Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

This is the first time I've bagged all year. We had bad snow mold last year and I had a lot more leaves than usual so bagging seemed like a good idea.

 

Shop Time.
Made a prototype Candlepin Bowling ball spinner.
Will be able to resurface my old bowling balls now.
Does vibrate but will get a file to true up the seat.
Total Cost.
$27…

If anyone remembers W. T. Grant stores, they closed around 1976.
The 1/4” drill was bought there.

 

That is cool, how long have you had the bowling balls?

 

Those balls are about 50 years. I used them for tournaments. Sadly I started bowling again and they do not react like they use to. They sound “dead” and they are bouncing in the tray instead of driving through. So I will recondition these the best I can, bowl one game with them and then they are retired. Lots of great memories, and bad ones, but going to try a set of urethane balls.
The ones in my Sig will be here today.
Will it help me? I don’t know but, it’s another chapter in my life and I don’t bowl like I use to so I need any advantage I can.

 

Squirrels are just rats with stylist and PR agents

 

It’s right there.
You need my glasses?

 

Tree carp

 

My local area is special.. we have black squirrels as well as brown ones.

 

Red and brown for us.

 

Today on Cheap Tips with Rusty:

Need a shim?



These $1.19 peel & stick tiles from Slowes cut easily, stay put due to the adhesive, don't really compress and don't seem to rot or absorb water.

They are about 1/16" and you can stack them up as well as put screws or nails through them.

...and they are cheap!

 

...and I'm spending another day in the cellar...

 

Typcial gray squirrels but down in Brevard NC they have white ones not albino ones.

 

Are any of the other colors protected? The black ones here are..

@Fargo Taco

 

Not here but white in Brevard city limits are but not out in county.

 

Under the heading of "You had one job"...
Make the 6" fittings 6".
The starting collar will almost drop in the pipe completely...

 

Same. Removing and modifying plumbing...





Previous handyman (we'll use that term loosely) attached the water softer drain improperly and pitched wrong. So, nasty sink and brine water made its way past the check valve on the sump pump trashing it. (and all over me and the floor...) Not to mention the sump was dumping into the septic. Big no no. I cut into the main line and added a trap like you're supposed to. Still need to order an air gap, but this works for now.

 

I'll trade you cellars.