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Take that outside in high winds with the air compressor and dental pick. Start at the edges. Go slow. Always away from the source. When you get down to metal start using oils. I changed common truck oil today. Had to remove an air splitter and couple of badly-designed panels. Little pieces created to rot and fall off. Lifted OEM driver seat location but yet still no access to the mechanical necessities. Electronics located directly underneath the oil filter. Engineers need to die in a cauldron of fire. Slowly. Nothing further to report here. |
I burned a ton of brush and limbs I cut and cleared day before yesterday - four large piles. I'm so glad to get that out of the way, so I can be on to something else I need to get done before the warmer weather arrives.
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Yesterday, swapped the wheel set on the one ton. I think those darn wheels weigh one ton....
Today I will try to get the damage done to the back yard by two border collies repaired. Top dress and re-seed. It will look the same next spring so I don't know why I bother. |
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My fav. breed - I miss mine terribly..... <iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/is8bpET-1pU" title="Young Winkipop and Billabong" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> They do more damage to stuff in year one. After that not so much..... |
Helped a good friend who lives around the corner with some minor irrigation stuff.
Trying to find the other 2 valves on a 4 zone system. One 2 valve box was located. Other one was not. I have a locator but it just wasn't getting it done. Anywho, the valve that was stuck "on" is now working - so we bought some time. In the meantime I replaced his antique controller and repaired a small break. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683480507.JPG http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683480507.JPG http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683480507.JPG http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683480507.JPG http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683480507.JPG |
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Man do I need to do the same….. I think I missed the window this year. Either that, it was the eight day work week I was on during our freakishly cool weather last week…[emoji849] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
Continuing Thread: What Are You Fix-It'ing Today?
Hope this “Fix” will help a few folks.
Since I was a kid, my parents always had these brass hose nozzles on our hoses. They really work great, even with low water pressure and a true godsend when working a burn pile. The pinpoint water stream can reach out and touch things from a good distance. Just in case someone has a runner get away from the initial burn…[emoji848][emoji6] Anywhose, this particular nozzle has been in my possession since 1982ish and has seen decades of use. Last week I discovered that the rubber insert finally disintegrated and the nozzle was non-op and now a brass paperweight.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...44c31ccc9d.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...446679f9e5.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...cd9869922f.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e8ad352d2c.jpg So on a whim, I reached out to the company and found out they will provide a free rubber insert and Stainless bearing for the cost of shipping. As long as you can provide proof of purchase. Since ours was so old and has been an awesome tool, I had zero reservations for purchasing a “3-pack” of parts for $4.95. I actually picked up two three packs since I will be replacing all of ours and my parents. They include instructions on how to do the repair, which you don’t really need, and it takes a whole two minutes to do.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...00700f28d5.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bcc69df544.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7e9d6c854f.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...78791cc086.jpg Ready to go for another few decades. They do recommend that when your done using the nozzle, open it up fully to relax the rubber insert, which is something we have always done. The kits should be compatible with all makes of nozzles like this seen for sale at all major box stores. Cheers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
Ok... that's pretty cool... durability wise and that a ca based us company is still in buis and stepping up!
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Making progress on reassembly. Need to have guide pins machined for the spar bolts and sent the fuel servo (throttle body) off for overhaul.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683694239.jpg
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Have had 'smells' in the house for a while and was a little befuddled for a while trying to find the source.
