Danno1
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Pentel is another brand of paint marker that I use around here.
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Pentel is another brand of paint marker that I use around here.
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Shop Tricks
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Darn good idea on the 'wired' 12 volt drill!
I bought a couple of 12v Porter Cable drills for the chargers (probably just need new voltage regulators), but didn't need the drills. Perfect thing to throw into a truck tool box -- or even better, wifes horse trailer. That would make the wood skirts I made for the trailer sides even easier to mount. Skirts: keeps a horse from hooking a hoof under the fender lips or the bottom edge of the trailer when getting up or thrashing around while tied off. Work great, no damaged legs or pulled shoes. Horses have brains the size of dogs brains, so you have to make so they can't do something wrong.
I bought a couple of 12v Porter Cable drills for the chargers (probably just need new voltage regulators), but didn't need the drills. Perfect thing to throw into a truck tool box -- or even better, wifes horse trailer. That would make the wood skirts I made for the trailer sides even easier to mount. Skirts: keeps a horse from hooking a hoof under the fender lips or the bottom edge of the trailer when getting up or thrashing around while tied off. Work great, no damaged legs or pulled shoes. Horses have brains the size of dogs brains, so you have to make so they can't do something wrong.
Also, if its not in the receiver, its not in the path of your shin when you are walking past the back of the truck.
The Haymaker
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Spend a few years working in a lumber yard loading contractors pickups. You learn to look for those nasty things! I think my shins have indents in them. Oh well, helps hold my socks up!
My receiver is modified to get rid of slop by having an extra hole drilled in the side and a 1/2" nut welded to the side. Insert bolt and snug down. No movement. Did this to stabilize a dirtbike carrier.
MRCONCDID
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Theres a wealth of information and great shop tricks
Here are a few that come to mind
If you can't find the proper raditor hose and yours has a punture or a split in the middle cut the middle out leaving about 4 inches of both ends and replace it with a pice of clean exhaust tubing you can bend it to whatever shape you need then add to clamps and your done let a stick try to go threw a piece of pipe.
Old military ammo cans are great for so many things I put bolts in one and nuts and washers in the other, if you can find the really large cans they make great tool or chain boxes for your tractor or ATV and best of all there water proof too.
I get paid everytime I clean my shop I have a small trailer I back up to the shop and fill it with all the scrap iron and alluminum I no longer can use as well as brake drums and heavy wore out parts then take it to the recycleing center, last time I clean the shop I made 35 bucks.I do this about 3 times a year, I have made good friends with the center and now I get a discount for buying steel there. its a win / win
Not so much a trick but just as useful I made a weight box out of a 4 foot long 10inx10in 1/2 thick square tubing weighing about 100lbs by itself stood it up and down and welded a cap on the bottem, filled it with sac crete/ bag concrete added a 3pt pick up to it then I got creative with D rings for pulling, and 2 inch reciever for a trailer ball and Hooks the concrete setted and left 2 inches at the top so I have a good piece of chain in it and the hooks on the chain slide on the edge of the box for easy quick use.
If you need a plumbers snake for you spetic tank and you dont want to spend the money a garden hose with a cap/plug on it, works great insert it and get it going then turn the water on it will firm up the hose since the cap is on the other in and you can push out the clog. You can do the same thing with an air hose but without the cap when you feel the clog you can blast air into the clog if need be too. Please clean your hose after with those neat clorox wipes. I used this one 2 weeks ago.
Times are changing and parts cost more than whole pieces of equiptment and cars/trucks for that matter. I am a keeper and hate to part with anything but running the numbers I had a truck that was going to cost me $3,000 to fix and then the truck would only be worth about $2500 when I got done. So I sold the truck for $2500 as is. I have found another truck for $3,000 and drove it home. Now I would not nessarlly do this for my everyday driver but for a farm truck or a piece of equiptment it was the best thing I could have done. If a new gear box on your bush hog cost $450 and you need blades to check out craigslist or your local paper in you aera I bet you find a good mower for less. then scrap the old one for the metal and make a few bucks.
Here are a few that come to mind
If you can't find the proper raditor hose and yours has a punture or a split in the middle cut the middle out leaving about 4 inches of both ends and replace it with a pice of clean exhaust tubing you can bend it to whatever shape you need then add to clamps and your done let a stick try to go threw a piece of pipe.
