CWLONGSHOT
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Good luck minty& family!!
Prayers sent my God bless!!
cw
Prayers sent my God bless!!
cw
so waht ya doin today?
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CWLONGSHOT
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None here today... Heavy overcast "Grey day". Feels like snow... But calm & cold.
Ready n waitin...
CW
Ready n waitin...
CW
L Ross
Well-Known Member
Not real nice out yesterday with a NW wind snapping the DTOM flag in the yard. So go do some work at a bench in the shed. I have a couple of used tip ups gifted to me years ago. I hardly ever use tip ups but love Northern Pike so this Winter I may pay the buck a piece tariff for shiners and try to bag a few.
Two previous owners back wrote their name on the tip up with Magic Marker, plus the wood was never very well finished from the factory. Poor sanding, one thin coat of varnish. Well heck, I'll just disassemble them, grab the belt sander and get to it. The belt was old and very quickly the varnish gummed up the belt. No problemo says I, I'll put a new belt on. Found the belts in less than a half hour of searching. What? These belts are from my old BS, a 3"x24". My new BS is 3" x 18". Also I cannot find a sander drum and the round holes in the tip up are the poorest finished part of the tip up bases.
This necessitates a trip to town 15 miles away. First stop indeed has belts and I decided to paint the tip ups forest green with enamel, got that too, but no drum sanders. Ace Hardware next. Glad I didn't stop there first as their two packs of belts at $2.50 higher that the Do-It Center. But, they did have a nice sander drum and spare refills.
Back in the shop the new belt cuts the varnish, Magic Marker, painted brand label and a wood burned bass right down to bare wood in a couple of minutes. Bevel all of the edges properly, sand the holes and it all looks good.
But another lesson on how to burn up half a day in the life of a retiree.
Two previous owners back wrote their name on the tip up with Magic Marker, plus the wood was never very well finished from the factory. Poor sanding, one thin coat of varnish. Well heck, I'll just disassemble them, grab the belt sander and get to it. The belt was old and very quickly the varnish gummed up the belt. No problemo says I, I'll put a new belt on. Found the belts in less than a half hour of searching. What? These belts are from my old BS, a 3"x24". My new BS is 3" x 18". Also I cannot find a sander drum and the round holes in the tip up are the poorest finished part of the tip up bases.
This necessitates a trip to town 15 miles away. First stop indeed has belts and I decided to paint the tip ups forest green with enamel, got that too, but no drum sanders. Ace Hardware next. Glad I didn't stop there first as their two packs of belts at $2.50 higher that the Do-It Center. But, they did have a nice sander drum and spare refills.
Back in the shop the new belt cuts the varnish, Magic Marker, painted brand label and a wood burned bass right down to bare wood in a couple of minutes. Bevel all of the edges properly, sand the holes and it all looks good.
But another lesson on how to burn up half a day in the life of a retiree.
Then you look at things and realize it would have been quicker to just make new tip ups.
This is why I dislike it when my wife uses the word just. Can’t we just change a faucet? Yes, but that means shutting off the water, putting in the shut offs on the lines for the sink that the builder didn’t seem to feel were important at the time. Then we need to change some of the drain line for the trap to line up. At least a couple trips to the hardware store for parts I didn’t know I needed.
Yep, just change the faucet. Shouldn’t take more than 4-6 hours.
This is why I dislike it when my wife uses the word just. Can’t we just change a faucet? Yes, but that means shutting off the water, putting in the shut offs on the lines for the sink that the builder didn’t seem to feel were important at the time. Then we need to change some of the drain line for the trap to line up. At least a couple trips to the hardware store for parts I didn’t know I needed.
Yep, just change the faucet. Shouldn’t take more than 4-6 hours.
fiver
Well-Known Member
greatest morning ever.
clear pale blue skies and dead 0 on the thermometers front and back.
the wife woke up at a decent time [like 06:30] and decided to organize her closet, she kicked 6 out of the bedroom and proceeded to make some bangy type noises.
so now all the dogs are laying in the upstairs hallway barking, banging into the walls, knocking on the other doors with their tails and generally carrying on playing and fighting every 2-3 minutes waking the kids up.
I'm enjoying the show.
clear pale blue skies and dead 0 on the thermometers front and back.
the wife woke up at a decent time [like 06:30] and decided to organize her closet, she kicked 6 out of the bedroom and proceeded to make some bangy type noises.
so now all the dogs are laying in the upstairs hallway barking, banging into the walls, knocking on the other doors with their tails and generally carrying on playing and fighting every 2-3 minutes waking the kids up.
I'm enjoying the show.
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
And, even then, I'm not overly confident that there won't be a leak somewhere.
God planned that I'd be able to do lots of things pretty well. He also planned that plumbing will be at the top of the list of things that test my patience.
Plumbing question: How many of you know that the nut that secures the toilet lever handle is left-hand threaded?
