Looks great! It’s a shame you’ll have so little maintenance to do to your Scout when you have a big beautiful shop like that.
The Garage (What did you work on today?)
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Must be nice!
Until I can buy all my friends and family EVs I will probably be stuck doing brakes for the foreseeable future. I have been the “Family Mechanic” and “IT Support Guy” for the past 20 years and it’s my way of thanking them for putting up with me.
That’s pretty awesome though. Im a believer in regen brakes. There are so many upsides to EVs. Can’t wait.
Did you need to grind that floor as a first step, or did you have a good base to work with? Our garage floor was done by our original builder and after a year it was pretty obvious it was a bad job. Now I am told it needs to be ground before I can start over. A real PITA.
Light grind and acid bath is the best way to prep. Many people and installers skip the acid portion
I have been the auto mechanic (and IT support and carpenter and electrician and…) for my friends and family for so very long. But these days we’re far more dispersed so they call me for advice instead of direct work.
Of all the automotive work I don’t have to do anymore, brakes, oil changes, and transmissions are my biggest sighs of relief. I’ll still help a friend or family member in need, but I had even started bringing my vehicles to a shop because I was so tired of doing my own…
I get that. Being retired I let the professionals take on those tasks, unless it is a modification. They come pick up our vehicles and drop them back off when completed. More time to enjoy the beach.
Yeah. I do my own mods, including suspension. And I now am back to doing my own maintenance because there’s so little to bother with.I get that. Being retired I let the professionals take on those tasks, unless it is a modification. They come pick up our vehicles and drop them back off when completed. More time to enjoy the beach.
Grind grind grind. 2 days worth.
Also grined and filled seams, cracks, salt damage, epoxied the edges. No more gaps for pesky spiders to live in (black widows loved it).
Prime coat, epoxy coat with full spread flakes then 2 top coats. Top coat really stinks. I’m letting it cure for a couple of weeks before putting the cars back in.
I used Spartan Epoxy
No acid etch since this puts water in the cement and I would need to wait a week or so to let it get out. After researching this, it seems this is a good way to cause failures. Moisture gets trapped under the epoxy and wants to come out.
Also grined and filled seams, cracks, salt damage, epoxied the edges. No more gaps for pesky spiders to live in (black widows loved it).
Prime coat, epoxy coat with full spread flakes then 2 top coats. Top coat really stinks. I’m letting it cure for a couple of weeks before putting the cars back in.
I used Spartan Epoxy
No acid etch since this puts water in the cement and I would need to wait a week or so to let it get out. After researching this, it seems this is a good way to cause failures. Moisture gets trapped under the epoxy and wants to come out.
Bronco? Ordinarily I would say ‘blasphemy’, but since it’s “for the kids” I say—You go Dad!
I ran SETI@Home for years with the SETIUSA Group... Fun GUI
Like...Magic mushrooms?I don't know what any of that means, but it made me think of mushrooms
The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has run a citizen/community science program where you download a pile of data and your computer runs analyses on those data in the background while you're doing other things. This distributes the work across many thousands of computers and enables more data to be analyzed than if just the SETI computers were being used.I don't know what any of that means, but it made me think of mushrooms
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A lot more work than expected. Did final clean up today, power washed ceiling walls, touch up paint.
Effort worth about $1.5k/day labor based off $16k quote. Also nice to accomplish this which has been on my todo list for 5 years.
done!
A lot more work than expected. Did final clean up today, power washed ceiling walls, touch up paint.
Effort worth about $1.5k/day labor based off $16k quote. Also nice to accomplish this which has been on my todo list for 5 years.
Sixteen foot walls and ceiling sound great. Until you have to use a telescoping ladder to install a gantry crane... If I don't die, photos after it's done.
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