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

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[gtx6970]

Is that a Jo-Han?

Great job!

Yes. It's an 80s issue friction promo.
Was red with red interior.

I used to have the real car.. 1968 Chrysler 300 vert
it was black with red interior. White top. Factory 440 tnt. Console auto. 3.23 sure grip.
Factory air and cruise control.
Unfortunately....lost it in a fire .

It was a project..but rust free and 100% complete.

I kept the fender tag and sadly sent the burnt hulk to the crusher.

It's near the top of the list of cars i wish i could have back

 

[YY1]

Yes. It's an 80s issue friction promo.
Was red with red interior.

I used to have the real car..
it was black with red interior. White top. Factory 440 tnt. Console auto. 3.23 sure grip.
Factory air and cruise control.
Unfortunately....lost it in a fire .

It was a project..but rust free and 100% complete.

I kept the fender tag and sadly sent the burnt hulk to the crusher.

It's near the top of the list of cars i wish i could have back

I love those 67 hidden headlights.

My first Mopar experience was my mom's 67 Newport, which had the same slab body lines.
Light yellow with black top and int.
383-2, AC, PW.
I loved hanging my arm out the window on the thick door top.

 

[hemi71x]

Well, i finished up the dis assembly, cleaning, detailing, painting, of the 1965-72 A body, 4 piston, Kelsey Hayes, disc brake calipers, that i took in as cores, for the rebuilt pair that i sold to a member over on the A bodies site.
Now I'm just waiting on the rebuild kits to arrive from Rock Auto, then i get to put them back together.

 

[Hey-O]

Just playing with this 1971 Dodge truck wall art. The grill pattern is made and kept. While both left and right are mirror images, white is left and yellow is right. I decided 15 degrees would be the angle of the center bevel of the grill. I will only run one bevel and that will be the center cut running the length of the grill itself. This is about simplicity. I'll show you what I mean in days to come. This, even with simplicity in play, will be more entailed than the tailgate. Remember this is art, a bit cartoonish and the dimensions can't be correct due to it not being full size. The outside frame that the grill center sits in will be next.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Finished the wet side of a washer dryer closet I'm adding to my rental apartment. I expanded a hall closet to make room for a stacker, added hot and cold feeds, and both a washer drain and a floor drain in case of leaks. I teed the drains together to a single outlet, ran it to an exterior wall, and down into the basement to tie into the main drain along with the drain for the first floor apartment washer drain. Tested, and no leaks.

I also stubbed the dryer vent up into the attic. Then my DeWalt died - smelled like a fried motorcycle stator so I called it for the day, came home, disassembled and cleaned the motor in the DeWalt. We'll see if it fixed anything or if I'm buying a new drill. I still need to run the rest of the vent thru the attic and outside once I hole saw a 4" hole for the vent...but that will be a morning job. That attic is HOT.

I'm tired of doing plumbing.

 

[hemi71x]

Well, i had to be over at the Mather VA Hospital, this morning to get whats called, an Echo Exam done, to see what's going on with my heart.
Can't remember the last time that i had one done on me.

 

[Cranky]

Finished the wet side of a washer dryer closet I'm adding to my rental apartment. I expanded a hall closet to make room for a stacker, added hot and cold feeds, and both a washer drain and a floor drain in case of leaks. I teed the drains together to a single outlet, ran it to an exterior wall, and down into the basement to tie into the main drain along with the drain for the first floor apartment washer drain. Tested, and no leaks.

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I also stubbed the dryer vent up into the attic. Then my DeWalt died - smelled like a fried motorcycle stator so I called it for the day, came home, disassembled and cleaned the motor in the DeWalt. We'll see if it fixed anything or if I'm buying a new drill. I still need to run the rest of the vent thru the attic and outside once I hole saw a 4" hole for the vent...but that will be a morning job. That attic is HOT.

I'm tired of doing plumbing.

Have always hated doing plumbing work!!!

 

[Ron H]

When we built our house we wanted a lot of windows, big ones, some about floor to ceiling in the great and dinette rooms. 34 windows, majority are casements. I was remiss more than I thought, with the necessary upkeep to make them last. Over the past two-years about ten have been replaced, two more on deck. So far around $40-grand. Most of the remaining windows are ok, but in need of preservation.

We haven’t used many of them much over the years and they get loaded with debris, grass, webs, add the condensation at the bottom of the sashes over the winter where the lower casement linkage is, taking out the varnish and stain. Upkeep should have included washing the frames more, adding treatment such as Armor-All on the seals…just like I do with our rides in spring & fall.

My oversight. Last couple days has been doing this drill, plus sanding down the sashes, re-staining, and varnishing. Two-coats of the varnish. Did re-caulking last year. Lord, recalling what it cost to put in all those windows when we built, that $40k alone for 10 windows, is double what ALL of them initially cost.

 

[Cranky]

When we built our house we wanted a lot of windows, big ones, some about floor to ceiling in the great and dinette rooms. 34 windows, majority are casements. I was remiss more than I thought, with the necessary upkeep to make them last. Over the past two-years about ten have been replaced, two more on deck. So far around $40-grand. Most of the remaining windows are ok, but in need of preservation.

