What did you do to your shop today?

[motorheadmike]

I took 2 12' sections of soffit and a box of BS LEDs back to Lowe's. I bought a 3 pack of Raid Max bug cyanide because my garage seems to be infested by Brown Recluse spiders 🕷. Those little bastids are n-a-s-t-y!!!

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Do not want.

 

[fleming442]

100% correct. You don't see them, they don't hurt when they bite, and Ortho Home Defense doesn't kill them, even if you think you know where they are.
1 week

2-3 weeks

4 weeks (almost healed!!)

Been on Doxy since Thursday

 

[5spdCab]

Couldn’t stand the disaster that it had become, so did a major tidy up and put away, then started scrubbing. It was pretty bad.

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A red Scotchbrite and some general household cleaner did a pretty good job of removing the dust, dirt, overspray and polish fling. Looks so much better now.

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I’m a bit embarrassed that I let it get so bad, but whatever, it is a functional shop afterall. Not a showroom.

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Ha! You think that was bad? You don't want to see my garage/shop. I've got multiples of most things because I am too cluttered to find the first/originals and have to buy them again.
I do like your little drill press, and have been thinking of getting one, but because of the clutter, have no place to put one.

 

[Smack-it]

got The lift working,,, so for the hell of it I picked up every vechicle.

 

[DRIVEN]

I walked past mine, shrugged in disgust, and tried to forget it.

 

[fleming442]

My timer for the soffit lights came in today, and the neighbor insisted on keeping them plugged in past dark. I have to say that I'm impressed,; they look awesome!

I also have spent the last 2 evenings sucking up spider webs with the shop vac.... HOLY !!!!!. They're EVERYWHERE!I went around the Olds about 2-3' back in hopes that I don't become lunch tomorrow.

 

[fleming442]

The spider battle continues; still getting lit up by those little fvcks. So far, it's been 3 rounds of Ortho Home Defense, 3 simultaneous Raid Max bombs 3 rounds of peppermint oil spray, and some select nuclear mushrooms of Rainbow Telco Wasp spray. I saw what I think was 4 of them yesterday. When I say little, I mean the size of a Bic pen roller ball with legs, and brown. I don't know if they're the culprits, but those are what I saw.
On the plus side, I finally got the Tork timer installed and programmed on the soffit lights; on at sunset, off at 10:15pm.

 

[motorheadmike]

Ordered a squat rack for the garage/home gym because Winter is coming. Trying to buy Olympic bars and plates is a huge PITA right now. I may have to make my own (the bar at least - we have sourced a place that cuts steel plates from stock).

Not that I am horribly out of shape but damn am I not where I want to be right now. If I can get about 250lbs at the house that would be a great start.

 

[mclellan83]

Ordered a squat rack for the garage/home gym because Winter is coming. Trying to buy Olympic bars and plates is a huge PITA right now. I may have to make my own (the bar at least - we have sourced a place that cuts steel plates from stock).

Not that I am horribly out of shape but damn am I not where I want to be right now. If I can get about 250lbs at the house that would be a great start.

Yeah I tried buying plates at the start of the whole COVID debacle incase the gyms shut down for the foreseeable future. But as a young lad I decided to buy all standard stuff instead of Olympic now I regret it because everyone goes Olympic. So needless to say I gave up on that adventure and now have not found my way to the gym in quite a while, so I live by round is a shape

 

[motorheadmike]

Built these today from a couple of grounding rods (?) I found on the property and a set of old winter wheels from the TBSS. My welder got upset at me because I had the amperage cranked to weld the 7/8" bars to the plate I welded to the wheels.

Now I can do more neutral hand position exercises. My father-in-law thinks I am a psycho - but, he is a type 2 diabetic and was stuffing his face with a sausage at 3 in the afternoon sitting on my deck. Sooooo yeah...