I’ve been slacking a little here lately. We had a birthday party for the wife’s best friend’s son who just turned 1. She wanted me to buy a sensory board for him. No he’s not autistic or anything, just something that’s not a stupid toy that ends up in the bottom of his toy box. The board was small and they wanted $180 for it. Yeah right, I’ll make one. Have about $80 invested and I got off work last Friday morning at 7am and by 10pm all I had left was vinyl wrap the door, mount it and put the letters across the top. Literally finished it at 12:30 Saturday, party started at 2pm. I used my kids 9.6V battery charger from an old RC car to power the lights. The board was a huge hit at the party and everyone was coming up to me complimenting me on it or asking if I could make another one. No!!
I managed to get my Firebird in the air to start cleaning and undercoating it. Plan is to get the subframe connectors welded in and start on the cage for it. It’ll be slow going as time allows.
I still need to get the front on wood blocks. Kinda sketchy on the stands.
Monday I picked up a 2010 Challenger that needed some front end work. Inner and outer tie rods and lower control arms. It has a 3.5 but it’s pretty clean. Already have a buyer lined up so it’s a nice quick flip that’ll put some extra parts money in my pocket.
As you can see from the above pic, I also put down my winter containment tarp. It has pool noodles folded in on the sides and front so when she pulls her slushy salty vehicle in during the winter it doesn’t drip and run all over my garage floor. Thing works like a charm.
I managed to get the front end done on the challenger yesterday. Just in time too, we have a snow storm coming today and forecasting snow all the way into early next week so I can’t have the wife’s vehicle sitting outside in it, she apparently thinks it’ll melt. Or she will if she has to scrape windows.
I was planning on heading north this weekend with my brother to get some much needed seat time on my sled but that got cancelled due to work obligations.
These 40 year veterans can’t seem to work a plow truck to save their life and the plant superintendent pretty much told me I had to work to keep the plant moving. I wasn’t suppose to get this email but Jose (the maintenance supervisor) is a good friend of mine and showed it to me.
And yeah, he calls me Jimmy because we had a midnight supervisor named Jim and they would always confuse us so Juan started saying jimmy and it stuck with a few guys. I hate it. Makes me feel like I’m 10.
We also have to get these new raw water feed pumps installed sometime this weekend. These are replacing 2 big Durco 25hp pumps that feed raw water from quarry to the plant. These came out of Fresno CA and we are supposedly the first in the country to have a setup like this. I always like being the first, it just means we are the guinea pigs.
Another little project I did for Jose here at work. He wanted me to make a shelf for samples so the drivers wouldn’t forget them. He could have bought something but I told him I needed some 14ga sheet metal for a side project so we made a deal, he’d buy 2- 4x4 sheets of 14ga and I could keep them if I made him something for the samples. Cool. I’m game.
I did it on company time anyway so I brought in my homemade sheet metal brake and my dimple dies and formed this out of one piece of sheet metal.
I bought the wife a Cricut vinyl cutter for Xmas this year so I had her cut the letters out for me and put them on after I painted it and hung it up.
So yeah, I’ve been busy but I haven’t touched the Esky for a little while. I’ll get back at it here after the snow has stopped falling and can get a little sleep.
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