Apartment Projects #3: A Better Entrance

A clever door closer. Does it tend to slam the door fairly hard?

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

you mutha ,
thats invention !

looks like your
good to stay !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Cats and bugs begone. Good salvage job.

-- Doug, New Mexico.......the only stupid question is one that is never asked!........don't fix it, if it ain't broke!

Brrrr . Looks like your winters ARE cold.
Whatch say about my mutha’s invention??? Hey? David.. oh… sorry misread.. :-)
Real good salvage MC ..and it works….. Well done.
Now you can start on the next project to fix the outside chair… That will pass your time…It looks so lonley and abused…shame.. :-(
Love your dad’s truck.

-- "Even small steps makes a distance." (Shawn Phillips, musician)

Mr. & Mrs. C: It wants to close, there’s no doubt about that!! But it doesn’t close riotously hard, no worse than most… It’s actually better with the glass in it. The added weight makes gravity work harder, so it closes more slowly. Plus the door fits so snug, there’s a “pillow” of air at the end of the closing. I also put a door sweep on the bottom, low enough so it scrapes the deck of the porch. The added friction helps too… I live alone, and know that it’s there, so I don’t usually let the door fly…
When people come over they never see it on the way in, but when they leave they never fail to notice it. I usually get a, “Wow, that’s cool!!” :)
David: The Mothers of Invention! Good Band!! Don’t tell me you knew them too, along with Frank Zappa!!
Doug: Thanks! So long as gravity continues to work I should be all set. Those pesky cats can still get their claws through and reach the screen, but not enough to do damage. I keep an old Windex bottle around full of water, for spraying the plants, but it works really well for discouraging cats too. One spray in the face…they don’t like that very much. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike cats, had 2 or 3 at a time most of my life, but they can be annoying when they’re using a brand new screen, that was just replaced, as their scratching post!!
Mario: Yeah, we get some Winter, no global warming here… That chair has been a thorn in my side for years!! It’s a school chair, so it’s uncomfortable as can be! It doesn’t even make a good plant stand, the writing leaf sticks so far out, it catches the unsuspecting waist or leg every time you walk past it, knocking over all the plants. It’s actually one step closer to the trash sitting on the porch, but found one redeeming quality of being a useful place to set down groceries while I fumble for the keys…So it has a reprieve, for now…
My dad would be happy to here you like the truck! It’s a 1948 Ford F-2, 3/4 ton pickup, from the year they began the F-series. It’s been a work in progress since he got it in ‘66. The thing starts on a 1/4 turn!! He slowly and meticulously restored everything but the back, but despairs now of ever finishing. He’s no longer able to work on it, and it frustrates him to the extreme…

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

for your dad ,
this is my f-1 1948 .
just needs points !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

That looks like it’s in pretty good shape! Why isn’t it up and running?!
Dad’s had his apart more times than I can remember
He has “new” front fenders for it, that he already painted, bought them from some warehouse down in Texas years ago. Still had the factory original Ford replacement parts tags on them from ‘48! $300 for the pair!
He also had this little honey for a few years
A ‘35 Chevrolet. He sold it to some guy that led him to believe that he was going to baby it like my Father had. The guy slapped some paint on it, and my Dad saw it listed in Hemmings’ a month or so later for a grand and half more than than the guy paid. Broke his heart…

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

I get confused easily snow, doors, trucks,cars . So I’ll coment in order cold, cool,cool,cool again and to bad.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

As usual one thing leads to another and we are richer for the experience. Thanks for the tour Mike (I like that name)
It’s good to see old things that are still useful recycled. Nice job on the door and thanks for automotive part too.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Mike,
That is a really fine looking door. I love that you recycled the door.
I think we have become a “throw-away society”; it is always nice to see something put to use.
That piece of plexi is a stroke of genius!
Ellen

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

Here’s some nice pictures of a restored 1948 F2, really nice.

It sold for $33,000.

My Dad had a 1935 Chev. that he used for a work car in the early 1950s.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Nice work!

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Well done ….

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Hi everybody!!
Had to finish a box and glue on the hinges…
A1Jim: You’re not confused at all, you have it entirely correct!!
stefang: You know, Sir, I’ve never personally met a Mike I didn’t like!! Through LJ”s, now I’ve met another!!
Ellen: If I owned this place (or any place) I’d be the type who would aim for restoration rather than renovation. It’s 2009 and no one has to wash clothes on a washboard anymore, of course, but the old stuff was made to last longer. My apartment is the only one that hasn’t been re-done lately, in the time I’ve been here, but by luck or chance whoever lived here before me didn’t punch holes in the walls or similar recreations down through the years, so it’s in fair condition. I do the best I can to keep it that way… I don’t re-use out of any Green responsibility, it’s more out of a Yankee Thriftiness I learned from my Parent’s…A Good Farmer never throws anything away!!
As far as the Plexi, nothing smart there! We had two German shepherds for many years… My Dad installed a 3/16” sheet of Aluminum to keep the house dog from going through Theirs!!
Mr. & Mrs. C: That Truck is Breathtaking!!! I sooo wish that I could talk the folks into getting a computer, so my Dad could see those pictures!! I think they’re starting to weaken on their resolve not to have one though. ;-)
Charles & The Man Wearing the Mask: Thank you very much, my Friends! :)

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

I don’t know your Dads age, but I got my first computer at age 70.

We’ve been having a ball with it. Tell him it’s almost impossible to break a computer

if that’s what he’s worried about, & if he’s retired, he has plenty of time to learn.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Great post! I want to make doors but for $70 wow maybe not. The truck, is it a 3/4 ton F2 (not F1) old cars got to be as endearing as old tools, got to have em!/Users/scottater/Desktop/IMG_0189-1-1-1.jpg

-- $tudie

Mr. & Mrs. C: I’m working on them! LJ’s helps even there! I’ve printed out pages of things that would appeal to them from here, and they always comment on how really nice everyone sounds, what good people we all are… I’m going to print those pages of that fantastic truck, maybe that will turn the tide! Dad was an Answer Man his whole life, the guy everybody went to when they didn’t know what to do… His interests are many, and varied, like live steam for instance. He built a locomotive in his “spare” time!! Mom is an avid gardener, and keeps one of the prettiest yards around. I’m slowly trying to convince and show them that there are excellent groups for those things and many others…
Their chief objection is that they say they could never learn how to use a computer. I try to tell them it’s so easy a caveman could do it, but they’re not buying it! I haven’t given up yet though!! I’m convinced that they would really enjoy it, if they only gave it a chance…:)
$tudie: Scott, my Dad’s is an F-2. They’re actually the rarest ones for that year. The F-1’s and F-3’s, 4’s, and 5’s were very popular, with Farmers and Businesses, so there are many more of them out there… It seems that everyone wanted either the stylish small one or one of the large work trucks, and skipped the “between” size. Which is good, for a collector… For my Dad, it’s a pride of ownership thing, plus the whole challenge of “making it right again” by restoration…

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Mike
Maybe you should just GET THEM ONE…

They will soon get to learn how to use it… It will be fun for them, and they will not want to stop.
Once they see the oppertunities.
I think it’s the on off switch that might scare them…

If they do not use it,
then your dad will have his very own ‘dust collector’. ’-)

-- "Even small steps makes a distance." (Shawn Phillips, musician)