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The lizards will survive! I love my Dynatraps. I hate skeeters......

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Kind of weird, mosquitoes eat my wife and one son up like candy, but I scarcely get bit. I got a mosquito bite many years ago that I saw the mosquito and slapped it to death. Probably shouldn't have done that, since I ended up with West Nile a few days later. :( Maybe I injected the virus into myself. I ended up with mild symptoms, which was good. I did had a really frozen up neck from the meningitis, though. There's no medicine for it, so the doctor told me to just go to the ER if it got worse. They can only treat symptoms, at least that was the case then.

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I think it injected you by the time you were feeling it. You could have always squeezed that part off from circulation and watched it grow till it popped. You knew about that, right? They can't pull out for some reason and can't stop filling up

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I smacked the sucker in fury and disgust; I didn't think about popping it. I do know about that. One of my Navy buddies from Oklahoma demonstrated it for a bunch of us, one time.

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I took my wife and kids to one of the many caverns in the Shenandoah valley today.
Then we went to another essential stop... Cooters is a pretty cool place. Owned by none other than Ben Jones himself.

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Put a new SS exhaust on the Hawk and started it and heard the water pump growling guess I didn't hear it with the blown mufflers . And of course doing the install noticed the radiator was weeping so I dug out a NOS one . I have one left after using this one . Well it was a good run on the original ,56 years . I can't imagine what a new one is worth now . We bought them in 1985 . Need to clean off the disintegrated cardboard and cobwebs.

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I was in that area all last week, between Luray and Front Royal in Rileyville. I was working on my sister's place. They'd leave every evening and stay up in Overall at a friends and left the place to me until mid-morning. I was in Luray for breakfast every day. I wondered if you'd be getting down that way while I was there. I didn't get to Cooters but I paddled the South Fork and took some nice hikes. Shoot, I guess the pictures of the waterfall on overall Creek are on my phone. These camera pictures will have to do. View from her deck and the river


Save that old one.

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Got IS250 ac charged only to realize its the compressor going out. Picked up the boxster from the dealer after replacing microswitches. Picked up the gallardo from getting the oem cats reinstalled at the muffler shop. Test drove a couple trade ins, put gas in some sold cars, checked in a couple new to us 911's. Typical day of not working on my own stuff.

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Nice Tim, I’m jealous. It was great to get back and spend some time in the Valley. I haven’t floated or paddled the Shenandoah since 2016. When I was younger we used to drop in at watermelon park and paddle down to the route 7 bridge once or twice a year. I’ve done Route 50 to watermelon park several times as well. Miss those days for sure. When my kids get a little bigger I will take them down the river. Looks like you sister has a great place. This is my dads place up off of route 9 just before the West Virginia line.

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Built another portable fan unit for the shop. I had been using this small fan to blow down low when underneath something. Been getting tired of kicking it over most of the time. My neighbor had an old pressure washer that the pump and motor were seize on, so it became my fan cart.

It got it's testing today when I did oil change on my DD. She worked just fine.

Next project.

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They are both very nice and very handy. By next summer I'll be wanting to come up with some good cooling for the little garage I built to house my '67 SWB project. It seems the worst of the heat is coming to an end here for the season. I have a kerosene heater for, hopefully, quite a few months from now.

I finally got another gallon of the siding color and finished up the two areas of corrugated I had primed and ready. Getting that done allowed for the completion of the drain tile as well. Baby steps, but a couple things off 'the list'. I don't show it, but I graded the area out and spread fresh stone on top, and moved the picnic table back to behind the building. It's nice and shady there

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I also moved the '67 project from it's long term spot finally!! Not done yet, but an encouraging step none the less. Now that my son sold the Ranger I had built around, and I'm back home after some out of town work, I had a chance to shovel out the top layer of stone to allow for a slab to be poured. Dispersed that on the driveway and other places that could use some. I don't see a slab coming too soon since I have other priorities on the house waiting. I was going to wait for the slab, but decided I want the truck in there bad enough that I'm willing to deal with moving it to pour the slab later. With luck, it will get moved onto a trailer to go for an exhaust system, now that I can install the engine.

