What did you do today....other than work on your car!?

[Russ Hood]

Looks like we do the same things lol. When my MIG welding gun messed up it was over a year before I tore into it and bought a new gun awhile back and well, the new one is still sitting on top of the machine!

Cool....but you need to read the thread title again

Oops

 

[Cranky]

Oops

No worries.....happens all the time and all over the site.

 

[khryslerkid]

My friends grandson turns 12 this weekend. They had bought him a basketball hoop last year and it didn't last a week. Broken backboard. It was repaired and it broke again. So this year I thought I'd find a better one without spending a lot of money. Went on FB market place and found a local one. Went to look at it and it was a little rough but nothing I couldn't repair. I got it for $30.

The first thing was to fix the base where they had piled a bunch of concrete blocks on it. It needs to be filled with water or sand and not a bunch of weight piled on it.

Used a inserted valve stem to be able to apply some air pressure.

An expansion plug with a bracket...

Using a heat gun, pressurized the base, a little pressure from a ratchet strap and I got it back in shape.

Straightened out a couple of brackets and cleaned up the top half.

A little paint and good as new.

I delivered it this afternoon because of the coming snow storm this weekend. Had it together, filled the base with water and some RV antifreeze just in time for him to come home from school. He was very happy and was still using it when I left to go home.

 

[Cranky]

My friends grandson turns 12 this weekend. They had bought him a basketball hoop last year and it didn't last a week. Broken backboard. It was repaired and it broke again. So this year I thought I'd find a better one without spending a lot of money. Went on FB market place and found a local one. Went to look at it and it was a little rough but nothing I couldn't repair. I got it for $30.

The first thing was to fix the base where they had piled a bunch of concrete blocks on it. It needs to be filled with water or sand and not a bunch of weight piled on it.
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Used a inserted valve stem to be able to apply some air pressure.
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An expansion plug with a bracket...
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Using a heat gun, pressurized the base, a little pressure from a ratchet strap and I got it back in shape.
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Straightened out a couple of brackets and cleaned up the top half.
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A little paint and good as new.
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I delivered it this afternoon because of the coming snow storm this weekend. Had it together, filled the base with water and some RV antifreeze just in time for him to come home from school. He was very happy and was still using it when I left to go home.

Absolutely cool!!!

 

[YY1]

Mowed the grass, er weeds, and broadcast weed/feed/fire ant killer.

 

[khryslerkid]

Mowed the grass, er weeds, and broadcast weed/feed/fire ant killer.

You keep on mowing down there, we'll be thinking about you

 

[Triplegreen500]

I'm with the kid - 6" here, has just turned to sleet. Was gonna clear the driveway but now that it's icing...nope. I'll do that once it's over so I don't have a skating rink (on a hill!).

 

[YY1]

I kind of miss the white stuff, but I don't miss the cold.

80* here today.

 

[DeltaV]

Mexican for lunch (small lunch portion).

Sightseeing drive with the Mrs and we scouted around different parts of the county to see if any old cars were visible from the road. No old cars, just a few older pickups (1980's-1990's) that I wouldn't buy using your money. One of my coworkers says plain carbon steel has two states...rusted and rusting.

Went on a six mile hike. Ran across some dead deer. Probably poachers again. Saw one king size turkey vulture. We had really nice weather this afternoon.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Mexican for lunch (small lunch portion).

 

[Cranky]

Mowed the grass, er weeds, and broadcast weed/feed/fire ant killer.

I probably should mow the leaves.... at least it will look better.

You keep on mowing down there, we'll be thinking about you
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The dang fire ants are bad but the grass here isn't growing.... it's about half dead from this summer's drought anyways.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Cleared the drive after yesterday's snow (which was capped with sleet and rain - nice, wet, heavy crap today!)

Before:

And after:

And the leg up to the workshop:

Took about 2h with the 28" snowblower. Not bad. Gets me the exercise I don't get in the winter with no grass to mow

 

[YY1]

Oven base shortening project appears to be a success.

Now to attach the splice plates better, and build the other side.
...and figure out how to route that power conduit.

But now it sits where it should relative to the front edge of the counter top and also covers the gap at the back.

Whoever designed that base made it unnecessarily 4 inches too deep!

 

[YY1]

FINALLY!

After literally a month of Sundays.

I'm sooo glad that's behind me.

Of course the drawer hit the arch after the back was moved forward.

 

[YY1]

Had to notch the cabinet to clear the flex conduit for the power.

I bought this oscillating tool thinking I was gonna trim the inside of the toe kick.

It did a fantastic job removing this chunk, only 1/16" wader than the blade, and undercutting the cabinet base.

I'm impressed.

Trying to do that with "traditional" methods would have sucked.

 

[Photon440]

Oven base shortening project appears to be a success.

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Now to attach the splice plates better, and build the other side.
...and figure out how to route that power conduit.

But now it sits where it should relative to the front edge of the counter top and also covers the gap at the back.

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Whoever designed that base made it unnecessarily 4 inches too deep!

Perhaps they were trying to ensure a 4 inch gap at the back to keep heat away from the wall?

 

[YY1]

Perhaps they were trying to ensure a 4 inch gap at the back to keep heat away from the wall?

That's an interesting point...

...but the base is removable, allowing it to be converted into a "drop in" and also allowing it to be shoved back, literally touching the cabinet's rear surface or at least as deep as the notches on the plastic control panel will allow..

 

[Pops1967GTX]

new General tires for my GMC

 

[Don selleck]

started a new gas station, dunkin donut/ lees chicken project in battle creek monday, 3 days in still a cluster, electricians, and plumbers missed 17 pipe locations in the concrete floor that needed to be inside the walls, a little delay, patching the floors, framing z-furring and 2" foam, studs and coole

r assemblies. Got 6 guys hitting it pretty hard getting this project headed in the right direction again another section beyond the wall behind the cooler, that will be Lee's chicken. 6600 sq. ft. building cramming un goldy amounts of equipment and control not to mention the merchandise that gets crammed in hear after were done

 

[Don selleck]

got the high bay, welding area lights installed all electrical is complete, toliet installed nice to have a shitter out there. working on water heater and iron out should be in next week. getting closer.