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I just have reservations in the "Buying someone elses money pit" Especially not knowing trust and background of the previous users...
However when shopped long enough and market values, time on the for sale market, etc... repair history, and the feel from the seller good deals and strong reliable rigs are had. I own one now
"Look to the land of the rising sun"
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Reason: Ill add this cunfusius...
I just have reservations in the "Buying someone elses money pit" Especially not knowing trust and background of the previous users...
However when shopped long enough and market values, time on the for sale market, etc... repair history, and the feel from the seller good deals and strong reliable rigs are had. I own one now
Maybe my expectations are too high. After all, I'm talking ~$4,000 for a run-around most likely. It's not like I'm in the ~$40K range. Thanks for the thoughts though, Keith.
Maybe my expectations are too high. After all, I'm talking ~$4,000 for a run-around most likely. It's not like I'm in the ~$40K range. Thanks for the thoughts though, Keith.
transmission: automatic
type: sedanSelling our 2014 Subaru Impreza AWD with only 126,080 highway miles. Purchased Brand New off the Subaru showroom floor. Fully equipped with All Power options and features. Very Clean and Meticulously Maintained Mechanically throughout. Terrific All around vehicle that's Excellent on Gas! Drives and handles Like New! Thanks for looking.
As an automotive enthusiast and professional, it is my opinion that each make does some things great, and most things good. You can avoid most issues by researching a year, make, and model for known issues and find a good year. Then, find one with low miles and regular driving and maintenance and good storage. Hopefully, they won't want too much, but good cars hold their value.
Keith - That 2014 Subaru Impreza is exactly w/in the type/price vehicle I'm pursuing. I might engage w/ that person. It's ~4 hrs. West of me - I'd have to rent a dolly & drag it home. I might see if something similar is closer. Thanks for searching.
Thankfully Pfister (Pf) products (at least my Model) has/have a lifetime warranty. There are tons of kitchen/bath products on the market - is Kohler better than Moen, is Pf better than Delta, is Delta better than Moen? Ugh. I think I've bought them all for a couple different homes. This Model is discontinued, it's received terrible reviews; yet, Pf honors the warranty each time I call & they're quick to send replacement parts. I can't imagine they'll store replacement parts forever; but, this is annoying having to call support every 4 -5 years for replacement parts. I think it's time I look into new Models/Brands.
Going to start refinishing the two rear entrance doors to the house. They're basically the only doors in the house I haven't refinished since I took ownership 2001. The rear doors are used 99% of the time, front door not so much. These will keep me busy for a couple weeks - one at a time.
Well, Gabe's game this morning was a perfect example of why you play the games, irregardless of the teams records/rankings. Gabe's team looked like a completely different team out there this morning against a team out of Memphis who was favored to win the tournament. The teams played to a 0-0 tie at the end of the 1st Period. Shortly into the 2nd Period Gabe got a pass from a teammate at center ice, then he maneuvered around two opposing defensemen to get a clear shot and he buried it in the upper left corner of the net. This really seemed to fire the whole team up even more, and they scored a second goal about halfway thru the 2nd to make it 2-0. The Memphis team then scored a goal with only about a minute left in the 2nd to make it 2-1. Then about halfway thru the 3rd Gabe's team scored their 3rd goal to seal it 3-1. Great win and Gabe had a great game! In addition to his goal he had the assist on their 3rd goal. Next game, 0700am tomorrow morning.
Rainy and gross out, but not too cold. I've been doing housework this morning. Just got back from Awful house.
Got out at 115 yesterday. Most of the shop left at 10 and never came back. I tell you I'm tired of doing the right thing all the time, when others screw off and nothing happens to them. If I were king that would change. Wonder how the Globetrotters did last night.
Norm I guess the real question is one of value. Will it cost more to own another car, even if it's a cheepie, or will it cost less to own another car. Years ago when gas was tickling 4 bucks a gallon, a guy I worked with said he found a great deal on a Toyota Corolla to drive instead of his pickup. I asked him how much gas the pickup used in a month, and I asked him what his payment was. The cost each month to have the "more efficient" car was way higher than the gas he would use just driving the truck. Talk about a deer in the headlights look.
Chris the team must have just had an off day, if they came back the next day that strong. Good for them. Someone needs to lose and someone needs to win. It's all character building. But it's more fun to win. Glad you didn't need to give them what for.
