Popular Post fjh Posted December 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2022 6 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said: I for one reckon this is good, can't even get young or old people to be an apprentice in Australia All to precious or something, dunno when I was starting out 1 apprenticeship had 200 applications Good on you all for running these programs, I dont have the answers on how get young people to understand that been a tradesman is a noble and proud profession If you work hard and have manners you can make good money To me there is no shame in doing a honest days work for a honest days pay Keep up the good work Paul Paul I agree whole heartedly with your statements! There is the issue however of Morales Some guys are in it for the money only !weather they do a good job is secondary! Working hard is only as good as the intent of the person doing the job! A person that is seeking credibility as a good wrench regardless of the pay Or a person seeking just a pay cheque! Pleasing the customer was High on my list but that's me! If your in it for the money only WELL......... you get my drift! Unfortunately you can lead a horse to water but you can't make em drink! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joey Mack Posted December 11, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2022 Hi Guy's.. For a few years now I wanted to buy a big gunsafe, but I do not have $2000.00 + to get one.. Well in the scrap dumpster and my new City Job, was this Jewel.. I am no craftsman, but this will work... 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Like wow man what a catch… Bob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joey Mack Posted December 11, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2022 So far I have about $25.00 invested, and I removed about 30 pounds of White Brass, 10 pounds of copper, and the rest is mixed metals,.. when I scrap the metal I will profit.. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 that looks like a very large stainless steel power panel. Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Yes sir, I beleive it was a transfer switch unit for our diesel generators.. It burned a couple of the 480 contacts and melted them down.. they just throw this stuff in the scrap dumpster.. I also scored a smaller stainless cabinet, that i removed from a lift station.. not only do I get usable cabinets, but the last one I got had about 30' of copper wire that is 3/8" diameter.. I am going to use it for my new battery cables and starter cables on my '48 Int. I also got 50+ feet of 12 gauge wire, that has a hard insulation.. I will use it to run my lights and such.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 it is 40 inches wide and 76" tall, and inside is 18" deep... I made a rack that will hold 12 of my long guns, and the bottom should hold all of my hand gun's.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 70mackMB Posted December 11, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2022 4 minutes ago, Joey Mack said: I made a rack that will hold 12 of my long guns, and the bottom should hold all of my hand gun's.. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post tjc transport Posted December 11, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2022 39 minutes ago, 70mackMB said: me too. i lost all mine in a tragic boating accident 2 miles offshore in the Atlantic when a rogue wave struck and washed them all overboard while i was cleaning them. 4 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 46 minutes ago, 70mackMB said: I'm really good at that, I do it every day. 1 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 67RModel Posted December 14, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2022 I built my shop back in 2016 and have never had heat in it until now. When I poured the floor back then I insulted underneath and the perimeter and put the pex tubing in for in floor heat but never got around to making it work until now. I always found other uses for that money and just said "ill just use a torpedo heater this winter". I finally got the boiler hooked up and running and now my shop is a nice comfortable 65 degrees. This was my first rodeo with radiant floor heat and its a game changer. Night and day comfort difference when compared to forced air heating. 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 I was going to do in floor heat in mine, but the Mason poured the floor two weeks early without telling me he was coming. He also forgot to put the gas pipe in for the furnace. 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx610 Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 3 hours ago, 67RModel said: I built my shop back in 2016 and have never had heat in it until now. When I poured the floor back then I insulted underneath and the perimeter and put the pex tubing in for in floor heat but never got around to making it work until now. I always found other uses for that money and just said "ill just use a torpedo heater this winter". I finally got the boiler hooked up and running and now my shop is a nice comfortable 65 degrees. This was my first rodeo with radiant floor heat and its a game changer. Night and day comfort difference when compared to forced air heating. Yea that radiant floor heat is great. It’s too good. You get hot quick! Our lower garage that all the Mack’s go in has that. When putting tire chains on, that heat will have you down to your underwear in no time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67RModel Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 42 minutes ago, Onyx610 said: Yea that radiant floor heat is great. It’s too good. You get hot quick! Our lower garage that all the Mack’s go in has that. When putting tire chains on, that heat