What did you do in your shed / man cave today?

[Hairs]

It's coming along nicely Jason.
Well done.

Daughter No 2 is off next week for 6 months road trip with her best friend next Friday morning, the girls have no plans at all, they have saved up for nearly two years.
Nearly 7 months ago she bought herself a 2002 Toyota Hiace van, 2.4 petty. Double bed, pull out kitchen under the bed, fridge, solar panel, bat wing awning.
I built for her today storage boxes, tie down points for the fridge, secured the solar panel better, checked over a things, filters & oil change.
Happy Days.

[Bird]

It's coming along nicely Jason.
Well done.

Daughter No 2 is off next week for 6 months road trip with her best friend next Friday morning, the girls have no plans at all, they have saved up for nearly two years.
Nearly 7 months ago she bought herself a 2002 Toyota Hiace van, 2.4 petty. Double bed, pull out kitchen under the bed, fridge, solar panel, bat wing awning.
I built for her today storage boxes, tie down points for the fridge, secured the solar panel better, checked over a things, filters & oil change.
Happy Days.

RACV total care roadside ?

[Hairs]

RACV total care roadside ?

Yeah mate.
NRMA top cover, roadside assistance.
Also bought her a RFS First Aid Kit for Christmas.

[Troopy_03]

My freezer controller, for my homebrew beer keg fridge (chest freezer used as a  fridge), crapped itself the other day, so went looking online for another better quality one. Found a post in a homebrew forum about fridge/freezer thermostats, that showed that you could use the internal freezer thermostat, and adjust the course temp control screw. I didn't think the freezer t'stats could go high enough, but happily I was proven wrong.

Adjusted the course control on mine, and now I can have chilled beer with no external control, from a chest freezer. Beer now pouring at 3degC from adjusted original thermostat. Would pour a bit lower if I poured more than one glass, because the font/tap warms it up a tad, as it passes through.

Biggest problem is, after two days checking temps every 30 mins, and fine tuning, and testing poured beer temps, I'm a bit sloshed... well I wasn't pouring it down the sink... Burrrrrrp..

Buuuuuuurrrrrrrrpppp...

[Hairs]

Yesterday, I put the spindle/bearings/pulley and deck back together on the Zero Turn.
Took about 3 hours, while the deck was out I adjust deck height, checked the other spindle bearings, then did 6 hours of mowing.
A few beers, then watched Barty, WOW, what a great Tennis Player, a fantastic person and a great roll model for young Australians.

[Fizzie]

Help or advice needed!

Mrs left a couple of Ryobi batteries sitting out under the eaves yesterday morning, when she'd finished playing in the yard, & we then copped 30mm of rain yesterday arvo / overnight!

Just picked them up & water is running out of them & you can hear it sloshing inside

What to do

[NZMarkb]

Tip them upside down and sit them in the sun for a few hours
They should be fine
I've left or worked with battery tools out in the rain before with no ill effects to them

[Fizzie]

Open them up as well

[edz]

O'; mate had his factory / work shop go under flood waters .. went  and got all his battery and electric stuff,  hosed it all out at low pressure to get rid of the silt etc,  then liberal spraying of CRC and blown out with air ..
Dismantled the easy stuff  and completely dried them out ..more CRC ,8 out of 10 units worked perfectly fine ..

[2Strokeit]

You'll have a motherboard and 4 or 5 batteries rusting soon. What have you got to loose? Take your time and Let it dry before screwing back together.
Post the question in the electrical section for some fireworks.

[rags]

Did something very similar with my AEG drill left it out in the rain, only realised a week later. Drill was fine, no so the battery. After pulling apart etc and the battery will take charge but when using the battery it will now provide power in bursts of power, pulling the drill trigger it turns then stops and repeatably does this but won't allow the drill to continue spinning. The battery now sits on the bench to remind and annoy me on my mistake.

[sparksy]

Many years ago we were in the situation where we had a pile of Tv's that were immersed in salt water. We submerged each one in deionised water and  then left in sun to dry out.
We had about a 60% success rate once they dried.

[Troopy_03]

Many years ago we were in the situation where we had a pile of Tv's that were immersed in salt water. We submerged each one in deionised water and  then left in sun to dry out.
We had about a 60% success rate once they dried.