Sometimes it was upstairs sometimes behind the sink. Sometimes in the bathroom. Sometimes in the bedroom space upstairs. Round and round. Frustrating. Possibilities: 1). Dead mice. Confirmed. Saw a field mouse running from a hole under the bird feeder towards the house. They are definitely in the garage. Bird feeder close to the house is the source. Had some hawks hanging out on the backyard fence but my presence scared them away unfortunately. Last winter late at night there was a sudden freaking pile of maggots at the base of the stairs center of house spewing out of the carpet and crawling everywhere. Totally bizarre. The ceiling above that floor section slightly is closed off. No previous evidence before. I already filled in all the visible rim joist openings with foam in the partially-finished basement. Due to the joists they could only enter under the decks front and back. Today I crawled under there and filled a few small gaps. That sucked. Everything else next to those sides of the foundation-house was under 1/4". 2). Kitty poop box. Confirmed. I am pretty regular with his cleaning schedule these days and mist it with 10% bleach spray. Same with pet hair. 3). A beautiful hand-me-down oriental carpet. Confirmed. The room stank of nasty chemicals and there is a HVAC return vent in there. Another previous dog with kidney failure (possibly from foreign food) had peed on everything. Other carpets had to be thrown away it was so bad. They bombed that thing. I took the risk of using straight water with the Bissel upholstery attachment, which uses little water, and noticed possible improvement when furnace is on. 4). Radon gas. Unknown. I replaced the vent fan and leave it on. 5). Water leaks from bathrooms upstairs. Confirmed. The toilet definitely had a leak but is located behind cabinets and some type of false wall when they added the second floor. Difficult spot to see and work with. The ex gf had hung several heavy ceramic planters from the ceiling of the first floor bathroom which fell and chipped the metal tub. The reason they fell was bad attachment hardware with the drywall getting wet from the leak. A plumber was already out to reset the base gasket. The toilet itself is an old design, doesn't flush well, and the non-common parts hard to find. There is carpet up there (yes yes I know) so the footprint of any new toilet won't match. I will need to pull the toilet, redo the flooring, and get a new toilet installed. The upstairs shower also has a leak still to be fixed. I previous ran some silicone sealer around the edges of what looked like a sketchy surface mounting seal but that did not fix it. It's in the pipe. Probably not glued. I used a saturation surface tester and confirmed drywall around the drain increased after usage. 6). Methane. Unknown. Both shower and toilet upstairs have not been used in a while. Because of that, the water in the p-traps will evaporate and then sewer gasses can back-flow into the house. I add water occasionally and taped off the drains. Sometimes the smell is sudden especially when it's windy and raining. I installed 4" vent rain caps to keep out mice/squirrels and checked the down pipe in the attic was glued. There is no longer easy trees to roof access for them just in case they crawl down and die somewhere in the plumbing, blocking things up. 7). Roof leaks. Unknown. I went up on the 12yo roof and it looks visibly good. There is zero no visible evidence of water tracking in the attic ceiling. A flashlight while raining will show this. Some window drip edge trim was cut slightly short, but it's under an overhang and protected from direct water. 8). Condensation. Suspected. There is an angled enclosed wall/ceiling in the kitchen which melts a foot-wide snow on the back porch. That means a source of heat loss. An infrared thermometer is useful for finding these temperature differences in the cold winter and hot summer. Any enclosed space not exposed to interior 'conditioned air' will develop condensation like a cold pop can on a warm day. That constant dripping will create mold conditions when it puddles into the wall. That is also on the project list for this year. I had the attic ceiling spray-foamed with "open cell" foam instead of the more toxic "closed cell". That might have been a mistake. The interior attic ridge venting is like a tornado sometimes and there is very good air movement up there. But "open cell" supposedly retains and exchanges some water content instead of being a hard shield. It's possible that the upper surface of the ceiling drywall might have created that condition. |
I am so f'ing cross with myself today. I had some folk coming to look at an old VW Golf Cabriolet I fixed up. The odometer had been slipping so this morning I pulled the cluster to address the problem,and created a new one. Apparently there is now a crack in one of the circuits on the printed wrap on the back of the cluster. It manifests itself by sounding the low oil alarm when the engine revs above 2500. Tonight I get to pull the cluster again and look for a hairline crack in a circuit.
