Humble 3 Car

ME87 said:

The wife and I just hit 2 years and I think I'm the culprit of all the dumb things.

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Trust me, you're on your way to many more years...

....took me a long time to figure that out.

Model T Water Pump



Another project I did this evening. Gotta have a way to hold your keys

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I need a laser cutter.

Lol. Yeah it is a nice tool to be able to use

I see a great business opportunity making those laser cut key holders. I see Jeep, Mustang, Harley, GTO, Corvette, not to mention laser cut names, words, sculptures of trees, etc. The sky is the limit!

Haven't gotten a lot done today, was out until 2 last night rescuing a jeep. C-clip Dana 35's FTW!



But got it off the trail before it could be vandalized.

Got one of these cleaned up and bent. Need to work on my forming jig and throw some paint on them, but I think it'll do.

You gonna start marketing those?

I dunno, maybe at a local arts and crafts swap meet we have around here. Some of these files I've drawn and others I've see elsewhere and re-created so I wouldn't want to infringe on anyone's design's so I'd need to create some more original designs so I have a variety to sell online I guess.

Drew up my model T gas tank and mount tonight



Now just to fabricate it

ME, hows your garage floor holding up? Did you do it yourself or did you have someone do it?

The floor is holding up great. It doesn't do well with a grinding wheel and dragging my 150 Lb floor jack across the garage door threshold has beat up that edge a little bit so I'm careful to carry across that now. There is only one stain and that was probably my fault as well, I lit a cardboard box on fire one night while welding and just stomped it out and left it for a few days. When I cleaned it up, the ash had stained the floor and I haven't been able to get that clean yet.

Edit: Yes I did it myself over the period of about 3 weeks. 1 week per bay basically. A lot of work, but it was completely worth it.

^^^Those are the exact reasons I have never pulled the trigger on that floor. I do so much welding/cutting and floor jack/jack stands that I think I would damage the floor in short order. I love the look of them (even envy).

I'll take some pictures of my dad's floor. He's had his for about 5 years and we've put a beating on it and it still looks nice. If you want it to remain PERFECT over the years, it's not going to happen, but the marks I'm talking about on mine, are really only noticeable by me since I put them there. If he mops his floor and sweeps it, it looks 90% as good as new 5 years later with TONS of welding, heavy grease, paint over spray, plasma cutting, cutting with a torch, heavy grinding and general use. The only epoxy floors that I've seen that look bad after time are the ones that are exposed to chemicals every day in large quantity or if they had poor prep work done and they're pealing. I would say do one bay and see what you think.

Here are a few pictures of the floor in the area where I do the most work (Welding, grinding, greasy mechanic work on a 100 year old car)

Before Being mopped


One stain that I can't remove


After being mopped




Also made a few F*** it Buckets today for the random hardware and small pieces that were scattered in different cubbies in tool boxes and such



I have a metric one, one for the model T, One for everything, and one that's empty right now




Made them to fit under the work bench, which I still need to finish and install the doors on. You can see the buckets below the bench

That is holding up better that what I thought. I thought that epoxy (in the plastic family?) would melt and dent. I may just have to look back into epoxies again. Wonder if there are many grades/qualities?

Like the buckets. Did you use a card board template to come up with a one piece design?

I used Quikrete brand epoxy on my floor and other then the extra abuse on mine (Dragging sharp metal that even took out concrete and painting without masking) and it has held up great. I really like epoxied floors.

Ecam said:

That is holding up better that what I thought. I thought that epoxy (in the plastic family?) would melt and dent. I may just have to look back into epoxies again. Wonder if there are many grades/qualities?

Like the buckets. Did you use a card board template to come up with a one piece design?

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Yeah, it doesn't melt or dent. If it comes up, it's usually taking the top layer of concrete with it. There have been many studies from all the epoxy people showing the peel up strength being greater than the concrete and for the most part I believe it's true. I do also believe that the difference is all in the prep. work. Bad prep, bad performance. That being said, my dad did have one half of his garage done in trade work by a professional company and it is holding up about the same as the DIY stuff.

I did not opt for the optional but very expensive clear coat sealer on top. My neighbor did along with the optional silica additive to provide grip and it gets dirtier faster than mine and is harder to clean. If you want to do the clear coat you may want to go with the smaller chip size and leave out the silica additive, I think it would look nicer.

As for the buckets, I drew them in Solidworks, generated the flat pattern from there, sent the patterns to the laser to be cut and then bent them on a CNC brake. A bit overkill, but they do fit and I'm in to them for 10 min of design time, 10 min of fab time and 20 min of programming on a weekend out of some 16 Ga HR mild steel which is pretty cheap.

ME87 said:

As for the buckets, I drew them in Solidworks, generated the flat pattern from there, sent the patterns to the laser to be cut and then bent them on a CNC brake. A bit overkill, but they do fit and I'm in to them for 10 min of design time, 10 min of fab time and 20 min of programming on a weekend out of some 16 Ga HR mild steel which is pretty cheap.

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Bet you gave up your rotory phone too!

Ecam said:

Bet you gave up your rotory phone too!

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Haha last time I had a rotary phone in my hand I was about 7 and it was broke and my mom said I could do as I wished with it, so I was swinging it around the yard by the 20 fit spiral cable. It's amazing no windows got broke. Kids are missing out these days, hard to swing a cordless phone at stuff.

Possibly a give a way?