Technical Little tips and tricks for garage hobbyists.

And keep a roll of duct tape and electrical tape handy. I’ve used both to stop the occasional cut or gash when I’ve hurt myself in the garage. And I usually pass out at the sight of my own blood…

 

81 (Disser's age)

 

Someday when we have time I'll tell you about the chicken I Super Glued back together.

 

Hell’s Angels?




Bones

 

My favorite trick is using valve lapping compound to assist with removing stripped out screws.

I always keep a tube of it around because its super handy. Old timer showed me that the first time I was in Afghanistan to help with a Phillips screw that had been absolutly anihilated on an aircraft. Put a little of that liquid sandpaper lapping compound on the end of your screwdriver and you would be surprised at how much it helps. Ive even dipped the box end of a wrench in it to help with a stripped out hex bolt.

Later on, when I worked on repairing naval equipment that had seen the bad side of saltwater, that little trick Im sure saved me a hundred hours of labor and a bunch of drill bits/ EZ outs.

I made a little video about it on my hobby youtube channel. I should make it again now that Im better at lighting and camera work etc. (Please nobody feel obligated to watch this, but it does show that it works)

 

I hear ya on the Phillips head screws that hold the panels on aircraft. I wasn’t a crew chief, I was metals tech, so I only dealt with them when they got stripped. We had a product called Screw Grab in a little green tube. I guess it was just fancy lapping compound.

 

Look at your 2416 post I hit like on it. You did a good job . But as I said I thought it was a lot of extra work for no real gain as adel clamps will hold lines off the frame just fine. If you think my comment was too harsh I'm sorry, but it was rather mild for what could've been posted here 20-25 years ago. Back then feelings were pretty much ignored

 

I remember those days (2008+) and I stepped in it a few times myself. Happy hotrodding.

 

I'll never be startled again.

 

^^^^^ Installed 3 of these,,,,,^^^^^
So now my phone tells me when something is getting close to my doors.

 

The door hinges on my shop door screech loudly and will never get oiled. My warning system.

 

I think I'd get tired of ground squirrel & quail alerts.

 

Why you guys so jumpy?
Dan

 

Thankfully we don’t have much of that. However we do have cameras and also I rely on our two Model 1 Mark 5 guard Labradors. They’re likely to lick an intruder to death but they do bark at strangers.
Dan

 

Need a few cartoons breaks in the youboob video, maybe Wiley Coyote/Roadrunner, Popeye, Yosemete Sam, and a Allstate insurance commercial to make the vid longer

 

Eons ago, I installed a small bell to get rung when the garage door opened, since I was under the Deuce 5w a lot. Turns out the idiot neighbors' idiot St.Bernard would bark it's foole head off each time the bell rang. By the middle of winter, the barking mysteriously became absent. So I did a door-open-close a few times to see, & all I saw was puffs of steam emanating out of its' mouth. Funny as hell - so I made sure to activate the bell numerous times. Never failed to be amusing - to me... .
Marcus...

 

Like Pops used to say,,, "Cat got yer tongue?"

Likely had been fit with a shock collar, very effective silencer.

 

You wicked sod, Funny but still wicked.

 

Shock color? I have a rescue dog I got when she was 5. She's pretty smart and has learned a lot but have had a hard time teaching her to "speak". Now I wonder if she was "taught" not to?

 

Sure this has been posted..
Just putting an OT together an was reading the lack of sealing..
This applies to basically anything with mounting, Mostly two holes, But once You know, You'll figure out how/where to use..
Some people never think of it.
Just think thermostat housing leaks..
I already knew this as cast piece was Wack, I sharpied it for demo..
First shot was almost a dozen passes with a good sized file, kept going till close enough for the girl's I hang out with..
Took a piece of 150 board paper an dressed the file marks out, 100% Sealing surface.

 

No, just laryngitis. . Damn muttly got it every year in winter, after about the 2nd or 3rd yr. Dog wasn't well taken care of. Not horribly, but not nicely, either. Probably should've had a bark-coller though. So should've its' owner, actually. Kid was partially mentally-defective. I'm not kidding nor being mean. He caused & got himself & the family into a lot of trouble over the years, but it wasn't out of spite or meanness - he literally was deficient. Small childs' mind in a teen->adult body. Not knocking the guy, or putting the badmouth on him - tough place to be in - for *everyone*.

& no, the St.Bernard didn't have a keg around it's neck, either... .

Marcus...

 

@nrgwizard, Thank You. Explains a lot.
We have been blessed with gracious caring neighbors.
Three times

 

I’m fixen to get new neighbor s ,one next door and one across the street the street! Odd, both are selling at the same time!





Bones

 

Well then that would make you 'the senior citizen'

 

Ah ah ah, oh never mind

 

Shoot I am already almost the seniorest citizen in my neighborhood! Done run off one doctor and preacher, got a new doc next door, plus a game warden next to me….that’s leaving. I was beginning to think maybe it’s me…..but naw, couldn’t be!




Bones

 

Secrets of your "success-es" ? .
Marcus...

 

Storage tip:

I have about a half dozen log chains. I imagine most of you have that many or more. I used to hang them up but that was a real hassle getting them down and hanging them up.

Now I put each one in a 5-gallon bucket. I stack the buckets so all of the chains combined require the footprint/real estate of one bucket. As you all know each bucket has a couple of inches showing above the bucket below it. On that space I've written with Sharpie the length and link size of the chain in that bucket. Even if I want the chain in the bottom bucket it's not a problem to pick up the upper buckets (one at a time) and put them all back after they are used.