I want to start a new thread about nothing, and let it run...

[txc2936@yahoo.com]

Duck, how about a few pictures of your Man Cave. You tiled the floor too? i must say... you have 46 pages on this post bout nothin...I thnk they are going to close it, unless you take more pictures of your tools... and fast...

[ducksface]

The floor is amorpoxy pvc 18x18 interlocking tile.
I bought over runs and cliseout stock.
I wouldn't have done a checkerboard pattern but I took what I could get and made what I could from it.

They lock so tight they're waterproof to spills.
My floor was majorly cracked snd had height differences approaching half an inch.
This went right down with little trouble,
No prep, just a sweeping as I laid a tile.

It's very hard to mop clean due to the slate texture. Always a skim of super fine dirt.
I still have about 1,000 sq feet to put down. It's just a wisk broom and a rubber mallet to install. Highly tecommended this pvc floor stuff.

I belonged to a garage/tool only forum for many years and they didn't even know I had a garage.
I'm a bit self-unsure about the garage. I'll consider pictures but I've never posted any anywhere before. It's kinda like panty showing....
8 or 10 folks here have seen in person (some garage, some panties)and they've always been kind.

[ducksface]

Bubba keg hitch.
It's a receiver.
You use a length of hitch stock pinned to the truck and pinned to this receiver.
This way there is no bar sticking out the back of the bbq to bust a shin on.

It's just a length of receiver stock framed and welded. You'll need a correct length of hitch stock drilled for hitch pins on both ends.

The pointy thing in it is just a plastic receiver plug to keep wasps out of it.

[ducksface]

Anonymous neighbor love.
I found it in my ups/fedex/gate box.

Maybe a re-gift but they got the jw correct and I guess they've seen the bar.

The annual
'I went to ducks place on my dead dad's birthday because no one else want s to hear thr stories'
Season is coming around.
(I don't drink much and my dad is alive but what the hell, I'll listen)
I'm trying to get it to be a group grope this year. Maybe quarter anti poker,
Maybe it's a preemptive stocking of vitals for the dead dad season.

Whatever the reason, I am Very very grateful for the acknowledgement.


JW changed the gold from the best there was to a formula for hip-hop folk to buy poolside in vegas(I think they even said exactly that in a press release) Unless they changed it back...it is now swill.
And their platinum? It makes red taste like heaven comparatively.
(I say best because blue is not a favorite. It seems a bit watered down and the high end/priced limiteds are kinda fruitcakey/'well, scotch isnt as nasty as they say' in their mildness)

The other pic is
Old jw gold 18year minimum.
Vs
New gold cretinous dregs in a bigger 'hey look at me!' bottle.

[ducksface]

https://armorpoxy.com/products/5-5-m...ern-4-29sq-ft/
This is the tile.

[ducksface]

Spousal unit said to quit being such a whiner about showing the garage.
It's a work in progress.

Pre pvc tile
Downstairs
Upstairs
Stairwell(24steps, no landing. bring a lunch)
Workshop section(with tractor supply 3/4" rubber mat flooring)
Front(three doors)
Back(patio walls are really the inside wall of a big French drain I had to add because they built it in a hole to get past the height maximums.)
The drive way to it. It's 100yards from the house.
46x80footprint 36 feet high. 5,000sqft total.

Outbuildings have no/minimum added value on an appraisal.
Finished on the outside fully permitted and ready for permanent wiring and drywall, it was just studs on the inside when I got it...for free.
It was on the market for over a year, but listed as 'not for Sale'(id never seen a listing like that before. Court ordered sale, pissy seller) The behemoth scared away sane folk....

The Behemoth was built as a drive through for a Newell and matching trailer.
Dumbass lost the house to foreclosure before he could finish the garage and never really lived in the house. His Bank took a 35% bath. Then the dumbass who bought it out of foreclosure lost it in a divorce a year later at ANOTHER 40% loss.
Yoink, I grabbed it due to some rumor/inside information offered to me.(juuusssst as I gave up on the hobbies I'd have used it for).

The Behemoth(as aptly named by the spousal unit)is the hobby now.
The cars are floor art.

[ducksface]

Credit where credit is due:
Someone posted a picture of their cozy/homey/inviting rv garage.
It inspired me to be less formal with mine and to try to make it Comfortable.

So far so good. I had it all, it was just scattered all over the garage.

Thanks.
I think I love it.

