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another day at goat's small engine shop.
got this from another neighbor a while ago, but never got around to fiddling with it. got some nice orange varnish out of it. took the top cover off and it looked like it had not been opened in a long time, the filter was covered with ick. the fuel line was just lying in there. there was still bits on both connectors. i put hose in a tray and went on to clean the saw up some. sprayed a shot of starting fluid and it ran enough for me to fiddle with it more later.
i was cleaning up and was getting ready to toss the old line away, it was falling apart as i tried to pick it up, then i saw this little set screw, in a chunk of the hose. now don't know where it come from, if someone else took the line off and put the screw in the hose.

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apparently this saw was only made for 2 years, 1980-82.
 
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BrutulTM

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Lanx said:
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I approve of this. I definitely wouldn't mind having an excuse to rent a crane. So far I've only been able to justify a few excavators and once a big tele-handler. I felt like a god driving that thing around and thinking "If I wanted to set a 4-wheeler on the roof of the barn right now I could". I didn't want to, but it was nice to know I had the power.
 
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So, 3 weeks ago I started my kitchen demo and reno... just had to pull the trigger and go.

The demo took forever, the prep took forever... things are not perfect.. I envisioned doing everything perfectly - but 1970's house and my inexperience at certain skill trade tasks... well... yeah.

Halfway through I was talking to someone at work, they asked "Would you do it again?" - and the reply was, "yes... but only if I was the age I am now or younger, I do not think I can manage it all once I am a stage up in age..." - and this was a project I wanted to do, and I wanted to do it myself - not just to save money (at minimum 50% savings) - but to do it...

Done:

Everything was stripped to the studs in the kitchen, the 1.5ft drop tray ceiling and its inset was torn out and removed.
Tile floor removed and concrete slab refinished.
Plumbing and electrical moved to new locations.
New extended full wall (about a ft) and a then new half-wall was framed out and electrical done.
Cabinet rail blocking added to all walls for upper and lowers.
Cedar beam with lighting
Drywall on all old and new walls and ceiling, prepped, textured and painted.
Flooring swapped form tile (originally planned and bought) to LPV, underlayer and flooring installed (lugged all the tile back to Lowes)
All cabinet rails leveled and installed
Cabinet boxes installed.
Under cabinet lighting and wires run
Countertop installed
Sink cutout then installed and associated items (garbage disposal, faucet) installed
Refrigerator, range/oven and dishwasher all installed - water lines for DW/Fridge ran.
Microwave installed - I hate these things, even with templates the holes never line up... and I had it inset, but I am 'taded and cant open the door- so I had to buy a new upper that was as long as the pantry and move a bracing out to hold the microwave - this was my only "wrong thing/item/measurement" in the project
Cabinet drawers in lowers all installed and upper doors.
Pantry doors installed

Kitchen fully functional:

Pending items:

Pantry internal shelves
Kickplates and wall floor trim
Door hardware
Bar countertop installation on the half wall w/ L bracket braces
Finish cedar beam trim
Tile the backsplash (Wife just decided on what to get yesterday, so...)
Floor trim transition strip areas between rooms/flooring type
 
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Lanx

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Siliconemelons said:
So, 3 weeks ago I started my kitchen demo and reno... just had to pull the trigger and go.

The demo took forever, the prep took forever... things are not perfect.. I envisioned doing everything perfectly - but 1970's house and my inexperience at certain skill trade tasks... well... yeah.

Halfway through I was talking to someone at work, they asked "Would you do it again?" - and the reply was, "yes... but only if I was the age I am now or younger, I do not think I can manage it all once I am a stage up in age..." - and this was a project I wanted to do, and I wanted to do it myself - not just to save money (at minimum 50% savings) - but to do it...

Done:

Everything was stripped to the studs in the kitchen, the 1.5ft drop tray ceiling and its inset was torn out and removed.
Tile floor removed and concrete slab refinished.
Plumbing and electrical moved to new locations.
New extended full wall (about a ft) and a then new half-wall was framed out and electrical done.
Cabinet rail blocking added to all walls for upper and lowers.
Cedar beam with lighting
Drywall on all old and new walls and ceiling, prepped, textured and painted.
Flooring swapped form tile (originally planned and bought) to LPV, underlayer and flooring installed (lugged all the tile back to Lowes)
All cabinet rails leveled and installed
Cabinet boxes installed.
Under cabinet lighting and wires run
Countertop installed
Sink cutout then installed and associated items (garbage disposal, faucet) installed
Refrigerator, range/oven and dishwasher all installed - water lines for DW/Fridge ran.
Microwave installed - I hate these things, even with templates the holes never line up... and I had it inset, but I am 'taded and cant open the door- so I had to buy a new upper that was as long as the pantry and move a bracing out to hold the microwave - this was my only "wrong thing/item/measurement" in the project
Cabinet drawers in lowers all installed and upper doors.
Pantry doors installed

