What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2020]
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True, to be honest I am not really a turbo guy but thinking that with the typhoon cladding it should have a noisy boi in there if not 2. But gonna talk to my 2 buddys who are all about them to see which way they think i should go. Yeah has AWD
shouldn't you be wearing a hardhat when your are up that high in case you fall out?....
not me in the picture so Im A-OK. That is my business partner.
We have 2 rules.
#1 DNR
#2 if rule #1 does not apply they will find your lifeless body in the garbage bin
End of story, shotgun clause. Make sure the life insurance is paid up so my\his wife can pay off the house and find some young stud to spend all my insurance money.
If you can guess what these are, you're cool. They go on the front of my 4th gen road race Camaro.
So at some time during the quarantine I opened my big mouth and suggested the Mrs. get a rain barrel for her new adventures in gardening. Well that sumb*tch showed up last week... and well unless we put a pump on it there is no way the water is going to magically rise from the ground into the garden.
So in the face of a pressure treated lumber shortage (because every MFer is building a COVID deck right now) we managed to get our mitts on some 2x4s. And I built a stand for the water buffalo.
I am not a carpenter by any means, but not bad for a sawzall with a wrecking blade and the wife's 18V Borscht.
I can live inside it the next time I piss her off.
So in the face of a pressure treated lumber shortage (because every MFer is building a COVID deck right now) we managed to get our mitts on some 2x4s. And I built a stand for the water buffalo.
I am not a carpenter by any means, but not bad for a sawzall with a wrecking blade and the wife's 18V Borscht.
I can live inside it the next time I piss her off.
That's a bingo. I have C7 SKF X Tracker hubs in the mail.
Not only is everyone building, here in the states they quit making lumber for a bit.
Spent yesterday and today cutting away a substantial chunk of my 03 S-10's passenger side rocker panel and rear cab corner. Major terminal cancer. Interrupted todays fun in that department with a quick trip to the Emerg to have them go after a small piece of shrapnel that made it past my glasses and landed on my eyeball. By quick, I do mean quick; all in about an hour and a half, and home for lunch. Turned out that the eyeball self ejected the foreign object while I was waiting for the doctor. She found it floating around under the lower eyelid and fished it out. No harm, no foul, no scratching. Last time that happened they ended up having to ablate? the eyeball 'cause the chunk started to rust! Time before that and many years ago it was a thin sliver of fiberglass that flew up and dug in. The nurse in emerg thought I was putting her on until she took a strong light and peered real close at the eye. She still couldn't see the shard, it was the shadow it threw due to the light that betrayed it. Even when she used tweezers and pulled it out, she still couldn't see it in the tool, just the fact that the jaws were ever so slightly open and apart to indicate she had caught it. And for those of you who think that safety glasses or a full face shield will protect you, don't bet your sight on it. That miniscule piece of "foreign matter likely was a cast away from the cut off wheel on my air motor. At 10,000 rpm those small bits can blow by and you never see them. For the rest of that exercise I went full boogie with eye, ear, and dust protection. The rough cut portion of the program is done, it is the dialing in of the site to accept the new panels that is going to be a pain in the patience reserves.
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Forget Home Depot or Lowes for lumber. Do some asking around and find someone who does timber frame homes and ask where they get their tree trunks processed. Chances are the builder has a saw mill or large scale portable band mill to rough cut planks and studs from the trunks. If you can score the raw material, spruce or pine or poplar or have a neighbor with a tree that needs to be dropped and do the work in exchange for the cuttings you can end up with all the stud or framing material you need to build a scaffold for your tank. I put put mine on a base made from a pallet with cinder black legs using concrete blocks left over from my garage knee walls. If I want to build it higher, I will just add another layer of blocks and use that PL Adhesive to secure them to each other. Pallets can be found pro bono as companies get them with every shipment and throw away a lot of them to people who have fire pits and wood stoves. Folks around here are always on the scrounge for free fire wood. Only thing is you gotta be polite and ask first if they have a stack cause sometime they keep extras around for shipping and receiving bulk cargo.
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