What did you do today non-detailing related?

My son and I remounted the cross overs from our component speakers, installed new carbon fiber tweeter covers, installed sound deadening (hush mats - black in color) in the door and a foam baffle behind the door speakers of our 350z. Had the parts for 2 years but just never got around to it. This year and during the pandemic I have been doing a lot to the car so finally completed this little job.

My speakers are 15yrs old and still sound amazing - JL Audio Evolution XR650-CW. I’m considering upgrading the speakers because they are a bit rusty but they still sound so good so on the fence about it. My sound system consists of 6 x JL Audio speakers and 2 x 10” JL Audio subs in a stealth box all powered by a JL Audio 900/5 Amp. Best part of it was just teaching my son a bit about one of my hobbies from back in my high school days.

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I'm a nurseryman by trade. Winter time is when we receive a large shipment of "bare rooted" trees for sale during the cold season. What we don't sell as bare rooted by the end of winter, we pot and grow on for sale through the rest of the year. It's a big and dirty job to get each tree labeled, sorted, pre-orders pulled and buried in sand for storage.

The bundles of trees are covered in wet hessian to keep the roots moist while we do the above.

 
5:30 AM spraying our lawn for fungus and disease . Red thread starting because of the humidity at night .
 
Trees now upright and stored in sand beds for the winter. Glad to see it all done..........for now.

 
I finally got some hangers for my Quick Jacks. I used to keep them on the floor where my floor jacks are. What an improvement!! Sizzle, not sure where you store yours, but these are great.
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Some macro photography in the backyard. The aphids were on some smaller pepper plants and are hopefully no longer with us.
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Front and rear pads and rotors on my A6.

Third complete set of front brakes since I bought it (about 153K miles ago) ; second complete set for the back, though I pad slapped it once as well.
 
2black1s said:
My bathtub wouldn't drain. After several unsuccessful snaking attempts, I had to find the cause.

So I played "laborer" today...

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Yuck!

Not today, but over the weekend I attempted to do the yearly dryer vent cleaning. I guess 3 years is all one of these cheap-a$$ foil vents can take.

So I replaced the entire thing complete with new elbows.

Not nearly as labor-intensive as your malady though, John.......... :/
 
Have an appointment on Friday to get 2 new tires since one has a bubble on the sidewall. Wouldn't you know it, it happened to another tire today. So I'll be limping to get the tires and have 2 more ordered.
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MisterSnoop said:
Have an appointment on Friday to get 2 new tires since one has a bubble on the sidewall. Wouldn't you know it, it happened to another tire today. So I'll be limping to get the tires and have 2 more ordered.
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Power-brake those. I dare ya!! ;)
 
So this is a funny one. Yesterday I set up an inflatable pool in the backyard for my kids. My backyard is sloped but 5 years ago we had a 18x6 square leveled out for a swing set. They have outgrown it and wanted a pool. I put in for a permit to get an inground pool last summer but it was denied by my town. Politics and crap. Anyway, I got them an Intex inflatable pool w pump and all for this summer. They enjoyed it yesterday as it was 93 degrees. Its 12 feet in diameter and goes 30” high but we only have it filled up to 17”. Its a test setup for getting a larger one next year.

Today they got home from fishing at 12pm. It was 95 and humid. We went to take the cover off and were just standing there admiring the pool and splash, darn thing buckled. Luckily noone was in it. But approx 1100 gallons of water wasted. If someone were in it they would not have been ejected because its small and it gave way slowly.

We had a laugh and then made some adjustments and rebuilt the thing. We enjoyed it all day today. I’m worried tomorrow the same thing will happen. Truth be told the directions say the ground needs to be 100% level which mine is not. I filled it up a little less this time so fingers crossed for tomorrow. If it happens again Imm just going to have the ground properly leveled. This was a test after all but I guess shortcuts dont pay off - learned the hard way.


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2black1s said:
My bathtub wouldn't drain. After several unsuccessful snaking attempts, I had to find the cause.

So I played "laborer" today...

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I finished the digging yesterday and said that's enough work for the day. Today I found the problem...

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The clay elbow was completely and tightly clogged. Now I need to make a Home Depot run. I'm going to replace that clay elbow with ABS.

I still don't understand though why snaking did not clear the clog. Before I put this back together I'm going to run the snake down through the roof vent and see if it comes out the cast iron pipe from the house. It should. And I've always been able to successfully snake out this line in the past. Oh well... at least I found the problem and the repair won't be too difficult. It could have been worse if the problem was in the cast iron coming from the house... If that were the case I'd be busting out slab.
 
2black1s said:
I finished the digging yesterday and said that's enough work for the day. Today I found the problem...

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The clay elbow was completely and tightly clogged. Now I need to make a Home Depot run. I'm going to replace that clay elbow with ABS.

I still don't understand though why snaking did not clear the clog. Before I put this back together I'm going to run the snake down through the roof vent and see if it comes out the cast iron pipe from the house. It should. And I've always been able to successfully snake out this line in the past. Oh well... at least I found the problem and the repair won't be too difficult. It could have been worse if the problem was in the cast iron coming from the house... If that were the case I'd be busting out slab.
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Sewer Line Repair Complete!!! Works like a champ. Now I can take a bath/shower LOL.

All that is left is to backfill the hole, clean up my mess, and plant a little grass seed (or a few pieces of sod).

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Saved myself probably a couple grand for two days of hard work. That makes me happy.
 
2black1s said:
Sewer Line Repair Complete!!! Works like a champ. Now I can take a bath/shower LOL.

All that is left is to backfill the hole, clean up my mess, and plant a little grass seed (or a few pieces of sod).

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Saved myself probably a couple grand for two days of hard work. That makes me happy.
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Definitely saved yourself a couple grand. Props for digging that big hole and getting it fixed.
 
2black1s said:
Sewer Line Repair Complete!!! Works like a champ. Now I can take a bath/shower LOL.

All that is left is to backfill the hole, clean up my mess, and plant a little grass seed (or a few pieces of sod).

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Saved myself probably a couple grand for two days of hard work. That makes me happy.
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Nice work:xyxthumbs: did you dig that by hand?
 
opie said:
Nice work:xyxthumbs: did you dig that by hand?
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100%. Six hours worth of digging. Not bad for a 68 year-old heh?

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The second from the left shovel had the same handle length as the one to its left. I had to shorten it to dig once I got down in the hole. I had to dig nearly 4 ft. deep.
 
2black1s said:
100%. Six hours worth of digging. Not bad for a 68 year-old heh?
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Holy smokes well done!:dig::cheers: I am litterally half your age...i know i would be sore from that task. Im used to making machines do that work for me:laughing:

Job well done sir:urtheman:
 
2black1s said:
Sewer Line Repair Complete!!! Works like a champ. Now I can take a bath/shower LOL.

All that is left is to backfill the hole, clean up my mess, and plant a little grass seed (or a few pieces of sod).

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Saved myself probably a couple grand for two days of hard work. That makes me happy.
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100% Complete... Backfilled, grass seed planted, all my tools cleaned and put away, even my filthy, muddy clothes laundered. Glad to put this behind me.

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And for the future, this exercise could come in handy if any troubleshooting is necessary since I now know how everything is routed.
 
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