What are you currently working on??
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Some more done on the truck today. Surgery is goin about as good as the surgeon. Just so so. But the patient may pull thru. About another two weeks of surgery, then about of recovery.
Noel
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That patient needs a bunch of chemo!
Getting POd as in the past few days gas has gone the wrong way. Was $1.39 a few days ago/ huge jumps over the past few days now back to $2.10 already..... what gives??? 60 cents and 50% jump in a matter of 3 days
In a state that's in cahoots with Michigan to be the last state to reopen
In a state that's in cahoots with Michigan to be the last state to reopen
It's always a tough time when the anniversary of our parents passing comes around, no matter how old you get! Is for me anyway.
Wish I had some rail a little longer than what I have, so it could be notched like your Dad did on that one. Looks like a real handy metal shaper!
Cool info Aaron! I have these two pieces that I use for various tasks around here, mainly weights since they aren't very long. The big one I call regular locomotive and the smaller one I call "ore car" size. The little one came out of the big gold mine we used to have near here. Can you ID size and tell us what the pound rating means? 80# per foot?
DAC
Well welded the patch in. A butt weld is what it is, I’m told. First time ever doin that. Only flush in the bottom two inches from the bottom right corner toward the left and up to the top about two inches. Any way. Body filler will fix that.
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Working on getting to 3:30 and the weekend. Actually I have next week off, so "long weekend" as they've had us work a week, off a week with this covid crap, this will be my 3rd week off because of it.
Looking like the 1st 2, starting out with crappy weather. Gonna be unseasonably cold. Then warm up and rain later in the week.
Looking like the 1st 2, starting out with crappy weather. Gonna be unseasonably cold. Then warm up and rain later in the week.
There all patched up. Good thing there is body fill available and seam sealer.
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Filler, sealer and a GRINDER---LOL! It should be fine for what you are doing Noel!
DAC
Up here they will pay to 960 hours sick leave at retirement, Larry, BUT they only will give you 50 cents on the dollar! I keep my sick leave at zero every year! It's the only way it's worth anything!
DAC
Yea, I have the 720 banked right now, no way to take it to "0" unless something catastrophic medical wise happens. So I take a day or two when it goes over 720. Vacation is different. I am maxed at over 184 hours, can only cash in 160 but can take a vacation in December and still retire in January and leave early. CPA said it would be better tax wise to retire the beginning of the year as the Vac, Sic, and Lump Sum wouldn't be taxed till 2021.
I have heard no limits on how much sick leave I can have built up but when ever it is that I leave I only get paid for 1/2 of what ever I have built up.... unless I built up any before some date in (like) 1997 and I was still some years off from having any idea I'd have this job.... any sick days built up before that date (and still have on the books) is paid at 100%.... but for those that have been there as long IDK if any sick days taken now would come off the "top" or "bottom" of the pile/ I know some people who are talking about "getting close" to retirement who are taking a lot of 3 and 4 day weekends.... as long as you don't go over 3 sick days in a row, no Dr note needed.....
I get zero sick days. I get 25 days a year off. They don't carry over year to year.
I dont leave any vacation days behind.
I usually use 1 week per quarter and then use 1 week as whatever days. I rarely call off sick. I have to be glued to the toilet or can't move from a fever.
I dont leave any vacation days behind.
I usually use 1 week per quarter and then use 1 week as whatever days. I rarely call off sick. I have to be glued to the toilet or can't move from a fever.
My employer is the same. I have to give two weeks notice before passing away.
I haven't been good at getting pictures but I have built some stuff in the shop this week. My wife had this old bird cage stand and a bird cage that was built to set on a table or something. It was also too tall to put on the stand. She wanted it as an outside flower planter. I altered the hanger mount on the stand to where the cage fit, then beefed up the cage so it was strong enough to hang off the stand. Next problem was how to keep it from blowing over. Had some steel rings out in a shed so I drilled the cast iron base and one of the rings so they could bolt together. Lastly there was some 5/8" all thread laying around here so I cut 4 pieces 10" long, cut the ends at an angle then welded them to the ring. Painted the stand light green and the cage ivory. The ring with the stakes welded on pushed into the damp ground fairly easy, then I put a level on it and beat it with a rubber hammer to plumb the stand. Then just bolted the stand to the ring. Now since it's freezing again the plant can't hang there anyway---LOL!!