Keith that gave me a good laugh. That's exactly what happened. I think whenever I get totally exasperated I'm going to be like Charlie Brown and yell out UGGGH as loud as I can.
Going to take a few things into work tonight to sand blast them. No one will be there and I can take all evening. I don't like going into work when I don't really have to, but I've still got two days after tonight to be away from there.
Chris the team must have just had an off day, if they came back the next day that strong. Good for them. Someone needs to lose and someone needs to win. It's all character building. But it's more fun to win. Glad you didn't need to give them what for.
Mike - I think you hit the nail on the head when you said yesterday was probably just an off day. Today was an exceptionally good day!
I would never shy away from letting Gabe know after a game if I didn't think he gave me his best effort, fortunately those days are few and far between. However, I would never address any other players on the team, or the team as a whole, as it's not my place. Coaching kids is hard enough as it is without parents trying to run the show or add their 2-cents. I know this from personal experience coaching AAU Jr. Track & Field for about 10-years, and coaching Track at my kids Jr. High for 4-years.
The Pfister support tech. was in Dominican Republic - took forever to get connected & then the connection was miserable at best - not to mention his English wasn't stellar. I guess they're either tired of dealing w/ me, I've reached my limit on support replacement parts for the kitchen faucet set or they've run out of replacement parts for this discontinued model. However, to my delight they're sending me an upgraded brand new faucet set ($349.95). I wasn't expecting this outcome. I have to take a picture to send them of where it's leaking but it's basically a done deal.
I'm pretty much whipped. Setup saw horses, pulled out support boards, etc. - essentially everything is setup (well, now it's taken down), but the required materials/tools are ready for daily work activities. Pulled all h/w from one door & began hitting it. The paint on the door is really tough tough to remove & it has to be removed - tiny/minuscule cracks throughout (resembling a spider's web). I'd really like to finish this door in mahogany stain then lacquered as I've done w/ all my interior doors but this one's a challenge because I'm starting w/ a painted door AND it has glass panels - a lengthy time-consuming process if I intend to finish it in wood grain (and, this is only one of two painted rear doors). I haven't given up on re-staining but it's an option I'll have to contemplate. I'll post some images of what the other interior doors like like when I get some time. These are all (interior/exterior) five-panel solid-core doors ($$). At any rate, here's where I am w/ one, thus far. When I do this stuff I burnish (on a wire wheel) the original h/w since this old h/w they don't make like they used to and when you do find new of about same quality it is expensive. After I hit the h/w w/ the wire wheel, I apply a couple coats of lacquer which reduces the oxidation otherwise they'd rust in a couple years in this environment.
Very Nice!!! 👍 Now, since you're such a skilled negotiator we're gonna send you to Gaza to settle that situation, or to Ukraine/Russia to end that war. Your choice, either one would be great!
If I begin w/ an original 5-panel door it would look something like the first image, although I did light sand & apply a couple coats of lacquer to that door. But, if I strip, sand, stain & lacquer a door which began as a stained door, then it really brings out the wood grain. These are 5-panel solid-core doors. I stripped, sanded, stained & lacquered the double French doors - 15 glass panes in each. Took me a couple hours.
So, the question which remains is the conundrum which will haunt me for the next couple weeks - am I going to paint the rear doors or stain the rear doors? Ton of work, but you get what you pay for.
So, the question which remains is the conundrum which will haunt me for the next couple weeks - am I going to paint the rear doors or stain the rear doors? Ton of work, but you get what you pay for.
I know it's more work, but I like the look of the natural wood stain much better. Just my 2-cents. From your experience which finish will hold up better?
So, the question which remains is the conundrum which will haunt me for the next couple weeks - am I going to paint the rear doors or stain the rear doors? Ton of work, but you get what you pay for.
Stain them. Those you posted look great
Yeaterday Memphis was 40 something degrees. Today it is 72 and tornado watches. Back to a high of 48 tomorrow. 4/4 for NWS flash flood warnings 2-3 up to 5 inches of rain locally.tonight 3-5 inches of snow next week
What’s going on ?!
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Norm kinda looks like Douglas Fur on the indoor. Can not really tell yet on the years and years paint with the back doors.
