Worked some filler on two trailer fenders at my pop’s this morning…
Got home and helped my youngest son install a gate lift assist on his trailer. …
Now working on some me time!
That short of a trailer and he backed it in straight. Kudos!
Nothing memorable. Finished tidying up my back storage area. Really tight space. It’s better than it was. Seeing what I could scrounge to make a Kydex press. I found hinges! On a seemingly unrelated note, Harbor Freight is having a sidewalk sale in June.
Met with a draftsmen to get my garage specs drawn up on a 18’ × 28’ single care garage with a workshop. Moving forward on storage/work area and getting my motorcycles out of the weather.
Lots of inherited wood working tools will get a second life as a result.
Had a call for sink disposal not working after expecting it I found a dime wedged between the housing & shredding plate. I used flat head screwdriver & needle nose pliers for the extraction.
I spent part of the day helping to put up a new full security steel and glass storm door on the back door to my house. I am slowly addressing any weak points in the security around my house. I have the same door on the front door to my house. I paid a little over $1100 for the security storm door on the front of my house. Home Depot had a sale on the door and between the sale and military discount I got the rear door for $752. I am happy about that. I do know one thing that security storm door is one heavy door. We took the glass put of it when Installing the door but it still had a good bit of wieght to it.
I was tired and hot from putting up the storm door so I took a little nap. I then started going through and cleaning up rust, dirt and grime off of some of one of my great uncle’s machinist Starret tools that I have had packed up for a very long time. The tools had a good bit of dirt, grime and rust when I inherited them. Since I now have two Gerstner machinist tool boxes I figured that I now had a great place to store and use the Starret tools. I am still working on cleaning up the tools.
That’s a nice door!
Watching plumbers plumb, Day 2. Some rocket surgeon flushing unflushables lately. Now I get to pay for 1/30th of someone else’s idiocy, or malice. Not sure which, but the timing suggests malice.
Air Conditioner went out Tuesday. 
I spent the day troubleshooting it. After tearing it apart and running checks with my Fluke multimeter I finally determined that it was just the fan motor. Ran around town trying to find the correct electric motor. Finally got the motor in and everything put back together. It was great going inside and cooling off with a working air conditioner. 
I finally got a celing fan in that I ordered. I spent a few hours taking the old fan down and putting together and installing the new celing fan. Before COVID it wouldn’t have been hard at all. I have done it a couple of a dozen times. After COVID it takes three times as long. It is frustrating having to continually having to stop and rest. I finally got it put up.
I also got in a few more small wood working tools and checkering tools. The tools are really nice but the handles were a little rough and only had a light linseed oil finish. I went ahead and sanded the handles a little, stained them and then put a few coats of satin Total Boat Marine Varnish on them to protect them. I left a little texture to the handles to aid in keeping the handle from slipping in my hand when cutting. I was happy with the finished product.
I like the look!
Helped my son put up blinds in his new house. Reminded me of my dad and how much he taught me. I’m determined to do as much of the same as I can with my kids.
I did some uninteresting things. The interesting thing was watching the friendly neighborhood Cooper’s Hawk swoop in and land right outside my window, squawk his presence to all of us, and preen for 20 minutes.
I love all raptors. Everytime I see the local Red Tail Hawk swoop down and nail one of the stinking tree rats that live in my back yard I love it. I have two oak trees, a pecan tree, a fig bush and a pear tree all in my back yard. With all that to eat that isn’t enough so that they have to chew on anything plastic in my back yard. When they chewed the expensive rear fender flares on my Land Cruiser I spent the next few days eradicating every squirrel in sight. I left the bodies where they died as a warning to any other tree rats. I didn’t see any for a good while afterwards.
Finally got paint on the trailer the other day at my Dad’s. I left the wheels on it because it gave me more clearance to crawl under it to paint with a gun. That gun with a quart of paint spraying overhead got heavy quick! Swapping back and forth with right and lefthand ugh! The next day l removed the wheels to finish up.
Today it’s lights and harness. I sprayed one gallon of paint and probably lost 50% of material but it turned out good and not one run or sag.
those fenders are way to shiny 
on a serious note, how do you like those gate assists? I’ve thought about those, especially now with my shoulder all jacked up.
Thanks brother! I too have a jacked up shoulder. You can spend your hard earned cash on a Gorilla lift but this set is half the money…Vevor l think? $80 for the pair free ship too! 4X6 gate with two extra runners yup it’s heavy.
Dude…it’s 5 o’clock somewhere!
