It has been a couple of weeks, so here's the latest.
On the Chrysler, it is back on the road. I'm still waiting for the glass part of the fuel filter. I found one that the owner would sell me for $40. For just a few dollars more I bought 5 new ones in their original box from eBay.
If I'd written this before last night I would say that the car is running better than it has since we got it back to Colorado. Unfortunately we stopped for dessert last night, and it stumbled when we started driving again. The fuel line snakes between the engine block and part of the water pump. I think that replacing the fuel filter with the correct one will keep the gas line further away from these hot parts and the car will run better.
Garage Update
On May 14 I wrote that I was working on some of the decorative elements for the garage. In addition to putting things away in the new storage and sheet rock work around the window, some of the decorative items are ready to show.
The first picture is of my rolling seat and bookcase. This is one of the wine shipping crates that I got for free at Costco. The middle bookcase shelf is adjustable, and there is a lip at the front of the shelves to keep the books from sliding forwards. The front of the bookcase has a hinged Plexiglas door that is held shut with magnets. The handle to open the door matches the handles on all the cabinets. The color of the seat is similar to the blue on the Chrysler. Two of the wheel lock.
The next picture is of the rolling workbench in progress. The drawer and the work top are not mounted yet. Each tool that will be used will have bolt holes in the top, and many of the tools will be stored in the cupboard. The drawer will be shortened to allow access to the bottom of the bolt holes.
For years I have stored some wood trays that were originally used to deliver Pepsi bottles. This weekend I added to that collection with two coke cases. The Coke cases are (I think) older than my Pepsi cases, and have dividers for individual bottles. The last picture shows one of the Pepsi cases and the two "new" coke cases. They are in another of the wine shipping cases from Costco. This display is also intended to provide trays that can be grabbed to carry small parts to a project. I don't know which of the cases (trays) will be in this display, nor how I will display the others.
I also have some old Coke bottles that will be displayed somehow.
Lastly, I intellectually knew that a saw cuts on the edges of the saw blade, but last week I actually got to see how it cuts. The teeth of the saw alternate the side of the cut that it cuts on, the the rest of the tooth scrapes out the middle. I also learned that if you touch a jigsaw blade before it is completely stopped it makes two parallel cuts, one on each side of the blade. It also hurts. As a last lesson, it is hard to type with a bandage on your middle finger. (This was a week ago, and I'm healed.)
On the Chrysler, it is back on the road. I'm still waiting for the glass part of the fuel filter. I found one that the owner would sell me for $40. For just a few dollars more I bought 5 new ones in their original box from eBay.
If I'd written this before last night I would say that the car is running better than it has since we got it back to Colorado. Unfortunately we stopped for dessert last night, and it stumbled when we started driving again. The fuel line snakes between the engine block and part of the water pump. I think that replacing the fuel filter with the correct one will keep the gas line further away from these hot parts and the car will run better.
Garage Update
On May 14 I wrote that I was working on some of the decorative elements for the garage. In addition to putting things away in the new storage and sheet rock work around the window, some of the decorative items are ready to show.
The first picture is of my rolling seat and bookcase. This is one of the wine shipping crates that I got for free at Costco. The middle bookcase shelf is adjustable, and there is a lip at the front of the shelves to keep the books from sliding forwards. The front of the bookcase has a hinged Plexiglas door that is held shut with magnets. The handle to open the door matches the handles on all the cabinets. The color of the seat is similar to the blue on the Chrysler. Two of the wheel lock.
The next picture is of the rolling workbench in progress. The drawer and the work top are not mounted yet. Each tool that will be used will have bolt holes in the top, and many of the tools will be stored in the cupboard. The drawer will be shortened to allow access to the bottom of the bolt holes.
For years I have stored some wood trays that were originally used to deliver Pepsi bottles. This weekend I added to that collection with two coke cases. The Coke cases are (I think) older than my Pepsi cases, and have dividers for individual bottles. The last picture shows one of the Pepsi cases and the two "new" coke cases. They are in another of the wine shipping cases from Costco. This display is also intended to provide trays that can be grabbed to carry small parts to a project. I don't know which of the cases (trays) will be in this display, nor how I will display the others.
I also have some old Coke bottles that will be displayed somehow.
Lastly, I intellectually knew that a saw cuts on the edges of the saw blade, but last week I actually got to see how it cuts. The teeth of the saw alternate the side of the cut that it cuts on, the the rest of the tooth scrapes out the middle. I also learned that if you touch a jigsaw blade before it is completely stopped it makes two parallel cuts, one on each side of the blade. It also hurts. As a last lesson, it is hard to type with a bandage on your middle finger. (This was a week ago, and I'm healed.)
posted by Honey And Papa at 8:57 AM
2 Comments:
Leave it to you, Dad, to "discover" that it hurts to touch a moving blade!
Love ya!
Josie
re Josie's comment:I'm also adept at making such discoveries in much the same way... Have you ever grabbed the edge of a sliding door to close it?
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