

Dustincoc wrote:
I’ve moved to the Craftsman boxes in the past year, mostly due to cost. 1/2 the price of L-boxxs and I can p…

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Spent some time out in the shop this morning making a Craftsman Versastak insert for the Bosch 18v grinder I just bought. Not really happy how it came out, so although it’ll work for now, probably something I’ll revisit.

I’ve moved to the Craftsman boxes in the past year, mostly due to cost. 1/2 the price of L-boxxs and I can pick them up in a…[Read more]

JimDaddyO wrote:Got the old window out. With a surprise. Also, no jack studs to the header, a stud cut 3/4 the way through, and it started to snow a bit…lol.

In the process of rebuilding things now. Not as good as I want to, but to do that it would mean cutting a section of wheel chair ramp out to get to the bottom of the wall. All the r…

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Boschmanbrian wrote:Yeah , that’s the first generation lithium recip saw , it’s good , but definitely not as updated as most ,

I’m sure it’ll handle my needs just fine. My choices up until now were a corded Craftsman Industrial and a corded old Makita, both of which like to lose blades mid cut due to lots of wear on the (tool needed) blade holder.

New goodies in the last couple days. Ordered online from Lowes, due to the free battery/charger with purchase of bare tool and the local store never seeming to have them in stock.

Recip saw seems to be a regular user. Unsure about the grinder, mainly because the guard mounting design. I prefer a simple friction fit, that I can tension just right…[Read more]

theamcguy wrote:

Boschmanbrian wrote:
Wow , pretty cool looking , I’d definitely not be using that for any sort of work ,

Looks like Harbor Freight is getting into the “collector” tools. Snap-on MAC etc have had these kinds of tools for years.

I shop at HF as much or more than the next man, but as of late I think they’re getting to think…[Read more]

RonW wrote:

Seven-Delta-FortyOne wrote:
As for “what’s new here?” Nothing. Still a DIY wasteland.

My mistake for coming back.

Sad but true. Not a lot of trade talk at the moment.

But we could get back to just that if more of our old members returned. And in turn that would bring new people in.

I think a lot of that comes from the semi-…[Read more]

Boschmanbrian wrote:

Dustincoc wrote:

Boschmanbrian wrote:

Dustincoc wrote:
I didn’t even realize the charger was different until you mentioned it.

Yeah , they changed it about a few years ago maybe two I believe , they have the one that is in your kit , and another one that has a power booster , apparently they finally incorporated those k…

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Boschmanbrian wrote:

Dustincoc wrote:
I didn’t even realize the charger was different until you mentioned it.

Yeah , they changed it about a few years ago maybe two I believe , they have the one that is in your kit , and another one that has a power booster , apparently they finally incorporated those keyhole slots to be able to hang it up n…

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