2025: What are you doing today?

[idrivejunk]

Oh, also today my boss walked up holding a Mustang Hub magazine with a 16 page feature on his 65 fastback. From a shoot in Wichita a couple years back. 16 pages is braggin rights, man.

[58 Yeoman]

What do you get to do to the Camaro, Matt?

[idrivejunk]

Not much, Phil. Welding up the overlapped edges at roof seams first.

[idrivejunk]

Heres a couple pix of that ^^^.

And another couple to show tail ends of quarters. Compare the shapes at top, above the tail panel.

Also note height. The lid is resting on the round flats in the sheetmetal on lid and quarter sides of jamb. No latch or rubber is present and I don't know if a spoiler will be used.

[kb426]

1st impression of the Camaro body??

[idrivejunk]

1st impression of the Camaro body??

First? Not terrible, for 12K. But, also 3K to ship and five-six hun for the carton thing (sans wheels)

Second? Mmm, kinda cringey. My understanding is that bodies are assembled stateside, in one place on each coast. Study the comparative pattern in pic to get an idea of the slop amount. Study also the jamb pic showing where Dcorn cut the left qtr at gap and below for about a foot and a half. Theres your telltale quality indicator. (its a mess, I ain't touchin it until I have latch and rubber)

 

[jaybee]

Taking Thu-Mon off, as they just changed the company's vacation policy in midyear. I had to take some time or lose it. Worked out, though. I need to go to a clinic tomorrow to be evaluated for a hernia.

[chimp koose]

Spent some time on the chopper today . I have made some mounts to attach the seat springs which look pretty good . Used the same dia. tubing as the frame and coped them to fit up to the frame at 90degrees . Machined a solid piece of round to fit in the tube with a 3/8 NF thread in the center . The flat side of the coped tubes sit 3/8" above the frame .  The seat springs bolt to them . Base of seat spring is just slightly smaller OD than the coped tube mount . Parts look like they belong there . I am pleased 

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Busier than a cat trying to cover up a pile on concrete. 

Discovered cracks in drywall at seams in kitchen.. I made an error in dry wall install at door openings.  FIxed that. Re-work wall mud.  Re - do the texture.  Watching it for a couple weeks while I finish dry wall work in hallways.

Removed 2nd abandoned hvac return vent. Work the dry wall. Prep the hall way ceilings  for spray texture.  Then we Spray the  texture. Not happy with it. Re-spray at higher psi and a bit thicker mud mixture.  Happy now.

Wife scraped last popcorn texture off ceilings.  Found some bad repair work , we suspected since paint and popcorn did not match there.  Scrape mud, sand, apply dry wall mud called Plus 3.. Hours later, it bubbles, start to fall off?  Scrape it all off.  Sand. Prep. Use Hot mud mix on it at thin layers over a couple daze.  Looks good now.

Started repairs on wall cracks in the living room.  Fixing seams at ceiling and wall inside corners. Settling of house has caused seams to not like each other a bit. Inside Corner paper tape krinkles a bit. I cut it out, re-apply.

Wife has been scraping the remaining bits of vinyl floor covering in garage. Tedious job. Some glue remains.  May rent a sander or something to clean adhesive off?

Started prep on changes in our bathroom off the bedroom..  Move a ceiling light, new replacement exhaust fan. One electrical box has 6 romex feeds into it, very crowded ! .. I will change that since I am moving the ceiling light about 2 feet. New boxes, new romex too

In the evenings , a few nites, I have worked on additional lights in the garage lights.. (3) 4 footer fixtures. LED tubes.  I installed a switch on the back wall from an outlet to feed power to lights.  Ceiling is 13 feet high.

That is a little that we have been up to

[WZ JUNK]

I modified my welding helmet so that I could attach a Harbor Freight headlamp.  It helps a lot.  I am having trouble seeing in low light conditions and when welding.

I built a rotisserie so that when I weld all the aluminum parts together, I can rotate the assembly and make all the welds horizontally.  I have been practicing with the new welder and I plan to do the welding tomorrow.  I wanted to get the settings dialed in and practice welding the 1/4" material to the 3/8".  I preheat each starting point with a torch and that means it will take longer but that's okay.

[enjenjo]

Josh and I rebuilt a Z spec 2.95 T5 today for his Mustang. Actually he built it and I pointed and said not like that idiot! It took about 5 hours. The first time I have been in the shop for four weeks. My right hand is still tender.

[chimp koose]

My milling machine runs ! Now to give it a much needed clean up . It has sat in the shop for the last 8 years or so .

[idrivejunk]

Today I made a cabinet out of the old bed from the '51 F-1 5.0 job, for the boss.

[idrivejunk]

Wow, four likes! Can't tell who gave em but thanks. Boss liked the lid idea well enough to have me proceed on that. A wood top was what he originally had in mind but it just so happened that the bedside leftovers turned out the exact width of the bed so I had sat them on top. It is all welded up now and theres a finger pull to open the gate with, and he plans to have the guys paint it.

[WZ JUNK]

You know I like stuff like that.  Good job.  I have a fiberglass T bucket bed that I may make into a wall desk.