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Customer brought me this scrub cadet. Yes I know they suck. It took alot of fiddling to get this one right again. Ended up replacing the drive belt , deck belt and fixed the starter drive and resealed the valve cover. In a round about way. I didnt expect to love it but its freakin awesome. Zero turn tractor who knew that was a thing. Turns on a dime and gives you 5 cents change. Bonus the two drive motors make traction awesome unlike an open diff. And the wide stance makes it great on side hills. Could use just a few more hp in the tall grass but thats expected from a krohler. I almost dont want to give it back. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683755385.JPG
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Inching forward towards a flying bird. Had to have screw on guide pins made, they worked very well.
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That is so freaking bloody cool!!!!! Awesome find and yes, my jello-ness rages on, lol[emoji2957] Hope to look into a viable solution to the Allan fuel valve change-out on the VariEZ . I need to examine how much of a challenge it would be to remove the torque tube rather than machining a small extension for the valve.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1439af7ca0.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...aa0dd944b9.jpg I was able to get the new gasgolator put back on the mounting bracket. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e0dd606090.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...29803a3138.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...28fb467c9c.jpg Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Wow! I will never gripe about my projects again……. That was a fart-ton of work and investigation to boot. Good luck with all of that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Found the fault in the Golf instrument cluster. Just a bad connection in a tiny voltage limiter.
The good news is I can now pull or replace the cluster inside 15 minutes. Oh yeah. The saga continues. Best Les |
Ugh bathroom reno-----
Out with the CI tub.. If I have to do it again I'll just hire some day laborers from the Home Depot parking lot. Originally was going to cut it up, but ran out of cutting wheels, so out came the sledge... http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683908734.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683908734.jpg Going for this sort of look http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683908794.jpg |
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This doesn't call for much explanation. As usual it's expanded to a full sanding and painting of the steel frame before the new decking goes in.
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Dang, Guy......those Carnitas......:)
Did a job today I had been procrastinating for about a month. Replaced faulty kitchen sink garbage disposal and ran a drain auger through my drain pipe. I use a Ryobi P4001 auger. Still a bit messy and a PITA. Man I hate getting under sinks. Almost as much as I hate plumbing! |
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So very true my friend!!!! Oh yeah…… I’m now tasked with building a pad for the new hot tub that Mrs Bugs bought….[emoji849] not like I have enough unfinished projects sitting around. The free hot tub we picked up a few months ago will be going away to a new home for $FREE.99 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Last fall I replaced the lattice roof on the back porch with smoky lexan wavy panels and filled some rot. Overdue.
It's mostly protected from rain now which is nice. Wanted to make a small privacy barrier for my neighbors that looked attractive. Bought some ornamental panels that turned out to be far too large by mistake. As it turned out the original design would overlap the empty space and not have the right "picture frame look" that I wanted. Went round and round on on paper with a calculator altering frame thicknesses, moving the panels around, and whether it would provide enough strength to hold up. Just barely not enough room. The solution ended up being cutting 1" off the sides of the panels. They are inlaid 1/2" into the wood frame on all sides and embedded in black outdoor caulk to prevent rattling in the wind. All top gaps were also caulked. The table saw was used to rip the slots in the wood and finished off with chisel. Fun new toy.The neat thing is that the pins can be popped out and the entire thing disassembled if a panel ever breaks. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1684207127.jpg |
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Oohhhhhh, details? Mrs Bugs would need something like this. Placing her kayak on the roof of her CRV just ain’t happening. We saw a purpose only trailer by Yakima, but the price shocked us. I had some time so I worked on the big battery upgrade on the side by side. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c3776d8a5d.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5cda95d785.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...11d9a32c33.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...be45c342cd.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ead1129300.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...cf8fc92584.jpg The candle was to ward off the bazillion mosquitoes swarming me. All I honestly think it did was attract those little blood sucking bass-turds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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My project list is long, but Mother’s day was near. So I made this and life is harmonious. Didn’t build it today, but called it finished today. I was waiting for some magnetic cabinet hardware to hold the doors closed.
