I like the old Sawzall hack. Take a long blade and tape the spray bomb to it and let the saw do the shaking.

that's a slick idea...thanks. I may get an old long blade and rivet or tack a hose clamp to it.

 

I like the old Sawzall hack. Take a long blade and tape the spray bomb to it and let the saw do the shaking. I've revitalized many old cans doing this. Seems to bust up the blobs from paint separation in the can.

 

I never have problems with the tips plugging. Plus I save the tips when I throw away cans, so always have spares.

It's chunks in the paint that come loose when I shake the can that is the problem. Sometimes holding the can almost horizontal while spraying will keep the chunks away from the end of the pickup tube.

 

Storing them upside down seems to prevent the dip tube from gumming up as well. I've got cans a few years old that still spray.

 

Wipe the excess paint off the spray tip, then turn the can upside down and spray till paint doesn't come out. Works as long as it's not one of those fancy "any angle" spray cans.

 

I pull the tips off and leave them all soaking in solvent.

 

Pull the tips off and spray brake clean or carb clean through with the red straw before you store. Seem to help.

 

I don't stock up on cans of spray paint anymore. I only buy when I have something that is ready to paint.
Seems like 2 or more decades ago you could spray a little touch up and put the can back on the shelf and it would still be usable many years later.
Now it seems like you need to use it up once you start spraying, else it will get chunky and keep clogging up.
I did learn the trick of taking the nozzle off and using air compressor blow gun to inject air in and clear the pickup tube, but usually only get a few seconds of spraying before having to repeat the process.

 

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I'll have to grab a few cans next week before whtbaron cleans them out

 

I got the Cole's Notes...

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I got the Cole's Notes...

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Can't be but so good. They spelled "catalog" wrong.

 

So, you're back to skipping the hydrogen and using the electricity to power the wheels...

 

Yup...

 

Maybe, but I'm pretty sure you need to get it out of the water first...

 

Yeah, that do make a diff'rinse. I've always (since I was maybe 8y/o) been interested in making a small engine run off of an electrolysis. I guess at it's core, something like this (link) hooked up to a single cylinder lawn mower engine. Scaled up, I'd use a more efficient electrolysis unit, whatever the fancy term for that is. Off the top of my head, maybe sintered metal electrodes and a pressurized flow of filtered water.

Thing is, everything has losses, and you'd be losing efficiency going from water to gas to mechanical energy to electric energy back to mechanical energy driving the wheels, with pretty significant efficiency losses in the drivetrain... And since you'd be using electricity to convert the liquid to gas, you have to add that (loss) step into the equation.

I dunno... I still like the idea of an ICE that's main exhaust gas component is water.

 

I was working on making a Briggs motor run on the hydrogen in water when I was 10 yrs old. I can't say my experiments were ever successful...

 

This comment is post-beers, so I'm a little wobbly on the details, but I'm pretty sure you can just modify a propane carburetor to run hydrogen. I don't recall the stoichiometry off hand. Can't be but so far off.

 

I was reading today about a guy that was increasing the range of his Tesla by installing a small diesel engine and generator in it. Now if we could get a small nuclear power plant in that back pack...
The mushroom shaped fireworks and the glow in the dark option would be really cool too...

 

LOL Yeah. He has a YouTube channel. I saw videos of both versions he's done so far. Wanted to shout at the TV both times. Smart dude, but there a few things I would've done very differently.

Actually, seems like he has a part 3. https://www.youtube.com/@WarpedPerception

Edit: I still think a hydrogen engine would be the way to go.

 

Be much handier with the battery op hand-held...

 

I still think this is funny - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lorch+backpack+welder&iax=images&ia=images

For a lot of my repair welds, I think I could get by with it. Not gonna reskin a dozer blade with it, but it'd be really handy for around the house sorta stuff.

 

According to Google,Victoria's last remaining strip club closed in 2019.

 

They all went broke after you quit going.... see the repercussions to your actions?

 

One of my friends didn't get married until he was in his 50's. We had his stag at Teaser's so I'm thinking that might be 16 to 18 yrs ago...

 

With traffic on the Trans Canada a normal drive to PA is 40 minutes one way

Mine is the same but with no traffic, I'll drive in usually just for the he77 of it and end up buying something (1) I don't need, (2) probably never use or (3) forget I have LOL.

 

I'll drive in usually just for the he77 of it and end up buying something (1) I don't need, (2) probably never use or (3) forget I have LOL.

Used to be I’d buy extra of everything as you know you will eventually need it but those days are over and I try to purchase shop supplies more judiciously now.

Keep an eye out for my obituary. Probably be some good deals…..:laugh:

 

With traffic on the Trans Canada a normal drive to PA is 40 minutes one way.

Sunday evening I made the round trip (including browsing) in 45 minutes.

*take that, whtbaron. :cool2:

 

You win... I don't think I've ever got in and out of a PA store in 45 minutes. My commute is almost 2 hrs one way so I make it a worthwhile trip.

 

I was just thinking the other day when I was wandering around PA what I used to do before PA came here. Granted a lot of their stuff is crap but it would still get you out of a bind if you're in a pinch.
When I built my trailer years ago, axles, tires/wheels, lights, latches etc. I got at PA as well as some stuff that fell off the truck at work .
You can buy the stuff at different specialty suppliers such as truck shops, in my area Parts for Trucks, Provincial Equipment to name a couple, but they price it accordingly.
Just last week my daughter needed a bird waterer, $70 at the local Co-op, exact same one at PA $50.

 

In my early teens dad ordered an ammo box full of used fasteners from all those war vehicles they dismantled

I was like a a kid at Christmas. Everything was in good usable shape but all oddball stuff.

 

Still remember the old army surplus stuff they used to sell like Jeep transmissions and refurbished 6-71's. Got a slightly damaged portable tool box when I was 13 for 75 cents.

 

Bought this today while picking up supplies….

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I’m only an hour into reading this but it’s quite the story and really well written.

 

I have friends with a scrap yard that swear by these plasma cutters



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They DO NOT purchase them with a credit card with their business name and are able to replace under warranty apparently.

 

The trailer I borrowed from my brother to pick up the pick-up has a bumper hitch, but we had to go an extra 100 miles to find it and return it because some low life had borrowed it before I did. I'm thinking 5th wheel just so it will be more likely to be here when I need it. I really don't want to upgrade my license so I'm not sure if they make them at 9,990 lbs...