Monday, I needed to replace a broken plastic lever but couldn't get the handle's plastic nut to loosen, so I thought the threads were stripped. I won't go into the details of how I was eventually able to destroy the nut and remove the old handle and lever. It wasn't till I went to install the new parts that I discovered the nut is left-handed.
I would far rather sweat a copper joint than use a compression fitting. I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was a plumber and a good teacher.
Now cars, I stay the hell away from working on them. Replacing the tail lights and side mirror were plenty for me. Someone needs to keep Ian employed.
Now cars, I stay the hell away from working on them. Replacing the tail lights and side mirror were plenty for me. Someone needs to keep Ian employed.
Joshua
Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
I try to stop at brakes, and tune ups.
But, sometimes I get a wild hair up my you know where, and start tearing apart a manual transmission.
I then have a moment of intense mental clarity, as I realize that my next month of free time is gonna be tied up in teaching my self how to put it all back together.
Josh
But, sometimes I get a wild hair up my you know where, and start tearing apart a manual transmission.
I then have a moment of intense mental clarity, as I realize that my next month of free time is gonna be tied up in teaching my self how to put it all back together.
Josh
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Yep, just change the faucet. Shouldn’t take more than 4-6 hours.
Yup, women just don't understand. Cause they never FIX anything. An exception is my daughter, she can drywall, paint, fix stuff. My son couldn't until he found a necessity. Bro couldn't even change the distributor rotor without breaking the cap. Points? Nah.
Everybody gone now after a big breakfast (french toast, eggs, sausage, rolls, fruit). Cleaning time! Don't think I need anything to eat for a week.
tearing apart a manual transmission. - those are easy but nobody ever measures for worn parts. I wouldn't touch one of the CV units.
Yup, women just don't understand. Cause they never FIX anything. An exception is my daughter, she can drywall, paint, fix stuff. My son couldn't until he found a necessity. Bro couldn't even change the distributor rotor without breaking the cap. Points? Nah.
Everybody gone now after a big breakfast (french toast, eggs, sausage, rolls, fruit). Cleaning time! Don't think I need anything to eat for a week.
tearing apart a manual transmission. - those are easy but nobody ever measures for worn parts. I wouldn't touch one of the CV units.
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CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
Most definitely. It helped keep me sane during my career years.
Ian
Notorious member
Popper is right, manual transmissions need some things carefully measured, especially end play of the bearings (shims required) and all the detents and rails in the shifter mechanism carefully gone through. Need a good manual with inspection instructions.
Toilet handle nuts, been too long and I wasn't paying attention but working with screwamathingy things all day long I can see left-handed right off from one thread showing. Ask me about the time I twisted off a ring gear bolt because it was left-handed and didn't have tic-marks on the flats to indicate such.
My wife and I built our house together, she knows full well what she is asking when (rarely) she ever asks me to upgrade something because she's been involved before.
Nothing pisses me off more than a plastic, multi-turn shutoff valve. They never work much past three weeks of their installation. Sure do save the contractors money, though! My house has brass, 1/4-turn ball valves on all the service connections, about $5 each x 16 but when I turn one off to change a faucet or clean a valve cartridge....they WORK.
Toilet handle nuts, been too long and I wasn't paying attention but working with screwamathingy things all day long I can see left-handed right off from one thread showing. Ask me about the time I twisted off a ring gear bolt because it was left-handed and didn't have tic-marks on the flats to indicate such.
My wife and I built our house together, she knows full well what she is asking when (rarely) she ever asks me to upgrade something because she's been involved before.
Nothing pisses me off more than a plastic, multi-turn shutoff valve. They never work much past three weeks of their installation. Sure do save the contractors money, though! My house has brass, 1/4-turn ball valves on all the service connections, about $5 each x 16 but when I turn one off to change a faucet or clean a valve cartridge....they WORK.
JWFilips
Well-Known Member
On A lighter note it is sure good to have my darling wife back smiling and happy!
Amazing what these new heart medicines can do today! She Is up and about and not having any issues and looking forward to playing tennis in the next week! Sure is a lot of pressure off both of us! Although we had a very simple and safe Thanksgiving day....... It sure was one where we were thankful!
Amazing what these new heart medicines can do today! She Is up and about and not having any issues and looking forward to playing tennis in the next week! Sure is a lot of pressure off both of us! Although we had a very simple and safe Thanksgiving day....... It sure was one where we were thankful!
JonB
Halcyon member
The first wood splitter I bought was homemade, I noticed two broken studs on one side of the axle, but never gave it another thought. The tires were shot, so I found some good used tires at the auto-salvage yard, and was gonna have the repair shop put the tires on the wood splitter wheels. So I decide to take off the wheels and bring them in. SNAP ! There goes another stud on the side that already had two broken ones. "oooooo", I said to myself, that's why they are broke, LOL. I also thought, WTF? why Left hand threads on one side and not the other? Lesson learned. That wood splitter leaked ever fluid out of everything that was suppose to contain it. I thought about fixing it, but figuring almost everything needed to be replaced or rebuilt, I decided to sell it and just get something different.