Much respect for your focus and patience to get this old crud stripped out of all those tiny spaces. Seems like you're willing to do it all, no matter how tedious the task.

Some jobs take perspective, it turns into a zen thing, it has to be looked at through the view that every procedure is important, and part of the cumulative journey towards a durable handsome airworthy airframe.
EG... almost everyone I've met hates sanding, to me, it's just the mandatory path to a great finish. I actually enjoy it, it's cool to spot imperfections before they telegraph through to the surface...
Thanks

Also this oratex fabric is likely to last a long, long time, there are lifespan estimates, but know one really knows for sure just how long it'll go. One things for sure though it won't last 10 years if I don't eliminate ALL of the corrosion now, it'll march on and cause the covering to need stripping before it's time, ultimately a huge waste of resources

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Worked a little bit in cleaning up the spinner of the VE. Hasn’t been touched since 1982, lots of atmospheric crud layered up. I did not take a before pic, just one of the process and finished.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...809b92138c.jpg
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Like new shoes, I should see at least 5-6 knot speed increase…[emoji6]

Worked on the 330 this weekend. Changed the oil and filter,; added some bracing to the new rearview mirror, as it was vibrating at speed; started installing the front brake ducts; added two louvered vents to the hood to get more cooling; added a second phone mount, so I can run two phones at the track… one for lap times and one for engine parameters via an OBD Bluetooth gizmo.

Ho Li Fook - I just got my Kizen Miter Saw Fence installed and I am absolutely blown away with the build quality and functionality! And, this thing is so pretty I feel like I should display it in my living room.

The fence is milled from 1/2" and 1/4" anodized aluminum plate. Imbedded t-slots provide a sliding mounting interface in the back and vertical slots in the front for using adjustable vertical crown stops and the acute angle jig.

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This universal fence is designed to be used on almost any saw. In my case, I chose to raise my stock fence by 1/2" using washers allowing me to use the t-slot to mount it so that I can slide out for 45 degree cuts. If I need to cut 45 degree cuts on the vertical axis, I'll need to remove the fence which is easy b/c it's on a t-slot.

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I'm going to be spending a great deal of time in the mountains this winter. My driveway is 140 long and I am getting too old to shovel that much snow. Bought a used none working snowblower. It had compression so I changed out the carb, new plug, fuel lines and belts. Serviced all the fluids and greased the zerts. Fired right up and works great. One of the easiest things I have ever fixed. All total I have about $260 into it

I have the same blower. Check the ground wire for the ignition disable, mine wore through and caused intermittent stoppages that were very frustrating.

My daughter's 2012 Honda Civic has rear drum brakes, fronts are disc. I replaced her front pads and now been working on replacing the rear shoes. I've never dealt with brake shoes before so this has been a real learning experience for me, and somewhat of a pain in the a$$ being very fiddly!!!
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Just remember, on most drum brakes the larger shoe goes on the front side!

Drums last forever. After 383,000 miles on my Wl Camino, I have replaced the shoes just once.

Thanks for the tip. I cleaned the grounds while I was working on it but good information to have. Mine even has two lights on it that work once it fired up

Thanks, yes, these are the original brake shoes and the car has well over 100,000 miles on it. These shoes are also the same size for all four so, can't mess up the orientation of them, which is good. [emoji846]

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Reviving a 250r that hasnt been used in 5 years. Mouse in the airbox. New filter, changed gearbox oil, new chain guide, cleaned carb and new fuel lines. Also put a thumb throttle back on it had a twist. Drove it today runs good. Fork seal blew out and I still have to put on a new polished pipe I have. Petcock and carb were leaking a bit but I think they self healed. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1699567965.JPG
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Banned in the US! And it looks like a blast!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1699579187.jpg

Always wanted one.. so sweet! We had a little 70 growing up.. it was a blast we rode it on a flat circle track in the back yard hanging off the side with the throttle pinned and wound out drifting both turns... good times
As a kid I never understood why people couldn't ride then without dieing.

Long-ish messy day today....There was corrosion(rust) under the paint. Whoever did it last shot it with epoxy primer. Epoxy primer is good it just needs to be top coated with urethane... it wasn't topped. Anyway the epoxy is porous and it allows moisture to effect the tubes... not good, I need to replace a few more tubes.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1699660911.jpg
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You scraped all the epoxy and then sandblasted with light pressure, is my guess? What was the medium? Did you have to replace any of the glass in the car in the background?

Haha no damage. I scraped and stripped around to check for corrosion.... found it all over. What I didn't get I blasted. Doing the back then front

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

Yesterday, Mrs Bugs n I spent the day hammering, shaping and digging out a 80’ culvert that has been a problem culvert on the property since we lived here. We live on a hill that seems to grow rocks as you’re watching..[emoji849]

I’ve used industrial jack hammers, a backhoe and other implements to chip away at buried rocks and what we call Placerite. It’s a hardened layer that is more resistant than concrete when breaking it up. It’s so hard that when installing a 12” metal culvert pipe for the driveway, it cracked the boom on a large backhoe. What I actually discovered is that using the Hitachi demolition hammer with the pinpoint tip, I am actually able to chip it away as well as shape the buried boulders. Kinda like an ice pick vs blunt 1” chissel. [emoji2371]

Anyway, spend all day working it and this is the end result after moving 30+ wheelbarrow loads of dirt. Hopefully the water will drain better. A little more slope/grade work and if the flow is adequate, we will line the culvert with a cloth barrier and then place rip rap. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...016e3d7fe5.jpg

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The HD bucket is our anti critter barrier until I can weld up a grate cover. This is the concrete end cap to the pipe to help fix this culvert issue after I extended the wall this past summer. It’s approximately 22” deep so I need to fab up a metal grate to prevent folks from falling into it.

Cheers

Today I get to attempt an AC line and misc component replacement in our 95 K1500. Kinda sucks not having a defroster rolling into winter.


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Man you're killing it. Congrats!

^^^^^ No Kidding. The good thing about all that work is they will have many years to enjoy it without having to do more work. Great additions to your house.

It's never going to end for bugs.... he's in an awesome place to build a bunker... which he's going to need soon enough, unless he moves out here to the rockies.... bunker, coming right up!

Not really today, but last week. No matter how nice October was, we will get winter eventually. With that in mind, I had a look online for some used winter wheels and tires for the Jetta I bought last Spring. Turns out the place I got the car had a set of snow tires on steel rims which came off a Golf GTi. My only complaint with the set was the scabby condition of the made in China rims, but that was only paint. Some wire brush and abrasive wheel work later, I primed them and pondered my next step. (Never a good idea. ) Instead of black, I did the rims in silver, then grabbed some "denim blue" in a rattle can and shot the centers. The car's paint color is "silk blue ". I guess it's close enough. With the salt used on the roads around here, they won't look like this for long, but for now, it'll do.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1699893526.jpg

Best
Les

We've had an ant problem in the kitchen now for a couple of weeks. Last night my wife noticed we had a drip from a hose bib out in the front planter box. I made the mistake of investigating it this morning.
As I went to tighten the hose that was connected to my quick shut-off valves I put a small amount of side pressure on the pipe so I wouldn't fall over. It sprayed down at ground level like it'd been partially cut open. I started to dig it all out but with the water turned off to the whole house we thought it better to call in a pro. That and the fact my back is killing me convinced me that was the wise thing to do.
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I put the sprinkler system in a long time ago but I can't remember how all the galvanized pipes hook up to each under there. One gate valve shuts off everything, the other I think just shuts off the run of pipe to the backyard. But, I could be wrong.
Plumber will be here between 1-4pm today. In the mean time I'm waiting as my wife doesn't want me to cut up my arm more on the bushes and wall. Turns out I've reached the age where I just bump something and I'm bleeding it seems.

Talk about mission creep, I knew this would happen, but really?
Our plumbing adventure has now gone BIG time.
They'll be replacing the line from the meter to the house, new ball valve to replace the old gate valves, new hose bib, and reconnect the sprinkler system too. Then they'll be replacing the hot water heater because, well, it's easily 20+ yrs old so it's gotta go too.
All that for an estimated $11k.
My wife thinks it's a deal as she has a friend who said it's going to cost them $10k just to run a new line from their kitchen to the street.
I'll just be glad when it's all done.
Oh, and we'll lose that bush which I'm not that upset about, but I have put a lot of work into growing it nice so it'd hide all the plumbing stuff. Oh well.
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This is a shot of the 'bandaid' they put in so we'd have water in the house until all this other stuff is ready to go.

