What’d you work on today?

[Shovelrick]

We love that movie, I think it's great when she explains about a Posi & open rear end

 

[Richard150MPH]

Two coats of paint for the the bathroom walls.
Hopefully that remodel will be complete soon.

 

[Shovelrick]

I worked on my engine builders 3 yr old 16 SEER Goodman home ac system #1, needs a new communicating main control "Mother" board, has to come from MFG and No ETA guy told me No sense in even calling for an ETA for at least 2 weeks, UnFuckin Believable and I'm glad I'm not the guy that sold it to him...2 of these systems in his home

 

[Nashville Cat]

Let me put it this way....

When the mini split wasn't running you'd be getting sewer gases through the drain hose. Any stack pressure (wind blowing across the stack vent on your roof will force the gases through the tube. You need a p-trap to stop that. The drain hose can be loose in an extended vertical pipe of the p-trap.

I get what you're saying now.
Thanks

 

[Nashville Cat]

We love that movie, I think it's great when she explains about a Posi & open rear end

That scene was genius and had to be written by a car guy

 

[Shovelrick]

That scene was genius and had to be written by a car guy

Or Car Gal

 

[Shovelrick]

When the power was out in our neighborhood during hurricane Ian it was raining hard and I was trying to back down our dead end alley to bring something through the back gate, couldn't hardly see where I was backing so going very slow then I heard boards cracking and realized I was backing over my neighbors wood fence that had blown down so figured time for some auxiliary LED lighting so I mounted 1 of these $25 Wally World 1000 lumen white, 600 lumen amber lights but for now I haven't hooked up the amber light and tied the white led to the back up light wire harness with press pinch (dont know the real name) connectors, I'll know tonight if I need a 2nd light, used an 8" pc of slotted angle that I painted black, an old General contractor once told me "Paint it Black and itll Disappear" lol

 

[Nashville Cat]

When the power was out in our neighborhood during hurricane Ian it was raining hard and I was trying to back down our dead end alley to bring something through the back gate, couldn't hardly see where I was backing so going very slow then I heard boards cracking and realized I was backing over my neighbors wood fence that had blown down so figured time for some auxiliary LED lighting so I mounted 1 of these $25 Wally World 1000 lumen white, 600 lumen amber lights but for now I haven't hooked up the amber light and tied the white led to the back up light wire harness with press pinch (dont know the real name) connectors, I'll know tonight if I need a 2nd light, used an 8" pc of slotted angle that I painted black, an old General contractor once told me "Paint it Black and itll Disappear" lol

It's a lot more work, but a rear license plate camera is awesome

 

[Shovelrick]

Ya Know that never crossed my mind LOL I was reading online to find what color wires did the back up lights, Online didn't help but ran across How to wire a BU Cam to the BU lights, might be next project for my 09 Ram

 

[Shovelrick]

I think 1 of these will be fine but when I was online looking for wiring colors I did see brighter bulbs for the sockets so might get those too, probably should've looked for that first but I really do like this Bright LED, I covered the led with cardboard to show the difference

 

[Richard150MPH]

Mostly annoyed to find myself listing some very rare parts on CL in an effort to raise funds for higher priority projects.
Nothing I listed is Chevelle/El Camino related.
I fear that the pending depression will put a lot of the small specialty vendors out of business.
That would make currently difficult restorations either impossible or horribly expensive.
So I am in a hurry to stock up on parts.

 

[kmakar]

Mostly annoyed to find myself listing some very rare parts on CL in an effort to raise funds for higher priority projects.
Nothing I listed is Chevelle/El Camino related.
I fear that the pending depression will put a lot of the small specialty vendors out of business.
That would make currently difficult restorations either impossible or horribly expensive.
So I am in a hurry to stock up on parts.

You'd better order and get all you can now..... we're already in a recession and there isn't anyway out of that now, but it's going to get a whole lot worse. If the republicans take both the house and senate that'll only delay the inevitable a short bit.

Dump all you plan on dumping and buy everything you can while it's still available.

It's about to get real ugly.

 

[kmakar]

Spent the day yesterday trenching (by hand) to put the drains in before the concrete slab. I ordered (and got) a Bosch Laser Level to check for grade because I wanted to put in drains for RV's (for mine and for guests when they visit) and wanted to verify the grade from where the drains are going out to the septic system to about 90' away. I don't have the final measurements, but it appears I'll be able to run a 4" drain to where the RV's are and it will be using gravity (instead of an effluent pump to pump it to the tank).

It's not fun to trench in compacted soil (or even sand) and have to dig through roots buried below the natural grade. The trench is about 80' long.

 

[Nashville Cat]

Spent the day yesterday trenching (by hand) to put the drains in before the concrete slab. I ordered (and got) a Bosch Laser Level to check for grade because I wanted to put in drains for RV's (for mine and for guests when they visit) and wanted to verify the grade from where the drains are going out to the septic system to about 90' away. I don't have the final measurements, but it appears I'll be able to run a 4" drain to where the RV's are and it will be using gravity (instead of an effluent pump to pump it to the tank).

It's not fun to trench in compacted soil (or even sand) and have to dig through roots buried below the natural grade. The trench is about 80' long.

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That Bosch laser looks like a much better version than the one I bought a few months ago.
I used mine to build the ground-mount solar panel structure.
I bought a green laser. It's best to use it at daybreak or dusk as bright sunlight makes it hard to read over long distances.
They sure make the job easier !

 

[kmakar]

That Bosch laser looks like a much better version than the one I bought a few months ago.
I used mine to build the ground-mount solar panel structure.
I bought a green laser. It's best to use it at daybreak or dusk as bright sunlight makes it hard to read over long distances.
They sure make the job easier !

This version has a receiver that is accurate to 3/16" over 100', and it has an 800' range. I can use it in full sunlight because of the receiver.

This one is refurbished/recalibrated from Bosch and sold though HD for half the price new (I got mine for $360 including tax), and the full price is $650 plus tax at HD.

 

[Nashville Cat]

The 36k mini-split is working ! Jumpered power off the other mini-split in the basement just to test it before hooking it to solar.
Progress is slow but I'm getting there.
Now for drywall repairs. That hole is where the drain line is.

 

[JohnC]

Clear coated my gas tank the other day. As I mentioned on another thread I sealed the inside and was going to use Tank Tone on the outside but was convinced that it didn’t look right so I sanded it to get rid of rust and some stains. I didn’t have it in me to put in the time to make it look really good but it’s at least presentable.

I used a catalyzed flattened clear coat that I had left over from my dash board.

 

[Pete 67]

Clear coated my gas tank the other day. As I mentioned on another thread I sealed the inside and was going to use Tank Tone on the outside but was convinced that it didn’t look right so I sanded it to get rid of rust and some stains. I didn’t have it in me to put in the time to make it look really good but it’s at least presentable.

I used a catalyzed flattened clear coat that I had left over from my dash board.

I'm sure it looks better with the clear than it would with Tank Tone.

 

[cheveslakr]

Added pinstripes on the hellcamino...

 

[Shovelrick]

Off'd a Cactus Now I need to straighten my fence