Busy weekend. Had our annual get together with some friends. Don't know if you guys remember, but last year I ended up patching an oil pan on a Volvo in the middle of nowhere. Well, this year I looked at my tools and thought 'There's now way that'll happen again" so left most of them home. Although I did grab tin snips, a few hammers and other basic hand tools.
I get there Friday, and right away someone's looking for me with a hole in an oil pan. Luckily, he had already scrounged most of the materials, and this was a bike we could lay on it's side to make things easier. The hole was a little different on this one, so the process was slightly different.
Cleaned up the pan, scraped/filed paint, and degreased with brake cleaner. Took a ball of steel wool and mashed some JB weld quick into it. Jammed that into the hole like a sticky booger. Then covered it with aluminum tape to let it cure.
Once it was cured, filed it down some to smooth it out, and degreased again. (You can see the 'booger' of JB here.)
Next step, was to form some aluminum sheet to cover the whole area. Here's where the body hammers and dollies that I literally looked at, but left home would have been handy!
Then scuff the aluminum, the pan, and degreased one more time. Mixed up a good batch of JB, and stuck it in place with the aluminum tape until the JB was cured.
Stood the bike up and filled it with oil. He drove it to town and back and it held with no drips overnight. Hopefully he made it back home (9+ hours highway driving).
Next the fridge died at home. This GE fridge is only 6 years old!
Since the wife was away it meant me emptying the fridge myself, and stashing everything into coolers and the deep freeze! Spent a while chasing down a service manual with anything resembling a schematic. A bit of digging it looked like the evaporator fan died. Nothing was open that would have the part, so temporarily screwed a 12V fan where the evap fan was. But since this one wasn't PWM controlled, it just ran full time. Got everything cool enough to get the food from the coolers back into the fridge.
Turns out this is a pretty common failure, so was happy to find one today at the locally. Unfortunately this $20 fan was $160 from the local appliance place. But with stuff coming up in the next few weeks, couldn't wait until next week for a aftermarket to arrive from elsewhere. Got it installed, and runs like it should. Even made ice again (I might not survive without my near constant stream of ice water! lol! )
In all fairness, the $160 fan was an OEM part with about $30 markup locally. The $20 fan isn't OEM. However, there is a $20 fan coming for a spare. Going to order a $15 condenser fan for this fridge for a spare too! It never ends...
, but it won't be your problem anymore.
My last yard sale I sold a bunch of wood lathes , planers and saws . The Mexicans buy things up like hotcakes . Some things just aren't worth the time and effort of selling it , and it's been going to the dump lately . And I am making progress . I have room for the 3' x 8' work table and 4 roll arounds along the wall . A lot of moving and re-arranging was completed 
last week .
