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Post by milly on May 26, 2022 16:26:42 GMT -5
Worked on my car after taking son Callum on a 100 drive to Wrexham Hospital and waited while he had a 6hr operation at 7.30 this morning. Fell asleep in car in the car park there but didn't turn ignition key fully off so when awoke 3hrs wondered why the windows wouldn't shut. Headlight's had drained the battery. DOH! Just dropped him home and last 30mile for me and bed.
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Post by fuzzyruttin on Jun 22, 2022 21:55:57 GMT -5
Hey ya'll haven't been on here in a while. Promise I'll put a BBK on my 150 GY6 Ruck some day. Huge house cleaning last 24+ hours. Going to Glen Sahlen's 6 Hour Endurance this weekend (tomorrow! Thursday!) Didn't want to come back to a sloppy house. Troglodyting in the basement... the cool, cool basement. Sweat my ass off today.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jun 23, 2022 8:59:53 GMT -5
Making a tool bench/stand for a 7x12 mini-lathe, painting the backstop and finishing the plywood top etc. I am shit at painting... The sheet metal backsplash on the common 7x lathes is worthless. Next thing is to install a couple 24" LED lights above it. After that I can sort through the box of pieces parts cleaning and checking out what I have. There is a fair amount of tooling but I am sure there will need to be a number of repairs and mods done. I will need to check out that timing belt drive like Brent did. I need a lathe to finish a lot of projects and I am not quite physically or mentally up to digging in to the control wiring on my big 20x60 lathe to install a VFD yet. Getting a similar bench/stand up for a 1.5HP benchtop mill is on the agenda also. Then I can fix up my HF bandsaw and sheet metal shear/brake.
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Post by jackrides on Jun 23, 2022 11:40:43 GMT -5
FrankenMech, You Go Dude!!
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Post by FrankenMech on Jun 23, 2022 18:34:25 GMT -5
FrankenMech, You Go Dude!! Thanks guys!
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Post by FrankenMech on Jul 1, 2022 19:51:58 GMT -5
Harbor Freight has struck again. I bought a 2in1 air nailer/stapler #68019 several years ago. It drove in staples and brads about 1/8" deeper than it should and was almost unusable for light fastening projects. It has NO adjustment for depth and I attempted to reduce the air pressure to reduce the driving force, -no go. Reducing the air pressure like many people did also cause very numerous jams. Clearing those many jams eventually ruined the magazine and driving guide. I gave up on the damned thing with less than 300 fasteners used. Unfortunately my new workbench project required the use of a brad nailer, so out came the 68019 POS. I searched the net and found that some people had ground the end of the driver pin off by about 1/8" which seemed to work. My experience with The horrible item from HF apparently was very common. I checked out the manual and decided to try dropping another spacer inside the cylinder above the 'bumper' and below the piston might work. I took the POS apart, looked around for a tough rubber spacer and decided to use an old fashioned cut rubber garden hose washer as an additional spacer, not one of the modern molded plastic washers. The hose washer worked beautifully. Unfortunately I lost air pressure while 'testing' and the nailer jammed again, -permanently. I attempted to take the driver section apart and failed. Two of the drive guide to magazine screws were secured with Loctite. While attempting to remove the nose piece I lost the trigger latch spring into the depths of the garage. With the mangled drive guide I gave up and tossed the unit into the waste can. I bought a NEW 2in1 nailer/stapler from HF in the hope that the design defect had been corrected. No such luck. The new unit #64269 even after the years and model changes has the SAME DAMN DEFECT. It drives fasteners about 1/8" too deep and mars the work surface with a deep 'print' of the driver pin. I have determined that I will void the warranty and drop a hose washer inside this unit. I have no faith in Harbor Freight Chinese machines. I have had to take every machine I have bought from them apart and made adjustments, repairs, and finishing touches to them to have working devices. Except for one, -a framing nailer I bought years ago at the same time as the 68019. The HF 69928 28° framing nailer has driven thousands of nails, even other brands, angles, and types HF does not carry without a complaint. I do have to laugh at the socket head cap screws installed with a lock washer AND a flat washer. A flat washer defeats the purpose of a lock washer, -IDIOTS. I am still working on the worst Chinese product I have ever purchased. A tricycle from AMAZON that has had every single Chinese part except the forward frame section replaced or rebuilt because of manufacturing defects. To tell the truth though, all the supposedly American bicycles, tools, cars, trucks, and vans I have purchased since 1970 have had major defects also. I will let you know if the nailer/stapler mod works. Right now I am just angry.
RANT OFF
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 2, 2022 8:32:50 GMT -5
Replaced a double pane window in the garage. 1 pane has been broken for probably 2 years (likely from the lawnmower, but don't actually know). Finally ordered a whole new replacement from OneDayGlass (two week glass would be more accurate) and took care of that.
Plus, spread about 20 bags of rubber mulch.
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Post by milly on Jul 2, 2022 8:36:44 GMT -5
Today I worked on making a very hard decision and what confusion to my head it has made being one of those wanting and needing decisions.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jul 2, 2022 15:50:00 GMT -5
So... What are you thinking about?
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Post by milly on Jul 3, 2022 14:22:59 GMT -5
So... What are you thinking about? Scooters FrankenMech, I am storing my old Violet for it's owner and offered it back but alas it's not too be.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jul 3, 2022 14:51:10 GMT -5
Ahhhh, to be or not to be, a great conundrum. Eat more fish heads Scoot Master (congrats).
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Post by milly on Aug 2, 2022 11:33:23 GMT -5
Getting ready for setting up at the Green Gathering now for a break. With view of the old pub and railway bridge. Must have been a while since I have been here as we use to walk over the bridge but now blocked off and a footbridge alongside it.
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Post by 90GTVert on Aug 2, 2022 15:06:29 GMT -5
My father comes up to me last week and says the tire is off of the wheel on the mower. I asked how it happened. He said he didn’t know. I said, “No warning? It just falls off?”. He replies, “Wellllll, it was really hard to steer. My shoulders hurt from trying to drive it.” 🤦♂️ This is from a man that started his automotive career changing truck and tractor tires and went on to own his own shop, run a dyno, mechanic and service manager for dealerships. I would have never heard the end of it if I did that when I was young. Anyway, I plugged the tire and pumped it up till it was balloon-like to get through last week, but the bead was chewed up and leaky so I changed it today.
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 2, 2022 18:08:01 GMT -5
Don't let your dad drive the mower anymore, hide the key, install a hidden kill switch, etc. It is not safe for him to use the mower and possibly any other power equipment.
I am getting close to that age also. I do really stupid things that I would not have done 5 years ago. My brain is failing and it sounds like your dad's brain is also failing.
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Post by 90GTVert on Aug 2, 2022 18:50:26 GMT -5
Don't let your dad drive the mower anymore, hide the key, install a hidden kill switch, etc. It is not safe for him to use the mower and possibly any other power equipment. I am getting close to that age also. I do really stupid things that I would not have done 5 years ago. My brain is failing and it sounds like your dad's brain is also failing. Something's definitely up. He's 74. He still drives and is generally Ok to do things. He was still working till 72. Lately he gets irritated very quickly. He asked me to do something today. It took me literally 30 seconds to get to him and when I got there he was mumbling that he guesses he'll have to do it himself. 30 seconds. It may be age or stress. At this point he has a specialist for nearly every organ. He goes to heart, kidney, and liver specialists and sees a GI, endocrinologist, urologist, neurologist, plus his primary care physician, a regular eye doctor and a retina specialist and the dentist. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. Half of his life is doctor appointments and the other half is sitting around the house. At least he enjoys riding the mower around to help with the grass. We'll see how it goes.
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