The Garage (What did you work on today?)
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I grew up with an aerospace engineer dad who had a bar in the living room he turned into a workbench complete with oscilloscope. I thought it was just my house.
One of the items that made me consider going down was a custom-made oscilloscope. At the time it was made, it outperformed all other oscilloscopes on the market. These days it wouldn’t compare with a readily-accessible and affordable ‘scope.I grew up with an aerospace engineer dad who had a bar in the living room he turned into a workbench complete with oscilloscope. I thought it was just my house.
But I haven’t built or calibrated anything that required an oscilloscope since college, so it would just have been another piece of equipment that would have to be disposed of sometime down the road.
I have a general rule if it sits for three years with intent to use or fix it then gets donated or sold. We are all hoarders by nature -whether we like it or not
We needed to make sure all of the Arecibo data were properly archived. That took more time than could be spent on site. While bringing the data racks back, it made sense to also bring other hardware back for proper NSF disposal procedures. NSF had no interest in most of the hardware because it was so old and had a value of $0.00. In fact, it would cost them money to take possession and then do anything with it. Some of it was sent to the Smithsonian for museum consideration. The rest was just not worth keeping in any sense and the team were allowed to dispose of as they saw fit (other than sell for personal gain). Most of NASA/NSF ground hardware is very, very old. When it works you don’t mess with it; you don’t upgrade it; you don’t even sneeze at it. Its only value is to the mission it is currently accomplishing.
Yep. The lab I worked at until 2019 was using GCs from the early 90s, Windows 3.1, Pentium 486s, and dot matrix printers. And we were the best lab in the country for what we did.
Sounds like a pretty big deal to me. It’s often bittersweet.
We don’t have a lot of storage space, but I recently hauled a completely disassembled 2001 Suzuki DRZ400E that has been sitting in my garage for the past 6 years to the dump.
I just didn’t have the motivation to take it on again, but it was such a massive relief to let it go. Also grabbed turbos, big brake kits, and other parts from all my VW TDIs (that I don’t own anymore) and tossed them too.
It felt like my soul took a massive dump. A cleansing spiritual experience full of relief from tension I didn’t know I had.
I have also been known to hoard other things like boxes from old electronic devices so I can send them in for repairs or resell them. My wife caught me riding that wave and we chucked out an entire chest of them I had collected over the years.
Then things got a little hazy when she wanted to toss clothes Im a little too Husky for now, and we decided to come back to that in another 6 years.
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Haven't worked in the garage today. But I did enjoy a nice sunset in the back yard outside our pool enclosure . I thought I would share it.
Have a great evening.
Have a great evening.
Beautiful. Wish it was warm enough to be in our pool. Open for two more weeks until it gets closed and water is too cold to enjoy. Guessing your weather is pretty nice
So far this months weather averaging lows in the mid-seventies and highs in the mid-eighties. Definitely pool weather.
12+ hour detail on my parents new telluride.
Decontamination wash, iron removal, claybar, 1 step polish, 2 stage ceramic coating.
Decontamination wash, iron removal, claybar, 1 step polish, 2 stage ceramic coating.
Looks great. Smart to do it right away.
Great job! I hope they appreciate all your hard work.
That sucker has a mirror finish!
Looks nice, I do the same thing to my 76 F150. That 50 year old paint gets a mirror finish just like that new paint does.
It’s nice seeing that we have some detailers on here.
My wife had to swap cars with my Mom last week and said Mom’s brakes were shaking really bad too.
So this weekend Mom’s 2013 GX460 got new carbon fiber ceramic pads and drilled and slotted rotors front and rear.
Really wish I was sponsored by Power Stop by this point. I’m going broke with all these brake jobs.
Epoxy garage floor
Good part of a week
Powerwalls and solar inverter under wraps in the corner.
Good part of a week
Powerwalls and solar inverter under wraps in the corner.
Haven't done a brake job in ages. Every few months I find a safe place, get up to speed and then brake hard so the friction brakes engage. That cleans off the fine layer of dust the brakes get from disuse. I don't expect to ever need to do a brake job again.
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