Post Your Virus Projects!
 

Well we all have lots of free time now, what are you doing to make it productive? Let’s make lemons into lemonade! I just finished repairing a bunch of crappy Sheetrock work, repainting, and then laying a hardwood floor in my living room. Today was car cleaning day and I ordered the stuff to replace the radio and speakers in my truck next week.

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Mrs. Noah and I are still working, so our "project" has been finding some way to keep the 3 school-aged kids safe/fed/occupied at home during the weekdays.

No pictures yet, but today, I bought two John Deere 316 garden tractors with the twin cylinder Onan motors, and two 50" mower decks. One runs/moves great, but needs a little TLC, while the other has a blown motor, but many good parts. I paid $550 for both of them together.

To be honest, this isn't all that out of the ordinary for me. My business has peaks and valleys. I went out looking for antler drops the other day for some fun but I'd do that during a normal week when I get bored or tired of being around home. It's fun reading comments from people who aren't accustomed to working at home.

Upcoming plans, going to rent a floor grinder with vac and do some work in my basement.

Hoping my man cave build thread has some updates soon :cool:

Me too, but my weekends are weirdly empty without having three kids in sports. We also typically go out pretty often with friends, so we have way more free time than normal.

It was a nice day, so we took a hike in the local desert. We found this huge boulder with really interesting weathering. It was really nice to get out of the house. The problem with the hike was it was only five miles long, but the first half was a real uphill slog.

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I'm still working but have a few projects of my own that I wanted done. Tackled one today. The deck furniture needed to have a fresh coat of protective oil as I've not done it since I bought the furniture 5 years ago. Picture with the single chair is the "after" and the group is what they all looked like before. Couldn't get an after of all of them because I had to stuff all the furniture into the shed (pending rain showers). Pretty happy with it!

angela

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Hike Thursday
Hike Friday
Mountain bike today.

I even "worked" Thursday and Friday!

And lost three pounds working from home a week.

No complaints.

I even bought oil and filter for my sister's car.

Doubt anybody would care to see a pic of an old man hobbling along with a tank sprayer full of roundup or brush killer depending...another 3-4 hours tomorrow and I hope to be done. Have to confess, the chore sure was easier 30 years ago...

I was thinking we might be lucky enough to hear from you.

The only real change here is having my grand daughter home every day from school. ( And of course both she and my wife have colds.)
I bought a small (12') sailboat that needs repairs to the foredeck, but haven't made the trip to pick it up yet.
The electrician who was re-wiring our house for a generator panel and upgrades is self isolating, so that has stopped with about two more days of work to go. The power company pushed the service call back three weeks.
I had better get a start on cleaning out my shop.

Stay safe, everyone.
Best
Les

Just done the timing belt and rollers on my Megane Sport 225. Then sprayed the rub strips and door handles to match the car. Now painting the Brembo's.

Finally getting the 73 back together. Installed the driver's door, all trim and mechanical stuff. Everything seems to work. Yippee!
On to the passenger side next.

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I have the Wife convinced that all paint and hardware stores are closed due to the virus. And the first one of you guys who opens their pie hole and starts blabbing gets clobbered!

Hmmm, since this CV business ended my ski season early, on to the Pcar. It will be ready before the weather cooperates this year:)

1) Window switch, again:(
2) Replace vapor barriers while I'm in there
3) New fuel filter
4) Probably a new set of injectors
5) Lexol interior
6) General cleaning

Plus, the honeydo list grows by the hour. With luck, I can complete most of it so less complaints once I start running to my place in N. Wisconsin to fish and work on my tasks there.

Hey wifey, pssssst, the Home Depot is OPEN. ;):D

I’m rebuilding this ancient Vox AC100 bass amp. Somewhere back in time someone put a 50 watt output transformer in it, I guess trying to get it to break up at lower volume, trying to make it into a good guitar amp. I’m restoring back to it’s original configuration.

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I've been putting up Hardie board planks on my workshop addition.

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Will be mounting a Antigravity battery in the Panamera as well as a battery monitor.

Then of course reprogramming everything...

I guess I did sand and re-coat a reclaimed oak dinner table project just now.

Big honey do list getting smaller.