I'm in the Chris camp with woodgrain look, I like the combo in the concave recess in-side doors looking very nice on the eye's
I wonder what the totally back to fresh wood grain either by stripping sanding or a dip process would look like and hold up to the "Burn It" for look and longevity would turn out like. I have heard some say the condition process with "Burn" seasons weather protection H'mmm just tink'n out loud ....
Rabbit Hole... maybe
Preservation
Gosh Norm since I'm not doing the work I say stain. That one door really does look nice. If you really can't decide, stain one side and paint the other.
So I'm at work and I just blasted those parts for my hoist. I think someone painted them with latex because that paint came off easily. But there was some paint underneath that would not come off for love nor money. I admitted defeat and just knocked down the rough spots and I'm gonna paint it all with Rustoleum flat black.
Walmart tomorrow. I don't know what else. Got all my housework done, everything outside will be a mess, I'm sure I can find something indoors to do.
Speaking of dipping. I've dipped (not personally) a fair number of large pieces throughout the years e.g. metal bed end-posts, various pieces of metal, etc. I've done some real small stuff myself. When I shaved the paint off the house during renovation (2003-2004) I removed all (32) wooden shutters. Found an old guy ~30 miles in the country who was a dipper - had several LARGE vats set up on his property w/ various solutions. No way in a million years I could remove 15+ layers of paint on these 80 yr. old wood shutters in my lifetime. I'm willing to bet each layer was lead-based paint. One of his baths was NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide=Caustic Soda) & exactly what I needed to remove the paint. Loaded them in the truck, headed to his place, he evaluated them & gave me a price of $300. I bit my tongue, said nothing & we (myself, him & his son) unloaded them. Three weeks later he calls me - they're done. I paid him $365, (should have paid him $500), loaded them up & left. I think his son did much of the grunt work. You don't just immerse them in a vat and expect the NaOH will remove all the paint in the hidden crevices - his son had to use a very large wire brush to strip/scour/remove all the paint. I was expecting to pay minimum $1,000 upwards towards $2,000 for such a job - I was flabbergasted when they were done - spotless, clean as a whistle. I rigged up a lean-to & let them dry in the sun ~two weeks. It then took me three weeks to paint them with a paint brush.
Keith - This wood will never see a blow torch (Yakisugi). I'm trying to present the grain not eliminate it. You pulling on a hooka or what?
Chris - There are various UV polyurethane & lacquer formulas. This door's exterior side (the one you see in the images) faces directly West & catches tons of UV sun. Paint would most likely hold up better in the long run w/ less maintenance, but I have no problems applying UV poly &/or lacquer to maintain the finish.
Matt - I think you said it best - stain them.
Mike - I've considered/toyed w/ the idea of staining one side painting the other.
Working alongside/near the glass will take some work. I won't be able to use a heat gun. It will be a month of Sundays removing paint from the edges (reliefs) of those panels but I think I'll try several approaches.
(1) I have several smaller one pound containers of NaOH - so, I'll mix up a solution & see how that goes; (2) there's a chance I may have a router bit of the same contour style as those panel edges (reliefs), even if I don't I might consider routing them w/ any router bit just to remove the paint - my router is attached to its table where it remains 99% of the time, but I have no problems assembling the jig and free-handing it; (3) I have a Hitachi paint shaver & sanding discs of various grit, I might just sand off the panel edges (reliefs). That Hitachi spins @ 10,000 RPM & can take down a tree. Several ideas to think about.
eith - This wood will never see a blow torch (Yakisugi). I'm trying to present the grain not eliminate it. You pulling on a hooka or what?
Ha and Lol
Not in years
Dads brother was a painter by trade and in his last position at Forest Products Madison Wi https://research.fs.usda.gov/fpl
He had a dip vat at his little work shop. Did the job much like the shutters
My thought process suggested the "Burn" as preserve method from outdoor exposure... Proven methods for many moons Daniel Son....Ha
Too damn early. 26° at 0515, and about an inch of snow overnight. This is as warm as it will get today.
I'm hoping the roads aren't too slick, our street is snow covered. Gotta get down the steep hill at the front of the subdivision safely? Gonna leave here earlier than planned so I can drive slower. Wish me luck, wish Gabe luck!
Keith - I read A Sand County Almanac (Aldo Leopold) in one of my Wildlife Management classes. I know of at least two people who've employed Yakisugi (cladding) to their buildings. I don't know what species wood any of these doors are made from - Pine, Fir, Poplar?
