Continuing Thread: What Are You Fix-It'ing Today?

[gregpark]

Just finished my weekend project. Built new planter boxes for the hot tub area replacing the old ones I made 10 or so years ago. Pecky Cedar I felled and milled a year ago. I milled the boards at 1" and they dried down to ⅞. The long boxes are 6'

[rsrguy]

Beautiful

[A930Rocket]

I installed a 6 inch fan on the engine oil cooler on the 330. Just need to wire up the switch and I’ll be good to go.

It will be interesting to see if temps come down while on the track. I’m running full synthetic and temps hit about 270°. On the street, it runs about 210°.

[rsrguy]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

I installed a 6 inch fan on the engine oil cooler on the 330. Just need to wire up the switch and I’ll be good to go.

It will be interesting to see if temps come down while on the track. I’m running full synthetic and temps hit about 270°. On the street, it runs about 210°.

What are you looking to see at the track? 270 is kinda extreme.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

What are you looking to see at the track? 270 is kinda extreme.

I’m not sure, maybe 230 or 240? My oil temperature sender is in the bottom of the oil pan. I don’t know if that’s the best or worse place to have it.

[porsche930dude]

Still working on the Dear John. Its almost done now. I ran all new fuel lines and cleaned the carb. No spark the coil was bad. Swapped it out. It had no muffler i put one on from a 2 cyl and welded up the extra hole and made mounts for it. Also there was no pulleys on the engine. It takes an electric pto luckily it came with it. But no drive pulley so I cut off the top pulley from from a dual pulley off another engine and got the mess bolted up. There was some monkeying of the tensioning pulleys involved. There are so many loose and missing bolts on this thing. I keep finding more. The brake wasnt working so i took it all apart and freed up the pins. Bolt broke off in the trans i tapped it out. I had to adjust the brake rod by bending it but it works good now. So its all running and driving now I just have to put the hood on but it hits the muffler a bit when opening so ill have to make some adjustments there. Next is the mower the deck the spindles were rusted up i got them loose but they are still stiff.

[bugstrider]

Replaced a none-op back-up light in the Gen-1 Chevy Volt. Got under the rear of the car, removed some small panel screws and immediately was rained upon by what looked like a homeless rodent’s nest.




Ok. This looks like a turd…..

Back-up light is now functional again. Yippy!!



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[URY914]

Originally Posted by URY914

I'm working on replacing the 4 4x4's that support the roof on my carport. The carport is an integral part of the house. The 4x4's sit on a brick knee wall and appear to only be toe-nailed top and bottom. Not much holding it down when hurricane season whips up and the wind gets under the carport.

I'm going to use 4x6's with Simpson strong-tie connectors embedded in concrete at the bottom and at the top t-straps connecting to the perimeter beam.

I hope to get the first one replaced this weekend. More to follow with pictures.

Here are some pics:

These are columns/posts supporting the carport roof. The red ones are the 4 original 1955 4x4 posts. Green ones are the temporary shoring. The yellow are the two 6x6 out front.


The 4x4 sit on a 2x6 that is "bolted" to the top of the wall.



The 4x4 was toe-nailed to the 2x6. Well they were nailed in 1955. Now the nails are rusted away and the 4x4 just slid off the 2x6 when I jacked up temp 4x4's.



I hoped to find the bolts to be J-bolts and imbedded in concrete/mortar. But what I found was a 6" bolt imbedded in nothing.



At the top, the 4x4 was toe-nailed into the 4x6 perimeter beam. These nails looked pretty good for their age but didn't do much to hold it all together.



I plan on removing the wall completely and replacing 3 of the 4x4 with 4x6's and the one in the corner with a 6x6. I'm using these embeds as the bottom attachment. The base has a 1" standoff to keep the bottom of the post from getting wet rotting out.



I've already replaced the first post with a 4x6 but I'll post pics of the 2nd one as I go.

[Pazuzu]

Just fixed 3 push button switches on the old alarm clock. It's an oldy but goody, probably 15 years old? The small buttons that allow you to shut off the alarm and such were increasingly non-op, which made waking up each morning increasingly annoying. Alarm clocks suck, alarm clocks that don't shut up suck more.

I figured I'd need to hit it with Deoxit or something, but it turns out the buttons are just plastic pieces that press on old fashioned circuit board mounted momentary switches. I happen to have a dozen or two of those laying around, so I desoldered and swapped them all out. Now, it works 100% again! Good for 15 more years, then maybe I won't need an alarm clock.

[rsrguy]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

then maybe I won't need an alarm clock.

I hope your right!

[rsrguy]

Well the cross country drive and all the work paid off today..... I got to fly our little birdy. What a privilege. This was one of those rare moments in time that the realization exceeded the expectation. What an amazing and surreal gift. That's my cfi on the right, a 35000 hr pilot 15000 hours of it is tailwheel time!

[bugstrider]

^^^^Nicely done!!


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[Baz]

Congrats, Guy! Most impressive!

[Baz]

Originally Posted by gregpark

Just finished my weekend project. Built new planter boxes for the hot tub area replacing the old ones I made 10 or so years ago. Pecky Cedar I felled and milled a year ago. I milled the boards at 1" and they dried down to ⅞. The long boxes are 6'

Those turned out really nice, Greg! Beautiful setting there!

[Baz]

Finally getting around to re-painting these 3 wood benches I picked up back in June.

I started off with a Wagner sprayer but it was taking too long so switched to a 4" roller which was much better.

Been turning them different configurations so they are easier to paint.

[wdfifteen]

I'm going to look like a slacker for this. It wasn't a big job like the things some of you do, but it had lots of meaning for a couple of people.

I repainted Becky's Bird.

When we moved here 5 years ago my wife Vicki became close friends with our neighbor Becky.
One day I was out doing something and came across this plastic bird lying in the dirt behind the barn. On a lark I pounded a nail in a tree about 8 feet up and hung the bird on it. Becky came over at some later time and for the longest time thought the bird was real. I'm not sure what else ensued, I wasn't there, but it became quite a story. The rum and Coke may have had something to do with it. There was lots of laughing and joking about it over the next couple of years, and the story of Becky's Bird turned into one of those silly things that become part of the core of a friendship. It was really important to them.
Becky had a heart attack and died a couple of years later. When her family had a celebration of life and the family asked us to come, and bring the bird.

Well, the bird got faded and finally fell off the tree. So I fixed it up, repainted the faded part, and now Becky's Bird is back on the tree.

[URY914]

^^^Slacker

[gregpark]

The size of the project doesn't matter because it has meaning. Great story, nice pecker!

[rsrguy]

Mine is bigger...

[URY914]

^^^That a big pecker!