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Modern TV shows on Vintage subjects?

For a while ( year or 2) we have watched the shows "Food that Built America" "Icons that Built America"  or "Mega Brands that Built America".

The history behind various food items many of us use each day for decades is interestings.  From soda pop to sliced bread, sliced bacon. Freeze dried pre-packed food items. Chocolate cookies were created. Recent Food show was about how coffee we have today was invented. The coffee machines for home use were invented. 

Frozen pizza.. Frozen TV dinners in the aluminum pans. Cookie dough in the plastic tubes. Mom yelled at me to stop eating the cookie dough raw from the tube

Grocery stores as we know them today did not exist in early 1900s

I am just rambling , I guess?

Around our area regular grade gasoline is $3.14-9 to $3.19-9  . The Chevron station is $3.29-9

Diesel is $3.17-9 to $3.20-9 .. With the Chevron Station at $3.85-9

Finally took the time and finished the winch install on my car trailer. Built the last two power cables. Drilled hole for the connector to hand held controller.

Black square gizmo under the winch is the relay that powers the winch. All the wires run to this relay.  It works well.

Harbor Freight winch. I waited till it was discounted $$ a few weeks back.

As I recall? My old winch was a rate 4K ? It lasted 32- 33 yrs I guess. I doubt I will be around at age 105 to replace this winch if it lasts?

Only item I have seen done improperly IMHO with spacers is not enough thread into the lug nutz.  I like to see the stud long enough to to fully engage the lug nut

 

I dozed off during a 1961 Perry Mason evening show.. When I woke up Emergency ! was on. A late 1970s episode.  Some guy was being dropped off at a building via a 1969 Camaro SS. Yellow in colour. Camaro had bumps , dirty, not a pristine car.

Busy couple daze here.  I spend a few hours a day on kitchen cabinet installation.  I use a wall mounted rail system Hang-it-yourself dot com product.

Upper cabinets on 2 walls are sorta done, only final trim out to be done.  Missing door you say?  Stripped hole in hinge mount. Tooth picks and glue is drying. 

3rd wall for cabinets is on the right , not seen in the photo.  I am waiting for last cabinets for that wall. Suppose to be here end of next week.  LOL

Base cabinets begin thursday.

I burned some landscape debris this morning.  No police here again. 

Tuesday nite, I worked on my car trailer a bit. I made up 2 of the battery cables from the battery. Used my Harbor freight hydraulic press tool on the wire lugs.  I shortened the wire harness for the cable plug the the hand held control box plugs into.  Still Need to mount that cable plug.

Tired old guy I am ... LOL.  I sit down and nearly fall asleep for some reason?  weird

Some stuff here today.  Wire lugs I need for winch on my car trailer arrived today.  A hook for the cable on the winch arrived too.  Everything takes a week to deliver here usually.

The sheet rock we picked up sunday was cut correctly and the wall rock install was finished..  The weird looking whiteish looking sheet rock in upper left corner? That is remnant of my spray texture testing a few weeks ago. Bedroom work is on hold for a short while. Other whiteish stuff is hot mud I pre-filled some of the larger gaps between sheet edges.

We finally have the kitchen cabinets (most of them). That work was started today (monday).  Need cabinets in place correctly.. Then counter top people will come in for cyphering and template building.  We are getting closer?

Yea , I have trigger finger in both hands this time. Left hand is more angry than my right. Right hand the bird finger is a big problem. Left hand is the 3rd finger.  Doctor told me last year that I do not have arthritis in my hands, he seemed surprised. My question was: Why do my hands hurt like the * in the mornings? I can not make a fist and the pain limits my strength in gripping stuff.

On the flip side: my brother is doing ok since his wife passed in december. It has been 3 months , 2 weeks.  SO it is still very fresh.  I helped him figure (learn?) out online searches for old friends. He had lunch with a couple folks in recent weeks. He does tell me "being alone sux". I would agree with him.  Says he likes his Walmart job now ?

That's almost photoshop, John.

Photoshop from the rotary dial phone days ?

 

Been watching some other old western TV shows.. Laramie : the character Jess by Robert Fuller gets into many messes and jail often. I read Fuller is still alive , age 91

Watching old show Maverick and Bat Masterson  too

Tony, the house is coming along really well. Regarding the wet bench, are you still doing a little transmission work when you're not playing Bob Vila?

Thanks, I hope I survive this house re-model. 

I have a couple of transmission rebuild jobs to do. I still receive calls for work. The wet bench contains the mess , plus is useful for other crap I mess with.

My winch install on my car trailer is waiting on cable ends. They give you wire kit with winch. Of course that never fits the application for me.

Plus my hand problems have returned.  Trigger finger in 2 fingers again. 

