28 September, 2014

Picking up supplies for projects... Not much shop time.

Although this was technically a long weekend for me as I had 3 days off of my regular job, I wasn't able to get much actual shop time. I have been spending quality time on the road here and there, visiting with in laws, doing other various bits of business that took me up into Houston... so a trip to 4 Wheel Parts Wholesalers was in order. Anyone that has been in the off road scene for more than 10 minutes knows that the word Wholesalers in 4 wheel parts name is a LIE... but I digress...

You see the Chrome lug nuts for my truck are old enough, well... the chrome is peeling off. So I had a fresh set on order and needed to pick them up...

While I was there, I needed to replace the roller fairlead license plate mount bracket. The one that I Have now simply clips to the rollers and is super easy to steal...I picked up a license plate mount that is supposed to swing up and away from the fairlead when released, yet remain firmly mounted on the truck to at least somewhat deter easy theft. There are NO instructions what so ever, and at first glance, the way the mount is built does not appear to be able to function at all, but a second look and some mechanical reasoning shows how it goes together and works.

I am not going to bother doing a video on replacing lug nuts. If my audiencce can't figure lug nuts I need to seriously reasses who I think my audience is...
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So the projects I see in the plan for the video shoots in the near future are...

#1. Complete the 7 pin trailer harness // reverse lighting installation.
#2. Roller Fairlead License Plate holder installation. This is going to be important to those that live in states that require both a front and a rear plate, and you have a winch installed. Apparently winch mount designers do NOT take license plate relocation into accout, at all...
#3. Shop cleanup / organization. More the organizing part. I have need for storage space for household consumable items such as light bulbs, etc... and I know just the spot to put them... This is likely going to be a small cabinet build project in here as well.
#4. Structured wiring install. This is NOT going to be enclosed as my structured wiring project is far too large for any enclosures. Instead it will be rack mounted and include a KVM, 16 port gigabit switch, 16 port patch panel, VoIP adapter, router, modem the whole shebang...
#5. Office Depot particle board filing cabinet reinforcement project. Pretty simple one, but important. My office move is going to require it...
#6. overhead book storage. Simply put, the bookshelves are going away, and I need places to store my tech books, as well as recreational reading books, cookbooks etc...

Be patient with me on this whole thing. I am squeezing it in when I can, I know sevveral of y'all are chomping at the bit about the LED reverse light project, and I have heard from others about when am I going to get back to making sawdust... It's all coming God willing, please be patient... My recording / editing environment is almost complete. I will have the capacity soon, and hopefully I can sneak away from my wife's schedule plans long enough to get this done for you!

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