Nimble9's Secondhand Parts Build

That sounds no friend I’d want to do any work for me. THHN in PVC or metal conduit. Or MC cable with anti short bushings as mentioned above. Exposed Romex in a garage is a no no. Let alone shoved in a metal box with no bushing.

 

@Nimble9 listen to this guy. He knows what he’s saying. The guy runs nuclear power plants for a living.

 

I don’t doubt it and I’m not not listening lol.

looking at materials to fix it

 

First of all thank you to @6 gearT444E for the heads up.

I wanted to say that after learning how to add outlets myself, I now realize what was so wrong with the old outlets.

The before photos - I knew it looked sketchy but I didn’t realize how sketch

from the ceiling


Center outlet had all the wire tied into it







Made a trip to HD



- wayyyy better than Lowes. Better prices and they actually had everything, unlike Lowes where we went for a simple 90 since we decided to add an extra outlet and they had no inventory for anything we would have needed

So turned the breaker off and started tearing the sketch out. Found out the outlets in the metal box weren’t even taped. This is the hot side exposed. Also they weren’t anchored to the walls properly



Existing crap



New surface mount boxes





90s around my shelves





Sweet 4 way connectors



All taped before buttoning it back up





Added another outlet towards the garage door for things like the pressure washer and shop Vac



I’m very grateful to have some friends that know what they are doing, and take a day to show me how to do it! So I learned how to run conduit, fish wires, and a bunch of other stuff. Overall the first attempt that was done wasn’t just lazy, but downright dangerous.

 

Very nice! That looks way better.







Go Lowe’s

 

Some day time photos! Excuse the mess, as Squareone Creations is starting to take over my garage lol

Added another shelf for storage and speakers

 

looks great! Now that I saw the top part where the routing was it was even worse than I thought, nice work on getting it up to code!

 

yeah it was really bad work.

honestly it was fun learning all this stuff. Just in time for when we buy a house lol

 

Ex friend

 

Softopper off for more product testing to begin

 

Are you making LB and SB flat top bed rail caps?

 

I could! that wasn't on my radar just yet as shipping larger items is still a cumbersome process for me.

Do you want me to make some for you?



In other news I've finally decided to just pay the truck off.

 

Thats awesome news! I thought it was already done


As for the caps, these are some older Relentless style ones that I would be interested in. Hopefully in aluminum and powdercoated
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/has-anyone-tinkered-with-the-bed-rail-caps.378603/

the KB Voodoo ones dont have the edge hanging down.

 

I can look into it!

and I could have paid it off last year, but with everything going on I decided the interest was low enough that it didn’t really matter lol

 

Would love some short bed metal caps from you @Nimble9

 

hmmmm okay, I'll add it to my list of things to make

 

Had a fun foggy day at Rausch! The wheeling was great and I forgot how fun photography was. I need to shoot more in 2021

Anyways onto the pics (all raw unedited)

this sweet thing


















I didn’t post them all, as I was actually testing a new product for Squareone Creations that I’ll be releasing to the public soon

 

It's been too long since I've been to rausch. Well, it's only been 6 months or so, but it feels like forever ago. Sweet pics.

 

Thanks! We were supposed to go to AOAA but they were randomly closed! All
Good Rausch is more rowdy.

whenever you’re free hit me up, I’d love to wheel with you and @boogie3478

 

Great shots! If we wheel together promise me you'll take some sweet pics of my truck.