We haven’t used many of them much over the years and they get loaded with debris, grass, webs, add the condensation at the bottom of the sashes over the winter where the lower casement linkage is, taking out the varnish and stain. Upkeep should have included washing the frames more, adding treatment such as Armor-All on the seals…just like I do with our rides in spring & fall.

My oversight. Last couple days has been doing this drill, plus sanding down the sashes, re-staining, and varnishing. Two-coats of the varnish. Did re-caulking last year. Lord, recalling what it cost to put in all those windows when we built, that $40k alone for 10 windows, is double what ALL of them initially cost.

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My X wanted 'all' the window curtains opened no matter what the temp was outside. It's nice until the 5 ton AC unit runs constantly for a house that's a bit less than 2000 sq ft when the outside temp is 100!! That's when I make sure ALL the curtains and blinds are closed lol

 

[Ron H]

My X wanted 'all' the window curtains opened no matter what the temp was outside. It's nice until the 5 ton AC unit runs constantly for a house that's a bit less than 2000 sq ft when the outside temp is 100!! That's when I make sure ALL the curtains and blinds are closed lol

My In-laws waited years before having central AC installed, they might have been in their 60’s by then. MIL was a master with opening and closing shades/windows depending on the sunlight direction and kept the house pretty nice most of the time. We had central AC put in when we built, but in our 1st house it was couple of window AC’s and my dad and I put in an all-house fan in the attic. That house fan really helped sucking the hot air out of the attic cooling the house down.

Lol, I’ll skip the time I was helping my dad put in a bedroom AC unit, high window from the ground, at their place when all of a sudden the damn thing came falling out the window on top of me. I tried to hold it knowing it would be trashed letting it drop; but when I felt the sensation of the fins slicing up my fingers that was that, let it crash. Five stitches…

Guess I didn’t skip that story, lol.

 

[Cranky]

My In-laws waited years before having central AC installed, they might have been in their 60’s by then. MIL was a master with opening and closing shades/windows depending on the sunlight direction and kept the house pretty nice most of the time. We had central AC put in when we built, but in our 1st house it was couple of window AC’s and my dad and I put in an all-house fan in the attic. That house fan really helped sucking the hot air out of the attic cooling the house down.

Lol, I’ll skip the time I was helping my dad put in a bedroom AC unit, high window from the ground, at their place when all of a sudden the damn thing came falling out the window on top of me. I tried to hold it knowing it would be trashed letting it drop; but when I felt the sensation of the fins slicing up my fingers that was that, let it crash. Five stitches…

Guess I didn’t skip that story, lol.

Oh wow!! Don't know what I can say about that! But....I do remember sleeping with my head at the foot of the bed because it was next to the 'window' of the attic fan pulling in the air! Did that lots of times in the late early 60's. Problem was the attic fan was on a 1 hour timer and remember waking up to reset that dang thing lol

 

[dadsbee]

Watched 25 or 30 guys earn their living ...

 

[Deviljunkie]

I hauled my new to me 64 plymouth to tell city indiana for "dragging main" I learned a whole lot about this car. It is to be respected and is above my pay grade. It also doesn't like slow stop and go traffic.
Burnouts are tricky as heck too. It sure was fun cruising this car tho. Kinda like when I was a boy and I'd ride along with my dad.

Pictured is the 64 and my mom's jeepster.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Don't ever use armor all on rubber seals. Go to an RV store, there's a product specifically for rubber seals. RVs use it on the slideout seals. Forget the name at the moment, but armor all will eat at the rubber. It's petroleum-based.

 

[Photon440]

Don't ever use armor all on rubber seals. Go to an RV store, there's a product specifically for rubber seals. RVs use it on the slideout seals. Forget the name at the moment, but armor all will eat at the rubber. It's petroleum-based.

Armor All uses a water based silicone emulsion. Despite what some Corvette forums claim, it has no petroleum distillates or alcohol in it. Anyone can look up the MSDS for it. It does contain 1,2-Benzisothiazolin-3-one, which is actually used as a preservative for natural rubber latex.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Armor All uses a water based silicone emulsion. Despite what some Corvette forums claim, it has no petroleum distillates or alcohol in it. Anyone can look up the MSDS for it. It does contain 1,2-Benzisothiazolin-3-one, which is actually used as a preservative for natural rubber latex.

My mistake.

I have still seen it destroy rv seals. Use the right tool for the job.

 

[YY1]

Have always hated doing plumbing work!!!

I don't mind "incoming" plumbing so much.

It's the "outgoing" plumbing I don't really have much desire to work on.

 

[YY1]

I didn't live in a house with air conditioning until 1997!

.....in Florida!

 

[Triplegreen500]

I don't mind "incoming" plumbing so much.

It's the "outgoing" plumbing I don't really have much desire to work on.

I'm the opposite. Feed lines are pressurized - more mess when they fail (I'm gradually learning to trust SharkBite fittings...). Drains are gravity...less desirable mess, but less likely to fail in the first place.