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

[hemi71x]

Our Pick-N-Pull wrecking yards are having a 40% off sale, so i got some parts off a 69 Dart, that one of the local yards has in one of their Chrysler rows.

 

[Don selleck]

Put a bid together with 5 alternates on a remodel , we did the house next door, Mike Tirico's. Getting ready for the winter blast supposably 6 to 8" probably get 3" with the weatherman's forecast average. Watching U of M losing control over Ohio State. Not looking good for the Wolverines.

 

[Cranky]

Washed and almost done drying 3 large loads of clothing and changed the sheets on the bed and just back from the grocery store. Bought 30 19oz cans of soup (majority of it is chicken noodle) for a buck and a quarter and a few other items that were on sale. Haven't seen that stuff this cheap since before Covid. The wife will be stopping by the hardware store to pick up a few items....

 

[Cojohnso1]

We lost our mother in law last night. She was the eldest, but also the last of the "Silent Generation." She was just short of 95. So now it's up to us late Boomers and GenX.

This life is going WAY too fast.

 

[Don selleck]

role swapping, that's all I'm going to say

Washed and almost done drying 3 large loads of clothing and changed the sheets on the bed and just back from the grocery store. Bought 30 19oz cans of soup (majority of it is chicken noodle) for a buck and a quarter and a few other items that were on sale. Haven't seen that stuff this cheap since before Covid. The wife will be stopping by the hardware store to pick up a few items....

 

[Don selleck]

We lost our mother in law last night. She was the eldest, but also the last of the "Silent Generation." She was just short of 95. So now it's up to us late Boomers and GenX.

This life is going WAY too fast.

sorry to hear that.

 

[Cranky]

role swapping, that's all I'm going to say

She does plenty so I do what I can to help out. We have another household to help take care of where her daughter lives and is handicapped and doesn't get around very well either so she doesn't do a whole lot in keeping the place tidy.

 

[Don selleck]

atta boy!

 

[thehemikid]

Go up, ...fell outa bed, ....and dragged the comb across my head.

Went down stares an drank a cup, ...somebody spoke and I went into a dream...

Aaaaaaaaa, A A Aaaaaaaa A A Aaaaaa.........

 

[Cranky]

atta boy!

She's at the other house now and will pass by Lowes on the way home so I told her I would go to the grocery store and she could stop by Lowes on the way home.....and she helped me with the clothes before heading over there lol.

 

[mmissile]

Staying proficient...

 

[Unkle Krusty]

My Endoscope arrived. This is my Christmas present. soon I will look at it and find out how it works.

 

[71RRHI]

We lost our mother in law last night. She was the eldest, but also the last of the "Silent Generation." She was just short of 95. So now it's up to us late Boomers and GenX.

This life is going WAY too fast.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Charles Cook]

Washed and almost done drying 3 large loads of clothing and changed the sheets on the bed and just back from the grocery store. Bought 30 19oz cans of soup (majority of it is chicken noodle) for a buck and a quarter and a few other items that were on sale. Haven't seen that stuff this cheap since before Covid. The wife will be stopping by the hardware store to pick up a few items....

Does it have that 3D printed chicken? If so that might explain why it was on sale. lol

 

[Cranky]

Does it have that 3D printed chicken? If so that might explain why it was on sale. lol

Will find out soon enough lol

 

[OneWheelPeel]

I went to play Tetris with the cars today so I can work on the Ranchero's carb tomorrow (Autolite 2100 with an accelerator pump issue), discovered the Vette has leaked its brake fluid out thanks to a warning light. But on the non car front, while doing this the neighbor (guy with baseball equip the other day) comes over and says something is wrong with the lawn mower.

He brings it over, a self propelled model, and the propelled wheels will role partially and then lock up. Put it up on the Ranchero to use as a workbench and pop one wheel off and see a screw jammed in the plastic gear of the wheel. It came loose from the smaller pinion(?) gear where it holds it to the shaft.
Slapped it back together with Loctite, lubed the spindles and rotated the wheels side to side, for some reason one side is almost bald even tho its effectively running a spool so you would think the wear would be even.

 

[YY1]

No pics but-

The East wall hose bib started being real hard to turn off and then started not turning completely off.

Took it apart to replace the washer and it was a 1/2" one and all the 1/2" washers I have are exactly the same size as the lip on the stem.

WTF?

Had to sand the circumference of the washer about 200 times holding a piece of 100 grit sandpaper "cupped" to go around it.

NOT super friendly, but it did eventually fit.

Still had to put a serious "crank" on it to shut completely off. Decided to see if I could find a handle that would allow a better grip....and proceeded to break off the aluminum handle that was attached to the brass stem.

DOH!

Had to Dremel cut-off wheel the rest of it off.

Of course NONE of the available handles were the same spline pattern as the broken one.

...and then had to use that cut-off wheel again to turn the spline shaft into a square, as all but the cheapest hose bibs/boiler valves now use a square shaft, D shaft, or slotted.

...at least it was brass and relatively easy to work.

EGAD.

 

[Triplegreen500]

No pics but-

The East wall hose bib started being real hard to turn off and then started not turning completely off.

Took it apart to replace the washer and it was a 1/2" one and all the 1/2" washers I have are exactly the same size as the lip on the stem.

WTF?

Had to sand the circumference of the washer about 200 times holding a piece of 100 grit sandpaper "cupped" to go around it.

NOT super friendly, but it did eventually fit.

Still had to put a serious "crank" on it to shut completely off. Decided to see if I could find a handle that would allow a better grip....and proceeded to break off the aluminum handle that was attached to the brass stem.

DOH!

Had to Dremel cut-off wheel the rest of it off.

Of course NONE of the available handles were the same spline pattern as the broken one.

...and then had to use that cut-off wheel again to turn the spline shaft into a square, as all but the cheapest hose bibs/boiler valves now use a square shaft.

...at least it was brass and relatively easy to work.

EGAD.

Ran into that at mom's house a couple years ago. Had my torch and other plumbing stuff with me so I bought her a new quarter-turn shutoff ball valve, and soldered it on for her.

 

[Cranky]

Ran into that at mom's house a couple years ago. Had my torch and other plumbing stuff with me so I bought her a new quarter-turn shutoff ball valve, and soldered it on for her.

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I have a couple of the 1/4 turn ball valves on my out side water pipes and both of them leaked after a few years. My fix was to install brass Y adapters to them. The 1/4 turn valves are supposed to be industrial grade if such a thing exits. Worked fine for a couple of years but the Y adapters have been the leak stoppers for over 10 years now.

 

[YY1]

Ran into that at mom's house a couple years ago. Had my torch and other plumbing stuff with me so I bought her a new quarter-turn shutoff ball valve, and soldered it on for her.

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I almost did that.

...but I got lazy, not wanting to dig out the grout to see if the valve was threaded or sweat.

The new square shaft handle was $2.50, and the labor to cut down the stem was free.

BTW- one of our rentals had a leaking bib that I just could not get apart.
It was a threaded one, but we called the plumber anyway because the unit was occupied.
They couldn't get it apart either.
Turns out it was a good thing we did call a pro, as they broke it installing it and had to come back and do it again.
I had a real bad gut feeling something like that was gonna happen.

The new handle has short, solid cylinders at the edges, where the old one was thin, hollow aluminum and was sharp on the bottom and curved on the top.
New one has a better feel and is slightly easier to put a crank on.