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And I’m smoking a chicken too on my Weber charcoal grill

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Chicken looks good. Now I'm hungry.......

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Daughters boyfriend came over with a problem. His security lug nuts were stuck and he had broken the “key” tool in one of them. His tires are super bad and getting new ones tomorrow but no tire shop wants to tackle getting the security lugs off.

Welded nuts to the end of each of them and spun them off. One other lug nut was messed up by another tire shop so I drove a deep well impact socket on that one and spun it off. He had a new set of all lug nuts so we installed those before he left.

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I did some yard work and did some work on my '55 Chevy Belair 2 Dr Ht's floor.

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That deep socket trick is a real eye-opener when someone comes in to have a tire changed, without the key. Hammer that socket on (we had a split one that worked great for this) and spin the "locknut" off. :lol: McGard's? What McGards?

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I once bought a rear end from a junkyard and the rims had security lug nuts on them. The guy grabbed a torch and I had to stop him. I don't want it if you're going to melt the damn thing. Just leave the rims on dude.

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This has got to smell amazing. I'd probably eat a dozen pancakes and four or five waffles per day while that process was going on.

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And I wondered about that, if you could use the sap from other trees. I'll be interested to hear how that turns out next year. The only option I have is a single birch with an 8 inch trunk, haha. Could probably only get a tablespoon out of it and boil it down to 1/8 of a teaspoon to get a taste.

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If I tried that, I would probably tap a tree with poison sap..... :barf:

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No poison oak sap! :lol:

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Nah.... after decades of stomping around outdoors, I have a pretty good idea what poison oak looks like! :lol:

Did I mention I hate that stuff? :devil:

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Should get about two gallons the boiling temp is 214 right now looking for 216.6 About 6 degrees over water boiling . At my elevation water boils at 210.6

Have to watch it from now till it’s done very easy to get a boil over

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It’s at 115 so I’ll be finishing it off on the stovetop in a large SS pot . Just thought ya might like to see the funnel . It’s an old photo flash cone works great . Filter is a cheap new T-shirt works as well as the pricey syrup filters and only cost 2 bucks at wallyworld

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Well we finally go some nice weather up here today,went for a walk to the pond and saw some Canadian geese,they were laughing at me,probally spent the winter on my pond in SC,damn Covid,then went into the driving shed and saw a Jackalope run out of there,havn't seen one in years,then heard a squeeking sound in there,and there are 3 babys there,cute little things, before they they get their antlers,so it was a good day after a cold Canadian winter,lol.

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Spent a good bit of the afternoon working on the quarter panel and fender flare on my dad's 66. Also drove it around for the first time in about 8 months.

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Yes it smells great when it gets to the amber color . Up and till then it's just steam

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Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple syrple

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We shoot those little buggers here in Iowa. They dig up the gardens something fierce with those antlers.....and they are mean!!!

LockDoc

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bunny

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Just a tad over 2 gallons . This is the first time for the hydrometer made life so much easier

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Haha, out here I would probably have to tap some sort of evergreen. I'd probably come back to find the whole thing irretrievably welded together with pitch.

That looks like good progress. I like the camera angle. That year is very well designed visually. The fastback gets attention because it is a departure from the norm. But the lines on the coupe are more cohesive and look like they belong.

I had to mention that this made me chuckle.

Can you keep boiling it until it becomes like a candy or taffy consistency?

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What does the hydrometer tell you? Viscosity, sugar content?

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Got this ole 6-71 Detroit running today. Had to run the exhaust valves, and set the injector heights but she purred right along afterward. Been sitting 5+ years.

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Density. The amount of sugar in solution the higher it floats the more sugar in the syrup. I use something similar to check the wort when I'm making beer. But it doesn't go high enough for syrup . People use these for salt water pools and fish tanks too

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Got the cart working had to redo the casters just needed to beef up the bolts . You can see why I used 10 inch pneumatic casters not the greatest surface to work with but it’s a 150+ year old barn

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I need to build one with tracks on it instead of wheels....:)

LockDoc

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I helped my brother in law put new carpet and newly reupholstered bench seat in his ‘69 340 Dart.

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I polished the hubcaps on my Packard. They weren't too bad for 71 years old. The one on the car is before and the other is after. And then I hit the paint with some Linseed oil just for giggles. I was shocked. THE CAR IS BLACK! :eek: I would have never guessed. I would have done more but I have to scrub some surface rust with CLR first. I think that the old girl is going to clean up nicely. I still have a lot of polishing to do and lose the dried up masking tape on the trim. But so far so good. The bumpers are next. Make her pretty again. :)

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Yesterday I decided to replace a broken firebrick in our wood stove. Took time to let it cool first, then cleaned out the ashes. Might as well clean the cap & brush the flue next. The broken brick was against the back of the stove, and held in place by the bricks on the floor.... which are held in place by the bricks on the side.... one of which was broken. It's all good now and we had a nice warm fire last night. Just took a bit longer than I had anticipated.

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I played

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Rewebbed this old lawn chair. Ready for more decades of use.

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That thing's pretty cool and looks like it's going to clean up nice. You may want to look at Meguiar's number 7 as it's designed to soak into old paint like that. There are some videos on utube of how it soaks into old single stage paint and the rubbing process of putting it on helps very gently remove some of the dead paint on top.

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Pretty cool, where did you buy the new webbing? Looks like you're ready to go watch some racing from the martini racing pit.

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Hah! I used the same pneumatic tire casters (not cheap) to put a spare cab I have on wheels for 'off road'. First time I moved it the tires needed air. Second time the tires needed replaced, rotted off the wheels. I put the same type tires on my big trash can. One started going flat every week, took a look, tire severely rotted. Never saw rubber rot so fast. I have a hand truck with the original tires that came on it 25 years ago. And that this has been strapped to some insane loads over the years

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That’s funny. EBay - had a lot of options for vintage webbing. I liked the red white blue theme. I really like these old folding chairs versus the newer collapsible style that’s tough to get back into the storage sack. The last two folders I got (including this one) were free on the side of the road.

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Thats that new an improved automotive tire rubber

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Good to know! I have an old travel trailer that could make good use of some vintage chairs like that.

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Welded up some thrust washers to the legs of the steel lawn chairs. Got tired of one or two legs sinking Into the lawn.

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Good job on re-webbing these chairs of yesteryear,, I did a couple many years ago when they were still popular.. I had a niece at an age about 4 get a nasty gash from one of these aluminum framed chairs by it folding up on her ,,I do not remember the part of the chair that caused the cut on her.. and of course there were more than one company making them.. ( not down playing your fine looking chairs ),and I can just hear the many great replies you will get from people admiring them..