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Offline glenm64

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3550 on: March 17, 2017, 07:04:13 PM »
Foot note, roof tiling isnt an old fellas game

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3551 on: March 18, 2017, 08:42:45 PM »
Played tyre fitter in my mates workshop this morning.  Fitted a new set of BFG KO2's to the wifes Prado.







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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3552 on: March 19, 2017, 07:07:17 AM »
Quote from: glenm64 on March 17, 2017, 07:03:23 PM
More like what did I do to my man cave. Gone from single carport to double garage. Got the roof on today. Very happy. More work to be done on the front.
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Next is cut the arches out, render everything.
Then Cape Leveque for some R&R before attacking the front yard.

Cheers Glen
Awesome work mate.
Looks like it was always meant to be a double. :)
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3553 on: March 19, 2017, 02:12:54 PM »
Thought I would catch up on a few jobs that need doing.
Stroll out to the shed, then run back to the house
Bloody Nora, the mozzies,  >:D
Even with spray on crap, they buzz around ya head, eyes, can't do anything.
Back inside to sit in front of the idiot box  :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3554 on: March 20, 2017, 06:16:35 AM »
I started pulling the motor out of the Caddy.... :'(   (Well, yesterday actually)

We killed it last Sunday. Coming home from Cleveland in Brisbane, we were just gliding along with the traffic easily and when we were 300 metres from home, it momentarily dropped a cylinder and then back to 8 again and dropped the cylinder again...dead.

An inspection showed a spark plug had been "Tapped shut" so straight away, I knew we had a serious issue. Compression test showed a dead cylinder and a close inspection of the plug revealed a small bit "piston like material" jammed in between the porcelain and the body of the plug. 

Geez, isn't a Cadillac just a huge friggin car to have to work on. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING weighs a ton.

Never mind, we'll sort it and be back on the road soon.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3555 on: March 20, 2017, 08:35:44 AM »
I've been chipping away at my office and storage in the new shed.






And I took advantage of the wet day yesterday to knock up another small mezzanine over the back roller door.
As a boilermaker I'm pretty happy with how my timber work is tuning out. I'm making a lot of it up as I go along, but so far it's been working out OK for me.



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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3556 on: March 31, 2017, 10:21:59 PM »
Bit of late night shed and beer action.

Thought I'd make a trailer light tester, so it can be a 1 man job to check them.

Had a pile of switches and trailer plugs lying around, along with a roll of 7 core cable.

Grabbed a 10amp breaker and jiffy box from Jaycar. Also pulled apart one of those cheap cordless airbed pumps for its 1.3ah battery and charger.

Bit of drilling, cutting, stripping and crimping.



Hot glued in a plug for the ac charger.



Wired in 6m of 7 core cable with a 7 pin flat socket.  I'll use an adapter for round plugs.



Tried to colour code the switches to the wiring. Top row for the lights. Bottom row for electric brakes and auxiliary / reverse (red). 10amp circuit breaker and the black switch for power on/off.



Just need to find the dymo machine to add some labels.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3557 on: April 01, 2017, 05:34:34 PM »
G'day ,

I have been mucking around in me shed building a boat trailer for me tinny , but not just a trailer but also a boat loader for me Trackabout camp trailer


Ok , I admit the idea is not mine , I did copy the idea/concept from another builder , but for the price that I have built mine for would be less than 1/6 of the cost for me to buy the factory built one .




   

The trailer




Boat/trailer loaded on to the Trackabout

Load time on me own including taking photos was less than 5 minutes .

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3558 on: April 01, 2017, 05:42:19 PM »
Nice work duggie  :cup:
 :cheers:

I did a couple of jobs today before the Mozzies drove me mad  >:D
Replace the fan speed regulator, burnt out low speed.
Replaced a driver side door handle.
Then back inside to  :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3559 on: April 02, 2017, 07:04:53 AM »
Fitted a set of bar risers to the DR. Lowering plates for the foot pegs are on order. Had the bike for six years and have been saying for the last 5.5 years that I was going to do this. Sat on one last week that had been done and the difference is chalk and cheese. Looking at putting a fat pipe on it and a pumper carb conversion as well. Heck, I even started polishing it just to see if it can be pretty again.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3560 on: April 02, 2017, 09:25:06 AM »
Rewierd the tail lights on the CFA community trailer , built in the racks & divider . The trailer will be towed to markets & events to help educate the public on fire safety . The refit has bee an ongoing thing  , then    :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3561 on: April 02, 2017, 03:43:34 PM »
A few small projects completed recently.



