What did you do to / in your garage / shop today?
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You can see the floor, so that's good!
More importantly I can use the lift and finish up setting up a new front gear.
It was really stupid installing the lift before sheetrocking the ceiling. Maneuvering around the lift was a PIA. But the lift in a lift idea really works well.
Making progress on this temporary work bench trying to clean my way to my missing clamp for my dial indicator.
I really should move my boxes over from my garage but I don't want more stuff to move when I tape, finish and paint the ceiling. Thus the workbench becomes a pile of tools to put away and I'm running laps between buildings.
-Mac
WestCoastDan
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I got to put away the Christmas decorations.
The wife does all of the real work, I just provide muscle and complaints... but it's pretty gloomy out so I'd probably be staying home anyway.
The wife does all of the real work, I just provide muscle and complaints... but it's pretty gloomy out so I'd probably be staying home anyway.
Same here. Wife put all the Xmas stuff in its plastic bins, I hauled 'em out to the shed.
swtrailboss
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Finished fixing up an older clock I picked up from an older couple. Installed a new led light inside and removed a 3lb fluorescent ballast from inside. Pretty cool find!
About 80% complete and my winter break starts when the kids and wife go back to school
. But I’ve got Jeep + 1 parked inside. Now I just need to get everything into the right shelf and bin, and then I can really organize.
. But I’ve got Jeep + 1 parked inside. Now I just need to get everything into the right shelf and bin, and then I can really organize. 
More work in the indoor mancave this weekend, though I have little but destruction (or maybe deconstruction) to show for it.
Decided I wanted to have an indoor spray booth for shooting small parts. The need/desire was born from wanting a small setup to do fine cerakote work on handgun parts, but I figure it may well have other uses in the future. I picked up a suitable airbrush and, as it turns out, the 2 gallon air compressor I replaced when I shot my hardtop recently will work perfectly for indoor use with an airbrush, and it's quiet, too.
I considered buying a plastic portable booth from a place like Amz, but I wasn't feeling it for the money. While buying something would be faster, my hope is to make something potentially a bit better, for less money and using some materials I've already got on hand.
Design criteria:
Suffice it to say this will never function as an air purifier again, no matter what happens from this point forward. Currently working the booth design in CAD, more to follow...unless I get electrocuted or something catches fire in the interim...
Decided I wanted to have an indoor spray booth for shooting small parts. The need/desire was born from wanting a small setup to do fine cerakote work on handgun parts, but I figure it may well have other uses in the future. I picked up a suitable airbrush and, as it turns out, the 2 gallon air compressor I replaced when I shot my hardtop recently will work perfectly for indoor use with an airbrush, and it's quiet, too.
I considered buying a plastic portable booth from a place like Amz, but I wasn't feeling it for the money. While buying something would be faster, my hope is to make something potentially a bit better, for less money and using some materials I've already got on hand.
Design criteria:
- must be somewhat portable/packable
- incorporate inexpensive, switchable LED lighting for good all around visibility and finish verification
- incorporate particulate and activated carbon filtration
- must feature exhaust to exterior via window opening
- utilize controls, fan motor and impeller from an air purifier as the basis for the extraction fan
- utilize numerous pieces of 12" x 72" 5mm luan ply coupled with 3D printed parts for booth, blower housing, etc.
Suffice it to say this will never function as an air purifier again, no matter what happens from this point forward. Currently working the booth design in CAD, more to follow...unless I get electrocuted or something catches fire in the interim...
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Possible slight revision to this item. After inspecting the material more closely, it would seem it's not in the best shape...but all is not lost. I've been looking for a reason to use Send-Cut-Send for a few years now and I noted they do laser cutting on thin plywood and hardboard. Given I can send them a CAD file with all the pieces and get a parcel of laser cut, perfect fitting, clean, straight, plywood parts in a few days, I feel like I might be a special kind of idiot not going this route.
Question for you fancy boys with fancy socket organizers in your toolboxes...
If you need to do remove some stuff on your jeep. Underneath the vehicle so you have to get somewhat on the ground to do it. And you don't know exactly what size you need. Do you just grab a handful and bring em with? Do you take the whole rail out of the drawer with you? How do you avoid making multiple trips to said fancy organized drawer
Ok I ask because I've always had either injection molded cases they came with or something like a socket rail in a backpack because I didn't have a toolbox. Not sure how people handle this when their storage isn't inherently portable
If you need to do remove some stuff on your jeep. Underneath the vehicle so you have to get somewhat on the ground to do it. And you don't know exactly what size you need. Do you just grab a handful and bring em with? Do you take the whole rail out of the drawer with you? How do you avoid making multiple trips to said fancy organized drawer
Ok I ask because I've always had either injection molded cases they came with or something like a socket rail in a backpack because I didn't have a toolbox. Not sure how people handle this when their storage isn't inherently portable
So you just don't buy into the whole socket rails in a drawer type mentality at all? Is that reserved for people with lifts that can just walk back and forth?
I'm basically wondering if there is any benefit to me putting the sockets from the tekton sets into rails in a drawer or just jamming those boxes they come in in a drawer and leaving them open. More space but more portable.
I don't like walking back and forth especially if I'm working on the ground so I'm also getting up and down. I prefer to grab a set and keep it close. I also like sets that are clearly marked so I know what's in them and not.
Packouts are not the best for space saving but they work well for my use. I also don't take these in the jeep when wheeling I have different tools for that, they stay in the tow rig.
I have full socket rails in my tool box that I use but they aren't my first choice unless I'm working at my tool box.
So just have three sets of tools is the solution... And here I thought two sets would be the solution
I still have most of my sockets on rails in my box, though I rarely pull the whole rail when working. I have considered 3D printing some trays for them. I never use the plastic blow-molded boxes sets tend to come in if being placed in a drawer, this applies to sockets, wrenches and the like. I do keep my dial indicators and things like that in their boxes in the tool chest drawer.
I use Olsa rails:
https://www.amazon.com/Olsa-Tools-Aluminum-Organizer-Premium/dp/B01G31X8IK?tag=wranglerorg-20
So you'll just grab a handful of sockets and put them on the floor nearby when you aren't sure what size you need?
I grab the three tools I think I need, crawl under and end up making 40 laps. Since I'm still building my shop all my boxes are in the garage...so often that means walking to the garage to grab something or searching everywhere because I didn't put it away the last time.
Then I curse myself for not putting it up on the lift because I thought it would be a quick fix.
-Mac
Then I curse myself for not putting it up on the lift because I thought it would be a quick fix.
-Mac
I will normally take 3 sockets, say like a 13,14,15. I will get up and down off the floor alot anyway due to my back.
I can't lay on my back for extended periods of time, plus I look at it as a form of exercise
I can't lay on my back for extended periods of time, plus I look at it as a form of exercise
I usually know the size but if I don't, I'll pull the sockets to either side as well. If I'm going to be dealing with multiple sizes while I'm under the hood or vehicle (say more than two sizes), I grab the rail.
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