What did you do today?

[LCHIEN]

I was excited when I found them but now I'm not. Sizes I will probably never use.

[dbhost]

Rented a pod to store all the crap we have to move to have part of the house retiled and painted. Because the Garage is full of woodworking stuff.

I found these scattered around the inside of the container - metric sockets 4, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5 and 7mm and 9/32" and 5/32". I've never seen 5.5 and 6.5 mm head sockets. My sets do have 4,5,6,7 mm and I imagine I"ve never even used those.
Taiwan. by Allied.

Oh well, found stuff is so interesting.



Pretty nasty at first but a cycle in the HF Ultrasonic cleaner with some heat and dish soap cleaned them right up (after the pic above).

I've seen decimal metrics on the Snap On truck when I worked as a mechanic. Oddly enough in the 10 years I did that job, I never once saw a need for them. I have worked on all manner of Domestics and Imports that were avaialble up to the mid / late 90s including Italian exotics. HOWEVER, doing a google search, it looks like newer (than my pro mechanic experience) vehicles, notably Chrysler products with the 2.6L V6 used the X.5mm sized bolts in various applications. Honestly I am pretty sure most mechanics would force 1/4" to work...

[LCHIEN]

Rented a pod to store all the crap we have to move to have part of the house retiled and painted. Because the Garage is full of woodworking stuff.

I found these scattered around the inside of the container - metric sockets 4, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5 and 7mm and 9/32" and 5/32". I've never seen 5.5 and 6.5 mm head sockets. My sets do have 4,5,6,7 mm and I imagine I"ve never even used those.
Taiwan. by Allied.

Oh well, found stuff is so interesting.



Pretty nasty at first but a cycle in the HF Ultrasonic cleaner with some heat and dish soap cleaned them right up (after the pic above).

[dbhost]

Today was a crazy busy day work wise. Spent some time after work in Sketchup knocking out the basic drawers I have for size dimensions etc... for my lathe cabinet / tool storage bench.

I am planning on starting the build for that in June, I just want the basic dimensions down so I can start sourcing up materials for the build. The idea is basic plywood box, 2x4 butcher block top, ballast compartment on the bottom, and figure out how to make it happy on a mobile base. I am figuring on a 400lb capacity Bora mobile base kit to give me the mobility I want with this thing...

[capncarl]

We were planning on watching the eclipse after we watched the ISS streak past but the first rain clouds I’ve seen in a month decided to block everything out. I couldn’t even find where the moon was before the eclipse. There was a second ISS passing at 4 am but I didn’t see much point. The clouds were gone this morning and took their rain with them!

[dbhost]

LCHIEN sorry to hear about your mom, but awesome to know she is still here at 97! You are a lucky man... Nice lunar photo BTW...

[LCHIEN]

Mom 97 and in the hospital for pain and complications from a fall. Spent a lot of time at the hospital the past few days

Watched the blood moon last night, got this quickie photo.
Eclipse a lot dimmer than regular sun-lit moon. Took a 2.5 sec exposure at ISO 1000 f7.1
Digital crop, OM-D EM10 with Panasonic Leica 100-400 zoom.
I see I had a bit of camera shake, when I pressed the release, should have used the self timer. The telescopic magnification was so much that I cold see the moon walking across my screen clearly.

[dbhost]

Touched up some paint not thick enough spots in the new 2nd home office, Not going to bother swapping outlets this week as I simply do not have time. Next weekends project is to swap to Decora outlets.

Did the grocery shopping, in Houston Metro with a car that has recently failed AC, troubleshooting the AC system, clutch not engaging correctly. Refrigerant pressure switch kicks on and off with a gentle tap of a screwdriver, looks like I found my faulting component. Went to AutoZone and they gave me the wrong part. Looked through their application guide, no joy...

Returning it tomorrow. Ordered the right one on Amazon.

I did manage to get the manifold gauges and hoses put back in the case and the case needs to be cleaned up a bit, lots of dust on it...

Oh yeah, ran the recording engineer position for our church this morning. Hope I didn't mess up too bad as I was half dead for the first service, 2nd service was better...

Moving desk filing cabinet, and office chair into 2nd office tomorrow. PUtting throw rugs down, and putting box fan in corner. Ceiling fan mount is apparently too lose after the Zigbee controller install. It worked its way loose and is hanging by one screw. You guessed it, later on in the week. Not enough time before we MUST go live...

Her laptop, monitor, keyboard etc. are getting moved over with a UPS tomorrow night and mine gets moved into this office immediately following so I can be ready for Tuesdays work day...

More to come!

[dbhost]

Finished painting the closet, waiting for the paint to dry. Having fiber internet installed to replace my overpriced and unreliable cable internet. Unfortunately the fiber that was already run to the back of hte house, was run broken so the poor guy has the pull a new fiber. Sorry...

I did NOT want the Fireedition TV as I already have one, so I am going with the 1 gig speed which is more than enough for my wife and I to both remote work, and stream... And it is just over 1/3 of the cost of cable, and it is symtrical speeds instead of asymetrical. And to top it off, reportely it actually gets a gig up and down instead of 500mb if I am lucky...

The grinding platform arrived, will futz with that later.

Took wife out for Chilequiles.

AC in the car died. discovered compressor clutch wasn't cycling. Followed the circuit and discovered the compressor clutch relay had gotten cooked over the years of heavy use. Ordered one up yesterday and tapping on the old one got it to work for about an hour, then out again, Swapped the AC clutch and high beams relays around (same part) as I don't need the high beams next to ever, and sure won't before Rock Auto delivers on Thursday...

It is awfully darnged hot right now, just glad ERCOT didn't decide to shut our power down this weekend like they were talkinga bout on Wednesday.

[dbhost]

Finished filling in the tack strip divots in the back room. Letting the concrete patch dry. There are high spots that I simply do NOT care about right now in the closet.Wife will be taping the moldings off tomorrow and I will get in after her vacuum it up one last time and get after it with the concrete porch and floor paint, let it dry overnight, then get after the trim. Need to go pick up an area rug, and then Monday it all gets moved in. The doors still need a repaint but I can do that after move in...

[LCHIEN]

First I was going to make a picture frame using my 45 degree BT3 miter jig.

So Cut all the pieces


So I made some additional miter clamps.


Then those were falling all over the place with no place to keep them, so I made a box to keep them together



Then I assembled the frames. Turns out, the frame sides were too short and I could only use one set at a time on the sides to do all four corners at one time. So I could not use the extras miter clamping jigs I made


And that's why it takes so long to do anything.

[LCHIEN]

High School class of '70? mine too!

[LCHIEN]

Spaghetti? That's a fun clean up between the child, the chair and the floor. Hope you had fun!

[twistsol]

Grandpa is on the job.

[dbhost]

That looks awesome! A lot to be said about a simplified design...