What are you working on?

[Stretch]

I should extend the wireless to my garage but I'll have to invest in some sort of signal enhancer. The buildings aren't that far apart but our house has terrible coverage even inside. I think it's due to all the lead paint and asbestos TBH. It's an old house.

The main issue I have is my garage is a steel building and when I insulated it I used steel sheeting on the inside too. I basically built a faraday cage inside a faraday cage.

 

[b-body-bob]

The main issue I have is my garage is a steel building and when I insulated it I used steel sheeting on the inside too. I basically built a faraday cage inside a faraday cage.

Our WAP/router is maybe 20 feet away from the kitchen where my wife often sits and she has trouble with the net from there. Zero bars on the phone inside, 3 or 4 outside. Then to make it even weirder, our cheap Harbor Freight surveillance system seems pretty solid although from time to time the cameras lose comm with the base.

It doesn't bother me much. It's not like we're going to start installing wifi enabled appliances. It would be nice to be able to check the web from the garage, but OTOH taking a break to walk inside is rarely a bad idea either.

 

[Stretch]

taking a break to walk inside is rarely a bad idea either.

I mostly stream music with the web. Unfortunately the local raido either sucks or sucks with a banjo.

The ability to look up torque specs and parts is a bonus!

 

[b-body-bob]

I mostly stream music with the web. Unfortunately the local raido either sucks or sucks with a banjo.

For music, I've got a junk laptop out there wired to a bluetooth speaker and more MP3s than I need so I'm covered there. It's the tech access that I would use it for.

(Yes the laptop is so old it doesn't do bluetooth)

 

[69.5CUDA]

i friend set me up with a really slick wireless setup that honestly reaches 100ft in all directions..ubiquity i think

 

[69.5CUDA]

ive actualy got a full on house head unit with a dead HDMI board hadling the tunes, and a laptop streaming..so i gothcha

and your right being able to look up torque specs is a huge bonus

 

[68R/T]

Build a "cantenna" cheap & easy to make; How to Make a Cantenna: 10 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow

 

[69.5CUDA]

back when i had run of the 40 we actualy used a "upgraded" version of that to get net from the house to the shop..at a range of over 1000 feet...that bastard of it was keeping LOS clear due to casting over a hump....so there was a section of about 300 ft where it had to be kept mowed below 2ft

 

[thrashingcows]

Even hooked to the land line we only get about 3 or 4MBps at our place.... One of the draw backs living out in the country away from everyone.

 

[thrashingcows]

Well the physical toll from my clutch work on Patches is a very inflamed and sore left knee...hurts and barely bends so hard to walk, But not having to pay a shop to rape me on the work a sore knee is a cheap enough price that I'll recover from fairly quickly, unlike a huge repair bill.

 

[thrashingcows]

Snapped some pics of the Coronet in the snow when moving it from the garage and back into the shop....

Hate where the shop that did the inspection put the sticker...I assumed they'd put it down low in the bottom corner NOT at the top...oh well just has to stay on until this coming November then once it expires I can remove it.

 

[b-body-bob]

Build a "cantenna" cheap & easy to make; How to Make a Cantenna: 10 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow

That looked good until I got to "Attach a pigtail cable to the adapter (a pigtail is a wire that attaches the adapter to the computer's wifi card, note you must have a compatible wifi adapter to make this work"

 

[69.5CUDA]

damn the shine on that...the first 2 shots i thought you had a see thru hood

 

[b-body-bob]

a sore knee is a cheap enough price that I'll recover from fairly quickly, unlike a huge repair bill.

I hope so.

At my age it's no longer a safe bet.

 

[thrashingcows]

Decided to clean up my tools a little bit the last couple days.

First I have been using an old Sears Craftsman socket kit my parents bought me sometime around 1989, love the set and have used it on everything since I got it but the old case has been slowly falling apart and in the last few years the old plastic is getting so hard and brittle I've needed to use a screwdriver to pop them out of their little pockets.

I had picked up some 1/2" and 3/8" drive socket holders a few years ago from the thrift store for cheap, so I dug them out and organized my sockets, most from this kit but a lot I just had tossed in various drawers.

Then picked up some metal wrench holders and decided to organize my Standard and Metric wrenches...again they were just tossed into the drawers haphazardly...much happier now.

Much happier with them being organized now, I spent so much time constantly routing around looking for that one wrench or socket.

 

[b-body-bob]

I switched from socket rails to socket holders and it was a mistake. Now I'm forever walking back to the tool box to get a different sized socket, where before I had the whole rail with me. It's especially a hassle when I'm working under the car. I broke down and put a 3/8 set on a rail but most everything else is on holders in the top of my box.

 

[69.5CUDA]

i second the rail..nothing nicer than being able to just say fuckit and grab the whole rail
while ive got 2 BIG craftsman black plastic travelers(165? and a 270? piece), 1 stays with my motorcycle gear, and could easily rebuild a truck n trailer and everything else..the other only goes out when hauling trailer or i know ill need it....i still more often than not for wrecker runs just "packing a bag" where again being able to grab whole rails makes sense toss in some power tools(i love the kobalt and milwakie)...and then you KNOW if youve left something behind before you leave...why isnt this rail full?

dont get me wrong..for some of my surplus id love to have holders, problem is the drawrs arnt deep enough

1 metric wrench drawer, 1 standard, 1 metric socket drawrd 1 standard, cant say how much splitting everything sae/met has saved time...each socket draw has 4-6 rails 1/4 3/8 1/2 in 6 and 12
there was a time when youd find yourself using both

cow your lucky to have had that box last as long as it has...im actually impressed, mine from around that same period had disintegrated long before the mid 90s

ive come n gone from the wrench management several times..its a love hate thing as they dont travel well that way....let alone from the box to the shop floor....id love a solid way to actualy organize em and maek em travel well..they used to make those tin holders with a lock down flap but those dont sit will in a shop box either

 

[thrashingcows]

I agree the rails are handy to have, all my 1/4" drive and some of my spare misc sockets, 3/8" and 1/2" drive are on rails now as well. But most of the sockets were in my case before so I have always just made trip after trip back and forth to grab sockets...so nothing has really changed for me.

What kind of rails do you use?

 

[69.5CUDA]

I agree the rails are handy to have, all my 1/4" drive and some of my spare misc sockets, 3/8" and 1/2" drive are on rails now as well. But most of the sockets were in my case before so I have always just made trip after trip back and forth to grab sockets...so nothing has really changed for me.

What kind of rails do you use?

a rails a rails a rail honestly...there was a time when i was stupid enough to buy em off the snapon truck..ive bought craftsman ones...at the end of the day ive found that even the cheep ass HF ones are as good as the snapon ones

the only ones ive found a genuine "quality" change are some OLD ace hardware units, they shape of the "tooth" on the rails is different...but ive not seen any that fit as tight in atleast 20 years

i grab the HF rails load a socket set up then "cut to length" then bend up the 4 corners so they cant slide off...ive also found bending the teeth a lil can be very helpfull my 1/4s will NOT budge off the HF mini rail ive made up, and half of the 1/2 rail stays put too..but the 3/8 rail seems to end up all over the bag...mind you im specifificaly refering to bag not shop box..as thats the truest test of how well a rails holding on

 

[68R/T]

You guys have all got it easy. I have 3 garages with a loaded stand-up in each. Every tool is in triplicate with many random extras. And as agreed, rails are KING. I would rather guess at the size at the car, rather than walk back-n-forth.