Projects of the day !!! DIY - What ya' buildin' ?

[barkerlakebob]

I did some work in the RM of Springfield a couple years back, and had to drop a cheque off for the permit. Girl at the office had two computer monitors on the go, one with recent drone footage and a couple year old Google Earth image on the other….bastids….

The R.M. I am in uses ( or did use ) Google Earth. When we bought this place, the Administrator of the R.M. was going to take me to task for not taking out a permit to build a sunroom. I stated the one he should go after was the previous owner. They backed off but seemed to gloat in the fact they had "caught" someone !

[normmus]

Took the jeep in for a new windshield.
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[Camo tung]

Took the jeep in for a new windshield.
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The new owner will appreciate that very much. (not so subtle hint)

[blacksmithden]

I un-built the tree beside my deck. For some reason its a breeding ground for aphids. It was way too high to spray the whole thing, so.....

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[DILLIGAF]

New bumper is here. Had to adjust my brackets lol..

[DILLIGAF]

Got my 2nd Truck taken appart. Dropping off the engine block and heads to the machine shop Wednesday. Thank god for winches and tractors.

[t_glover]

I have a bus in the shop with Wabco Full Pressure Hydraulic brakes. It was towed to the shop
after someone butchered the wiring harness and swapped the brake ECU from another vehicle.
I replaced the fuses and smoke started coming out of the ECU. I ordered a complete
Hydraulic Compact Control Unit for it.



Meritor says not to manually bleed the system that it must be pressure bled.
I need an adaptor to pressurise the brake reservoir. That item seems to be unobtainable.
Even the Snap-On dealer could not supply us with one.
There are a lot of these brake systems on the road what are mechanics using to bleed them?
Its just a cap that goes on the filler neck on the reservoir on the master cylinder.

I bought a 18" length of 2" round aluminium and spent a couple hours last night machining the lock ring.
It was a real pain machining the bayonet lugs. A 1/8" end mill running at 900 rpm. I cut a snap ring groove
in it and I made it in two pieces.



The finished lock ring waiting for some final deburring.


A little touch up with a file and the ring fit perfectly. Made the rest up and pressed it together.
The manual says to put 35 PSI in the plastic reservoir and if you have difficulty bleeding the brakes raise
the pressure to 45 PSI. A 20 year old plastic brake reservoir. I can see where that could be very messy.
I think I will do that with the hood closed.

[SIR VEYOR]

But if you list it with Snap On, you can retire after 4 sales!

[blacksmithden]

I've lost track of the number of times somebody told me that something didn't exist. I always finished their sentence with "yet". Good job bud. My neighbor (head guy in Alberta for a generator company) comes to me once in a while with "We've got this thing apart. We need this tool. It's backordered for ?????? long from Caterpillar/Cummings/whatever. How much ? I usually hand it to him when he's leaving for work the next morning if I have the material. Sometimes you've just got to say f--k everybody and their excuses and just get the damned job done.

[blacksmithden]

Today was clean up loose ends day. I put a latch on the gate in the new fence. Planted 2 more raspberry bushes. Planted about 30 more garlic cloves. Redid my eve trough to rain barrel setup. I wanted to make sure I was catching all the rain I can given how dry its been this year. I had the old screen thingy from the vent in my old microwave and some fence post cutoffs. That turned into a holder/filter for a down spout extension.

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