I plan to get it inside today. But so far so good. First I want to give it a wash.

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Whirlpool state park

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Fixed a leaky kitchen faucet, noisy kitchen fridge, and the monsoon rains from the past two weeks has shown a minor leak in my shop roof. Off to ACE hardware later today to get what I need to fix that up.

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That's good progress Tim. You've been busy. ;)

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Tim, you need a day off! LOL

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I had to look up Whirlpool State Park. It sure looked a lot like below Niagra Falls but I figured that would be park of that park. I see it's just downriver a bit.

I moved that thing out of it's hole yesterday. Today I pushed it into the driveway, washed it up, and pushed it into it's home all by my lonesome. Now I wish I would have dropped the engine in while it was outside the barn on the slab. Oh well. I really wanted it inside before the next rain. I will be able to do more now that it's inside, though fairly cramped. Time to find a place for the crap that has found it's way in there

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Oh yeah. Now she's out of the weather. You can work on it anytime now. Before you know it you'll be making test runs out on the street. ;)

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It's kind of silly for me to be so excited about such a minimal garage for it. Not exactly a shop. But you said it when you said "she's out of the weather". One reason I hemmed and hawed about building this is I wanted more space, but as things are really didn't have any more room to use.

I never should have tucked that small barn, about the same size, back into that corner. I really didn't expect to be here so long and I had a shop I rented to keep my vehicles. I built that to replace the 8x8 shed that was there when I bought the place. The slab in front of it reaches to the edge of the septic tank, so no straight-on approach to the slab. I also wanted all the yard I could have for the kids when they were young. Now the maple tree is growing into the barn, as well. The tree is super huge now but, rather than take it out, I want to trim the limbs back and move the barn (and side shed) 3' into the yard. This will line up the shed side (left wall) with the right side of this tiny garage. So that will be straight-on with the driveway and the barn side will still be lined up with the slab. That's my minimal plan. The more ambitious plan, what I really want to do, is move the barn to the left side and rebuild the shed side to the right.

I would have just dismantled the whole thing and built a real shop straight back behind where I built this little garage if selling this place wasn't what I really want to do. So that is the other reason for hemming and hawing. Long story and very convoluted. I went ahead and did this little thing to go with the little old house. Looks like it belongs, been there, and in proportion. It is an amenity to add character, appeal, and value for the sale and for now keep the truck under cover. Also makes the back yard more private feeling (and hides my junk). Will also look better when showing the house to have a man's project tucked into a building. Money is tight, so no high hopes for the project until probably the next place. My plan is to get all parts assembled to consolidate them, but also can get driveshaft and exhaust made and get it running.

What I really want to see is that garage empty and that truck and my '72 sitting in the next garage at the next house. Now I can put my full focus on the house (except that barn moving thing) :rolleyes:

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replaced the flux capacitor on our home AC and friend tells me saved at least $300 bones on a service call

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Machined a Harley S&S crankcase for 124" cubic inch cylinders
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The AC went out at our rental house, and one of the tenants went ahead and called in a repairman, who replaced the start and run capacitors. My wife nicely explained to the renters that that sort of repair is not authorized, and that if something goes wrong, like the repairman gets hurt, we have no protection. We don't know if the person doing the repair was insured or licensed. I've replaced capacitors in my condensing unit; it's a piece of cake. $50 for two capacitors. I haven't seen the receipt yet, but I do know that it is over $400. They're good renters and are taking great care of the place, so I don't want to chase them off. They just need some education. Once that kind of thing starts, it can snowball, and they'll be making other unauthorized "repairs" for which we could be liable.

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as en ex landlord I 100% agree, too many laws favor the tenants especially here in Cali so I got out of that business

oh but I do miss the rental calls: "How many bathrooms is it"

Me: "One"

Them: "Are you sure, could you go and check"

😳

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How do you diagnose a faulty capacitor? Asking for future reference.

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AC does not blow cold air, the capacitor bulges like a bad laptop battery, the top raises and looks domed not flat

they are also cheap $25 bucks online so even if you replace it and it still dont fix the problem you know you wont be paying $400 for a service call for something simple

home ACs only have four components, the capacitor being one of them

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Check. Thank you.