Got woke up at a quarter to 5 this morning with a weather warning on the phone. Severe thunderstorm with tornado possibilities over Stockbridge heading east at 65mph. That's moving. Tons of rain, wind, little thunder/lightning, didn't last too long. No problems on my side of the fence but my neighbor had a pretty big white oak fall and mangle his already mangled chain link and also crushed a couple spots of my garden fence. I brought the chain saw over after lunch but my neighbor had it pretty much cleaned up. I redid the zip ties holding Tiger's fence up, good as new. I understand the storm took out pretty much all of the airport, but only damaged one plane.
Going on two at your house Chris, hope Gabe had a good game. Isn't your truck 4 wheel drive? Just have two wheels on the lawns so you have some traction.
Norm it looks like you have a fireplace in your garage. If your doors are going to get a lot of exposure to sun maybe you should paint the outsides of them.
I guess I'll go back over to Mom's and work on the mailbox. I got a new one months ago but haven't put it up. The old one is just perched on the post, nothing holding it on. This morning with the storm is the first time it's fallen off. Even the mailman/person doesn't knock it off when they yank the door open or slam it shut. But it's past time to get the new one up. I was waiting until I cut that tree down. The tree is down.
Sunny and not too warm out. But sunny. Have a good afternoon everyone.
Norm I wanted to ask you, do you still use Rotella in your pickup? If you do which version? I'm going to change the oil in the diesel Suburban before it goes back on the road, and I'm at a loss as to what oil to use. I've read that Rotella doesn't use zinc these days, or at best a shadow of the amount from before. My truck is a '90 6.2 with less than 80K on it if that matters. I'm interested in your thoughts.
Mike - That's the old beat-up chimney on the back-side of the garage. The chimney & the old attached building where it sat I demolished to make room for the new man-cave building. I attached the new man-cave to the back of the (still standing) garage. Too many images, but I'm in a hurry.
You can see the opening I created to the back-side of the old garage (still standing) where I have running water & a double S.S. sink...
EDIT: I have since ditched the old wood burning stove.
Mike - I began using Rotella T4 in the truck the first 60,000 miles. I then began using T6 5W-40 Full Synthetic Heavy Duty Diesel Engine Oil which contains 1200 ppm of zinc. The T4 also has 1200 ppm zinc. At 185,000 miles I went back to Rotella 4. I love the Rotella products very happy w/ both T4 & T6. I wanted to save $$ so I went back to T4. Personally, I'd run any of the Rotella products in your truck since they all contain zinc.
There's a butt-load of paint on this door. Ugh. I won't bore y'all w/ pictures. I'm sorta getting a notion of what's required to achieve an end result - mostly a combination of heat-gun scraping, caustic soda & I'm hoping a router to address the panel edges (reliefs). I think I have a correctly sized router bit which closely matches the current routing on the panels - we'll see how/if routing works. Got the router table out, can't recall how supposedly easy to remove the router from the table. Ugh. So, I'm reading through both my router table & my router manual(s) to ensure I don't break something & refresh my memory on how to setup router for free-standing hand routing. I think I have a jig/fence for hand-routing - I'll have to look. I can make/fashion a temporary jig/fence if needed. I don't own the really fancy type ($$) hand-routing jig/fence. Baby steps then entire way.
Burnished the hinges applied one coat of polyurethane to them. Took pictures of the Pfister kitchen faucet & sent off to Pfister. It's leaking from "inside" the faucet, enough over time it's turned the metal securing the faucet into a pile of rust. Hoping it doesn't blow up before new one arrives. Boy howdy, yes I'm thankful they're sending a brand new kitchen faucet set but boy how I love working under the sink to remove the old stuff & install the new stuff! Ugh.
Today is Sunday - not Saturday, just figured that out. Yikes.
While working on the door in the man-cave, this frontal system slammed into town - slammed is the correct term. Very long elongated front from SW>NE tracking right through town. Got two huge downpours (separate from each other) for ~30 minutes - thought all hell had broke loose. Couldn't hear my phone (as if it would have done any good), looked outdoors to see some branches in the yard(s). Next thing the wind is 60 mph, trees are leaning sideways, power goes out for about two seconds. I see more limbs laying about. When finally finishing for the day walking to the house, found two very large limbs laying on the back doorsteps busted to smithereens & the yard(s) strewn w/ branches/limbs everywhere.