will have you down to your underwear in no time. I don't ever get hot lol. A room can never be too hot for me. The hotter the better in my opinion so this heated floor is a game changer for me. My house is the same way. I usually keep it anywhere from 74-76 degrees in Winter. I light a coal fire in my coal stove usually around mid December and it doesn't go out until early April.......Winter sucks for me lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 1 hour ago, 67RModel said: I don't ever get hot lol. A room can never be too hot for me. The hotter the better in my opinion so this heated floor is a game changer for me. My house is the same way. I usually keep it anywhere from 74-76 degrees in Winter. I light a coal fire in my coal stove usually around mid December and it doesn't go out until early April.......Winter sucks for me lol. i am the opposite. house is at 65 degrees year round. i hate heat. i melt if over 80 degrees. but in floor radiant heat is the way to go. i had it in the body shop. it only heats the area needed, floor up around 5-6 foot. not from the 20 foot tall ceiling down. 2 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Dammit !!! I wished I would have thought about heating my floor before pouring it.. My shop is only 22'x25'.. High ceiling.. I would rather have heated the floor, and let the heat rise.. 🤔 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67RModel Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 It’s really nice since the whole slab is 65 degrees. The whole shop is being headed with radiation from the slab rather than convection from a warm air furnace or unit heater. With the slab controlled at 65 if feels much warmer than 65. I don’t know what the air temp is since the thermometer reads the slab temperature. The trade off is its much more costly to install than a unit heater or regular furnace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx610 Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 Let’s see more pics of the place! I want the tour….can’t stop there with that clean and organized plumbing setup picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67RModel Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 I’ll have to take some more pictures of it tomorrow. I actually don’t have anymore of it lol. I have a bunch of when it was getting built initially but nothing recent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx610 Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 20 minutes ago, 67RModel said: I’ll have to take some more pictures of it tomorrow. I actually don’t have anymore of it lol. I have a bunch of when it was getting built initially but nothing recent. Please do! I like seeing peoples working space, tools, and trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big R Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Only downside to floor heat is don’t set your beer on the floor 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 11 minutes ago, Big R said: Only downside to floor heat is don’t set your beer on the floor unless you are german and like your beer hot. Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 67RModel Posted December 16, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2022 On 12/14/2022 at 7:16 PM, Onyx610 said: Let’s see more pics of the place! I want the tour….can’t stop there with that clean and organized plumbing setup picture. Its a pretty small setup. 24' wide by 40' deep with 12' ceiling height. I just added the lean-to this past summer for some extra storage and it is 12.5' x 40'. It started out as a shop to keep and restore my 1967 R Model. Well you know how that goes. I now have 4 trucks. one working and 3 antiques. It is very cramped now because I try to keep everything under roof out of the weather. So I really have one bay in front of the overhead door for working on things. The rest is basically just storage. Plus its not even finished. I still need to put up the interior wall metal sheeting and run some better electrical throughout. Also I really need to commit and move all my tools and other shop equipment into it. Right now its scattered between my house garage, a shed, and this shop. My plan now that I have proper heat is to knock most of this stuff out this winter. And do a lot of cosmetic and preventative TLC to my 94 RD triaxle. The 94 is bunked inside with the 1960 B81. In the lean-to are my 1967 R model and my 1974 White Road Boss. My plan to finish all the odds and ends on the B81 in the next year or two drive it around for a summer and then sell it. I don't have a lot of interest in it and I don't want to keep it around given the limited space I'm working with. That way I can keep the two remaining antiques in the lean-to and have a much larger space in the shop for working on things and keeping shop tools along the walls etc. In the future I would like to get a nice sand blasting cabinet and press and maybe a larger toolbox. That is the plan I have at the moment, which is written in sand and subject to change lol. My wife and I would like to move to a place that is more secluded with some more property but the last 2 years have kind of put a damper on that idea. We will be fine here until hopefully a little normalcy returns to the real estate market. Plus the thought of moving all this stuff and "starting over" is somewhat dreadful lol. 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx610 Posted December 16, 2022 Author Share Posted December 16, 2022 Damn this is awesome, good for you! Yea I’m with you on the wanting to move with more land and privacy. I’ll wait it out for a while no rush. However land/privacy is becoming a lot more scarce out here in Chester county. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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