Parts washer project

3 minute(s) of a 10 minute read

The projects are to keep me at the office. Otherwise I'd be home by noon chasing my wife around the house. The phones in the Detroit area have pretty much stopped ringing so I have lots of time on my hands.

These are all small projects. Were you around for my car hauler project?

The Phoenix

3-4-2009

I got ahold of someone at the company that made this. They stopped making the cabinet with rounded corners in the early '70s, so it's nearly 40 years old, at least. The true clue to its age is the fact that the original wiring is grounded. When I started in the trade in 1970 all wiring was already grounded. I'm wondering when grounded outlets came into being. My house was built in '57. The outlets were just two-wire but there was a ground wire bonded to the box. I'm wondering when grounded outlets became the norm. 

Since I already had the sandblaster set up and had a couple of extra cans of Candyapple Red I decided to "freshen" a real Coke cooler that I've had for years. The top was flattened and I had run into it with my lawn tractor a time or two, tweaking its shape. It's one of those "honey-do" projects I never got around to. Now I did.

It was pretty beat up. I straightened the lid and took out most of the horrendous dents, but left some character.

What would a Barry project be without a little POR-15?

Computer-aided machine. He did some work on some Coke trucks so he had it in the memory of his computer. He's the same guy that hand cut the large logos for my Toybox project.