When I used to repair TVs, I quite a few times, removed circuit boards and washed them in the kitchen sink with a bit of dish washing liquid, and rinsed in fresh tap water. I then blew them out with compressed air, then dried them with a hot air gun.. Mainly TVs from a house where there was a heavy smoker, and they were coated in brown gunk.

[austastar]

Hi,
    Some techs refused to even touch a smoker's computer. With the full backing of management too!
Cheers

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[Hairs]

It was my task one day to attend to a house of a tenant who was a heavy smoker, he had passed away. The walls, ceilings were discoloured and where pictures once were on the walls, there was distinct colour difference, even where the curtains(removed) were, each side of the windows.
And the place stunk.
Reckon the place would of needed a lot of work to get it to a point where it was rentable again.

[austastar]

Hi,
   The Operating Theatre tea room (1970s) had a light fitting needing to be replaced.
Surprise!
A white circle on the ceiling, in the centre of mahogany brown.
Yuk!
Cheers

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[OldPaj]

Hi,
   The Operating Theatre tea room (1970s) had a light fitting needing to be replaced.
Surprise!
A white circle on the ceiling, in the centre of mahogany brown.
Yuk!
Cheers

Sent from my SM-T380 using Tapatalk

In the early 70s, I spent 9 weeks in hospital (6 in traction) following a motorcycle accident. The orthopedic surgeon doing his rounds would have a fag in hand/mouth and a junior nurse running along behind him with an ashtray. For the smokers also in traction, nurses would buy their ciggies for them and often sit around when it was quiet and have a ciggy as well.

Different times.

Anyway in my man shed today,

I spent most of the day yesterday removing everything along one wall to find whatever was there dead and stinking. Behind the second last shelving unit I eventually found a dead rat in a nest of wood shavings and bits of plastic and oddly, lengths of light insulated wire (off cuts I am assuming).

Was well loaded up with larva and such and certainly somewhat smelly for my poor sensitive nose especially as we have had a week of over 30C.

Today was cleaning and disinfecting the area to remove the smell and putting everything back along with a couple of bait station. Hopefully it won't happen again for a long long tome. I did not enjoy it one bit.

[Pottsy]

In the early 70s, I spent 9 weeks in hospital (6 in traction) following a motorcycle accident. The orthopedic surgeon doing his rounds would have a fag in hand/mouth and a junior nurse running along behind him with an ashtray. For the smokers also in traction, nurses would buy their ciggies for them and often sit around when it was quiet and have a ciggy as well.

Different times.

Anyway in my man shed today,

I spent most of the day yesterday removing everything along one wall to find whatever was there dead and stinking. Behind the second last shelving unit I eventually found a dead rat in a nest of wood shavings and bits of plastic and oddly, lengths of light insulated wire (off cuts I am assuming).

Was well loaded up with larva and such and certainly somewhat smelly for my poor sensitive nose especially as we have had a week of over 30C.

Today was cleaning and disinfecting the area to remove the smell and putting everything back along with a couple of bait station. Hopefully it won't happen again for a long long tome. I did not enjoy it one bit.

I remember coming back from a trip away to an unholy stink outside the back verandah, searched hi and Lo to find a rat decomposing on the drip tray on top of the compressor at the back of an old Kelvinator fridge.
Not pleasant, the ol Vicks up the nose helped marginally.

[Pottsy]

Little sprint car for the grandson, only a 180mm long.

[GGV8Cruza]

Added more gear to the radio hobby. New radio for Xmas and added an external display for it. The radio world is alive at the moment as the conditions are improving. Chatting to all corners of the world at the moment

GG

[corndog]

Finished my strawberry planter tower. Now just got to drink another 20 3ltr bottles of milk to fill it up.

[corndog]

Finished my strawberry planter tower. Now just got to drink another 20 3ltr bottles of milk to fill it up.

[Pottsy]

Found some shed time over the last week or two, put a few bits and pieces together, some for customers, some for fun.

[Hairs]

Once again mate
That is outstanding.
Love ya work.

[maverick01]

More tidying up and resorting the shed which seems to be almost a weekly job in itself