DFB's Garage

Most people choose one tool and battery eco-system and stick with it. Me, I tend to shop for the tool I want based on performance or preference first, then consider the battery family second.

I probably don't recommend the method, it's certainly the more expensive route, not to mention juggling various batteries and chargers...............which is the subject of this post. I currently have 10 different chargers serving 11 different battery systems.

- Milwaukee 12v and 18v (M18 and M12 tools)
- Makita 18v
- EGO 56v (Blower, Fan and Inverter)
- Stihl AL101 36v (Hedge trimmer, pole trimmer, chainsaw, blower)
- Stihl AL1 10.8v (Handheld hedge shears)
- Solo 10.8v (Easy 206 Sprayer)
- Briggs & Stratton 18v (Victa Mustang 750iS lawn mower)
- ShineMate 18v (3 and 5-inch polishers)
- Rupes 18v (5-inch polisher)
- Rupes 10.8v (iBrid Nano polisher)

Ideally, I would love to do something like below, but there is no easy access to power where I'd want to locate this.



So, I came up with something that would suit my chosen location. This area is where I have charged batteries from for a while, but in a very disorganized way.

(An old image taken before the flooring went down, and even before chargers got located there.)



To start with, I decided to keep the polisher chargers above my chemical storage cabinet next to the sink, this charging station will be for outdoor power equipment and general tools.

Firstly, I bought a piece of dressed pine from the hardware store, which was cut into two identical pieces. I then sanded and painted both with paint I already had on hand.

Just a moment...

I then secured the timbers to the racks using stainless steel bolts that I also had in stock. This created a gap between the two pieces of timer, allowing the power cords to route through to the back. It was then a matter of measuring and driving in screws to hang each charger, along with two power boards on the back. The EGO charger will remain free standing due to its size, and in theory leaving room for potential future additions.





I now just have to figure out some cable management to tidy things up and it will hopefully serve me well.
 
Klasse Act said:
https://youtu.be/U4PYZ9D7GDM?si=nXfwcf6rgzbDQNqE

I'm sure the day your Stang goes away won't be like this, different situation, but its sad nonetheless

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I sold my 04 Mach 1 for basically the same reason and DEEPLY regret doing so. I figured it was at its highest value and that I'd have more to put on a new Mustang. Well, now I don't have any Mustang lol. The values went up on everything to the point where I don't feel comfortable putting out the kind of money people are asking for them. I'm mad at myself for selling something I loved just because I thought it was the most I could sell it for. That's what you do if you don't love your car or you love the project itself rather than a finished car. I posted a comment on his video, but it sounds like it's too late. He's going to regret selling that Bullitt.
 
The XR6 up on the lift this week for its annual service...................read: oil and filter change.












Actually, it was quite confusing for the service advisor. The odometer reads just 31,000 km (19,600 mile), but his computer said it was in for 105,000km (65,240 mile) service. I made things worse when I said its already had the 105,000km service a few times now. He looked backwards and forwards a few times in confusion, then took a photo for reference. In actual fact, being a 2008 with 15,000 km (9360 mile) service intervals, in theory it would have been in for the 225,000km (140,000 mile) service. In the end, I told him to just change the oil. :laughing:

He then mentioned that they didn't have their detailer in to wash today. That made me VERY happy actually...................regardless, I still told him NOT to wash it, which he agreed it looked perfect anyway. I should have tipped him. :laughing:
 
That dealership looks like a hospital, so clean!

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Klasse Act said:
That dealership looks like a hospital, so clean!

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I've been going to that dealership since 2003 for both sales and service. My uncle was the spare parts manager there for decades too. It hasn't always been plain sailing, but what is?

That service department sits behind a new showroom built to sell and service Jaguar-Landrover, Honda and LDV. Ford's are sold in another building, but benefit from the new service facility. It was built a few years ago and is a massive upgrade from what went before it, which is now an expanded spare parts warehouse. Overall, the new building has changed the whole customer experience for the good........................pruning out some dead wood helped too.



 
Great pics of the Falcon right there

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DFB said:
The XR6 up on the lift this week for its annual service...................read: oil and filter change.












