Stopped by one of the big surplus stores bout an hour away from me the other day, just to kill a few minutes as I was early for the reason I was in the area. Normally this store is a little over priced, but right off the bat I found a couple of the head wraps I use when I’m welding for $5/$6 so I snagged those. Wandered to the back and what did my eyes fall upon but these two beauts! $18 a piece. Gotta clean ‘em up and figure out a spout for the Napa-branded Eagle, and make sure they both seal (these will go into rotation of my storage fuel to replace the shitty plastic ones). Went in not planning to spend anything and came out spending $50 lol

Managed to get up the motivation to do a quick glow plug controller bypass switch, since the glow plug controller is one of the projects that needs replacing. Today is the coldest day we’ve had this winter, and the old 7.3 was NOT happy after sitting for near 9 hours in the parking lot at work. So now, I have control of the glow plugs and have far less to worry about with the cold weather. I do plan to swap to a momentary switch, I just didn’t have one on hand today and didn’t want to go get one and lose daylight (and warmth lol). #SkilledTrades #Carstr #Truckstr #DIY #Toolstr #Handyman #GrowNostr

Just realized I didn’t post this shit yet. Found a utility bed for the 250 for a cool $300 (I know, I know, I stole that shit). This is one of the projects what needs doing before I wire up more shoreline boxes, as it’s currently sitting in my buddy’s driveway (the one with the crane on his truck) #Carstr #Truckstr #SkilledTrades #Handyman #Toolstr #GrowNostr

Been a busy last several weeks, but none of the handyman projects I’ve been working on have been worth posting (been asked to do a lot of shit in the jankiest way possible…I do it cause I got youngin’s to feed lol). I have, however, added a permanent GFCI shoreline to both the F250 and the ol’ Pathfinder, and an onboard battery charger to both. I do plan to add more boxes to both vehicles in the future, but several projects take priority over that at the moment. I needed to get these shorelines and chargers mounted because A: I was plugging in the truck anyway for the block heater (old mechanical 7.3, not the biggest fan of cool weather, much less cold, currently) and I wanted a charger on the pathfinder for those days I forget to turn off the inverter lol. Shoreline for the pathfinder conveniently hides away in the drinker side box in the bumper. The one for the truck I just have coiled around a couple quickfist mounts into the factory steel bumper. Eventually the truck will also have a handy dandy storage/winch bumper. #Carstr #Truckstr #Shoreline #Electromagical #GrowNostr #SkilledTrades #Handyman #Toolstr

Fountain

Bitcoin Audible • Reboot - Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species • Listen on Fountain

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Love this episode. Blew my mind the first go round. LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO

I’m horrible at remembering to take before pics, but here’s another room I’m painting. Can’t tell it here but I’m having to do it all with a brush, yes even the walls. They’re some kind of stucco (this is the same house as the Huge Deck, originally built in the early 1900’s and added on to like 713 times, it’s a mishmash of construction), so a roller just glides over the highs and leaves the lows dry. Also, finally got the coolant swap and the coolant filter plumbed in on the Ol’ Trugga Dugga last night. #WeeklyUpdate #Toolstr #Truckstr #Handyman #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr #TruggaDugga

Yeup…and then the new mother in law grabs the mic and you can’t understand a single word she’s saying… View quoted note →