What did you do in your garage today..?

mimico_polak said:
Merry Christmas gift to myself….should make tire swaps easier and faster. And the price….

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Nice score! Impacts will chip the coating off of lugs making them rust quickly (not enough to affect them, just ugly). Best to do initial loosen and final tighten by hand (ie. just use gun to zip them on and off without the ugga).
 
Mad Mike said:
Wow, that looks exactly the same as my retired 1988 Honda. Mine went 30+ years until the track drive became too sloppy.

Like most Hondas, it didn’t win any competitions but it showed up for work every day.
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I had a 30 year old Honda 8hp track drive snowblower that would absolutely bury my new 9 1/2hp Honda. My new one is still pretty good but not as good as the old one. Unfortunately it was completely rusted out. Now I power wash the new one at the end of the season and spray it down with a can of Rustcheck. It’s about 6 years old now and still looks like new.
 
mimico_polak said:
Merry Christmas gift to myself….should make tire swaps easier and faster. And the price….

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Don't forget to register it for the lifetime warranty within 90 days. I didn't know about this for my first sawzall but luckily I haven't had any problems but only use it once in a while. I love that Rigid backs their tools for life, but the requirement to register seems like a sleazy way out for customers who forget or don't realize. Original receipt should be good enough. BTW, if you ever get a replacement, you also need to register that within 90 days for continued coverage.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Nice score! Impacts will chip the coating off of lugs making them rust quickly (not enough to affect them, just ugly). Best to do initial loosen and final tighten by hand (ie. just use gun to zip them on and off without the ugga).
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Most of the lug nuts I work on aren't nice enough to worry about, but I took a risk on a set of sleeved sockets to at least protect the wheels. Regardless of brand, they all seem to all have mixed reviews of breaking, so just in case, I usually try to loosen by hand first (especially when I wasn't the one who tightened them). So far so good, even when I just zip them stright off, but I'm not doing it day in day out like a full-time mechanic might.
 
Relax said:
Don't forget to register it for the lifetime warranty within 90 days. I didn't know about this for my first sawzall but luckily I haven't had any problems but only use it once in a while. I love that Rigid backs their tools for life, but the requirement to register seems like a sleazy way out for customers who forget or don't realize. Original receipt should be good enough. BTW, if you ever get a replacement, you also need to register that within 90 days for continued coverage.
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Thanks will do! First I’ll test it on the car this week to make sure it does what I want it to do.

Then I’ll either keep or return.
 
Glenn/RZ500 said:
Since MotoGP is mostly the Ducati Cup...put the entire grid on 1000cc current tech two strokes sans all the available myriad of techno nannies. MM93 can highside himself into orbit. This season was rather boring. At least the bagger series is still a spectacle. :p
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I've been watching a lot of older races with the 500 twosmokers. Not only were they hairy to ride but the run off areas were also a whole different ballgame. Flying into a stack of stiff old tires is likely better than Armco but....
 
Relax said:
Most of the lug nuts I work on aren't nice enough to worry about, but I took a risk on a set of sleeved sockets to at least protect the wheels. Regardless of brand, they all seem to all have mixed reviews of breaking, so just in case, I usually try to loosen by hand first (especially when I wasn't the one who tightened them). So far so good, even when I just zip them stright off, but I'm not doing it day in day out like a full-time mechanic might.
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I was a bit miffed when the lugnuts on our Odyssey started rusting after the first Winter. Dealership nicely swapped in new ones when it went in for the first oil change. Googling was how I found out about them chipping. So far so good now however I did buy a second black set to use with my snow tires.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Nice score! Impacts will chip the coating off of lugs making them rust quickly (not enough to affect them, just ugly). Best to do initial loosen and final tighten by hand (ie. just use gun to zip them on and off without the ugga).
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After decades of doing that and everything in between I'm good with chipped coatings. That said I clear snow off the car with a plastic** snow shovel.

**years ago when keeping a bike on the road meant less cash for a family car I cycled us through a series of cheap yet perfectly adequate old Tempos and Topaz's which I didn't hesitate to clean off with an ALUMINUM shovel. Painted one with red Tremclad and a roller one summer. Looked awesome at 10 feet.......
 
timtune said:
After decades of doing that and everything in between I'm good with chipped coatings. That said I clear snow off the car with a plastic** snow shovel.

**years ago when keeping a bike on the road meant less cash for a family car I cycled us through a series of cheap yet perfectly adequate old Tempos and Topaz's which I didn't hesitate to clean off with an ALUMINUM shovel. Painted one with red Tremclad and a roller one summer. Looked awesome at 10 feet.......
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A friend drives beater cars, likes kayaking and doesn't want to waste money on a rack. He straps the whitewater kayaks to the roof. By the look of the roof, they have embedded rocks/grit. The roof rust has never been the terminal issue for his cars.
 
GreyGhost said:
A friend drives beater cars, likes kayaking and doesn't want to waste money on a rack. He straps the whitewater kayaks to the roof. By the look of the roof, they have embedded rocks/grit. The roof rust has never been the terminal issue for his cars.
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Exactly!
Strapped a coworkers canoe to the roof of one, literally, nothing between the gunwale and the paint. Off to Wingfield basin....
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