I made that little cushion with leftover leather for my home office chair, since I am spending 8 hours/day on that chair working from home now. I may order a more comfy chair form staples further down the road, but the one I liked was unavailable, high demand yada yada, so this will do for now.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1584913132.jpg
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Not virus so much as ongoing Rat Rod build. I completely redid the original seat but with a modern twist. It used to be a farm truck, so you can imagine what that looked like after 64 years. They were made with burlap, horse hair and cotton wadding.

After disassembly, the frames / springs were sandblasted then I had to repair/ replace smaller springs obtained from the local hardware store. Then I reinforced all those springs with criss cross wire to really stiffen them up. Then paint, use dense foam and then glue pieces, shave that so to feel / look like a modern seat.

I had a shop do the original upholstery in a modern tan with contrasting piping / stitching. I added 2 custom "V" medallions and inset them. A lot of work.............but turned out OK.

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I will drive to the shop under the guise of being a critical auto repair facility and work on this 65 International. For other than "super" customers, I will tell them in respect of the Governor's request, I am curtailing business for a couple weeks. In short, leave me alone.

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In appreciation of asphaltgambler's fine job of seat work, the truck owner had his seats done in Real Tree. $900 and I bet not near the job of pics posted above.

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WOW Rob, she's looking great.

Self-isolation in the shop. In the middle of front brake and new hub bearings and seals. One side down and one to go! Also finishing new clutch cable replacement with all new related parts and refurb pedal box with parts from our host!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1584917754.jpg
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Some of you guys definitely have me beat. Today was more walk repair in the hallway and finally installing a permanent 20A feed to my lift and air compressor. I’ve had a cord laying on the ground as my “temporary” wiring for about 4 years.:)

Wow, I'm totally stomped over how productive you guys are. Right now I don't even have a car to work on. Instead, I'm about to replace the LCD digitizer on a decade old iPhone 4, just to see if I can success. No photos since the replacement screen has yet to arrive, by mail. So small screws and my fat sausage fingers. Bad match.

Did a 3 hour detail on Mrs. Beard's BMW. Pretty disappointed with the material selection/build quality on many of the internal components. Even shampooed the carpets. Looks really good!

Did SRTU’s, primed and painted all the walks on the first floor. Stairs and second floor next weekend.

I hope to install a custom trans tube/dipstick in the 14 F150 next weekend. Ford stopped installing them years ago to save $.10 each.

Cleaned out all the gutters which made a mess of the drive and walkways, cleaned those off with my trusty blower.

Finished rebuilding the clutch Master cylinder and bled the system on my big brother's VF750F Interceptor.

Walked 2 miles uphill both ways to the local Safeway for salad fixins with my sweet wife.
(parking lot only half full on a Sunday afternoon, found what we needed and it seemed like the shelves were all pretty well stocked)

Fixed and had dinner, let it settle- I'm headed down to the man cave/shop/gym to do come lifting shortly.

Oh yeah- I posted a bunch of stuff on Pelican Parts forums and did my part to gum up the internet.

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Inspected the brakes on my Tacoma. Adjusted the parking brake and strained to lift the tires to remount them . I’m so sore right now.

You guys are getting things done! It's been too cold and/or wet to do anything outside, but I did get a couple of projects taken care of. Both have priorities for MrsWD for the past 2 years. :eek:
We took some cabinet bases out in early 2018, just after we moved in. I finally got around to installing some tile in the space it left. I still have to fill the seams and nail in a new piece of baseboard.

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The space above and behind the washer and dryer was ugly and things kept falling back there. MrsWD as been complaining about it for 2 years.

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I made a shelf, 7 1/2" deep, 53" long, with a 6" panel to close the front.

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The shelf had to be easily removable, so I ripped a 2x4 down to make a French Cleat to hang the shelf on.

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All done!

Refinished the entry hallway wall and repainted, still have a little trim fixing to do today. Yesterday cleaned the hell out of the inner barrels of the E63 summer wheels and mounted them, figure I’m safe without my winter tires now.

Needed steps for a recent hot tub purchase.

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Not so out of the ordinary as every couple of months my wife wants pictures taken of the quilts she's made. Turned the living room into a 'studio' yesterday to photo 4 quilts she's finished up this year.

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My guys are still working on this house but at a much slower pace. This means I can be a little lazy and how show up there daily. So next week, I decided to build the second story deck come next week if there's no rain. Huge footings has been done a few years back. Wife be happy

Nice!

Not my quarantine virus project but Mat Best's music project. Thought you guys would like to see it.
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