Art & Inspiration Ever have one of those days in the garage?

Took me 2 days but I let it go too long. HRP

 

After reading these posts yesterday I went out to work on a project (platform bed) that I needed to do pocket screws on (Kreg), to drill the pockets there is a special 3/8" bit that also has a pilot drill (about 1/8"?) so the screw stays in the right path. I'd done about six holes of the 16 I needed to do when the bit found a nail in the recycled maple flooring I was using. It was stop......head to the local Menards store and take advantage of their 11% off sale to buy a $16 replacement bit. Years ago I was working on something and didn't have a sharp bit and had to go to the local hardware store and buy a Drill Doctor or more bits. I guess if working in the shop went OK every day then everybody would be there

 

LOL I got an oversized one car garage here and it is seldom clean. I can't see the floor today so I am going to do some reorganizing maybe.

 

I spend most of my time working on my shed for my cars rather than in my shed on my cars.
I like my shed but I wish I could just get working on the cars.
Ah well, at least I've got some cars.

 

Well, I got the shop cleaned up. HRP

 

LOL...Your shed floor kinda looks like mine before I laid down the billboard vinyl. AHHH..the joys of building a car in a dirt floor one car "garage"....I use the term loosely.

 

Large cardboard boxes over limestone screenings...really need to sell some crap and get a concrete floor, but at least I can retrieve the tools I've dropped by pulling the 'board out from under the car - oh, that's right, the mother-f**kin' jack stand on top of the g-damned s-o-b'in cardboard...Clark Griswold's rants are nothing compared to mine when things go bad in the shop.

 

So the other night I worked into the the early hours cleaning and polishing an o/t Italian scooter I had a guy coming to buy the next day. Everything worked fine, and it has ran like a top for the last 3 years. Right before the guy got there I put a fresh tank of gas in it. The guy comes and falls in love with it. I was like perfect, it's sold! Then he rides it..... It wouldn't go over 15mph! The only thing I can think happened was some crap that was in the bottom of the tank that got stirred up and clogged up a jet. I'm just taking it to a shop to get it all sorted out. The last thing I need is to strip out one of those little brass carb screws...because you know it would happen.

 

Ok so a what was I thinking couple of moments!! Last Sunday night I was mounting a set of early Mercury horns under my roadster. It takes a hole for a bolt and the an off set hole for a mounting pin. I mounted the first one with no problem and the went to the second one and that's where it all began. I measured, center punched, and drilled the two holes. I thought it was as simple as having my wife start the bolt when I realized the second bracket was opposite the first so now I was going to have two sets of holes. I should have stopped there but I forged ahead and redrilled two more holes only to find out I had marked them from the wrong side of the pattern. Now three sets of holes and still can't mount the second horn. Took a brake and finally got it right. The bottom of the car looks like someone shot at it. Only in Kansas!!

 

I been at mine since February ! and I still only have a aisle to walk thru ! and I got lots of stuff off the floor its uncompacting and I added a bunch of shelves on the walls and a workbench ( which is growing stuff too ... ) and after the house I have a storage unit I have to go thru and clean out the O/t car stuff I used to deal with .

 

Luckythirteenagogo,

Shhh don't type anymore you'll jinx it... I've got a guy looking at my '46 pickup tonight and I really need it sold
(I feel like Judge Smails on Caddyshack, Oh, Billy, Billy, Billy. This is a biggie! Don't let me down, Billy!)

Walter,

Tell then they are "lightening holes" to save weight and you just didn't get to the other side yet...

 

Best of luck to you. I was so embarrassed. I spent way too much time making it look new, and then it wouldn't run.

 

I always thought you worked out of a High Dollar Shop

 

Hate it when that happens.. Now stock lots of superglue to put my self back together.

Cut my thumb at work Wednesday.....out of superglue.... go figure.

Mrs. has strange ability to need my assistance as soon as I step out to the garage.

 

Verbal I should have used them lightening holes. I dressed them up with some left over chrome bolts and washers

 

A day in the life of hot rodding...like one of those dreams where your running but getting nowhere!!

 

I'm glad to hear it's not just me. My family knows the routine...everyone grabs a 5 gallon bucket and they pick up tools and when the bucket is full, they leave it next to the toolbox.

 

I organized my shop about 3 months ago and it was the dumbest thing I have ever done. I still go the spot where it use to be and then I have to try and remember where the hell I put it. I'm still looking for some interior parts for the suburban that I put in a box so I wouldn't lose them. That reminds me I have to get a new first aid kit, the one in the shop is empty.

 

I had another one Saturday where I learned never to use a sawzall on something you've only got lightly tack welded together.

 

Geez... the number of days I've lost to "those days" are staggering. It seems when I have a plan I find myself fixing the one tool I need or running out to get cut off wheels, fuses, nuts and bolts, gas for the welder etc etc etc. Not to mention the ever popular... trip over the damn thing (whatever it is) or move it 3 times because it's in the way - until the day you need it... and that's when the garage gremlins hide it on you and you spend half the day looking for it...

Or in my case when I believe it's not an official project until I've set myself on fire - which I do with concerning frequency - or bleed all over it... also with concerning frequency (even with proper safety apparel and practices in place) - there are those days I make the project official with serious enough consequences where I end up sitting at a walk in clinic instead of doing what I had planned.

 

Last Saturday I was gonna do the finish welding on the new stand for the chop saw I had previously tacked together. After doing the second joint, I realized I had welded one of my "C"-clamps to the stand. I calmly cut it loose and went home.

Did you ever notice that if you have too much stuff, everything in the shop that is remotely close to horizontal becomes a storage table?

 

I had a small problem compared to what has been written here. Last week I was doing a cleanup after finally getting my A to a point that is good to go. Pulled a couple of fire extinguishers out of a lower drawer when one went off! Yellow mess everywhere and all over my two old cars just for good measure. Took a break to cool down and came out later and spent the evening cleaning.
The A still looks the same ,but now has a sbc in it now.