What did you do to your shop today?

[CopperNick]

Well, today's option was to either sit and be still while my guts complained, or ignore them and fix the top rail on the back yard fence. The fence rail won. Nothing too intense to that, mostly a plug and play exercise in which the retaining wires got cut away, the bent tubes got disconnected from each other and toted off, the new tubes got plugged in, and new tie wires got laced into the chain link to recapture the rail.

However, doing that gave me the opportunity to do a comparison test between the Performance Tool 1/4 drive torque wrench that I had acquired, and the Tekton 1/4 drive which surprised me by showing up on my doorstep yesterday. As I noted above, the Tekton looks more like jewelry than a tool. Not so oddly enough, both tools are MADE in TAIWAN.

AND, both tools Agreed. When I ran the bolts again using the Tekton and having it set to the final torque value; CLICK-CLICK. No additional movement. So for me, that both validates the PT 1/4 drive and gives me two options for when I have confront other metric fasteners (and it will happen)



Nick

 

[Drkuhar]

My sons high school graduation party so no working on anything. Spent the last few days cleaning the garage and setting up for the party. Ill miss seeing his football games and school functions but im glad its over and look forward to what he does next.

 

[ck80]

Hauled another load of core wheels I'm gonna redo.... someday.

They along with other junk have been in storage bay purgatory since they got left out of the shipping container. I'll move them into the overflow workshop.

 

[Streetbu]

Cleaned out an area on the wall, and underneath for the lift to hang. Need to make a shelf or something to put the adapters, lift blocks, and pump on. Maybe a peg for the hoses to hang on too.

 

[CopperNick]

So Drkuhar, how did the Par-tae go??



Nick

 

[Gremlinsteve]

Bought a 24kw generator for it and the house

 

[Tomeal]

I should be messing with fiberglass sheets and resin, but it's hot outside. My garage is hot!

Got some free windows for the garage last fall. Well the process started.

Old window



Had to frame the replacements a bit to fit, but lumber I have laying around is free.

New (ish) window



It's barely screwed in. It's supposed to rain tomorrow. I'll finish setting it right in the coming days. It'll keep rain out for now till I finish it.

Part 2 of this cooling saga will come after the window is set.

Stay tuned......

 

[Tomeal]

Part 2:



Now to see if little sob has any chance at keeping up with the size of my garage. Let it run till I go to bed and see if it can at least knock the humidity down.

 

[Texas82GP]

Chyna Bad

You're Learning.

 

[Tomeal]

Part 2 ..... continued

Turned it on around 5, went and cut 3 acres of grass. Came back and that thing dropped the temp 4 degrees. Removed the humidity and started cooling. I think I have a winner!