Managed to get the back end of this birdie properly protected from corrosion. The first pic shows pig's corrosion resistant epoxy primer... this is the tintable version. Once that was on I shot on a couple coats of aerothane urethane paint. It's flexible tough stuff. We stripped the front half down yesterday, I'll be back to blasting monday wx permitting. There are a few other areas to do welding repair on and I'm sure more will show once the media work is finalized. That's the beauty of not powder coating, I can touch up any repairs with ease... I don't have to blast, repair then haul to a coater which can sometimes be weeks of a naked steel frame exposed while waiting for a blaster.



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Funny when you realize this plane flew in....:rolleyes:

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My hat is off to you for doing all your blasting right out under the Utah skies.

Being a "Mountain Man" isn't always so fun and easy in the winter!

As always, thanks for showing us the progress.

It's in the genes... viking-scott and german ancestry... I do better with cold than hot.;)

The hoa... they don't like fencing. Anyway I've had a very successful couple of years with this 50 foot row of ever bearing razzies, 30+ gallons this season, they were starts from my good friends garden.
Anyway I figured I'd pull starts off of mine last season and make a green barrier. They did ok but the plants don't really thrive unless you tie them up to get them through the snow months. Anyway the last several weeks I've been putting in post and wire to get them to take off next year. I almost finished mulching today. The one picture shows the common area walking path behind the yard.... no privacy, which isn't so bad unless I let the garden go (an embarrassment) the other factor are the deer, once I get the top wire on and the canes tied up they won't bother the garden as much mainly because they can eat off the outside of the trellising.... them and the neighbors, I'm going to put out a sign inviting them to pick as they wish... there will be plenty for us on the inside.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1700356010.jpg
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Delivered another chair order this weekend. These went to my SIL and BIL in Knoxville.

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Since picking up this scooter lift for the purpose of transporting my FIL's power chair I've used for everything but transporting his chair - its be quite handy! 500lb weight capacity


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Yesterday, I worked on my SIL’s Ford Exploder. Radiator fan clutch was bad, so I replace that and then cleaned the engine bay. After starting it, it felt like it was stumbling, so I use the air compressor to blow out water from the coils. Also, I had a code for the TPS. Took a look at it, and the wires going to TBS were bare and crumbling. I taped each wire individually and then wrapped it with some more electrical tape, to get it working. Ran great but still had the TPS code. I’ll order a new pigtail and throttlebody, to see if that fixes it.

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Thank you sir!!!!


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Thanks man, appreciate it. We sure hope so…


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Truer words have never been spoken..[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Actually thought about that. We are on a hill so a couple of shipping containers buried would be an option.[emoji6][emoji2957] I want to GTFO in such a bad way it’s nauseating. The clown has made such a mockery of this state it’s infuriating. The Rockies are SOOOOOOOOO alluring I can taste the clean snow.

My last run of days off were spent doing more pre-errosion control to the shaping of the culvert I posted about earlier. Picked up and installed some wattles and got them staked down just as the rain began and picked up two 5-gallon buckets full of buckeye pods so they don’t start growing into more buckeye bushes.

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Found out where the local bears are scampering up our hill.
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I was also able to get all of the AC lines removed and replaced with GM factory lines in the 95 GMC K1500 as well. In all, a productive run of days off. Now it’s back to the grind through the Thanksgiving holiday.

Cheers everyone!


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Wow! And I thought only our projects went from zero to 60 in the blink of an eye….[emoji6]

Regarding your water heater, have you looked at a tankless? I know that tankless don’t work for everyone’s application, but for us, it was one of the best decisions we have ever made. Yes, we are in city water and it is not hard water either so build up isn’t an issue. We are going into our third season on the same propane fill with the new system, where our old water heater would eat up the tank in one.

Bugs


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Absolutely amazing work!!!!! I learn something new every time you post about your work. I am still amazed I never knew anything about how porous epoxy primer was and how simple the solution is.

Who wuda thunk


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Nice way to establish a good looking hedgerow. Functional and beneficial to all too. Well played Sir, that’s great.

Beautiful looking views too [emoji6]


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Finally was able to squeeze this small project in today. Just adding on to the existing deck on the south side a few feet. It will be for more plant materials in production here so no need for anything super glamorous.

I left a small specimen Croton tree in place to add some cover.

I'll pick up a few more 5 quarter deck boards to get her finished.

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At one end there's a young twin trunk Illawarra King Palm I planted a couple years ago that's starting to develop nicely. It is a native to Australia and is also known as the Bangalow or Piccabean Palm.....

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Such a tropical scene, love it Baz!!!!


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