Christian Pipe Smokers

Hovannes wrote: ↑02 Feb 2024, 18:50

FredS wrote: ↑02 Feb 2024, 15:12

Hovannes wrote: ↑02 Feb 2024, 15:03 At long last, the bumper tube assemblies are off the Morgan It took two Whitworth sockets (shallow and deep) with assorted extensions, a small crescent, a Whitworth open end, a hacksaw and five blades, two Vise Grips, a Farrier's 2.5# rounding hammer and fuller punch to remove those unsavory scallions, but it's done!

Sounds like quite an ordeal. I bet you loved every minute of it.

I prayed a lot.
That's better than the alternative, eh?

If the alternative is sitting in a rocking chair waiting to die, then yes, better than the alternative.

Maybe, if we have enough half-finished projects that noone else can finish, we'll live forever. Or maybe we'll die tomorrow and they'll just dig a big hole and shove all our junk into it.

FredS wrote: ↑03 Feb 2024, 08:51

Hovannes wrote: ↑02 Feb 2024, 18:50

FredS wrote: ↑02 Feb 2024, 15:12
Sounds like quite an ordeal. I bet you loved every minute of it.

I prayed a lot.
That's better than the alternative, eh?

If the alternative is sitting in a rocking chair waiting to die, then yes, better than the alternative.

Maybe, if we have enough half-finished projects that noone else can finish, we'll live forever. Or maybe we'll die tomorrow and they'll just dig a big hole and shove all our junk into it.

Actually, I was thinking of muttering derogatory expletives.

JimVH wrote: ↑02 Feb 2024, 07:28My kind of gaudy.

Still hurts the same as the cheap ones when you walk your shin right into it.

joegoat wrote: ↑03 Feb 2024, 16:03

JimVH wrote: ↑02 Feb 2024, 07:28My kind of gaudy.

Still hurts the same as the cheap ones when you walk your shin right into it.

At least you'll have a nice shin tattoo.

I installed the new bumper tube assemblies on the Morgan today. It'll probably take me the rest of the week to figure out how to adjust them
so they'll jive with the bumper.

My son and I have the motorcycle engine we're working stripped down to the center cases. Waiting on a case splitter I ordered to show up. My son is having a blast learning how to use new-to-him tools.

GaryInVA wrote: ↑07 Feb 2024, 18:36 My son and I have the motorcycle engine we're working stripped down to the center cases. Waiting on a case splitter I ordered to show up. My son is having a blast learning how to use new-to-him tools.

Savor it, bud. That's quality time ya'll will carry for ever.

The laundry room smelled like gasoline. There is a hot water heater in the closet in the laundry room, so this is not good.
In the adjoining garage, the Model T decided to spring a leak in the gas tank so now what was in the gas tank is now in a puddle on the garage floor.
My priority should be getting the fumes away from the hot water heater, which means getting the gas off the garage floor.so I grabbed a garden hose to dilute the gas and move it out of the garage, and promptly tripped and did a face plant on a curb, skinning the side of my nose and other stuff.
It looks like it's going to be one of those days.

What are auto repair tools you hate to reach for?
Tools that only come out when things have gone very, very wrong?
In other words, a tool that saves the day.
Mine:
BIG hammer
Vice grip
E--Z Outs
Pipe "cheater"
Heat gun/torch
Bolt cutter
Hacksaw (or Sawz-all or equivalent)
Monkey wrench
Taps & dies
Cold chisels & punches (usually goes with the BIG hammer)
Wrecking bar

What's on your list?

Hovannes wrote: ↑10 Feb 2024, 08:00 Heat gun/torch

I call it a fire wrench

I have pry bars from a foot long up to 6' long. I have cheater pipes in roughly the same size range.

I'd add the 3' long, 1/2" drive breaker bar. Add a cheater pipe to that and you can remove any lug nut, no matter how tight those gorillas at the tire shop hammered them on.