(The reflection on the side of the 24.1 makes it look like the rv is transparent)

[lwmcguir]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Spousal unit said to quit being such a whiner about showing the garage.
It's a work in progress.

Pre pvc tile
Downstairs
Upstairs
Stairwell(24steps, no landing. bring a lunch)
Workshop section(with tractor supply 3/4" rubber mat flooring)
Front(three doors)
Back(patio walls are really the inside wall of a big French drain I had to add because they built it in a hole to get past the height maximums.)
The drive way to it. It's 100yards from the house.
46x80footprint 36 feet high. 5,000sqft total.

Outbuildings have no/minimum added value on an appraisal.
Finished on the outside fully permitted and ready for permanent wiring and drywall, it was just studs on the inside when I got it...for free.
It was on the market for over a year, but listed as 'not for Sale'(id never seen a listing like that before. Court ordered sale, pissy seller) The behemoth scared away sane folk....

The Behemoth was built as a drive through for a Newell and matching trailer.
Dumbass lost the house to foreclosure before he could finish the garage and never really lived in the house. His Bank took a 35% bath. Then the dumbass who bought it out of foreclosure lost it in a divorce a year later at ANOTHER 40% loss.
Yoink, I grabbed it due to some rumor/inside information offered to me.(juuusssst as I gave up on the hobbies I'd have used it for).

The Behemoth(as aptly named by the spousal unit)is the hobby now.
The cars are floor art.

Fantastic, love it, thanks for sharing!

[JeffThor325]

Okay Duck, ya got me curious about these tiles now. I went and looked them up. Got a question but the question requires a little back story. (Okay, maybe not "requires" but I'm a storyteller.)

I ripped the gouge-my-own-eyes-out-with-a-soup-spoon ugly cornflower blue carpet that was factory original to my rig. Installed heated floors. Laid in a new subfloor with vinyl flooring over it.

Originally liked it but the vinyl flooring I got has not stood up well to the flexing and jostling of driving down the road. So now it's got to go. Since I'm kind of redoing the whole interior with a sort of 1950s vibe, I was thinking black-and-white checkerboard.

Was going to get a continuous sheet of vinyl but that will be a royal pain in the keister to install around all the preexisting fixtures and curves. Those tiles look like they might be a good alternative but how do you think they'd stand up to the rigors of life on the road? (I ask only because you say you have hands-on experience with them, even if only in your stationary garage.)

[ducksface]

You'll need to leave an expansion gap around the edges.
I get about 2 inches of swelling over 45feet if the sun is directly on it causing 60 or so degrees of differential.

The color is all the way through, no laminate.
It's hard to scuff and then it doesn't show at all.
Don't get the diamond plate or button. Its wonky to walk on and it cstches dirt on the upraised ridges.

If I still had my toy hauler this would be the only flooring I would buy.
It's pure flexible pvc.
I left a black tile out on a picnic table since new.
-20°f to maybe 160° in the sun for more than a year.

No damage or recognizable fade.

Mine is floating. The vehicles don't move it. Any single tile comes right out and goes right in.

I have about 300sqft extra. I'm kinda trying to get any laid tile to fail because I have replacements. I can't can't make one fail.

I have a helper today and we're doing the cut tiles for along the edge of the garage.
We're using a cheap bandsaw. Cuts like a dream, files nicely and a flame will add a factory edge.
Those light colored tile make defining strips down the three bays. It wasn't the plan but it was what I had to do to get enough tile from their over runs.

[ducksface]

Sometimes the wrong tool for the job is exactly the right tool for the job.

I could have set up the bead breaker and been the only guest at its guarranteed
Whoop duck's ass party.
But
Tractor fork and done in a literal second.
Then the tractor took the tire to the compressor, the tire against all odds ever given me seated itself without so much as a hammer blow, the tractor brought the tire back to the trailer and the lugs did not cross-thread.
Too easy. I'll probably break a bone today to even it all out.

Another rotted out valve stem.

[lwmcguir]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Sometimes the wrong tool for the job is exactly the right tool for the job.

I could have set up the bead breaker and been the only guest at its guarranteed
Whoop duck's ass party.
But
Tractor fork and done in a literal second.
Then the tractor took the tire to the compressor, the tire against all odds ever given me seated itself without so much as a hammer blow, the tractor brought the tire back to the trailer and the lugs did not cross-thread.
Too easy. I'll probably break a bone today to even it all out.

Another rotted out valve stem.