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If the power is on, and the fan in the condensing unit won't spin, or looks like it's trying to spin, the start capacitor is bad (usually).

A start capacitor is used to briefly shift phase on a start winding in a single phase electric motor to create an increase in torque.

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Thanks!

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Raining today so I worked on the bathroom . Put in a Schluter kerdi board shelf unit in the shower . Even with the carbide tile attachment it was slow going . Good ventilation and a mask are mandatory

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I finally have home health coming to me now. So it was Physical therpy for me 4 times a week now. Ihad a stroke 3 years ago and I've noticed that my rite side has been losing all the stregth I once had in it plus my left knee has gotten worse about not wanting towork like it should. after 6 falls in a month I realised it was time to do something.

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I hope you get some relief!

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Hope you feel better. Therapy is very important my wife is certified yoga therapist and works with many people who are afflicted with body restrictions the results are amazing . I've even started and feel the difference in movement.


Yesterday put a new patio slider at the rental. Just need to trim it out

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Jason, sorry to hear about your twist of fate. I hope the therapy helps you along. We never know when things can change like that. I look ahead to the possibility of me not being able to do what I can do now. I don't take my good fortune in health for granted, I can guarantee you that. I'm working toward getting myself better situated for if and when that time may come.

We had off and on rain on Wed and I went for it with digging out, forming, and pouring some concrete to allow for next doing the steps at the rear corner of my little garage. They are my way of dealing with the garage being built into the hill. It's pretty slippery on the grass when it's wet, too, so I always wanted to do the steps even before the garage. I will also do a sidewalk and curb to deal with the grade along the uphill side. I realized I better get going so I can get some grass growing before it gets cold. Not a lot of sun on those areas and my hopes (dreams) are to be ready for market come spring. Got to keep shifting priorites.

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K, I wish I had your skills and energy level.

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I got all excited about putting the SWB in it's new garage, thinking now I'll get moving on it. But reality set in and that is I need to stay focused on getting the property in shape to sell. I tend to make little of what needs to be done, because I just do it then it's done. But there is a ton to do. I need to use all the space in the garage I can to move things out of my barn and side shed. That maple tree has grown into the building, not good, and it is only getting worse. I have moisture in the lower barn now and upstairs is starting to smell musky. The building needs to move away from that giant tree. And, the roof needs to be replaced with a metal one. I've been waiting until after I move it. Might tear the shakes off, then move, then put metal on.

My screen house has been turned into a storage shed for parts. But the first reason I moved the picnic table out was to store a bunch of cherry boards I had been given 4 or 5 years ago. Selling it would make sense, but what's that? I really want to get a woodshop set up at my next place and I want to have that wood. I also had a sheet of 3/4" CDX and another 3/4" sheet of birch solid core... both very heavy!. I put those on the truck frame and loaded all the cherry on. This made space for the woodshop tools to move in from the barn. Before moving the plywood I put my transmissions, transfer cases, steering boxes, and master cylinder/boosters under the tail end of the truck.

It's been a lot of heavy moving and the work has just begun. I got all the woodworking tools moved and emptied out all the lumber from the shed to a pile I have tarped. Now I need to build a rack over the SWB to store that. I'm not sure I'll have time anyway, but even with all I'll be cramming around the trick I can still work on it from cab forward. I want to install the engine & trans. Great way to save space! I'd like to put the front clip on too, and lay the bedsides on top of the cherry. It's so much stuff, I'll still need more space. The initial plan is to empty the shed side and dismantle. After that is when the challenge of what to do with everything else will hit. There's an upstairs floor you know!

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Heck, I wish there was a contractor out here that wasn't booked up a year in advance! :lol:

I got bunches of stuff to do out here. We're trying to decide whether to fix up our current garage (1 bay with attached room) or tear it down and build a 4-5 bay garage into the hill with half high concrete walls at the back and sides ...

