Another hot but very nice day here today

[Clipper]

A beautiful day for more "busy projects." I took the kitchen door of the hinges and took to my shop. It needed painting because the pain on the outside was all crackled looking. I sanded it first with the belt sander and 80 grit paper, and then with a palm sander to get into the corners of the panels. Finally sanded the entire door with 120 grit, blew it off with air hose, wiped it down with a tack cloth and painted it. I hadn't painted that door in many years and I imagine that it had lead paint on it from way back when so I wore a respirator with a filter.

Taking a break and then measuring the bathroom floor for tile. It is covered with a vinyl linoleum that I laid down when Kathy and I turned the backroom that was a mud room into a full bath with 3 storage closets. the closets all have cheap louvred bi-fold doors from Lowes. They were purchased in early 2003 so they are showing the wear. We are sick of looking at them so this winter when the weather gets so I can't work out doors I am going to manufacture new bi-folds with pine frames covered with luan plywood and trimmed out by framing the face of the panels with decorative trim that I will make on my router table. When I go to buy the tile for the bathroom I will pick up some clear and knot free 1x4 lumber and will route a top edge on it for new mop boards to install after Kathy's nephew lays the tile. When we built the bathroom I didn't have a good power miter saw to miter the corners so we put that cheap roll vinyl stick-on base board in there.

I hope everyone is enjoying your nice warm CNY day in the 70's.

[BHU]

Looks like you have a good winter project. I'm trying to talk the wife into doing tile in the kitchen. We have hardwoods but they're too dark & they make the kitchen look too dark. I don't want to refinish them for a lighter color, been there done that.

I had a small project today. My leaf blower wouldn't stay running so I ordered a new carb from Amazon for the princely sum of $18.00 with free shipping. The kit contained 3 new primer bulbs, filter, fuel lines, & new gaskets. I changed it out today with fresh fuel & it runs like new. No adjustments needed. Weather today was perfect, with just a little rain a couple hours ago. The A.C. gets a break.

[Clipper]

For $18 it is well worth it to order a new carb. Those little carbs can be rebuilt, but why fool with it if you can get a "plug and play" new carb that cheap. Good deal.

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Was not very hot today. I had to leave early and needed to wear long pants which I did not like at all. I was not a happy camper. Takes awhile to get used to them. Oh well shorts tomorrow.....

[Clipper]

I misread your post. I thought you ordered an entire new carb. How long did it take you to rebuild it? It is cool that you were able to cure the problems with a filter, new lines, and primer bulb. What do you think the problem was? The fuel filter? Probably saved a lot of frustration by not having to readjust the mixture screws.

I took a small engine course at BOCES in Verona back in the early 80's in order to maintain the small engine equipment in the base fire department before I transferred to the 485th Engineering Group. Most of the maintenance was simple oil changes, fitler changes, carb adjustments, etc. on a 2 cycle rescue saw, the 4 cycle hydraulic pump for the Jaws of Life, 5 or 6 gasoline powered ventilation fans with small 2 cycles on them and an Onan generator. It was 2 nights a week for 6 weeks and got me out of the firehouse on those evenings for a while. We learned to completely tear down and overhaul both Briggs and Stratton and Tecumseh, grind and reseat valves, hone cylinders, and replace pistons, rings, bearings and crank shafts. Now if any one of my small engine machines so much as farts I put it in the truck and take it to my "go to" guy John. My patience has grown shorter for that kind of work and the arthritis in my hands makes life difficult at times. I drop it off and tell him call me when it is done. Works for me, haha. Being older and retired, I pick and choose what I want to do for myself and what I want to pay someone else to do.