Tube is 2" diameter
I made a tool cart for my boss Jerry. When I got done adding all the tool spots he said he wanted a critter to make it complete. My boss Greg showed me Jerry's IM avatar- a monkey with glasses. So here we are.
The monkey head is about eye level with me in the center of the back beam of the cart.
I replaced a few parts on Margaret's car today.
I like how even the NGK plugs come in boxes marked Honda.
-all genuine Honda parts except for the new (not reman.) axle-
plugs
wires
dizzy cap, gasket, rotor button, fasteners
dizzy o-ring
left inner tie rod & clamp
valve cover gasket -old gasket turned to stone... chiseled out and remaining pieces are in picture.
and an alignment
I made another robot bear from old parts from her car and gave it to her
pic
If the kitty ever gets off of my case maybe I can bore you with my borescope. I'll show you the inside of my rusty muffler or other vehicle related dark places.
Antny gave me an old XP laptop so I just have to figure out how to hook it up and make it a video file on :shudder: Windows XP.
I used it to look at Sean's BMW's brakes today but you can pretty much see those with the naked eye looking through the wheels anyway.
It also comes with a clip on mirror and clip on magnet. The mirror is to see things like bent or burnt valves because you go in through the spark plug hole and the valves are above that. The magnet is there in case you drop a fastener or such somewhere from which it NEEDS retrieving due to being a special fastener, or maybe it fell in a delicate place. Run-of-the-mill fasteners can be easily replaced with new w/out spending an hour or more searching.
My ginormous toolbox is paid for. I decided to use most of my savings to pay it off and save $900 in finance charges.
I think this gives me permission to spend $900 on cool specialty tools.
Next purchase: Borescope- $200
boring youtube video of borescope
Apparently it can also record video... well, it has a "video out" port anyway. I might have to buy a laptop.
And boy are its wings tired.
I took this pic @ work today
UPDATED 01/05/09 w/ pics plus Bonus KITTY
I just ordered a special tool to remove Toyota "spark plug tubes".
It's made by a company called Assenmacher
The numeric designation is 150
So of course the complete tool number from SJ Discount Tools is
ASSTOY150
I'm not making this up.
http://www.sjdiscounttools.com/asstoy150.html
(ed- 8/09- the page and tool# have changed, but the URL still says asstoy150)
Most tool and car part deliveries I receive come in plain brown boxes with little description. We can only hope this one follows suit, not arriving in a rainbow box with bold print on all sides.
01/05/09 updates
Removal and Replacement: Engine
My boss asked me if I was their new Jaguar specialist. I said no. Laughs were abundant.
