Well I worked hard this week. Bought me some 6x6 sills to replace the ones neath my 38 year old shed.
ANgry wood ants everywhere! I would have normally just torn it down and built a new one but if I insulate it and add a bunsen burner I can rent it out for 1000 a month.
Odd thing about the shed it was the correct distance from the neighbours line when built but due to frost heaving and loam and clay it walked three feet over the line.
Neighbour said they did not mind but saving it requires aa good amount of work so Im rotating it and super modifying it .
I calculated its about 6 grand fro materials new so I shuddered and gasped and bought my nice rough sawn hemlock. Odd looking at a piece of wood that will outlive me.
I should youtube the process as no loony in the world but me seems to have ben inspired to measure the needed placement of a pivot point to swing it around.
but naw what the heck let em crush themselves with a shed with their own engineering prowess.
AS a result of my efforts and due to delayed onset muscle soreness I woke this AM feeling like a small train had hit me. Exhausted and short of breath. Secretly nursing a conspiracy that my last covid shot caused irreparable harm.
but there's things to do. I recently di the brakes on my ever aging Impala and alas the driver rear hub bearing is needing replacement.
SO sick and self pitying I summoned sufficient spite and self loathing to overcome my physical disability.
I knew it could be a bear as GM in order to reduce unsprung weight made the hub from steel and the carrier(can yah call it a knuckle anymore) from alyoooominiyum.
Personally I think it was to have a laugh at the misery caused by galvanic corrosion.
so with my MAPP gas torch and penetrating oil and the wrenches it took me an hour to find I started to work.
You all should be amazed that the hub assembly is fastened in place with 10 mm headed bolts. Doubtless exceedingly strong ones.
SO I did the grumpy old man heat cycling and dribble of lube thing and I was simply blown away. Only one bolt gave a hint of trouble so it got a triple dose of cycling.
A small bit of joy burbled up in me which I immediately suppressed lest the car repair gods punish hubris by making the actual separation of the hub make the damnation of Sisyphus look like a leisurely stroll.
Heat cycled the houshing, dripped lube. and again and again. Then tapped the joint all around with a sharp wood chisel to mechanically shock things.
tapped the hub with a clubbing hammer once and it fell out.
I instantly felt like a million.
You watch guys thrashing at rusted bits when gently tedious persuasion works. No breakage. no blood. No air chisel or sledge hammer.
So do I get the AC DELCO bits or can the Chinese really make a reliable hub and ship it to me for 64 dollars?
ANgry wood ants everywhere! I would have normally just torn it down and built a new one but if I insulate it and add a bunsen burner I can rent it out for 1000 a month.
Odd thing about the shed it was the correct distance from the neighbours line when built but due to frost heaving and loam and clay it walked three feet over the line.
Neighbour said they did not mind but saving it requires aa good amount of work so Im rotating it and super modifying it .
I calculated its about 6 grand fro materials new so I shuddered and gasped and bought my nice rough sawn hemlock. Odd looking at a piece of wood that will outlive me.
I should youtube the process as no loony in the world but me seems to have ben inspired to measure the needed placement of a pivot point to swing it around.
but naw what the heck let em crush themselves with a shed with their own engineering prowess.
AS a result of my efforts and due to delayed onset muscle soreness I woke this AM feeling like a small train had hit me. Exhausted and short of breath. Secretly nursing a conspiracy that my last covid shot caused irreparable harm.
but there's things to do. I recently di the brakes on my ever aging Impala and alas the driver rear hub bearing is needing replacement.
SO sick and self pitying I summoned sufficient spite and self loathing to overcome my physical disability.
I knew it could be a bear as GM in order to reduce unsprung weight made the hub from steel and the carrier(can yah call it a knuckle anymore) from alyoooominiyum.
Personally I think it was to have a laugh at the misery caused by galvanic corrosion.
so with my MAPP gas torch and penetrating oil and the wrenches it took me an hour to find I started to work.
You all should be amazed that the hub assembly is fastened in place with 10 mm headed bolts. Doubtless exceedingly strong ones.
SO I did the grumpy old man heat cycling and dribble of lube thing and I was simply blown away. Only one bolt gave a hint of trouble so it got a triple dose of cycling.
A small bit of joy burbled up in me which I immediately suppressed lest the car repair gods punish hubris by making the actual separation of the hub make the damnation of Sisyphus look like a leisurely stroll.
Heat cycled the houshing, dripped lube. and again and again. Then tapped the joint all around with a sharp wood chisel to mechanically shock things.
tapped the hub with a clubbing hammer once and it fell out.
I instantly felt like a million.
You watch guys thrashing at rusted bits when gently tedious persuasion works. No breakage. no blood. No air chisel or sledge hammer.
So do I get the AC DELCO bits or can the Chinese really make a reliable hub and ship it to me for 64 dollars?