Today I finally got a chance to work on the '55 GMC. After that cruise night , I went to start it the next day. High idle wouldn't kick on. Had to warm it up the old fashion way with my foot. Wouldn't start this morning until I just turned the key on and let the electric choke open up some. Brought it in the shop and fount the high idle cam pivot screw had fallen out! The carb is a chinese clone Rochester MV. I have 3 real MV's in various stages of disassembly. Had the correct pivot screw. Fortunately the clone carb has identical parts and the screw went right in and works as it should again! I went over the carb and tightened all the other screws and sure enough a couple holding the top plate on were loose too! Put the carb back on the truck and it runs fine. Pic is when I first put the carb on back around October last year.
DAC
Today I finally got a chance to work on the '55 GMC. After that cruise night , I went to start it the next day. High idle wouldn't kick on. Had to warm it up the old fashion way with my foot. Wouldn't start this morning until I just turned the key on and let the electric choke open up some. Brought it in the shop and fount the high idle cam pivot screw had fallen out! The carb is a chinese clone Rochester MV. I have 3 real MV's in various stages of disassembly. Had the correct pivot screw. Fortunately the clone carb has identical parts and the screw went right in and works as it should again! I went over the carb and tightened all the other screws and sure enough a couple holding the top plate on were loose too! Put the carb back on the truck and it runs fine. Pic is when I first put the carb on back around October last year.
DAC
Lucky you! I have worked places where the only valid reason for me taking a sick day was if I died!
so many things going, IDK which end is up, can't seem to stay on 1 thing, having to bounce around like a yoyo on things to get done...
working on my newest (to me) truck, got it to run, got exhaust built, working on refurbish of wiring, waiting on CD copies of factory service manuals, for their wiring diagrams..... for the year of truck and 1 year prior// as that's the year of the "junkyard donated" wiring harness..... so that puts me "on hold" on that project for the moment.... I did put the overhauled carb on in the meantime, can't run it yet, though.
went to (automotive) junkyard yesterday, have had my eye on 2 Cubs there, since winter/ they had a pretty complete 108 come in that seemed decent.... that tractor was in nice shape, just dirty and missing a couple of minor things. and a 127 that has seen better days. wasn't worried about them when it was cold out..... but the 108 has since disappeared, and the 127 has been moved each of the past couple times I have been there...... yesterday, I noticed that all the recent drop off cars that usually occupy the entry lane outside that fence, were gone, replaced by a road grader and piles of fresh gravel, within the past few days.... and the inside of the fence where the motorcycles and GTs are usually at, had been similarly cleared.... and the GTs had been moved farther down the (inside of) the fence line..... the 127 seemed a little more "beat up" than before, certainly more bent up, as I'm sure they aren't very careful in how they move things..... Cub spec (narrow base oil pan, 1" diam crank) Kohlers seem hard to find around here. and this one still had its engine// so I went and made it "mine".... before it wound up in the crusher. I originally thought of it as a "rebuildable core" but it turns free, has compression... and has 2 stickers on the shroud, it seems that somewhere along the line, this engine has been short blocked.... I can see "kohler gray" under the dirt and grime on the block... might make the original engine on the 129, the rebuildable core!
carb throttle shaft has slop, but not siezed.... even came with a K&N air filter element.... looks like it had been thru at least a couple of farm style auctions before it wound up at the junkyard..... might have to bolt it to my 129 and let it rip, see if it runs...
had taken the starter/gen for said 129 to starter shop this week, as it had struggled to get its engine over the compression stroke hump... OK now. That engine runs again now, but it's obviously tired. (smokes blue, whenever throttled up) also now have a spare starter/generator to take to starter shop.
