Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

Yea way too much work

If it was good looking woodwork I could possibly justify it, but it's just old smooth 324 casing and 713 base. They removed all the quarter round when they installed carpet in the 1970's so the edge of the floor is all tore up. I bought some pre-primed quarter and have been pre-painting it. Now, getting all cuts and angles right... I should have bought two tube of corking

 

Good morning guys

 

my sister was/is(paternity leave) in the paint store business. according to her, the quality of the paints offered at the big chain stores is far below, where ace or the specialty local shops get the higher-grade stuff. it supposedly has everything to do with franchise agreements with the brands. no different than how a chevrolet can never be a higher end vehicle than a cadillac.

but i just tell her the color and application and let her deal with mixing and getting the 'right' grade can...

 

A couple years ago ACE got with Benjamin Moore and started selling their paints. When I worked at the building supply we mixed and sold BM paint, so I am partial to them. I was around when they came out with the Gennex waterborne tinting system and had to pretty much set it up. I can tell the person at ACE exactly the tint base they're gonna need and they look at me like a wizard. One lady tried handing me a job application

 

lol, i never considered it lying. i just considered it giving them the appropriate information to get what i needed.

my first 2 vehicles were built on the wrong side of mid-model year changes. a '94 that was in '93, but '94+ used different mechanicals, and after that was an '01 that was built in '00, that used '00 mechanicals, where major suspension/brake revisions were made in '01-- even the lug nut studs were different.

the lying happened when they started blindly following the computer and i'd ask them for a water pump for a '72 beetle. but that was only fun the first 5 minutes.

 

i've been in that situation a couple times. mostly car audio shops. every shop i tried incessantly to get a job at coming out of high school, that cited my 'lack of experience', i'd revisit later on once i had enough money to build what i wanted the job for. they all complain about no one wanting to work..

i've learned they walk the application offer back real quick when i tell them i need the starting pay to be $30+... i didn't get the knowledge for free, and neither will you!

 

Yep, just like I will never train my replacement. I will show an adequately qualified person to do it the way you want it done, but I won’t train them. I will however teach lower level techs how to use equipment or process of critical thinking. They’re either going to swim or drown. If I can’t be replaced, I can’t be promoted.

 

Much easier to pre-paint all this instead of trying not to get it all over the floor...

 

Yard sale finds yesterday:

This nice snap ring set, never used.



And also never used rivet nut tool set with a bunch of extra nuts.



It does six sizes - 3 normal ones and 3 odd "M#s" I think they might be that funny thread you run into sometimes...

Met-ric I think they call it...

 

score

 

It is funny timing, last week I spent a 1/2 hour looking for the ring pliers.

Sometimes my "organization" plans get the better of me.
Rusty >> < also Rusty

 

Metric > SAE

 

Kids >> << Rusty

 

The math is just easier for me

 

I drilled holes in my truck today.

Total Chaos bed stiffeners, very nice quality.

Although my "off roading" is limited to the occasional drive across the yard the added tie down points were the big attraction.



And they fit neatly with the OEM bedmat.

 

Math...?

"...it ain't this size here, hand me that size there..."

 

We use SAE at work and at home every vehicle I have is metric. I just seem to prefer metric? I'm weird, butt we all already know that.

 

I miss the days of being able to disassemble half of a car with just a 7/16, 1/2 combination box wrench.

 

I mean, you can still disassemble a Toyota and Subaru with pretty much a 10, 12, 14, and 17 sockets

 

Very true but having one tool in your hand with both necessary sizes was, err… I’ll just leave it at that.