Some good stuff happening

[Watermann]

So is that new sub going in the KF?

 

[BWR1953]

So is that new sub going in the KF?

Nahhh.... not enough room.

Might fit in the Chieftain though!

 

[BWR1953]

This afternoon we did a little garage work. I had to decide what to do with my old RC airplane stuff and ended up choosing to keep it for awhile longer. Who knows, I might actually finish that AU-23 Peacemaker that's hanging from the ceiling someday!

So we removed everything from these two old storage boxes and put the contents away, clearly marked as RC Stuff. We'll use the boxes to store nuts, bolts and whatnot. That'll actually take quite awhile to sort everything.


And here's the sub at its final location.

 

[jbcurt00]

@BWR1953 gotta commit to the conditions of the SOTY nomination....

 

[BWR1953]

We went to HD this afternoon and picked up a generic air filter, some foam pipe insulation and a couple of 3/4" PVC elbows as well as a 24" section of 3/4" PVC pipe.

Got everything lined up, ready to go to work.


Foam insulation installed.


Foam insulation installed on the outside section.


PVC drain pipe installed.


Air filter getting cut to size.


And the air filter is installed! (View from underneath)



We also cut 60 pieces of the foam insulation about an inch wide. They'll be used to plug the metal siding ridges at the end caps. Installing those will get on the activity schedule in a couple days.

 

[strokendiesel002]

Nice! Did you by chance get a thermostat that will allow you to run the fan by itself? A little modification to the ducting and you could fashion that up to help clean the air when painting/ grinding, no?

 

[BWR1953]

Nice! Did you by chance get a thermostat that will allow you to run the fan by itself? A little modification to the ducting and you could fashion that up to help clean the air when painting/ grinding, no?

Yep, it's a multi-type thermostat. Dunno about the painting/grinding thing but I do know this...

The AC is done!

 

[BWR1953]

My buddy showed up this afternoon and got right to work. And the AC is now fully installed and functional!








The boy and I had cut up a couple of the foam insulation sticks into little donut shapes (by the door) and used them to plug the holes in the sheet metal end sections where they join the walls and ceiling.


Insulation plugs.

 

[BWR1953]

Dinner break!


My buddy's wife and little boy came over, so naturally we had to add dessert too!











Initial setup and testing the heating... worked great!


Here we started testing the cooling and it was rapidly dropping the inside temperature.


Just 5 minutes later it had dropped the temp 2 more degrees and was falling fast. I was very pleased at this point , so I shut it down and we came back into the house.

Mission accomplished!

 

[BWR1953]

Today the boy finished up plugging the sheet metal joint holes and my buddy came over to pick up the leftover ducting. While here, he rehung the AU-23 Peacemaker back up into the heights of the garage, marking final completion of the AC project.

 

[Watermann]

Wow that is a great AC set up, here all I worry about is heating my garage especially this time of year.

 

[strokendiesel002]

Very... Cool

 

[BWR1953]

I bought a new stereo receiver for the garage a couple days ago. Tested it out this afternoon and will be returning it tomorrow. The thing just didn't meet our expectations.

Here's the old one... a Pioneer VSX-5400 which is about 34 years old. And the sound quality was MUCH better than the new Yamaha. Surprised me.

 

[Watermann]

The old v new fits well with our boat choices too

 

[BWR1953]

The old v new fits well with our boat choices too

Indeed!

The old Pioneer still produces great sound, but the display no longer works. We can still use it as is, but it'd sure be nice to be able to tweak things a bit. I'd taken it to the local UbreakIFix place but no joy there. I think those younguns don't know how to deal with stuff other than laptops and cell phones.

I'll post an ad on craigslist to see if I can find someone to fix it up.

 

[BWR1953]

It's been a while, but I'm now getting more garage work done in preparation for our next project. The goal is to organize the shop better and to provide more room.

The first step was to clean a bit and make some more room.


And the next thing was to finally install the plastic pegboards my wife bought me for Xmas 2020. Time flies, I guess...

A couple days ago I got started. I had some scrap aluminum laying around and decided to use that to span the gap between the uprights in the garage and attach the pegboard to those sections. And I'd rivet everything, natch.


I mocked up the top rail with the pegboard attached.



I wanted to attach the rivets by just using the plastic panels, but that wasn't happening in a non-destructive fashion. Crunch!


So I used 3/16" large flange rivets with backup washers and aluminum sections to attach the two panels to each other and to the wall uprights.


Just like connecting deck sections.


The backing washers really helped!


It took me 3.5 hours to fabricate and install the thing, but it's up there!



And this afternoon we started figuring out what we wanted where, then got stuff pegged!




I still have 2 more panels to mount, but wall spacing for those will be different. And I'm not sure how much aluminum stock I still have which will fit. But, I'll give it a go!

 

[BWR1953]

We got the second set of pegboard panels installed today. It was a simpler job because we didn't have to span empty air. We just riveted them directly to the galvanized steel uprights.

I ordered some more pegs and we'll figure out what stuff we want to mount on the boards.

But in the meantime, we put a few metric wrenches up there as placeholders.

 

[Watermann]

Yeah my garage is half the size it was when new. Shrinkage is real.

 

[BWR1953]

Yeah my garage is half the size it was when new. Shrinkage is real.

Right?

 

[BWR1953]

Today we got started on the cleanup and organizing for real. And made good progress!

I spent a tidy little pile a couple days ago, getting the stuff we needed.


We started by clearing all the carp out of the NW corner section.


I installed some L-brackets and we got the PVC pipes and other stuff off the floor and out of the corner.




I had some metal roof panels leftovers and cut one of those to fit the gap between the building uprights. Then I mounted a Harbor Freight wall mount tool organizer to the metal roof panel. The tool organizer comes in multiple interlocking sections and is designed to work with sheetrock walls.


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