A day in the life...

i ended up finding a universal adapter that bolts to the flat plate the stock seat bolts to. then has a normal size seat post sticking up off the top. allows the use of a normal bike seat.
but it's $40... and im a cheap bastard so im thinking hey, iv got a seat seat mount thing and a seat post i can chop down. it shouldn't be hard to find a piece of steel plate. so now im thinking who do i know that has a welder i can go use for 5 minutes...
:lol:

so VW Trends Magazine is coming back  8-)

Super_Randy wrote:

so VW Trends Magazine is coming back  8-)

I always liked them better than Hot VWs (although I like all the European mags better than both) but will never forgive them for automatically signing me up for a watercooled VW mag. I don't even care that they took my sub money without telling anyone that they were just going to walk off with it. But a watercooled VW mag as a replacement?

Nein.

it has new ownership. listening to a podcast about it now.
https://letstalkdubs.libsyn.com/ep-115-vw-trends-is-back-dan-leadbetter

Progress continues at the house, I just keep forgetting to take any pictures :)

I needed to finish hiding the duct and wiring and without any rough sawn left to match what was up, I decided to build a tool wall.... for the wall I'm leaving.... I know, that's some weird ass shit to do but I figure if they really like it, I'll leave the tools for them. It's got all the bells and whistles, rounded edges, quick release, custom molded wood saddles, the works.

Well Sir, that tool wall turned out super nice!

While wondering why you never built one for yourself this quote/saying crossed my mind:

Ordnung braucht nur der Dumme, das Genie beherrscht das Chaos.

Everybody can handle order, but only a genius can master chaos. :D

I wouldn't say I'm mastering it, I seem to just be going along for the ride :)

The basement is ready for texturing of the ceiling. I've started working on the main basement stairwell now.

my brothers dog is F'ing weird. i just gave him dinner and put a bone right on top. he ate around the bone, ate every last piece of kibble in the bowl. LEFT THE BONE! :shock: :lol:

Our dog eats around any wet food he doesn't like. He can tear a bone up though :)

Sanding texture off of walls for fun and profit....

results in gypsum boogers:

Hell yeah, sanding gypsum!
Another great bonus are these bloodshot searing peepers...
Say hello to your ol' wheezing dusty neighborhood vampire. :twisted:

My current little project involved some sawing, milling, planing and sanding
but with much less dust formation.
However - I didn't wear a dust mask so sawdust boogers here! :lol:

Speaker cabinet redesign...

^ 8-)

The cabinet looks fantastic! Are you changing the internals up any to get a better/different sound? I know nothing about the crafting of speaker cabinets for a particular sound, as a kid, I just built the biggest box that would fit and hope for the best :)

schwim wrote:

Are you changing the internals up any to get a better/different sound?

These speakers were built in 1993 IIRC. Although they sounded not bad the 51/4'' bass driver never
worked exactly as intended. So I decided to remove it and redesign the system for use with a sub woofer.

Here's the only (blurry) pic of the original design...

In spring 2019 the transformation started...

And here we are after a two year hiatus due to the move to a new home:
shortened frames with new baffle & back boards, a newly calculated & tuned vented enclosure for
the bass-midrange driver and an accordingly revised crossover network...

^ 8-)

Chloe's car had clogged cats which caused blown gaskets, making it sound like a rolling fart. We're likely moving to a place with emissions testing so I knew I needed to get them swapped out. A shop quoted 2500$ to replace. I bought both the header/cat and second pipe/cat for less than 200$ on Amazon. Got it finished today, nice and quiet and no codes.

I couldn't transfer the heatshields of the second pipe over due to different shape so I wrapped the pipe in header wrap.

schwim wrote:

clogged cats

:lol:

:lol:

schwim wrote:

Chloe's car had clogged cats ... I couldn't transfer the heat shields of the second pipe over due to different shape so I wrapped the pipe in header wrap.

Looks great to me but German TÜV would hate you for this... And more probably than not they would chase you off the yard. :D

Finally done...

schwim wrote:

Looks great to me but German TÜV would hate you for this... And more probably than not they would chase you off the yard. :D

Is it because of the non-OEM replacements? To be honest, states like California would also not allow this as if it's not CARB approved or OEM replacement, it's not legal. In places where common sense prevails, if what you put on it works as well or better at clearing emissions as what came off of it, it's allowed.

Maddel wrote:

Finally done...

Wow, that looks great!

Over here the non-OEM parts are ok if the car meets the emission criteria and passes the emission test I think.
But the inspectors most probably wouldn't tolerate the missing heat shields.

Ah, interesting... Where are the heat shields? And what is this wrapping supposed to be?
Well Sir I tried to be creative...
I see... But this is TÜV you know not your adult evening art class!

Maddel wrote:

Over here the non-OEM parts are ok if the car meets the emission criteria and passes the emission test I think.
But the inspectors most probably wouldn't tolerate the missing heat shields.

Ahh, I see. To be honest, I worried about it causing an issue with heat in the floorboard but it's working at least as well as the shields. A mechanic on the Nissan forums that I spoke to said that most people don't bother even wrapping and that the pipe that far back doesn't heat up enough to cause floorpan issues.

Maddel wrote:

Ah, interesting... Where are the heat shields? And what is this wrapping supposed to be?
Well Sir I tried to be creative...
I see... But this is TÜV you know not your adult evening art class!

I think they would say something like that to everything I do :D

So, we had a 6 foot coaxial cable dangling from the top of the house after the roofers removed the satellite dish. It sat about 40 feet above the ground. I had an idea that I could use an old tree saw that had sat behind the house for years. I took off the saw part and intended to use the loppers part of the tool but even when I managed to reach the cable, I just couldn't get the coaxial cable to drop into the cutting portion of the tool.

Brainstorming resulted in this:

I may market the tool on a late night TV informercial. It works pretty great:

That was utterly awesome!!

Gyro Gearloose meets MacGyver meets Rex Kramer...

Holy crap that's SCHWIM!!!

seriously, what number beer did you have someone hold before coming up with and then attempting that? :lol: