Cleaning in the time of Covid

I note with some dismay that I didn’t have any blog posts in all of 2019. I’m not dead and I haven’t given up on either this blog or the Mustang. I just didn’t accomplish much on the Mustang in 2019, though it was a very busy year in other ways.

Anyway, here he are in April of 2020 and I decided I REALLY wanted to get the Mustang cleaned off so I would be in a position to work on it some more.

Before:

After:

Bonus tool hanging space I put together:

Not gonna promise more frequent updates or anything. Just hoping all of you are well and making progress on your own projects.

Repairing a broken wire on my old Black Max air compressor

My rather old Black Max air compressor stopped working the other day. I suppose I should have paid more attention when it started spitting sparks at me whenever I turned it on. :-)

The relay would turn on, but the motor wouldn't go. 

A little bit of tearing apart via removing four hex head bolts found a disconnected wire. 

I had to run to the hardware store over my lunch hour to pick up the crimp on ring connectors I needed to fix this. 

But they worked great. 

I now have a working air compressor again.