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Rebuilt the BBQ. New burners, grills and plates plus a good cleaning. Can't wait to do up some steaks on a sunny afternoon now!

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Its a left over from a college project, pretty sure its not off the shelf based on memory. Rock Auto sells spin on adapters and remote mount adapter kits in the tools and universal parts section.

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Got the covid vaccine first shot...Moderna.

4 hours later...feeling fine.

-klb

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Good info. Thanks!

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He probably made it on his Lathe.;)
MJN and I have shared a few machining stories:chevy:












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They used to let the vanners stay overnight in the park. The club isn't involved. Classic Parts is putting it on. I'll put the arm on Carrie to get some info out on the ol interwebs. Are you coming for the shindig in July, or the meet up in Springfield in a week?

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Tell me more about July and Springfield.

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I bought a remote spin-on filter mount at NAPA. They come with two-bolt mounting. The fuel/water filter base/mount (plastic) on the firewall of my diesel Jimmy cracked and replacements are unavailable so I rigged up the spin-on mount and a bleed valve in the line. I tried to find it on NAPA's lame website but they want all the vehicle info for a "universal spin on filter mount". So I Googled that, without universal, and got a zillion results

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Decades ago I think I got one from Northern Hydraulics (now "Tool"). It was all catalog back then (no internet and web existed) and about the only place that I could find cups for the old hydraulic cylinders* that I had salvaged. I finally bought myself a brand new 20gpm pump for my loader and about that time I decided to do it more or less right and get a filter for the system. It was a spin on with pipe thread in and out and I mounted it on the return end of my valve bank.

I don't remember how expensive the filters were, but I wasn't changing them but about once a year or so.

* I used to get old leaky cylinders from the junkyard for maybe $5 and rebuild them with new cups from NH for maybe another $3-$4 :lol: Some of those cylinders would be several hundred dollars new at that time (1980s). I couldn't figure out why people would just throw stuff away, but even the parts stores in that little mountain town would say "oh, we can't get those seals - just go buy a new one" :rolleyes:

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I changed the fuel pump on the wifes 2000 GMC and was a pretty simple fix except for draining the gas tank. The one time my wife actually fills up her car full of gas. I hate the smell of gas, had a headache for two days straight. I watched on youtube where people actually cut out the rear of the floor instead of lowering the fuel tank down. It takes a special kind of stupid to cut the metal floor out of your vehicle not the mention the support bracing that runs across vehicle to change the fuel pump like that.

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Laid out the floorplan on my new home .:lol::metal:

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Laid up, day 3 of recovery from having a section of my colon removed. Unfortunately my request to hand select nurses for a sponge bath was denied.

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I’d say perfect but the bedroom looks rather large.:lol:

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Moved the project out into the sun to get a better view of how it is sitting. Hoping to get body work done and primed in the next few weeks.

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Received my additional LED lights for the shop and picked up some junction boxes while I was out and about today. Going to start putting them in later if the wife doesn't have other plans for me.

I have twelve four foot, 40W LED lights in there now but when I was priming and painting my bed supports last weekend I realized I didn't have nearly enough light to see to tackle the bed pieces so I ordered 10 more.

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Hopeing for a speedy recovery .

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X2 and hoping all went well! :metal:

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I was thinking along the lines that you really don't need the bathroom.... Showers are so overrated anyways...

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Why waste floor space? Can't you build a loft for the living quarters? :cool:
My sister and b.i.l. bought land in Maine, put up a shop with heated floor, and built a two story place to live at one end. He may be in Maine and it may have cold winters, but he wake up, grab a coffee, and slip out into the shop in his socks.
This only shows the screened room added off the back (for summer kitchen/dining room) with a little bit of shop showing
Leevon, I hope you recover quickly. Sorry about the nurse thing. They really should be more selective in their sponge bath giver hiring practices

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looks perfect to to me but do you think the kitchen's a little big??

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As I get older I hate stairs so my next place will definitely be a ranch
I like to cook too;)

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WOW!!! Hope you are doing ok!!!

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There was some folks on the "divide" on 87 that built a place like that. We visited there a time or two. It was an interesting idea but I didn't particularly like their execution of it.

Definitely getting more difficult :(

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If you don't want stairs then you'll have to do a bump-out for those so called "necessities". You can get those roll-off yard sheds pretty cheap.

I hear a lot of people saying they don't want stairs anymore, or looking ahead not wanting them. Hasn't hit me yet. I hope I can keep saying that. But my place further down the line I want compact, so I doubt I'll need a second floor.