Not sure it's big enough to call a shed. Maybe let's call it a garden locker.



Sorted out some shelving in the garage.



Also knocked up a kids bench seat for a friend.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3562 on: April 02, 2017, 04:15:41 PM »


While being stranded on Jimboomba Island for the last 4 days I spent a bit of quality time in the shed trying to organise things, don't think I got very far but at least everything is off the floor now.

Also realised the shed isn't going to be the camper storage area I had hoped it would be.


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3563 on: April 02, 2017, 09:02:59 PM »
Quote from: Hairs on April 01, 2017, 05:42:19 PM
Nice work duggie  :cup:
 :cheers:

I did a couple of jobs today before the Mozzies drove me mad  >:D

Then back inside to  :cheers:


Hi Hairs ,

I must be a bit slow , but you were not. Yep I had to burn a few Mozzie coils while making my new boat loader .

cheers duggie
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3564 on: April 05, 2017, 08:43:56 PM »

Fitter a scupper vent on the Triton canopy. Can now guarantee no dust up at Mansfield over Easter.


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3565 on: April 05, 2017, 08:50:47 PM »
Quote from: Mattsglxr on April 05, 2017, 08:43:56 PM

Fitter a scupper vent on the Triton canopy. Can now guarantee no dust up at Mansfield over Easter.


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hey mate cool vent install. can you plz tell me where you purchased it from and hiw much? im looking for one myself. cheers
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3566 on: April 05, 2017, 08:53:03 PM »
Quote from: lincolnland on April 05, 2017, 08:50:47 PM
hey mate cool vent install. can you plz tell me where you purchased it from and hiw much? im looking for one myself. cheers
Yeah mate I got it from ARB for about $60.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3567 on: April 05, 2017, 08:54:49 PM »
thanks!
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3568 on: April 06, 2017, 03:41:09 AM »

Bending up stuff to work on the wkend

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3569 on: April 06, 2017, 05:43:02 PM »
Yearly Full service on the camper today.
Brgs repacked, brakes adjustment, jockey wheel stripped, cleaned repacked. Wheel alignment checked, suspension greased.
Just need to get new water filter cartridge. Forgot to do that when I had the camper opened. That'll be a Wednesday job when at Mansfield.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3570 on: April 06, 2017, 06:10:48 PM »
Quote from: SJindustries on April 06, 2017, 05:43:02 PM
Yearly Full service on the camper today.
Brgs repacked, brakes adjustment, jockey wheel stripped, cleaned repacked. Wheel alignment checked, suspension greased.
Just need to get new water filter cartridge. Forgot to do that when I had the camper opened. That'll be a Wednesday job when at Mansfield.
What does a naked jockey wheel look like
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3571 on: April 06, 2017, 06:12:26 PM »
Quote from: ScarpsD40 on April 06, 2017, 06:10:48 PM
What does a naked jockey wheel look like

...and how much work does it do that it needs an annual service?? :P
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« Reply #3572 on: April 06, 2017, 06:20:46 PM »
Quote from: GeoffA on April 06, 2017, 06:12:26 PM
...and how much work does it do that it needs an annual service?? :P
Sat round not moving all year  :'(
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3573 on: April 06, 2017, 06:26:13 PM »
Quote from: SJindustries on April 06, 2017, 06:20:46 PM
Sat round not moving all year  :'( ....

Yeah, I know the feeling....really looking forward to next week....

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3574 on: April 07, 2017, 05:52:10 PM »
Did a monumental clean up of the garden shed. Evicted the rats - and killed a couple. Baits out and about including in the Feijoa tree - they love them. 
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