Todays shop time.

[dieselcrawler]

Not ridiculous, it's very difficult to part with dads stuff.

That's relevant to what I've been doing this week. My dad and I owned and operated an electrical contracting company from 2001-2013, when we closed up shop. I owned the building we used as a shop/office, which I sold last summer, and dad had past away in the spring just before. The new owner was in no hurry for me to clean out the elelectrical materials and tools, and dad's shop... but the new owner called a week ago, it was time to clear out. Lucky I had this week off work... 3 trips with the truck and trailers... now to stuff it in the barn somewhere. Had to leave alot behind, including dad's half finished projects, electrical gizmos and odds and ends I'll never use, or is outdated... can't take it all, had to just walk away, what's left will be going in a dumpster. But I'm glad its done.

 

[rangerfredbob]

This has been a 7 day project, started last Sunday then finished this afternoon... It's hard to make progress during the week, 90 minutes at a time working in a driveway... My Ranger NEEDED a traction bar as bad as anything needed one, I'd taken out two radiators by the pure violence pushing the fan into the radiator partly because of a bad transmission mount and a drive shaft that's too long, I put in a shorter drive shaft too and a thinner radiator but still needed to fix the root of the problem. I think this is my biggest fabrication project on the thing, there's some things I'd wished I'd done a little different (mainly angles I'd welded things after it was too late) but whatever, the thing works perfect... The mockup picture in the driveway was before I cleaned up for paint, I know the other picture isn't great but it was a TIGHT space to fit all that.

The Harbor Freight plasma cutter and Titanium MIG 175 were troopers, I have a 11lb spool of .035" Lincoln flux core in there and it did everything I wanted, only a couple welds were goofy... I think I used all 5 HFT angle grinders I have on this project...

 

[Gordon Gould]

This has been a 7 day project, started last Sunday then finished this afternoon... It's hard to make progress during the week, 90 minutes at a time working in a driveway... My Ranger NEEDED a traction bar as bad as anything needed one, I'd taken out two radiators by the pure violence pushing the fan into the radiator partly because of a bad transmission mount and a drive shaft that's too long, I put in a shorter drive shaft too and a thinner radiator but still needed to fix the root of the problem. I think this is my biggest fabrication project on the thing, there's some things I'd wished I'd done a little different (mainly angles I'd welded things after it was too late) but whatever, the thing works perfect... The mockup picture in the driveway was before I cleaned up for paint, I know the other picture isn't great but it was a TIGHT space to fit all that.

The Harbor Freight plasma cutter and Titanium MIG 175 were troopers, I have a 11lb spool of .035" Lincoln flux core in there and it did everything I wanted, only a couple welds were goofy... I think I used all 5 HFT angle grinders I have on this project...

Pretty nice door yard work. I don't know much about that stuff so I had to look at it to see what it does. Must be you have a big motor in that ranger ??????

gg

 

[daugen]

i have a question about non seize. Want to get a can for general use, spark plugs, etc.
I see there is a choice of nickel, silver, copper and metal free.
I understand if I want to use it on a spark plug, it should be high temp, but could be used on anything bolted also.
Do you have a suggestion for which non seize variety to buy?
thanks
Drew

 

[lostcreekranch]

i have a question about non seize. Want to get a can for general use, spark plugs, etc.
I see there is a choice of nickel, silver, copper and metal free.
I understand if I want to use it on a spark plug, it should be high temp, but could be used on anything bolted also.
Do you have a suggestion for which non seize variety to buy?
thanks
Drew

Permatex is a good product Drew. I keep a can of the aluminum in the shop.

Here’s more info.

Permatex(R) Anti-Seize Lubricant - Permatex

 

[daugen]

Permatex is a good product Drew. I keep a can of the aluminum in the shop.

Here’s more info.

Permatex(R) Anti-Seize Lubricant - Permatex

Thanks Rick.
I missed the aluminum variety. That makes five varieties and I think Permatex makes them all.
I'm assuming each metal has a strong point or is first choice in certain applications.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I like the copper never seize, that's what I try to keep around. Also, it doesn't take much, so you don't need a big can of it.

SR

 

[LouNY]

I tend to try and keep a Nickel one around it seems to work the best for anything stainless steel with threads,
I also have the Silver on hand.
Loctite Anti-Seize | What Type Do You Require?

Back many years ago I used to use a lot of Chesterton Spray Nickel,
a shot of that into a SS fitting, and on the nipple three wraps of teflon tape and never have a leak or a galled fitting,
which was quite common when working with threaded SS.

 

[metalbender]

NO NO NO anti-seize on spark plugs. Heat transfers through the threads, mucho problems if that doesn't happen.

 

[i7win7]

I like to use it on mower blade bolts also. They tend to self tighten and rust if neglected too long. Better mechanics use it on exhaust manifolds / systems