Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Originally Posted by slim6596

My repair skills aren't great.

My motto:

If it moves, but isn't supposed to, use duct tape
If it doesn't move, but should....WD40 it

A picture is worth ...

Naval version:

If it moves salute it
If it doesn't move it
If you can't move it paint it

Bob

After Charlie's 2020 Meet, Tc drove me to the Oklahoma Airport and I flew to San Diego where my oldest and best friend's wife picked me up as part of his (Carl's) surprise 70th Birthday Party.

I hadn't planned on it getting darker sooner than from where I live--so when I walked up while he was unloading my bag and such he didn't recognize me right away--once it sunk in it was GREAT! I just wish that there were pictures!!

The actual surprise party wasn't until the next week and I was assigned to keep him out of the house while his wife fixed things for the party so I had him take me to two different Harley Davidson Dealerships so I could purchase T-shirts etc.

After we'd burned up the time needed I told him that we needed to be to a certain address between such and such times and he asked 'Why?' and I told him because I was told to.

Once there at the restaurant, we walked into about 60 friends of his who had come from all over/including his younger sister and her husband who had driven in from AZ.

Anyway--while I was there, we made some storage shelves out of old doors. They are secured with 'Pocket Screws' and seem to work well.

Nothing fancy but functional--







Carl didn't want to bump his head on the sharp end of the threaded rod so I put this to 'cushion' any contact------

Nice used of pocket doors.

Saved an old record #5 from England.


Can’t say enough about the pb blaster product.
This vice was seized and forgotten, for decades, outside.
A week of soaking, storing vertical, and file work on the ways and acme thread, as well as lots of dead drops to break crap free and voila.
Another century ready. I spent no time on the paint as this vise is for work, not for show.
Now to fab up a stand alone steel work post.

On the side of my house, I had 5 Rose Bushes. They had been there for 20-30 years. Way before me in this house. I wanted to take them out as they were not doing much anymore and had been hacked down many times so they were not growing nicely. So I dug them up by hand, Graded the ground for drainage as this is where the water comes out of my backyard. Then put down some material for weeds and shoveled in some river rock. A lot of work but I won't have to deal with this side of the house ever again. Well, until I need to work on radio coax cable. That's what is in the middle there. It goes underground to my tower in the back yard.

Looks great Jerry!

With that said, if the rock landscaping is anything like others that I've seen, there will be weeds.

My theory is that wind and rain deposit enough soil that seeds spread by the wind have a place to start.

Here's a pic of what my landlord did beside the Boars Nest. He even laid down the black mesh that's supposed to keep things from growing through--I failed to spray the weeds last fall so they are out of control. There's more than this is showing



I've been trying to get him to pay for the granules that are 'supposed' to keep things from growing in areas like yours and mine but so far he won't.

Maybe I out to just let it become a jungle and see if maybe then------