Morning coffee

[Ford Blue blood]

Cool here, furnace runs more, coffee is hot.  Need new tires for the truck, kool 900.....have 56K on the stock OEM, not quite worn out.  If I were not driving to WI in a couple of weeks I would run these a little longer, but......

[RICH MUISE]

Sure can't complain about 56K + mileage..that's great. 900 for new ones not so great. Sounds like your going to the kid's for Christmas. Here..no snow, no ice, and should be up in the 40's and 50's by tommorrow.

[RICH MUISE]

Forgot to post this yesterday. Right now on EBAY is the very first NOS 1957 Ford driver's side door latch I've ever seen. Actually a pair..right and left, for 2 door models. only 549.00. He's calling them door locks, so if you do a search for latches they won't come up. I'm sure glad I'm still not looking (found mine a few years ago...adapted a nos '57 Mercury latch), I'd not be happy about that price.

[hiball3985]

That guy has a ton of NOS Ford stuff from what I've seen, a real gold mine if he can ever sell it at the prices he wants. A $500 clock, $1400 mirror etc.  But I guess there is a sucker born every day.

[Zapato]

There are a couple of perfectly good ''bear claw'' style latches on the Ford Explorer I'm using for parts. Way superior to the stock 57 stuff and power operated. Unless one is a RESTORER no use getting gouged by buying NOS when there are lots of alternatives available.

Zap-

Dusting of snow on the ground, just enough to make everything look nice and clean, supposed to be in the 30s tomorrow.

[gasman826]

Washington FED offices close due to snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zapato]

Always good when that happens, if they're not at work they can't be raising our taxes or coming up with another idiotic law.

Zap-

[hiball3985]

Good point, I wish they would take a few years off. I wonder if we will ever reach a point of saying enough is enough or are we just going to end up a society of people who can't take a crap without some government agency telling them where, when and how..

[RICH MUISE]

Got some parts in today. My Vintage Air chrome dryer/trinary switch, and the condenser finally came in from Summit...9 days....urgh! I also got in some oxegen sensors I ordered from RockAuto this Monday. Love that shiney stuff.
Gonna be in the 40's and 50's for next week or so. yeah!

[RICH MUISE]

My memory is the pits...a few days ago I brought up "tools', and I forgot to add some things. I'm kinda a small tool junkie as much as I can afford. Good thing I don't have lots of space, I'd be an equiptment junkie (I want a Bridgeport so bad). Anyways, a few things I picked up on the cheap I've been real happy with:
When I was attaching my brakelines to the front a few months ago, I picked up a Harbor Freight set of combination drill, tap, and countersinks. Man that made the job easy. Yeah, it's HF, but for 10-15 bucks, they don't need to last forever. Anyway, one quick operation into the frame, and it's ready for a machine screw.
At Office Depot, I picked up a 1 foot plastic flexible desk type ruler for a buck on the sale table. Being flexible makes it handy as heck for measuring stuff around bends, etc. You could even wrap it around a pipe to check circumference..Yeah I know Pi is 3.1412, but I'm lazy, but if your doing stuff like replacing sheetmetal around bends, you more than likely don't have a book of sheetmetal setback values. For a buck..I should have bought what they had and given them to friends.
I'll have more to add
added...I forgot why the flexible ruler was so handy..it's not the measuring, it's the marking and scribing on curved surfaces.

[RICH MUISE]

Broncos/Chargers tonight...yeah...and this week I'm not even worried about Manning and the cold after last week.
Another tool thing: I'm kicking myself for not spending the bucks for these years ago. I bought a 1/2 solid carbide bullet nose burr with a 1/4" shank for my die grinder. Can't tell you how many hss bits I went thru over the years. This thing goes thru metal and weld so fast you really need to watch the razor sharp chips it's throwing all over..it's like a little milling machine. A little pricey at 28 bucks, but it works so well, the next time I was at the welding supply place, I bought a 1/4 version of the same. That's what I used to chew a hole thru my tranny tunnel reaching in thru the console.

[gasman826]

Bought our 'down sizing' house couple of months ago.  It was 'ready to move in condition'.  Been redecorating ever since.  Went clear to the studs in half the house.  New bedroom nest (two bedrooms joined together), new master bath, redo guest bath, redo guest bedroom, some wiring, some plumbing, cable wiring, new windows, big screen...

Weather watch:
....you'd think it was snowing or something!!!!!!!!!!

[electricalan]

Sounds like fun,I cant wait to do that.We need to do the same soon,but I have been in the same house for 25 years,and I have kinda built myself in.

[RICH MUISE]

I use to enjoy all that stuff when I was younger. Gary...Are you getting all this stuff done before you move in, or are you trying to live there at the same time? pitb tying to get that kind of stuff done while you're living in it.

[Ford Blue blood]

Did that when I was younger too.  Wife and two kids, kitchen completely torn out, electric range standing in the middle of the floor with it's power cable dangling from a gaping hole in the ceiling from tearing a wall down....the wife had a sense of humor back then, not so much now.  She left the house when the old three layers of shingles were torn off and a new roof put on...