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If I was alone, I'd probably live in a 16x24 cabin. Or maybe a pickup camper and just wander?

About six weeks ago I did something to an S-I joint and it's been hell since then. I'm suddenly ten years older :(

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My balance is so bad that I avoid stairs like the plague. I can go up stairs with no problem. But coming back down is a whole different story. I hang onto the rail for dear life.

This is a fairly recent problem. I never had a problem with stairs when I was younger. But now I have some medical issues that make my balance go haywire. I walk fine but I have to be careful or I'll fall down. And forget ladders. No way.

My last house was a 2 story house. I lived there about 17 years with no problem.

I'll never forget. My ex bought one of those stair stepper exercise things. Why? We had a staircase. Just use that. :confused::rolleyes:

I think she used that stair stepper once. Just like her treadmill that took up a bunch of room and never got used. Waste of money.

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No real problem with stairs . Just my shop is in the basement of this house. All my tools are there so when I'm working on a car either in the barn or in the driveway it's up and down all day long. Barn is a hay barn so it's very dusty and when it rains its wet. From the openings in the siding

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Started building my 12x12 shed, plan is to have a 1/2 loft up top for extra storage. Would like to be mostly done in a week or two. Well see what happens.
First picture was yesterday, the rest all today.

This weekend, I also raked the back yard and re seeded it, as well as getting my irrigation pump set back up for the summer. I’ve watered the fresh seed 2 times a day since Friday. Hope to see seedlings soon.

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Busy weekend on everything but the truck. Added more LED lights so I can actually see what I am doing and re-gravelled the drive up to the shop.

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I just made my world famous BBQ sauce. (Ok it's not world famous but it's pretty darned good). I use the induction cooktop. I doesn't burn the sauce.

I cook it low and slow. 18 ingredients. It's a pain to make. And it takes some time. But it's worth it.

Thin sliced BBQ beef sandwiches on fresh rolls tonight. Yummy! :bann:

If I have the energy. (Which I probably won't). I'll make my world famous potato salad to go with them. (Ok it's not world famous either but it's dang good too):lol:

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It used to be once a thing became well known around the world it became "world famous". As per CG's thread on the topsy turvy world, we now call whatever we want world famous in hope that will help it become that. I see world famous products, usually food, that I never heard of all the time. Hooter's claims their wings are world famous. I never knew that. That ain't what I heard they are famous for! :frog:

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That's what I used to go there for;)

The Wings:ito:

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Believe it or not I have never been to a Hooters. But I have heard that the wings are really good. My wife of all people told me so. :lol:

I asked her why she went to Hooters and it seems that there was a guy at her work retiring and that's where he wanted his retirement party.:metal:

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Same here, but even crazier a supervisor on a contract hosted a get together at Tilted Kilt :uhmk:

I had just got off the plane in San Diego after leaving snowy Montana about 12 hours before, and then got picked up and taken to this place to meet the team.

That's just too much shock for an old country boy!

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I guess that's one of the advantages of being a city boy. I'm pretty hard to shock. I just roll my eyes. I've seen it all before.

What I didn't do on my truck today? Was to hang my Pabst Blue Ribbon light. Ignore the 10 foot Marlin. He's just hamming it up for the camera. He's a show off.
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I've been twice. The first time was when my younger son was at Childrens Hospital in DC. We stopped into one to let a little tension off. That's when I read the menu that stated their wings were world famous. They were....... pretty good (aren't they always?)

The second time was when I had to go down into Baltimore by the Inner Harbor to a lawyer's office. Same thing, needed to let a little tension off. I was single by then and don't you know I got well acquainted with my waitress, a fine young belle from Knoxville, TN. My second visit to Hooters was the best ;)

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Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?

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So I decided to put up the 10x13 gazebo we bought last fall. In the first paragraph of the instructions it stated that 6-8 people were required for assembly! It didn't take that many to build my house.
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I did it by myself in 3.5 hours. I wish things went that smooth when I work on my truck. Naturally the next day we had 60MPH winds with rain and some snow. It did survive.

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You have to see it through the eyes of an old married "cowboy" just off the plane from Montana in mid-winter. We were all sitting at this long table on stools and it was really loud in there so the waitress came around and stood right next to each of us to take our order. My eye level sitting on the stool was just about - well, use your imagination ;) :uhmk:

I've got several "Marlins" but I don't have them on racks on the wall. One of them hangs muzzle down on a peg by the door.