What Cheer Flea market tomorrow

Well here we are again. Sounds like its gonna be great weekend here. Its been poring down rain West of I35. Not a drop so far here. Almost set up. Took a couple of hours off and run around on the goof cart just to gab with people. Old gals favorite thing to do. Gonna finish setting up in the AM. Took 2 hours 45 minutes to get here. Dog gone road construction in Oskaloosa. Brought the few NOS roto baler parts with me. Gots a new porta power and a few other things outta the shop. Gotta get the shop cleaned out. Not gonna need this stuff.

Sounds tempting, but I don't have one of those whatcha ma jiggy phones. Or maybe it should be , no spam or robo calls.

Edited by chaskaduo - 01 Aug 2019 at 9:02am

What a beautiful day to be here. Record sales so far. I sold most of my NOS round baler parts. 84° here and light breeze blowing. Got to meet Dr Allis last night. I did not know he worked for R and M equipment in Indianola many years ago. It was a pleasure visiting with him.

There's the Rat Race and There's Toms Race.

sounds like you abused it Chaz!

Chask, that faucet has been in the sheetrock panel for near 60 years... and the hose connected was last put on some 20 years ago... ... come to find out the screws holding the faucet were just screwed into the drywall without any real backing board behind it.  Thus when I put some force to it, screws pulled out. Faucet was connected to hard copper, which I knew, but I certainly did not want to break the old copper pipe either... Had a crescent wrench on the faucet and pliers on the coupling, then tried vise grips, and channel locks, No go. Tried tapping around the collar of the hose on the valve, using a heavier hammer on one side and a lighter tapping hammer on the other side. Sprayed some cleaner and some penetrant on it and tapped some more and it would not budge. Finally grabbed the drill and a cut-off wheel and cut the connector down to the threads but not through them in two places and tapped the collar outwards and ... dam, just like that, the collar turned freely ... had to wire wheel the threads on the faucet some for new hose to spin on freely, and also had to file the end of the faucet smooth because there was a defect on the face of it and I am guessing it was the reason for the calcified threads, seeping just enough to leak water up past the threads over the years.
 And why did I have to take the hoses off in the first place? The cold water valve on the washin machine didn't want to shut the water off anymore.  The faucet was more aggravating then the washer valve was. LOL

Tom, sounds like you've been having a LOT of fun so far this summer!!  Too bad you didn't make it to Hutch!  You will HAVE to plan on being there in 2021, as that is the GOTO also!!  DO NOT MISS IT!!  Your honey will have a ball too.

JC, don't you have a Harbor Freight near you??  You need to get one of their $9.99 4-1/2" cutoff / angle grinders.  Would have worked REAL good for what you needed!!

https://www.harborfreight.com/4-12-in-5-Amp-Heavy-Duty-Angle-Grinder-60372.html?ccdenc=eyJjb2RlIjoiNTIyMTI1MjYiLCJza3UiOiI2MDM3MiIsImlzIjoiMTYuOTkiLCJwcm9kdWN0X2lk%0D%0AIjoiOTI4MCJ9%0D%0A

Tom, I always wondered how a Porta-Power would work taking the steering wheels off the older AC tractors?  Did you ever try it?