Actually, it was quite confusing for the service advisor. The odometer reads just 31,000 km (19,600 mile), but his computer said it was in for 105,000km (65,240 mile) service. I made things worse when I said its already had the 105,000km service a few times now. He looked backwards and forwards a few times in confusion, then took a photo for reference. In actual fact, being a 2008 with 15,000 km (9360 mile) service intervals, in theory it would have been in for the 225,000km (140,000 mile) service. In the end, I told him to just change the oil. :laughing:

He then mentioned that they didn't have their detailer in to wash today. That made me VERY happy actually...................regardless, I still told him NOT to wash it, which he agreed it looked perfect anyway. I should have tipped him. :laughing:
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Are you not doing the service yourself because of the stamp they put in the booklet come on Deyon you got all the gear. It's way better doing it yourself you DON'T has to stress about other's driver/scratching your car and after the fact you feel more one with the car.
 
Clouted two birds on the way home last night, the stupid things flew out of a tree and swooped down in front of the Ranger. Looking back in the mirror, I only spotted the one on the road despite hearing two distinctive thuds. When I got home, I gave the car a quick look over from above and below and left it that.

Later in the evening, I went out into the garage for something and was startled by something scratching around under Ranger. I then spotted something looking out from the lower bumper intake................



I must have stunned the bird, which explains why I didn't notice it in there after work. Of course, it was stuck in there and couldn't squeeze through the opening. That area of the car is sealed up with a plastic undertray, so I'm sure you can guess what came next. :doh:

I ended up removing three of the four 15mm bolts, enough for the undertray to hang down, but of course the stupid thing didn't want to get out. Several minutes of banging on the undertray, then a guiding prod with a mop handle had it falling out of the bumper, where it then scurried its way from under the car and out of the garage into the next-door neighbors garden.

Well, that's a new one for me. At least I got to use my 1/2-inch socket extension for the first time. :laughing:
 
I had a similar incident with some magpies many years ago, in my VN Commodore. There were 4 of them picking over some roadkill on a country road, when I came around the bend at 100km/h, only 3 made it out of the way. So I pulled over to check as I didn't want to keep going with a dead bird stuck somewhere. It was stuck in the large intake under the bumper, so I put some gloves on and reached in, the damn thing pecked at me, I jiggled the plastic bumper a bit and it fell out the bottom, then took off and flew away, like nothing had happened. I guess it was taking off with its wings spread as we collided and that may have cushioned the impact. No damage to the car either, the bumper was unpainted plastic, being the base executive model, but with the police options.

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You wait till your mother hits a sparrow in a Honda accord and later on in the coming weeks you tell her that there is a smell coming from the front of the car...

Only to hook the little dead body out of the wheel arch vent like thing and say I TOLD you your car stank! :argue:
 
Tasmania said:
You wait till your mother hits a sparrow in a Honda accord and later on in the coming weeks you tell her that there is a smell coming from the front of the car...

Only to hook the little dead body out of the wheel arch vent like thing and say I TOLD you your car stank! :argue:
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Or she drives over a plastic bag that gets stuck to the exhaust, and slowly melts with the lovely smell of burning plastic.

Or this one, which happened to me while driving my lowered 95 VR V8 Commodore in Tasmania. On a country road with multiple dead kangaroos, wallabies, or maybe pademelons all over the place, and traffic coming the other way, you scrape the bloating carcass on a cross brace, or suspension component, or something, so that when you turn the AC on, the smell of decomposition comes in, for the next week, till you spend a whole day driving up the freeway back to Sydney in the heavy rain. It took another 6 months to kill off the ants that came with the "bits", their nest was hiding behind the rubber windscreen seal.


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Big Dave said:
Or she drives over a plastic bag that gets stuck to the exhaust, and slowly melts with the lovely smell of burning plastic.

Or this one, which happened to me while driving my lowered 95 VR V8 Commodore in Tasmania. On a country road with multiple dead kangaroos, wallabies, or maybe pademelons all over the place, and traffic coming the other way, you scrape the bloating carcass on a cross brace, or suspension component, or something, so that when you turn the AC on, the smell of decomposition comes in, for the next week, till you spend a whole day driving up the freeway back to Sydney in the heavy rain. It took another 6 months to kill off the ants that came with the "bits", their nest was hiding behind the rubber windscreen seal.


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I was walking once on the same road i use for the last 10 year's and this is summer period and their was a decent size bloated wallabie and an on coming 4x4 ran straight over the top and...."POP" like a balloon guts everywhere and me holding my breath.
 
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