In have two bead breakers since I don't have Ducks good luck

[ducksface]

Good luck cancelled and snafu.
My good help today and I were going to go into town for lunch.
Tbird wont go into reverse. No noise, no bind.
Probably/hopefully its low on trans fluid.
If it's something bad it's $6k and 6 months.

It's car show weekend so the trailered skylarks with the odd tone of wrong orange followed by the 64 nova that looks like they had a pepboys gift certifjcate about to expire...abound.

We took the zr2 blazer. I had forgotten about the show or I wouldn't have considered taking the tbird at all.
The blazer always draws a few REAL car guys because there just aren't many $800 s10's with $7,000 lifts.(this is a bit unfair. It's super clean and has just turned 100,000...but it is indeed a 21 year old s10 trailer park classic due to s10 family ties. Mine is the good sister that only stays an hour at the trailer park on thanksgiving. Same family, same chances, different path...but that family last name can't be outran....)
A long wait at the only food truck and I got to talk cars for the first time in years.
And, of course,
The newly charged ac isn't cooling in the blazer.

Zr2 is 3" wider than a regular s10's track, and came with different front suspension, a full size truck rear end, factory boxed frame, and corvette stuff in the trans. The entire frame is different. Stupidly expensive as new.

[macdaddy1111]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Credit where credit is due:
Someone posted a picture of their cozy/homey/inviting rv garage.
It inspired me to be less formal with mine and to try to make it Comfortable.

So far so good. I had it all, it was just scattered all over the garage.

Thanks.
I think I love it.

(The reflection on the side of the 24.1 makes it look like the rv is transparent)

Man Cave heaven!!!

Nice selection in the liquor cabinet!

[txc2936@yahoo.com]

Thank you Spousal unit. He sure has some nice digs....!Also, make him get rid of those shoes and buy some Sperry Top Siders.

[ducksface]

You've opened up a suppressed stigma. It took me a long time to accept those shoes.
Now I have PTSD (put the shoes down) and I might even be shoe-i-cidal.

Shoes are part of a fashionable, dress to antagonize, past life.
Some guys bought expensive watches. I never did. Mine were longines mystery watches, rex king sterling, a ww1 wristwatch with the shrapnel guard... never a rolex or higher.
But
My scarf it was apricot....

The shoes I have in the shop picture are 20 bucks at big five and slip off and on without any trouble. They're only for around the yard and I buy black and brown six pair at a time.
I go through about 4 pair a year. Work boots never worked for me. I'll post pictures of my Batman shoes tomorrow. They're shop slippers for when it snows and I don't want to track it in the shop.

I have a pair of polished slip-on santoni's that go to town with me and are always at The back door. I travel in weejun driving shoes I bought a dozen pairs of, years ago.

The closet my shoes are in is seldom visited. The shoes are mostly santoni's that feel like old friends even when they're brand new, some Edward Green and some delightfully pretty Mezlan. Mezlan are the prettiest shoes and cheap but hurt my feet like allen edmonds do.
I loved that guy who wore those shoes and he rears up every once in a while, always leaving the neighbors a bit tongue tied, but he's just not me anymore.
Long ago and oh so far away.
One tux that no longer fits well, two suits I'll never wear, not a long tie to my name.
Jay Leno and I had a lot in common fashion wise back then. Now we're both in denim shirts and Levi's.

My awful awful sister who I hadn't seen in 40 years first comment upon seeing me was:
Why in the hell are you wearing levis?
To which my dad replied
You're not going to believe this but I saw him in a short sleeve shirt once.

Then she stole his car and wallet and left.

I haz shoe sadz now.
I suggest you partake in an adult beverage as penance.

[txc2936@yahoo.com]

I figured you had a shoe closet. U are da MAN!

[ducksface]

Someone in another thread said he was a wildman.
I'll show you wildman:

These are the water bottles I use for walks and theater and such.

[Chateau_Nomad]

Hey Duck... Ken Block won the Southern Ohio Forest pro rally. Daughter Leah placed a very respectable 9th. Video posted to YouTube already. Waiting on DirtFish to post drone footage... theirs is top notch. Great weekend of rally racing in the dense woods of Ohio!!

[ducksface]

The surprise is when he doesn't win.
So smooth.
I'm not sure he's an all around phenomenal driver ad much as he's a phenomenally calm and calculated driver.

My take is:
He should be very bored with it all now. I bet it feels like a cog job.