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Daaaang. Like I have said for years, the more storage room you have the more things you will hang onto creating the need for more storage room. ;)

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I moved here 34 years ago. Lived here over half my life. It looks like so much because I don't have enough room. I had a barn I rented for years for shop and storage. But in '07 the place got sold, so it's been tight ever since.
Anyone need any good cores? :cool: There was a pile of lumber in front of that
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First picture is the cherry in the screen house before moving any. The third is same spot filling back in with woodshop tools. The second one is the dirt floor in the shed where the transfer cases had been (on metal roof scraps). The fourth is in the barn before I moved anything. Last one is the radial arm on it's way up.

I wish you could come help! I need to get all this done, sell, then fix the next place up while I still can. Moving all that lumber, drivetrain parts, and stationary woodshop tools wore me out. All stiff and sore last evening. You saw my hand truck. That thing makes it all possible. But it was all uphill hauling. Those tools are heavy!

I went out there after posting and it's all so bewildering looking at what to move next, when, and where will it go. I decided since this is prepping to sell, and I'm only doing this as a remedy to the deterrent of the monster tree growing into the building, I'm going the minimal route, leave the shed side standing, take 3' - 4' out of it, and move the barn over to it. Cheapest, quickest, and easiest. Cutting the tree down would be an enormous expense, it makes good shade, could use some serious trimming, but not a deterrent to the sale. I'll have a good bit of space for things in the lower barn to be moved to under the shed.

I also plan this winter to gut the master bedroom I have never touched since I moved in. I never thought about it with all the other work I've done. Just a place to sleep. Plus it's still original plaster. I insulated from outside way back when. I was kind of thinking it would be cool to leave a room original. But again, for the sale I need to make the master bedroom an attractive feature, not be deterrent #2. The ceiling is low and I plan to tear it out to frame it higher, then use the old hand-hewn ceiling beams exposed underneath. I'll wire it, put a floor down, new closets, trim. Nothing fancy, but fresh and more spacious feeling.

I'm probably being unrealistic thinking I'll get it on the market next spring. I'd sell as is but all this work is more work than money, and that's what I do and enjoy. It's not your typical house for just anyone. But I want everything right because it's value is in that it's going to really appeal to someone, like a classic vehicle you just have to have. It needs to be in "no excuses" condition. I don't want to hear words like "fixer-upper" or "lot's of potential".

So, the other big thing I plan (other than new main roof... no biggie) is line the entire dug out cellar with block. That's deterrent #3. I've got the block, so just need mortar and time (bad weather days). The roof is a deterrent I was going to live with. The lower roofs are all new. No leaks in the steeper main roof but the cedar shakes look very tired. I know it will be called out by a home inspector. Shakes have gotten crazy high and I'd really like to see them replaced. But I decided to go with metal like the rest. It's four separate sections, so I'll start with the front (biggest), it's just straight across. Talk talk talk. I need to get back out there.


I keep hearing the same thing from my sister in Idaho. Around here it's more like too much competition and too many big companies. Well, a lot of not so big companies who try to appear as big mostly. People fall for it and a big company seems to be what they prefer over big skill. They want polo shirts with logos and trucks with wrap jobs. I've been around to long to want to deal with putting on a front or any other BS. Just show me the work!

That's the crossroad I was at for a long time. If I was staying I would have taken the barn/shed down, not built the single car garage, and built a bigger building in line with the driveway all the way back. Where my garage is would have been a carport off the front of the left garage bay. I'm looking forward to a place with a real shop when I move. I hate having this set outside.

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Brother your to do list sounds long. If we were closer I'd sure try to give you a hand. I see your hand truck and smile. The last time I went junk yarding I took our hand truck. I bungie corded two milk crates to it to put my parts and tools in. It got tiring pushing that thing all over acres and acres in this heat but it sure beat trying to carry everything. ;)

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I've got a huge pine tree about three feet from the end of our garage/room. Healthy tree, nice shade, and far enough from the wildland that it's not really a fire hazard. But to add on or replace the garage, or even build a carport beside the garage, the tree will have to come down. I can do it no problem but the cleanup will be a big job and I hate to see it go. It's about a cord of firewood, though :)

I really want to do something to get our two newer vehicles in out of the weather.