Old military ammo cans are great for so many things I put bolts in one and nuts and washers in the other, if you can find the really large cans they make great tool or chain boxes for your tractor or ATV and best of all there water proof too.
I get paid everytime I clean my shop I have a small trailer I back up to the shop and fill it with all the scrap iron and alluminum I no longer can use as well as brake drums and heavy wore out parts then take it to the recycleing center, last time I clean the shop I made 35 bucks.I do this about 3 times a year, I have made good friends with the center and now I get a discount for buying steel there. its a win / win
Not so much a trick but just as useful I made a weight box out of a 4 foot long 10inx10in 1/2 thick square tubing weighing about 100lbs by itself stood it up and down and welded a cap on the bottem, filled it with sac crete/ bag concrete added a 3pt pick up to it then I got creative with D rings for pulling, and 2 inch reciever for a trailer ball and Hooks the concrete setted and left 2 inches at the top so I have a good piece of chain in it and the hooks on the chain slide on the edge of the box for easy quick use.
If you need a plumbers snake for you spetic tank and you dont want to spend the money a garden hose with a cap/plug on it, works great insert it and get it going then turn the water on it will firm up the hose since the cap is on the other in and you can push out the clog. You can do the same thing with an air hose but without the cap when you feel the clog you can blast air into the clog if need be too. Please clean your hose after with those neat clorox wipes. I used this one 2 weeks ago.
Times are changing and parts cost more than whole pieces of equiptment and cars/trucks for that matter. I am a keeper and hate to part with anything but running the numbers I had a truck that was going to cost me $3,000 to fix and then the truck would only be worth about $2500 when I got done. So I sold the truck for $2500 as is. I have found another truck for $3,000 and drove it home. Now I would not nessarlly do this for my everyday driver but for a farm truck or a piece of equiptment it was the best thing I could have done. If a new gear box on your bush hog cost $450 and you need blades to check out craigslist or your local paper in you aera I bet you find a good mower for less. then scrap the old one for the metal and make a few bucks.
Gary Fowler
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Bug repellant makes a good makeshift paint remover. Dont get it on plastics as it will melt most plastic products.
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Gary Fowler
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You better believe it. I was trying to wire in a trailer connector one night up in northern Canada and the mosquitos were eating me alive so I slathered on some Deep Woods Off and started back with the wiring harness. I soon realized that my hands were getting sticky, then I noticed that the plastic coating on the wiring harness was getting soft and starting to melt onto my hands. I quickly had to wash the bug dope off of my hands and the wiring. I had used OFF before to remove paint but didnt realize that it would dissolve plastic also.
Workstead
Silver Member
This is not a paint remover tip but it does involve paint. I got it from a magazine about 50 years ago and use it, most of the time.
After opening a paint can, any size, use a nail and punch a few holes in the bottom of the groove around the top. After pouring paint from the can or wiping the paint across the top after dipping it into the can, the groove at the top of the can will fill up. These holes allows the paint to drip back into the can and not flow over the side and cover the instructions and down onto the floor. Or, it keeps the paint from getting splattered when the cover is replaced and tapped down.
Since the holes are below the grip point of the cover, air is not allowed to enter the can, so the paint remains usable.
Clem
After opening a paint can, any size, use a nail and punch a few holes in the bottom of the groove around the top. After pouring paint from the can or wiping the paint across the top after dipping it into the can, the groove at the top of the can will fill up. These holes allows the paint to drip back into the can and not flow over the side and cover the instructions and down onto the floor. Or, it keeps the paint from getting splattered when the cover is replaced and tapped down.
Since the holes are below the grip point of the cover, air is not allowed to enter the can, so the paint remains usable.
Clem
EE_Bota
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If I can remember, I will definitely use this some day:
Do not forget that JB-weld is an excellent insulator, which could come in handy with any type of busted insulator. You folks that work with old generators and old alternators, or old DC motors have no doubt faced this problem.
H-F sells a brush on insulating product called something like brush-on electrical tape.
If you ever have access of the old phone receivers that had heft to them, you know the ones like on the old Ma-Bell phones, if the phone is broken, keep the receiver. If you ever get two, you can use a 9v battery and thin wire to make a intercom system so you can talk to a buddy many feet away. This is very handy handy when you are ringing out wires for some sort of project.
