What did you do to your non-G Body project today [2024 edition]

[86LK]

Money is a curse??? NAH. Nuisance, Pain in the Tookus, subject to periodic theft by various bureaucracies hiding under the guise of lawful government perhaps, but a curse, not so much.

Personally, for me, the global curse of this world is STUPIDITY Like my Shirt says, "Education can fix Ignorance; Nothing can fix Stupidity".

As related to our hobby, fixation, passion, and addiction for cars, the epitome of the word Stupid is the squirrel in the cage who looks right at you at the intersection, and then pulls out right in front of you even though you have the right of way and the light/stop sign is against them.

Gonna stop right here; the rant for this is beyond the ability of a milk crate to support it and a bullhorn to pontificate about it.




Nick

should we buy you a soap box? 🤣

 

[Supercharged111]

Got my EFILive back up and running after being without since early this year. So nice to finally have not only the tuning capability, but also the diagnostic capacity. I've spruced up the timing map on the old plow truck and it's doing better, gonna try and push it later today and find the limit so I can know where to stop. Then I can fire up the dually and get a straight answer on why it likes to unlock the TCC so much with one of those handy dandy tstate PIDs. I really didn't like flying blind with the thing on a near 1400 mile road trip at 23,000#.

 

[CopperNick]

Scary thing about that soap box is not the character standing on it, it is the cost to actually buy the genuine article from some antique shop. They have become relatively rare so ones in good shape can command high $$$$.

Looking at that derelict, it would appear that a piece of fascia board and some 1" x would be enough to build one. The reason I prefer the milk crate variant is that they are subdivided internally in order to isolate the bottles from each other. That way the bottles don't bounce off their neighbors and break. The virtue to that segmentation is that it re-enforces the external structure and makes the whole a lot sturdier than the soap box might be.

What makes the soapbox useful though, is that once you are done berating your audience, you can step down, turn the box over and then use it for a tote. I actually have a couple of the ones that were used for 6 packs of Pop, like Coke and Mountain Dew and similar. They are still sturdy enough to be "stuff" containers for whatever needs to be in a crate or tote.



Nick

 

[ck80]

Scary thing about that soap box is not the character standing on it, it is the cost to actually buy the genuine article from some antique shop. They have become relatively rare so ones in good shape can command high $$$$.

Looking at that derelict, it would appear that a piece of fascia board and some 1" x would be enough to build one. The reason I prefer the milk crate variant is that they are subdivided internally in order to isolate the bottles from each other. That way the bottles don't bounce off their neighbors and break. The virtue to that segmentation is that it re-enforces the external structure and makes the whole a lot sturdier than the soap box might be.

What makes the soapbox useful though, is that once you are done berating your audience, you can step down, turn the box over and then use it for a tote. I actually have a couple of the ones that were used for 6 packs of Pop, like Coke and Mountain Dew and similar. They are still sturdy enough to be "stuff" containers for whatever needs to be in a crate or tote.



Nick

I've got wooden crates stenciled 'product of poland' from the communist era days, good and sturdy, meant for lots of re-use. As for what originally came across the pond in them.... I think krakus hams actually, although, could've just as easily been booze.

We mailed family who were trapped behind mostly Levis and cassette tapes, then got all manner of good foods, especially chocolates, back in return.

I've really got to get around to the paperwork to get that dual citizen passport issued one of these days.

 

[CopperNick]

If you flip the box over and check the inside, if it has 12 or so partitions, then it was probably for booze. On the other hand, if it is just wide open space then figure it was that ham or other edibles as having it fully open like a cardboard box would give more room for stuff to be, well, stuffed into the cavity and lessen things moving around and breaking; like pickles or maybe Kapusta or Golabki.


Nick