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[Lifelong Jeeper]

Wow. That's a lot of work to get done in weeks time.

 

[Lifelong Jeeper]

Ha. We can't win them all. Right?!

 

[nnnnnate]

I have this blessing/curse that makes me hyper-focus on completing something I set my mind to.

This has been me as well. In the past I work hard but after getting tired I say F it and just crank it out cutting corners to get the job done. Then I get mad because the job looks so poor. Luckily this last go around on house mods though I managed to extend a lot of work (for me) over a couple months which helped with doing a clean job.

Bathroom looks great by the way. I'd love to see the finished tile.

 

[Jesser04]

Whatever happen to the pumkin?

 

[MikeGyver]

Whatever happen to the pumkin?

It like stopped growing around 120pounds for some reason. I think it was because the stem like blew up and turned into a sphere, maybe I over fertilized it or something. The main vine continued to get massive for how small the pumpkin was. I think it's measuring to around 140pounds now, I'll actually weigh it once I cut it loose. It's still a really good looking, good sized pumpkin and it was a lot of fun to grow and learn about how to grow. We'll have to get some RME'ers to try next year.

Once I realized this wasn't going to get any bigger I let the plant grow however it wanted without plucking off any new growth. There's little pumpkins sprouting up all over. One's probably 30 pounds already.

I went to the Harvest Festival at Thanksgiving Point on Saturday to see the state record weigh in; it was ridiculous. A guy from Ogden beat his 3 year old record of 1600lbs with one that was 1731, and he still has one growing that's around 1900 that hes taking to California for the world record weigh in in a couple weeks lol.

That's 2" wide blue painters tape, and it's sitting on a standard 4 foot pallet.

lol


More info at http://www.utahpumpkingrowers.com/

 

[XJEEPER]

A fun little project I did last year for the NAXJA 30th Anniversary of the Jeep Cherokee event in Moab. This was the "Bonehead Award", presented to the individual who did the most bonehead thing during the week-long event.

The spider is made from roller bearings and a u-joint cap. Carl burned the skull for me on his plasma table and I blued the wrench ends with a torch. I made the spider web in the center to hold the spider's prey, a shattered u-joint cap, a bent up u-joint strap and a tweaked shock barpin. The base is a thrashed D30 R&P gear set that I painted black and then wiped the tops of the ring gear teeth clean so for an accent, then clear coated everything so the raw steel bits wouldn't rust. I can't locate the good pics, so camera phone pics are all I have.

 

[RogueJeepr]

Ive actually been saving up busted pieces of gears and other metal things to make some sort of statue. Cool spider . Set that on someones bed for giggles .

 

[XJEEPER]

Im going to make another one, drill some holes in the body for eyes and rig up a red LED inside, powered by a couple of watch batteries. Great for Halloween.

 

[Coco]

great idea on the trophy... Now I want one or want to build similar!

 

[XJEEPER]

Do something really boneheaded and you might earn one......... :>)

 

[frieed]

I'll play..

I built a cargo platform for the back of my travel trailer. Stout enough to hold my generator.
Fortunately, Jayco was nice enough to provide attachment point welded to the I-beam frame.
Most likely they would prefer I buy their platform, but at $774 plus tax plus shipping from Indiana, that was a large "NOPE"

This one cost about $200 in materials

 

[moab_cj5]

Very cool!

 

[Pike2350]

I haven't replied to this thread in awhile.....but I'm still working on my duplex in Sugarhouse...I've moved onto the upstairs bathroom, it is small, and just too cramped. Even though this is a rental, I take a lot of pride in being a nicer rental.