If you have an old style phone that still works, by all means, keep it plugged in. They are very durable. Before I did this, lighting would take out my new style remote phones. Since I have kept an old style plugged in, it takes the brunt of the lighting strikes, and each time there is a strike, I hear it ding. This reminds me to unplug my new-style phones, and protects them if I forget.
I will post one more in a couple of minutes, since it will have a picture.
Do not forget that JB-weld is an excellent insulator, which could come in handy with any type of busted insulator. You folks that work with old generators and old alternators, or old DC motors have no doubt faced this problem.
H-F sells a brush on insulating product called something like brush-on electrical tape.
If you ever have access of the old phone receivers that had heft to them, you know the ones like on the old Ma-Bell phones, if the phone is broken, keep the receiver. If you ever get two, you can use a 9v battery and thin wire to make a intercom system so you can talk to a buddy many feet away. This is very handy handy when you are ringing out wires for some sort of project.
If you have an old style phone that still works, by all means, keep it plugged in. They are very durable. Before I did this, lighting would take out my new style remote phones. Since I have kept an old style plugged in, it takes the brunt of the lighting strikes, and each time there is a strike, I hear it ding. This reminds me to unplug my new-style phones, and protects them if I forget.
I will post one more in a couple of minutes, since it will have a picture.
EE_Bota
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Please forgive the poor utilization of this pegboard, you would no doubt use it better. This stuff is made in the USA, and it is polypropylene. All the hooks have one hook tab, and one screw. They NEVER move when a tool is added. And, they wipe clean easily, and truly brighten up the shop. This is four boards.
I considered the metal ones, etc, but nothing will be brighter than white.
It is Triton Industries Duraboard, and the best price I found on it was from Samsclub online. Note it's actual size, and understand exactly how you will mount it if you buy some. I bought their mounting kit because it had little bowl shaped standoffs and screws, and sinkers for drywall I stored the sinkers because I don't have drywall, since I use the wall spaces as storage spots, since my shop is tiny.
By the way, the little gray storage boxes underneath are held in place by velcro strips that are sticky on both sides.
I considered the metal ones, etc, but nothing will be brighter than white.
It is Triton Industries Duraboard, and the best price I found on it was from Samsclub online. Note it's actual size, and understand exactly how you will mount it if you buy some. I bought their mounting kit because it had little bowl shaped standoffs and screws, and sinkers for drywall I stored the sinkers because I don't have drywall, since I use the wall spaces as storage spots, since my shop is tiny.
By the way, the little gray storage boxes underneath are held in place by velcro strips that are sticky on both sides.
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Wow! Good idea, but I wish I had heard that years ago! Our landline is now disconnected, but we used to lose computer modems when we had the landline. I expect that you are right, the old phones would have protected the modems.
I never figured out why we had the trouble since our landline is buried. I can only assume that the lightning spike came from the mainline down on the road.
Ken
Workstead
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I checked out the things hanging on the board and I noticed that you and I have the same tool. It's on the left edge, just below center. The white one with all of the holes. I thought it was a rare shop accessory but I see that I'm not the only person that has one.
Nice setup.
Clem
EE_Bota
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I think that was either a promo gift or was really cheap at the hardware store, but it is very handy. I am getting ready to use that gauge in a big way soon to sort all my hardware, and toss them in that bin system.
There is a lot more stuff on the pegboard now. That pic is a bit old, and right blurry too.
That pegboard is around 1/4" thick so it's pretty strong. And I am using the little CFL swirly bulbs, so anything that will reflect a bit of light is a help.
There is a lot more stuff on the pegboard now. That pic is a bit old, and right blurry too.
That pegboard is around 1/4" thick so it's pretty strong. And I am using the little CFL swirly bulbs, so anything that will reflect a bit of light is a help.
The Haymaker
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I checked out the things hanging on the board and I noticed that you and I have the same tool. It's on the left edge, just below center. The white one with all of the holes. I thought it was a rare shop accessory but I see that I'm not the only person that has one.
Nice setup.
Clem
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Wow, so many new and useful ideas and tips. Great job, and welcome to all the new folks to Tractorbynet
smiley
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Workstead,
You and I must have read the same magazine as I've been doing the same for about that long too.
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