You start out a day of easy does it. I planned on outside work, no interior house work. I have no sheetrock , so I can not hang or cut that wrong again. I only cut the sheetrock once, it was still too short.  Till sunday: We make a trip to Home Depot for supplies. LOL

I sprayed bug stuff around the house exterior with those bottles that attach to the water hose.  I was burning yard debris in the fire pit, sitting in my outdoor chair.  Wife walks up: We have a leak at the clothes washer. Water on the floor. Looks like the hose connection at the washer.. yippie    Wife had turned the water valve off at the wall.

After looking at stuff, my wife's assessment was correct. 90 degree brass fitting was just a smidge loose.  I installed a new rubber washer, snugged it up. No leaks all day so far.

Photo of the shop lights with metal conduit between them. Keeps the spacing even, no drooping cord between the fixtures.. This is actually ver 3.0 .. Ver 1 was a extension cord cut to fit from light to light. That was really awful  with cord sag, pulled the lights towards each other. Ceiling is 13 feet high. Lights hang on chains about 3 feet long. My  Bright idea ver 2.0 was use romex wire. It is sorta stiff, it will be fine.  After a few daze the romex was drooping too.

So , I bought the EMT conduit and fittings . No droop. Fixtures stay spaced even.

Started on sheet rock for the bedroom we are adding insulation to the walls.  Last panels of sheet rock we have here.

I skillfully cut the last filler sheet rock piece incorrectly (too short) .  So I stopped for the day  missing last sheet rock piece I wanted in place..

Couple weeks ago I was messin with the electric gate opener on our 2nd driveway. It is 12 volt car battery powered. The range on the remote control was like 19 feet. LOL.. I opened the box. Checked some stuff. Search for part and model numbers , etc.  I finally unscrewed the coax cable ends that are inside the box.  LOL , th e coax cable end was installed incorrectly. Inner wire did not protrude far enough. I whipped up a new cable with my fancy tool I bought many weeks ago. Great range on the remote now !!

Also in the last few evenings, I have been working on my car trailer.  I bought a 5k  winch for the trailer since my 32 yr old winch spit teeth out the last time I tried to use it. Gotta buy a hook end for the steel rope on this winch. My old winch cable hook is not removable unless you cut it off.

This bedroom is the learning - testing room for wall insualtion.

Photos show bedroom wall I tore apart. Slump block wall, fur out strips for sheetrock. No insulation. The block walls are filled with vermiculite material for insulation. Single pane aluminum windows with rotted out seals.  I siliconed the windows shut. No air leaks and way less rattles from wind. Old rigid foam board stuffed in the window opening to keep cold out better. New windows are on order.

Installed R6 rated insulation  foam board. The OE Wood strips were 1x2 material. I furred that out additional 3/8 inch to fit the foam board. Ceiling popcorn texture removed by my wife 3 weeks ago. Wife ripped out the carpet too.  Even with no sheet rock on walls and air leaks around the ceiling , The room feels better, warmer, quieter already.

I ripped all the wood furr strips on the HF Warrior table saw. Felt like 5 thousand cuts, but it was not. LOL

Between that stuff, I fixed my Hitachi leaf blower , gas powered. 15 yrs old or so. New fuel hoses and  22 dollar carb from Amazon got the old gurl running good again. It still needs a little tune , but there are No adjustment screws any where besides the idle screw. RUns a bit Phat... We are at 5100 ft elevation here. That may be the cause??

Added 2 more light fixtures in my shop too. Great additional light on far east wall.  Still looking for something to use as a wet tear down bench for transmission work.  Wet benches contain the oil. Bench is tilted so oil runs to a drain trough. Then into a bucket.

Changed the setup on the 3 other lights I added couple weeks ago. Hard to explain : added conduit (metal) between the lights. The flexable cord I first used was pulling the lights towards each other with a droop in the cord. That was driving my OCD crazy. So , I used metal conduit and the lights are all even spaced now !

We need to retire and take it easier?

John: the ol chevy looks good to me. We all have different tastes tho.    A friend gathered up many sets of alloy 5 slot wheels over the decades. He still installs them on his old cars. Some cars look good, some look goofy with the wheels. Main item is he is happy

We've had rain , snow , WIND here at the house. One day it was 43*F  , next day it is 65*F , next day it was 74*F.

Photo of the garb I wear in the attic usually. I replaced a p*ss poor exhaust fan install in bathroom off bedroom.  Guy used 3 inch flex conduit all the way thru the roof with a vent stack on it. Vent fan barely ran.  relocated light fixture (black circle behind my head in photo)..  SO the light actually shines in the shower per my wifes request.

Head lamp was phree from Harbor Freight weeks ago. Some promo thing, spend 30 buck$ and get phree lite. It works well to be honest. Still has high, low and flash on the lite. It has 3 AAA battery in it... No USB charge cable to loose. I mis place cables all the time

Paid $2.29-9 for diesel fuel in SHow Low AZ over the weekend.    We had food store discount points of 1 dollar.

Pump shuts you down at 25 gallons