New shop started

[plastikosmd]

As I understand it, One leg of the 240 powers the 120v switch to throw the relay to provide 240 to compressor

 

[plastikosmd]

Well, u know you are weird when your friend brings over a box of random hardware (because they are cleaning out) and you:

1) are excited to sort through this box
2) you can’t understand why anyone would throw stuff like this out
3) are hopeful that more boxes of random junk are headed your way

 

[EddieWalker]

Why would anybody not want garden hose washers? That's just crazy!!!!

 

[daugen]

Why would anybody not want garden hose washers? That's just crazy!!!!

maybe already had the box of 30 from HF?

your junk is my treasure
functional stuff for sure should not be thrown away

 

[murphy1244]

What's in those boxes?

 

[murphy1244]

I have a few boxes I call the mystery box. It seems if there something I need there is a good chance I will find it there.

 

[KennyG]

My Dad used to buy "junk boxes" at auctions. He sometimes got his money back and more immediately by sorting out the useless items and selling them to the antique hunters.

 

[dodge man]

Garden hose washers? I think I’ve bought a 100 over the years and lost 99 of them.

 

[plastikosmd]

Dunno Murph, I haven’t gotten a chance to open.

I heard they have these YouTube channels where people open gifts and they film it so everyone can watch the unwrapping…

Maybe we need to do this for people like us and random hardware boxes

 

[Otto Syracuse]

A local reuse store sells those boxes as “Old Man Collection”. I’ve got a bunch, even some from my folks.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I have about 4 mystery boxes of stuff in my barn. I need to go back thru them to get a mental picture of all the cool stuff I have sitting in boxes never getting used....until I need it.....then I can't find it.

 

[daugen]

when I bought my town's Radio Shack, the old guy who had it used to be a tv repair guy.
He had more outdated electronic junk in boxes and thought he should get retail for them. Uh, no....
So I put a lot of stuff, electronic components, outdated small parts, in boxes and said ten bucks for everything.
When the EE's who worked in tech up on Route 1 in NJ saw that stuff, they were in heaven. They rooted around those boxes
like kids in a playland. Gone in one week.

I think a lot of what we have has been stored under the idea "I'll find a use for that".
but where did you store it?

 

[plastikosmd]

One of my favorite “chores”

Feeling ok today so I did some Spring lawn rolling

 

[EddieWalker]

I remember when I was a kid back in the late 70's, that people would rent rollers to use after spreading grass seed. This was in town, and there wasn't very much grass, but if I remember correctly, everyone did this. I even remember a neighbor making his own roller out of something because he didn't want to rent anything.

45 years later, I haven't seen anybody using a roller for their grass seed since the then. I totally forgot all about that until seeing your pictures.

What does the roller do for your lawn?

 

[bindian]

I find this conflicting, as farmers always try dual tires and tracks to prevent compaction, yet folks roll weights on their lawns.
Or are you just grading and packing the gravel?
Totally confused!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

aeration vs compaction....after sprigging good to roll.

 

[KennyG]

After seeding, rolling presses the seeds into the soil, minimizing the air contact and drying out. Rollers usually don't have enough weight to actually compact the soil. For best results seed, roll and cover with straw.

 

[plastikosmd]

Mostly fixing ruts that I made here and there, and a bit of seeding

 

[dragoneggs]

when I bought my town's Radio Shack, the old guy who had it used to be a tv repair guy.
He had more outdated electronic junk in boxes and thought he should get retail for them. Uh, no....
So I put a lot of stuff, electronic components, outdated small parts, in boxes and said ten bucks for everything.
When the EE's who worked in tech up on Route 1 in NJ saw that stuff, they were in heaven. They rooted around those boxes
like kids in a playland. Gone in one week.

I think a lot of what we have has been stored under the idea "I'll find a use for that".
but where did you store it?

That’s the cool part of searching for that one thing you know you have… and find **** that you saved 20 years ago. I will hunt for a couple days and then give up… go to Home Depot only to come home and find what I was looking for soon after I installed it. I can almost guarantee it happening before the hunt.

 

[plastikosmd]

Well today was a good day, so I got something accomplished.

New to me 25” sander. Heavy little bugger.


Offload w Clark #1


Ready to lift up into woodshop


Lift with Clark #2


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