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

[john70t]

Clear coat would definitely last longer.

I just wanted to get done for today and put on something for the interim.
(should have bought a lift already)

I'm starting to think the Fluid Film could be a better substitute than ArmourAll for plastic engine covers and hoses. Time will tell.
It's better than nothing for inside frame rails.
Another Pelican mentioned using the product here recently. Asphaltgambler maybe. Apologies for not remembering.

[1990C4S]

Trans fluid, varsol, and wax. Heat it up enough to melt the wax, then spray it with a Schutz gun.

Dirt cheap, and it works.

[Baz]

Pressure washed this area rug. Didn't really use any heavy cleaners - just a little soap and water and pressure. This was my first time using a power washer to clean an area rug.

[rsrguy]

Love the bamboo!

[Baz]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

Love the bamboo!

Thanks! I had to buy a big piece of 6" thick foam for the couch as the thin little cushions that came with it didn't cut it.
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Corrosion is an issue for me here so I employ various products to assist in mitigation. Lately been using these flex seal aerosols and in this photo to coat the outside housings of these wall washer landscape lights. Probably no different than the 'undercoating' aerosol products - except you can get these in clear and grey colors......

[wdfifteen]

We painted our deck. Ripped out 150+ balusters and replaced then with hog fence. The hog fence and fasteners were less than $150 and went up in about 4 hours. It would have taken days to paint the balusters.

[GH85Carrera]

I had the great fun of fixing the master bathroom shower valve. It started dripping when it was supposed to be shut off.

It is a Delta single valve mix cartridge. It had been in place fir quite a while so some corrosion inside the body and the plastic cartridge was stuck in place HARD. I just kept wiggling, and it came out. I tried just the funny looking rubber seals with the spring inside, but no luck. So a trip to the plumbing supply for a cartridge.

No more dripping.

[Baz]

Rehabbing an old Kero-sun Omni 105 model kerosene heater. It's not in bad shape at all. Mostly a little surface rust here and there.

Using Ospho and then a scotch brite pad and small brass bristle brush to address the rust and then will touch up with Rustoleum paint.

These scotch brite pads are fantastic for stuff like this!

[rsrguy]

Getting my tomatoes and peppers all mulched and ready for the experiment.... How far Into the winter will they produce?
Alpine gardening at a mile high!

[Baz]

Power washed my boat this morning. It wasn't super dirty fortunately.

Pre-soaked with Purple Power and used my electric Sun Joe washer.





I have a custom boat cover the same sunbrella material as that blue bimini but needs some mending. I should get that done sometime soon as it really helps keep the boat clean.

[Baz]

Inspired by Asphalt Gambler's thread about replacing his outside security lights with LED versions, I changed out two of my conventional porch lights with their LED counterpart.

Very easy swap - less than 5 minutes per light.

Lights came via Amazon.

Both of these porch lights, as evident in the photos, were shot anyway. They worked both neither had their glass any more so the bulbs were exposed.

These lights were the very basic ones. I like to keep things basic around here.

[Baz]

Oh my.....I just checked out these new porch lights and gracious me - they are nice!

My entry is up a small flight of steps with one 90 degree turn. I have two porch lights at the lower section and two at the upper section. Two of the oval nautical style and two of the "ceiling" style. I only changed the two at the bottom but now that I see the results I will do the top two.

Probably unrelated but Tucker, my 14 year old outside cat had "the zoomies" tonight - he was zooming all over the place! We're still muggy and hot during the day but at night things drop a bit and it's really nice out.

I love fixin' stuff!

[john70t]

Helped one neighbor put up plastic masking over bookshelves. Took most of the day. Good people.

Tack welded a custom trailer hitch for another neighbor so he can check fitment.
It's going to be stronger than any market replacement. I trust his engineering skills over mine.

And after a decade of living in the Sanford abode..
Finally made some space in the garage and got the garden tools on the wall.
There might be room for the car at the end of it all.

[dad911]

Replaced seals in an excavator hydraulic cylinder today, and did a 50% carb rebuild on an ATV. Float needle was sticking, fuel running out the overflow.

[billybek]

Made a fire management basket for the new to me offset smoker.
I saw that Lone Star Grillz made one that was favorably reviewed but they were either too big or too small for my firebox.
So, I picked up some donated steel .134" #10 plate and bent and drilled and got set up to do some welding.
Well, to do the welding I would need to actually hook up the old stick welder. Had all the material, just never got it done.
Oh ya, probably need one of those fancy auto darkening welding helmets. It was on sale, so I am actually saving money, right? Bought some fresh welding rod, wasn't sure how the vintage stuff in my garage would be.
Anyway, some photos...


Had my son burning up some rod on some scrap too...

[rsrguy]

Repairing the dirty side of a 53 pa-22

[rsrguy]

[Baz]

Finally got to the point where I was able to operate my heater. I still have some restoration work left to do but mostly cosmetics at this point.

Takes a while, like more than 24 hours, for the wick to adequately pull up the kerosene. I only put a gallon in it for now.

Nice to see the blue flame and when I put the cover on it really starts cranking!

[rsrguy]

I have one, simple and effective!

[944 S2]

Replaced a water heater