Novak Conversions Jeep Wrangler TJ engine mounts

What did you do to / in your garage / shop today?

I decided to try Google's AI, and asked it about "Zorba, the Veiled Male". What it spit back was fairly accurate, but it also claimed I was on facebook!! I told it I wasn't, and it apologized... :D

Clearly it needs some training!
 
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Clearly it needs some training!

Seems to know him pretty well.

5. Technology (The "Phone" Rant)


Outside of dance, he has a well-known rant on his site titled "Its all about the PHOOOOOONNE!!"


• He dislikes the obsession with smartphones and how they disconnect people from the immediate physical world.
 
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Seems to know him pretty well.

5. Technology (The "Phone" Rant)


Outside of dance, he has a well-known rant on his site titled "Its all about the PHOOOOOONNE!!"


• He dislikes the obsession with smartphones and how they disconnect people from the immediate physical world.

Hmmmm - it wasn't saying that last nite.
 
A garage with beautiful SHUTTERS does not deserve a floor like that. Please clean it.

100% first walkthrough after the POs left.
On the other hand, if I don’t clean it, wife will never know when I accidentally kick a qt of oil…
 
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I inherited a 6x3 bench built with 2x6 and carriage bolts. Very stout but racked terrible till I added some plywood gussets. Then I got tired of getting wood slivers under my fingernails when picking stuff up and from small parts getting caught in between the 2x6 top so I covered it with some stainless steel that I got free. Solid now. For my welding table I used 3/8" plate 4x5 and 1/4" angle. The castors are solid 8". I think it weighs somewhere between 400 and 500 lbs, the top alone is 300 lbs. It takes a bit of a grunt to get all the castors moving in the same direction but fortunately I rarely move it. Got pics somewhere.

BTW @bucky my work surfaces look like yours, catch alls. I try to keep them cleared but stuff just keeps piling up, especially when you have a dozen projects going on at once. Sometimes I'll take a whole day just organizing.

I have ADD big time and have 10 projects going at any one time. Damn squirrels are everywhere. I find that every equipment repair or refurbishment requires taking it apart, diagnosis, identify the failure, order the parts, wait a week for the parts and then put it back together. I just make up space when I need it. Right now that table has 3 projects going on it. 10” chainsaw refurbishment, replacing the temp controller for the heating element on my honey bottler and splitting kindling for the shop stove. The replacement temp controller came this afternoon so the bottler will be done tonite. I have 20 gal of honey to bottle tomorrow. It took a week to identify and find the out of production controller and then a week for it to get here. Luckily I found a used one for $40 and didn’t have to pay the $400+ for NOS that were available online.

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I have ADD big time and have 10 projects going at any one time. Damn squirrels are everywhere. I find that every equipment repair or refurbishment requires taking it apart, diagnosis, identify the failure, order the parts, wait a week for the parts and then put it back together. I just make up space when I need it. Right now that table has 3 projects going on it. 10” chainsaw refurbishment, replacing the temp controller for the heating element on my honey bottler and splitting kindling for the shop stove. The replacement temp controller came this afternoon so the bottler will be done tonite. I have 20 gal of honey to bottle tomorrow. It took a week to identify and find the out of production controller and then a week for it to get here. Luckily I found a used one for $40 and didn’t have to pay the $400+ for NOS that were available online.
Yep same here, then there's those projects where you work on them long enough to realize it's a waste of time and end up hurling the whole mess into the trash can in disgust and pissed because you wasted so much time on it.
 
My friends know I’m a scrapper and give me broken or unwanted stuff all the time. I fix it or disassemble and sell the metal. I make several thousand a year in scrap metal. Been doing it since grade school. Most gas equipment just needs new fuel line. Just got a small chainsaw from my BIL. Needed new fuel line and the foam air filter was dust. Disassemble, clean, replace fuel line, cut new foam, reassemble and I have a nice 10” chainsaw for limbing. All for less than $5 in parts and a couple of hours of time. Wife calls me Mr Fixit.
 
Getting ready to do a stretch job, this 104'' wheelbase can be challenging at times, its gonna end up around 110" to 113" depending on what gives me the best coil over angle, The worst part is its gonna have to have all 4 of the aluminum links replaced at $7.70 a inch completely threaded with wrench flats milled as well. This is not a cheap / inexpensive hobby. That is why my wife named the buggy Non Cents !!!!

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