Over the past couple days, my son (new home owner) has been calling me asking me about water well issues.... as it turns out, his well tank was waterlogged (bad bladder) This morning I took the wife to work, then went to garage to start working on getting slop out of hydro linkage of the 129.... just about got it apart, and kid showed up wanting me to go to store with him, to get what he thought was last of fittings he'd need, and go help him swap the tanks out....
went to menards and got his fittings, back to his house (20+ miles 1 way from closest place to get plumbing fittings) went in crawlspace to scope out what he had for myself and realized he had about 1/2 the wrong stuff including a way too small well tank compared to the old one and how many faucets he has in that place... so BACK to Menards to exchange what he had gotten for what he really needed... then BACK to his house to finally swap them out..... got home just in time for the wife to get off work and she wanted take out pizza for mothers day.... and since I already cut off the gas for the season to the garage furnace/ and I didn't feel like climbing up there and relighting the pilot but didn't feel like working in 38* raw and wind, I said screw it and came in here and got on the computer...… not much gets done like that.
working on my newest (to me) truck, got it to run, got exhaust built, working on refurbish of wiring, waiting on CD copies of factory service manuals, for their wiring diagrams..... for the year of truck and 1 year prior// as that's the year of the "junkyard donated" wiring harness..... so that puts me "on hold" on that project for the moment.... I did put the overhauled carb on in the meantime, can't run it yet, though.
went to (automotive) junkyard yesterday, have had my eye on 2 Cubs there, since winter/ they had a pretty complete 108 come in that seemed decent.... that tractor was in nice shape, just dirty and missing a couple of minor things. and a 127 that has seen better days. wasn't worried about them when it was cold out..... but the 108 has since disappeared, and the 127 has been moved each of the past couple times I have been there...... yesterday, I noticed that all the recent drop off cars that usually occupy the entry lane outside that fence, were gone, replaced by a road grader and piles of fresh gravel, within the past few days.... and the inside of the fence where the motorcycles and GTs are usually at, had been similarly cleared.... and the GTs had been moved farther down the (inside of) the fence line..... the 127 seemed a little more "beat up" than before, certainly more bent up, as I'm sure they aren't very careful in how they move things..... Cub spec (narrow base oil pan, 1" diam crank) Kohlers seem hard to find around here. and this one still had its engine// so I went and made it "mine".... before it wound up in the crusher. I originally thought of it as a "rebuildable core" but it turns free, has compression... and has 2 stickers on the shroud, it seems that somewhere along the line, this engine has been short blocked.... I can see "kohler gray" under the dirt and grime on the block... might make the original engine on the 129, the rebuildable core!
carb throttle shaft has slop, but not siezed.... even came with a K&N air filter element.... looks like it had been thru at least a couple of farm style auctions before it wound up at the junkyard..... might have to bolt it to my 129 and let it rip, see if it runs...
had taken the starter/gen for said 129 to starter shop this week, as it had struggled to get its engine over the compression stroke hump... OK now. That engine runs again now, but it's obviously tired. (smokes blue, whenever throttled up) also now have a spare starter/generator to take to starter shop.
Over the past couple days, my son (new home owner) has been calling me asking me about water well issues.... as it turns out, his well tank was waterlogged (bad bladder) This morning I took the wife to work, then went to garage to start working on getting slop out of hydro linkage of the 129.... just about got it apart, and kid showed up wanting me to go to store with him, to get what he thought was last of fittings he'd need, and go help him swap the tanks out....
went to menards and got his fittings, back to his house (20+ miles 1 way from closest place to get plumbing fittings) went in crawlspace to scope out what he had for myself and realized he had about 1/2 the wrong stuff including a way too small well tank compared to the old one and how many faucets he has in that place... so BACK to Menards to exchange what he had gotten for what he really needed... then BACK to his house to finally swap them out..... got home just in time for the wife to get off work and she wanted take out pizza for mothers day.... and since I already cut off the gas for the season to the garage furnace/ and I didn't feel like climbing up there and relighting the pilot but didn't feel like working in 38* raw and wind, I said screw it and came in here and got on the computer...… not much gets done like that.
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