The bathroom is only about ~ 6'x6', and I plan on pushing that a little bigger by taking part of a stupid closet. (someone combined 2 closets, but instead of making it wide, they made it deep....3x6. The bathroom had a small, weird shower. There was a 18" stepover and a tub faucet in it. There was also an overhead storage area, which meant that the shower was a cave....add to the fact that the only ventilation in the whole bathroom was a small glass block tile that was actually a louvers. (you can see it in the center of the window). It's also tiled A LOT. Not sure what it is, but the way they did it back in the day, with an 1" or so of concrete to set the tiles...it made for shitty work getting it all out.

here's the bathroom when I started.

the cave....there was also no light in the shower...so it was dark.

the window and a bank of drawers

here you can see the window from the stairwell. I don't get what people thought back in the day....they actually retrofitted an existing window with the glass block..but the weird part to me at least, was that the old window would've opened since you can see the weights on the sides. That means you could be taking a shit and open the window...except it just aired out into the stairs This stairwell isn't a closed in after thought either...the building is completely brick and it's all part of the original building...so I don't get it.

 

[Pike2350]

It's a good thing I got rid of the shower...there was mold growing on the back wall...and the studs were rotting out. This shower hasn't been used for the past 4-5 years (since the downstairs was finished) so I can only imagine how bad the mold would be if it was used daily.

In this pic you can see the overhead storage still attached to the ceiling. They also left a few tin tiles when they built the storage drawers

not sure what the shower pan was...it was like some sort of plyable metal....it could easily be bent..but wen scuffed it looked shiny like metal....yet it wasn't super heavy.

I ran into a problem getting the tile off around the faucet...turns out the pipes were corroded pretty bad and it actually broke at 1 of the joints...causing water damage to the downstairs bath (the downstairs is all plumbed with pex...and they just connected to the old pipes for the upstairs when they did it.)

 

[Pike2350]

I got the wall cut out between the bathroom and the closet, as well as the glass block window out. I will put a fixed small horizintal window in to allow for some natural light..but it will only be about 2'x1' or something like that....and a tub/shower combo is going in where the shower and drawers were. The toilet is going to get moved to where the closet was and the vanity will go along the wall in front of you as you walk in the door.

Here is the old layout.

the new planned layout

 

[Pike2350]

Moved the plumbing....this is the existing.....moved the toilet, moved the vent from the wall to the floor, etc.

Here is the new, framed in toilet area....you can see the new vanity plumbing on the left

tub in place.

here rough angle in the above post with the tub, and first sheet of concrete board in place.

 

[Pike2350]

Here are some pics of where it's at now.

I know the window isn't centered in the tub...and that's because it's centered here.

For now I've just drywalled in the space between the wet wall of the shower and the hallway....it's a vacant space that's 32" wide, but only about 10 " deep. Part of me wishes I would've made a thicker wall on the the niche' wall to center the tub under the window...but I guess once a shower curtain is up, it won't be as noticeable, plus I am still considering eventually turning it into something down the line...either deep shelves from the bathroom side or a shallow closet/pantry on the hall side.

 

[nnnnnate]

How difficult is it to replace a tub? I've got a fiberglass insert in the bathroom I use that I hate. I want to put in a porcelain one and tile the surround. Something a DIY-er could do after watching some youtube videos or should it be done by a pro?

 

[Pike2350]

How difficult is it to replace a tub? I've got a fiberglass insert in the bathroom I use that I hate. I want to put in a porcelain one and tile the surround. Something a DIY-er could do after watching some youtube videos or should it be done by a pro?

It's really not that difficult. After you rip out the tub, you place the new one....which will have instructions. The one I put in didn't require a mortar bed....it had styrofoam glued to the bottom to level it out, and you secured a cleat to the walls for the lip to sit on....after that it's just put concrete board on the walls (I shimmed mine with sheetrock shims to go over the lip...but you can but it against the lip.....don't have it go over the lip without some sort of shim....I did on the basement (first tub) because it creates a bow in the concrete board and looks a little goofy) After that, just tile. I added a roll on membrane to help with extra waterproofing.

Not sure how DIY skilled you are..but it's not really that bad. Leveling the tub is probably the worst part depending on how bad the floor is....mine as an 1" from left to right.

 

[nnnnnate]

Thanks for the info guys. This project is down the road a ways but seeing the pics here got me curious. I just didn't know how hard it was to get the drains and whatnot connected right.

I don't have a ton of in the house skill but I'm getting better. With time I've learned to not move on with a project until I'm happy with the results, even if it means doing that part over.