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I was growing tired of transporting our kayaks in the bed of the Tundra and decided there had to be a better way. A neighbor had an old Sears boat and trailer they wanted rid of for free. I cut the poor condition fiberglass boat into pieces for the trash collector. I removed the rollers, winch, guides, and anything else related to the boat from the trailer frame. The trailer was then sandblasted and powder coated. I was going to fabricate a carrying rack but found a store display kayak rack on Craigslist. A friend welded the rack in place and welded the mount for the front truck tool box. I installed new wiring, lighting, and reflective tape. The wheel bearings were serviced and new tires installed. Eye bolts were placed for ease of securing kayaks. Cost: Trailer - 0 Title and 5 year registration - $132 Sandblasting and powder coat - $500 Store display kayak rack - $100 Welding and bracing materials - $350 Truck tool box and rack - $125 New wheels and tires - $140 Lighting, eye bolts,and misc - $50 Total - $1,297 The trailer is a 1969 model but it looks new. It pulls like it is not there. Loading and unloading is very easy although I have not put a kayak on the top rack. _http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1684289044.jpg |
Found out the new covering system requires paint on aluminum that it will attach to so we had to clean etch, alodine and epoxy prime the wings in preparation for the oratex (german) covering.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1684371127.jpg
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Took the carburetor off of this Troy Bilt TB575SS 4 cycle trimmer yesterday morning and cleaned it and let it soak overnight in some non ethanol fuel and put it all back together this morning. Works fantastic now.
I also replaced the fuel lines, fuel filter, and primer bulb. My Stepdad gave me the trimmer almost 2 years ago because he wasn't going to use it anymore. I hadn't tried it out until just a few days ago and went through the process of going through it and getting it going. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4ad0c37a4e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a11c796496.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1fe512d411.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9e9d419caa.jpg Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk |
The beginning of weed/grass whacking/cutting for fire mitigation. This string mower comes in handy for fairly flat areas. Weed whacker is needed on the slopes. There's plenty of use for both around here.
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Its not often I cant fix something but its usually a 2 stroke. This Sencore Saw beat me . Well I gave up on it anyway. Had to give it back to the customer broken and he paid me but I gave him a free 5 gallon bucket of hydro fluid so it wasnt so bad. It starts up and stalls out. They have an electric choke and some sort of sensor that cuts it off if it senses low oil. Couldnt find any info on how to diagnose it. I tried bypassing the electrics and a bunch of other stuff that didnt get me anywhere. Told him to buy a stihl. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1684456040.jpg
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Less maintenance plus looks better. Draw your view on paper, make 20 different designs, see what you like. Add a statue or pair of 10ft lions at the gate, a lined drive, a brick fence or baby poo yellow fence, a big recirculating fountain right in the center, or some yard art (but not a 82 DeVille on jack stands). Something you will love to look at out the front window...every single day. You've got a nice view with potential. Totally jelly here. |
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I mowed/blowed the small lawn at the rental with an electric trimmer and got things more tidy.
Cleaned up a 3'x4'x1' pile of pure pollen from the drive. Michigan trees are self-seeding for rain which already dropped on the west coast. Cut down half a small trash tree cluster growing over the tenant's unused garden bed and a transplanted Montmorancy self-pollinating Cherry tree. Nothing grows under this type of tree or under the Black Walnut between the houses which was previously removed. I was sad to remove that because of the squirrels but it was just in the very wrong spot. Got a tree service quote for a grand, f that, and decided to DIY using a couple electric chain and pole saws instead. Need to take over a little bigger ladder for a few remaining high branches before dropping the trunks. [edit] forgot to add: A few small branches almost knocked the ladder out from under me despite having a plan. Be careful out there! I smell like peanut butter tonight. The tree is a non-native invasive Tree of Heaven/Chinese Sumac/Stinking Sumac. It is drought resistant and grows fast but it emits chemicals restricting growth of other plants. Cut it to the ground and it regrows fully. I've found new sprouts. I'm a couple years too late in getting this removal done. There is some literature about it having medicinal properties yada but it's the wrong tree for the wrong place. |
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