What did you do today not on your truck...

[68Bowtie4x4]

Originally Posted by Rickysnickers

Curious, how and what are you guys using to heat your shops?

I have a HVAC mini-split in my shop.

Heat in the Winter, and A/C in the Summer.


I've just been organizing my shop lately. Went through a bunch of boxed up stuff since moving in 2018 and made some more floor space.

Got my reloading desk setup for the 1st time since moving into the new house/shop in 2018, and man do I have a bunch of primers...LOL

Got my Dell Server rack moved and installed my Dell R710 Server in the rack and getting ready to install another 64 GB of RAM memory in it, and install a fresh image of 2019 Server Standard on it and make it a Web Server. I figured I might as well start hosting some websites and make some side money.

I've finally got all my parts needed to totally rebuild my 70 Chevelle 402 that's going into my 72 Monte Carlo. The engine in it right now is a complete rebuilt 396 SBC Stroker motor with only break in time and a 1/2 mile of driving from my buddy's shop to my shop, so it's going into the 72 Chevy Cheyenne 4x4 pickup.

[1slo64]

Originally Posted by Rickysnickers

Curious, how and what are you guys using to heat your shops?

I use a 68k BTU propane heater, but below 40 I'm not usually out there.

[allchevy58]

Originally Posted by Rickysnickers

Curious, how and what are you guys using to heat your shops?

Took out a propane furnace out, just cost too much for propane. Just put this used oil furnace in a month ago, love it.

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by Rickysnickers

Curious, how and what are you guys using to heat your shops?

hi,i built a new shop,64x32 finishing it up late last fall.my wife and i put 2100 feet of pex pipe in the floor before they poured the concrete and i built an in floor heat panel with an electric boiler.i am officially spoiled rotten.beautiful heat,always warm and very nice to work in.i'm very happy with it.

[Stocker]

Originally Posted by mr.mud1

hi,i built a new shop,64x32 finishing it up late last fall.my wife and i put 2100 feet of pex pipe in the floor before they poured the concrete and i built an in floor heat panel with an electric boiler.i am officially spoiled rotten.beautiful heat,always warm and very nice to work in.i'm very happy with it.

Very nice! I've always thought of owning a home with a heated floor like that.

[62c30]

Originally Posted by Rickysnickers

Curious, how and what are you guys using to heat your shops?

Mini split, haven't used the ac yet but for a heat pump with no heat strips it did a damn good job keeping the garage at 62 degrees for the 2 weeks we had below freezing.

[Redneck Rydes]

Big Maxx 80,000 btu propane heater works pretty good but being a ceiling mount,the floor still pretty cool

[GOPAPA]

In the process of changing out 4 bath sink fixtures with new /faucets /popups/drains .. The house we bought was a show house,, but,,,,,they did not use good bath fixtures.. we were the second to buy it from it being new..

[67C10Step]

Daughter asked me to build her a stand to hang her coffee mugs on at her house. Installed two new LED security lights on the back of the house.
Wife and I sprayed the lawn. Getting ready for grass growing as crazy as it sounds.

[Redneck Rydes]

Is it pollen season yet,when I am in SC the pollen starts pretty soon,I have a house in a pine forest,lots of pollen.This year it is all snow

[1976gmc20]

I'm hiring my young neighbor and he/we are chopping up a huge non functional hot tub to get it out of the room through a sliding patio door. Turns out they stuffed all sorts of foam scrap around it and then apparently sprayed in a bunch of liquid foam to hold it all in place. What a mess!

Also, the floor joists were all rotted out around the back of the hot tub, so it's a good thing I decided to finally tackle this project after 18 years. We already tried to get it fixed but they don't make parts for it anymore and nobody would touch it - "oh, you can buy a new one cheaper than fixing it" but how the hell would you get it out and another one in ?????

We're just going to build a new floor in the room and use it for - I don't know yet - maybe a guest bedroom or move my reloading stuff in there from the garage ...?

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

I'm hiring my young neighbor and he/we are chopping up a huge non functional hot tub to get it out of the room through a sliding patio door. Turns out they stuffed all sorts of foam scrap around it and then apparently sprayed in a bunch of liquid foam to hold it all in place. What a mess!

Also, the floor joists were all rotted out around the back of the hot tub, so it's a good thing I decided to finally tackle this project after 18 years. We already tried to get it fixed but they don't make parts for it anymore and nobody would touch it - "oh, you can buy a new one cheaper than fixing it" but how the hell would you get it out and another one in ?????

We're just going to build a new floor in the room and use it for - I don't know yet - maybe a guest bedroom or move my reloading stuff in there from the garage ...?

Anyway, now the old hot tub is all cut up into odd pieces and loaded (jammed!) into the bed of the old blue K1500 ready to go to the county dump.

And in the process of cleaning up we discovered that nearly all of the floor supports were all rotted out so instead of just filling a hole with 2x6 decking, the porch room is going to be getting an entirely new floor: all new joists and 4x8 subfloor.

Also need to figure out how to mitigate the moisture problem ...

[57taskforce]

Got the 3306 from posts 676 and 679, put back together and installed into a power unit skid and ran over the last few days. I ran it on propane for about 2 hours to make sure that the oil psi would hold once the oil was good and hot. 40lbs at idle and 75-80 at 1600 rpms. All ready to go back to the field and run for 8-10 years non stop.

[Richard2112]

Gave my motor a paint job...

[Ol Blue K20]

Excuse my ignorance but why did you paint the cylinders, lifter valley and pistons?

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by Richard2112

Gave my motor a paint job...

Um... Well, very thorough.

[Richard2112]

Those pistons look good though, don't they..

Got that picture from another forum. Thought it was sharable

[Richard2112]

Doin' brakes next...

[57taskforce]

Originally Posted by Richard2112

Those pistons look good though, don't they..

Got that picture from another forum. Thought it was sharable

It’s the latest greatest anti friction coating, funny it comes in Chevy orange!

Man kinds’ ability to be stupid never ceases to amaze me. I think I’ll pass on the brake job

[4u2nv]

Originally Posted by Richard2112

Gave my motor a paint job...

He has a idea like I did

[Steeveedee]

^ That's pretty cool!

[67C10Step]

Picked up a new toy.

[Boog]

Real nice. 40?

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by 67C10Step

Picked up a new toy.

You actually found a gun store with something in stock ????

[1slo64]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

You actually found a gun store with something in stock ????

Didn't realize places were still having issues. All gun stores here have good inventory and ammo.