Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

My last garage sale was 28 years ago when I emptied my house to turn it into a rental. I was moving in with my wife at her house and we just had no need for two sets of dishes, microwaves, refrigerators and beds.

That and when we had the estate sale to get rid of the lifetime of stuff my parents accumulated. That one we hired a pro and paid him 30% of the proceeds. He worked his butt off on that one.

I will never have another garage sale.

[GH85Carrera]

Well, I left the 911 on the lift to make it easier to remove the driver's seat. And that is done, the seat in on the ground.



As we all know Porsche introduced the 911 in 1963 and designed it in 1961-1962. They evolved it until my 1985 model and long after. In the days when Ernst Fuhrmann ran the company my car was designed and he would not allow any money for R&D on the 911. He wanted to kill it and replace it with the 928, but the 911 kept selling at a large profit margin. The designers added electric seats and heated seats and could not design a new seat from scratch, so the shoved the motor for the seat back recline up in the headrest.

The only way to get to that motor is to de-skin the seat back. Dang you Ernst Fuhrmann! When he was replaced by Peter Schutz one of his first acts was the make the 911 model a priority, and he wanted an all new 911. Thus the 964 was born. Schutz told the story at War Bonnet Tech and was there that he called all the designers in. He took a magic marker and the end of the line for the 911 is now changed, and he drew a new timeline off the chart, and all the way down the wall.

And yes with the 911 on the lift, I don't have to kneel on the ground to get the bolts of of the seat rails and I can get the seat at a comfortable level to lift it out of the car. Much easier from a lift.

I really hope the wires are disconnected, and it will be super easy and fast fix. If not, I will have to get a new motor or whatever it takes to make it work. I am going to visit an upholsterer that was recommended.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I will never have another garage sale.

Mrs. Noah always wants to hold a garage sale (or tag sale, if you're from New England) to get rid of all the odds and ends we don't need/use/want anymore. She keeps recalling the one time we held one as we were moving away from Boston, and how much money she made (admittedly I think it was many hundreds dollars--I was impressed). But I think of the effort involved, and am not so interested. Instead, I'd rather find someone local who's having one, and surreptitiously drop off a few items for them to sell. Just kind of drive by and leave that old dresser or chair in their driveway.

[GH85Carrera]

We just drop the unneeded stuff at Goodwill. They have a drop-off site just 1/2 a mile from us. In OKC one is supposed to get a garage sale license, and pay sales tax on the sale. I am sure that is always paid in full.

We just don't have enough crap tat is worth enough to make the trouble of having the sale worth the hassle. If we were emptying a house, then yer, but that ain't happening. We plan to live here until we go out on a gurney feet first, or in a wheel chair off to the nursing home. It will be my nephews problem to sell the crap and the house.

[GH85Carrera]

Dang, tough day at work. My business partner called and we had a small project to fly to test a new version of the software that runs our camera system. It is a perfect day to fly, zero to 1 MPH winds. Low humidity, 78 degrees. So he asked if I wanted to see the new software operate. I asked if he minded if my wife tagged along.

She had not been up in a civil aviation aircraft in over 30 years. The flight was super smooth, and she enjoyed it, and to see the aircraft in operation. She had never even sat in it before. I let her fly in the co-pilot seat so she could see better.

3/4 of an hour flight and the camera system worked perfect.

[flipper35]

Next thing you know she will be taking over operations.

[GH85Carrera]

Not likely. She does not know anything at all about how we operate.

And she did bring a barf bag, and took a anti nausea pill before we left the house. She was real happy she did not even get queasy. I have been in the air on some real roller coaster rides on a bumpy day. It sucks. I have never been motion sick in my life.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by Noah930

Mrs. Noah always wants to hold a garage sale (or tag sale, if you're from New England) to get rid of all the odds and ends we don't need/use/want anymore. She keeps recalling the one time we held one as we were moving away from Boston, and how much money she made (admittedly I think it was many hundreds dollars--I was impressed). But I think of the effort involved, and am not so interested. Instead, I'd rather find someone local who's having one, and surreptitiously drop off a few items for them to sell. Just kind of drive by and leave that old dresser or chair in their driveway.

I tried having a garage sale, and sure I made a few hundred bucks, but after looking at the time spent organizing stuff and dragging it out, and the hanging out in the yard with people haggling with me over $2 items I realized my time is worth more. I do way better posting stuff on FB marketplace, and if it’s not going to bring more than 15-20 on there I just take it to goodwill. You guys are busy like us between work and the family, I’m sure you can find a way more enjoyable, or profitable use of a few weeknights and a full day on Saturday.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

I tried having a garage sale, and sure I made a few hundred bucks, but after looking at the time spent organizing stuff and dragging it out, and the hanging out in the yard with people haggling with me over $2 items I realized my time is worth more. I do way better posting stuff on FB marketplace, and if it’s not going to bring more than 15-20 on there I just take it to goodwill. You guys are busy like us between work and the family, I’m sure you can find a way more enjoyable, or profitable use of a few weeknights and a full day on Saturday.

Exactly. The hassle is not worth it. It has been so long that I don't remember what the item was that I had priced at $5.00. Some dude offered me one dollar. I told him I will set it on fire and burn it for fun rather than sell it for a dollar. He left, and I sold the item a minute later for 5 bucks.

It is just more work that I want to put in for a few bucks. When I sold lots of big stuff at my last garage sale and emptied a house, yea it was worth the effort.

Never again.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Well the crazy place I work has decided to hold out on the no vacation roll over and stick to the use it or lose it plan. I have 17 days left to burn so it looks like I have almost every Friday for the rest of the year off as well as the week of thanksgiving and the week between Christmas and New Years off. Funny thing is most of the projects I am working on make drawing issues on Friday afternoons. Not my problem now.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Morning all. Well the crazy place I work has decided to hold out on the no vacation roll over and stick to the use it or lose it plan. I have 17 days left to burn so it looks like I have almost every Friday for the rest of the year off as well as the week of thanksgiving and the week between Christmas and New Years off. Funny thing is most of the projects I am working on make drawing issues on Friday afternoons. Not my problem now.

Seems like you picked a good day to take a day off.

[Porsche-poor]

hoping the weather is good for a few of those. Might take the 911 out.

[GH85Carrera]

Even a better plan. It needs ot be driven.

[Porsche-poor]

or sold

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

or sold

Banish the thought!

[Porsche-poor]

I'll try on Friday.

[Porsche-poor]

Crap looks like rain Friday.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Crap looks like rain Friday.

You live in the PNW. Surely you cannot be surprised.

[GH85Carrera]

Golly more fun with toilets!

This morning after my morning pee, I lowered the seat as is required in the inside toilets. The hinges let go and the seat was just in my hand. Oh goodie. No chance to find the same hinges, so all new seat is procured, and the boss's wife picked it out.

Every toilet seat I have ever seen has an large Phillips head on the top of the seat hinge under a cap. This one she decided we had to have metal hinges. So it has a stud to screw into the hinge, and plastic clip, then a long nut that clamps it from the bottom. It sure is fun to lay on the floor looking up, trying to start a plastic nut with no real room to maneuver. And of course our bowl has a shape that makes getting a socket on it impossible. So 1/4 turn at a time with an open end 13 mm. The other side was easy, the socket goes on and zip it is done.

That chore is done.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by Noah930

You live in the PNW. Surely you cannot be surprised.

I determined long ago after buying a targa I was a weather God. I can simply think about driving it and it will rain. Leave it in the garage and everyone but me has fun in the sun.