Kitchen fully functional:

Pending items:

Pantry internal shelves
Kickplates and wall floor trim
Door hardware
Bar countertop installation on the half wall w/ L bracket braces
Finish cedar beam trim
Tile the backsplash (Wife just decided on what to get yesterday, so...)
Floor trim transition strip areas between rooms/flooring type
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could your hesitation also be remodeling a "needed" room you are living in, like were you cooking out of your fireplace w/ your frige next to your tv?
 
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could your hesitation also be remodeling a "needed" room you are living in, like were you cooking out of your fireplace w/ your frige next to your tv?
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Yeah having 0 kitchen was / is a big pain- as we just now are where things can "go back" to where they should - but the kitchen is completely turned around and everything needs to be re-thought about where it goes in the new layout...and that was the point.

We had the microwave on the dining room table, fridge was in the dining room- oven/range was in the family room and the dishwasher ended up in the boys room lol.

The first, biggest and most demo week the two girls were gone at camp, so in that regards it was planned.

The fireplace is fake so it did not help any.. I did have my grill, but EVERYTHING was boxed up so it was hard to even makeshift some things.

But we are back to full function and only trimmings really are left, so its small but annoying work. I did enjoy some aspects of it. All the cabinets, pipes and outlets lined up and worked the way I planned and wanted. I only had to use 3 shims for 1 cabinet rail on a small lower next to the range, everything else was great.

So the change in the flooring, the microwave cabinet and the 1 rail needed shims... not bad - all measurements worked, new half wall was properly measured and built etc.
 
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Siliconemelons said:
Yeah having 0 kitchen was / is a big pain- as we just now are where things can "go back" to where they should - but the kitchen is completely turned around and everything needs to be re-thought about where it goes in the new layout...and that was the point.

We had the microwave on the dining room table, fridge was in the dining room- oven/range was in the family room and the dishwasher ended up in the boys room lol.

The first, biggest and most demo week the two girls were gone at camp, so in that regards it was planned.

The fireplace is fake so it did not help any.. I did have my grill, but EVERYTHING was boxed up so it was hard to even makeshift some things.

But we are back to full function and only trimmings really are left, so its small but annoying work. I did enjoy some aspects of it. All the cabinets, pipes and outlets lined up and worked the way I planned and wanted. I only had to use 3 shims for 1 cabinet rail on a small lower next to the range, everything else was great.

So the change in the flooring, the microwave cabinet and the 1 rail needed shims... not bad - all measurements worked, new half wall was properly measured and built etc.
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When I did ours over a decade ago (I think pics are in here somewhere) we moved the fridge and microwave into the adjacent game room, And leveraged a hot plate. I ate a lot of microwaved chicken noodle soup and a lot of "go fetch some take out for dinner" while we were plowing through that project. Did essentially the same as you without the hand wall build in or wet bar. Moved where the sink was, completely redid drywall, electrical, put in a new floor (which involved also leveling where a plumbing fix had made a hole in the kitchen floor slab years earlier). By the end of it my knees, back, and shoulders were all singing a three part chorus telling me to fuck off forever, which lasted around a week. But completely worth is to give the wife a kitchen built to her specs and liking.
 
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Vycarious

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Just got done building a fence in the front yard but wanting to show off the gate. I think it turned out pretty nice.

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Vycarious said:
Just got done building a fence in the front yard but wanting to show off the gate. I think it turned out pretty nice.

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It looks really nice, but begs the question of why fence off your front yard like that. I see some nice raised gardens, were locals fucking with those?

In every city I've lived in, houses with a full size front yard fence screams high crime area, no matter how nice the fence looks. At least until the yard starts to get multi acres in size.
 
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I live in a small town in Montana, deer and moose would have a field day if I didn't put the fence up.
 
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I want a front fence to be old man yells at cloud, but... wife is like noooo - and there are local codes to what front fencing can be (Natzis...)

Stupid screws for cabinet hardware handles from ikea like 2mm too short... their own cabinets and handels!! in the location they specify... rustle... they are about 26mm long, I got new ones 35mm and now they are too long....now to get 30mm...argh stupid thing
 
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