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What's on your Work Bench?

Started to install the door upholstery. Got an order for a Sand color Sport steering wheel that I spent the biggest part of the day on. Too big of a hurry to get it to the PO before they close to think about taking a picture of it. Glad many of you guys are out enjoying your Scramblers.
 

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A few years back my F-I-L died and my B-I-L and I went through his storage room in the back of the house. He was a mechanic, A/P in the beginning in the Air Force in the Pacific near the end of WW2, then 27 years in the Louisiana ANG. To say the least he was like my father, from the depression era and saved and collected lots of stuff over the years. 1 of the unique things I have come across lately is I knew I had found a small Snap-On ratchet in his things. A few days ago I went to use it. I was thinking all along it was 1/4 inch drive. Went to put a socket on and no go. Tried another just for the heck of it. Nope. After googling it and putting the model number what I found was it’s from somewhere probably in the 1930s and military and 9/32nds drive. Looks like they went 1/4 inch drive around 1945. Thought that was pretty interesting. Of course no sockets unless the B-I-L has them. 81C232DA-7630-405D-97B8-CC0EB03E9B81.jpegE62305EF-9790-415C-998A-B9D3F1FF2074.jpegD8C84071-A57C-4BC4-88FF-4FB0FDCE301E.jpegD5D257F2-006E-44CA-8BA3-2CE61CCB40BE.jpegD9825C77-6586-4B1F-8427-BC1C5D6E287C.jpeg
 
Belizeit said:
A few years back my F-I-L died and my B-I-L and I went through his storage room in the back of the house. He was a mechanic, A/P in the beginning in the Air Force in the Pacific near the end of WW2, then 27 years in the Louisiana ANG. To say the least he was like my father, from the depression era and saved and collected lots of stuff over the years. 1 of the unique things I have come across lately is I knew I had found a small Snap-On ratchet in his things. A few days ago I went to use it. I was thinking all along it was 1/4 inch drive. Went to put a socket on and no go. Tried another just for the heck of it. Nope. After googling it and putting the model number what I found was it’s from somewhere probably in the 1930s and military and 9/32nds drive. Looks like they went 1/4 inch drive around 1945. Thought that was pretty interesting. Of course no sockets unless the B-I-L has them. View attachment 114464View attachment 114465View attachment 114466View attachment 114467View attachment 114468
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Very cool. I've had Snap-on replace the heads in ratchets and once they traded for a new one. Great collectors item. If you want to use it you could make a short extension to adapt it to 3/8" or 1/4" or maybe swap in the newer head if it's the same size. I'd go for an adapter.
 
Kim Dawson said:
Very cool. I've had Snap-on replace the heads in ratchets and once they traded for a new one. Great collectors item. If you want to use it you could make a short extension to adapt it to 3/8" or 1/4" or maybe swap in the newer head if it's the same size. I'd go for an adapter.
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I actually left it with my good friend to see what the Snap-On dealer would say. I was originally thinking about trying to swap for a new one, or like you said and swap to the new head. I called my B-I-L this afternoon to see if he has any of the sockets first, which he has no idea because since the day we looked at all the items 3 - 4 years ago he has not looked at all the stuff, being it’s in a couple of really old tool boxes in a storage unit. So he said he would look, which could be later, than sooner. Couple other things that were in there, and I had always wanted but didn’t feel like splurging for. Brass hammer and punch and like maybe 3 sets of crows feet. 808E9920-B4DE-46FE-87A8-6568A83E51D6.jpeg
 
Belizeit said:
A few years back my F-I-L died and my B-I-L and I went through his storage room in the back of the house. He was a mechanic, A/P in the beginning in the Air Force in the Pacific near the end of WW2, then 27 years in the Louisiana ANG. To say the least he was like my father, from the depression era and saved and collected lots of stuff over the years. 1 of the unique things I have come across lately is I knew I had found a small Snap-On ratchet in his things. A few days ago I went to use it. I was thinking all along it was 1/4 inch drive. Went to put a socket on and no go. Tried another just for the heck of it. Nope. After googling it and putting the model number what I found was it’s from somewhere probably in the 1930s and military and 9/32nds drive. Looks like they went 1/4 inch drive around 1945. Thought that was pretty interesting. Of course no sockets unless the B-I-L has them. View attachment 114464View attachment 114465View attachment 114466View attachment 114467View attachment 114468
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My brother got one of those 9/32" ratchets thinking the same thing. So happens he had some sockets to fit it(also thought they were 1/4")
 
Belizeit said:
I actually left it with my good friend to see what the Snap-On dealer would say. I was originally thinking about trying to swap for a new one, or like you said and swap to the new head. I called my B-I-L this afternoon to see if he has any of the sockets first, which he has no idea because since the day we looked at all the items 3 - 4 years ago he has not looked at all the stuff, being it’s in a couple of really old tool boxes in a storage unit. So he said he would look, which could be later, than sooner. Couple other things that were in there, and I had always wanted but didn’t feel like splurging for. Brass hammer and punch and like maybe 3 sets of crows feet. View attachment 114469
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If no one has been looking in the tool collection all this time, then you might just get lucky and find more 9/32 stuff.
 
Been prepping grab bars a little at a time over the last couple of weeks. Today I painted 7 of them black. More time goes into getting a grab bar ready to cover than getting a steering wheel ready. Bars need to be sand blasted, edges sanded down where the bars were sheared off, body filler put on the face of the feet to get the ripples out, etching primer, sanding primer, block sanding with different grits, and then mix up the Professional Coating paint with hardener and spray them. It's interesting how the bars vary from being stamped out by different machines. Some came out with flatter feet than others. Flat ones look nicer, so I make them all flat now. Eric, my East Coast Shopper, sent me these grab bars along with steering wheels. Thank you Eric.
 

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Blew the engine in the Mini... Best guess without tearing it apart, thermostat stuck closed. Temp gauge that I thought worked perfect, lied to me. Spit a connecting rod out of the transmission (which is in the oil pan). So not only is the engine toast... because of the way it's built, the transmission is also toast. Engine and trans share the same oil. When I drained the oil, it was all sparkly and full of bearing chunks.

Time for a Honda D16 swap. New sub-frame is ordered. "New" Honda drivetrain is sitting behind the TJ soft doors in the pic.

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I have my wonderful shop, however the weather is so good here year round that I prefer to work in my "shop yard" if I can. Though the problem has been that my main tool box is in the middle of the shop and I am constantly go in and out to get my necessary tools. So the week before last I designed an alternative solution.

My rolling yard "work station":

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timo439 said:
Impressive. You need some casters on that table.

How many folks are now lost since the wrong way sign went missing???
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This table is very heavy... I looked up casters for it and what it would take and decided to hold off... I would want 1000 lb. casters minimum (table plus the ability to put on engines/transmissions/cases) with lock-a-bility of the casters when I move it to a new place... however, I then would have to cut the legs down, or recess them into the existing ones, because I don't want it any higher than it is.

Between the cost of the casters, effort to do it, etc. I decided to use it for 2024 "as is" with my modifications, then do that work in 2025... its a "next year" project at this point.

I spent a good part of the week just getting the table and putting it in place, cutting off all the stuff I didn't need and modifying it for my needs.

So far, so good.

cb
 
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