Finished! Some of this project is like performing oral surgery. None of it is impossible, but wow, there were some difficult reaches. (18 pics)

It's been a year as of now, and I still haven't gone back and bought 2 of the same color. Always have your stuff before you start. : )

Broke the sink removing the old hardware. We are planning on redoing the bathroom next year or the year after, so I wasn't crazy about buying a new top. I tried out an epoxy fix & was pleasantly surprised. The final step I haven't done yet, but I would dremmel out a channel along the tops of the cracks and refill with color matched epoxy again. I may do that later, but the to-do list is a little out of hand these days.

new hatches in the background.

New brakepad on the left, a wtf brakepad on the right. The front end sounded and felt like gravel at every stop. My mechanic repaired a brake line leak that I couldn't find the week before, so I'm sure that the two things are related. I'm just not sure how, unless I had a brake pad just crumble away.

Marking the spools for matching positions Making the hatch: Finished, it lasted about two years due to the end pieces. I should have stuck to the plans list.

Not hard, but nothing fit, so some tin bending was required. Installing the replacement.

Removing the toilet was easy, lots of instructables on the net. Use them. yektch. The work wasn't hard, but grinding tile is messy. Respirators and eye protection peeps. balanced and flushed.

As I begin hour 15 of this project, it occurs to me that for the low, low price of $130 shipped, I'd have been done by now. Instead, I'm making a template to drill new mounting holes in the old mounting plate while pondering whether I'm broken and just blissfully unaware of the fact. To be honest, a good portion of that time was spent learning about stepper motors and gear reduction vs amp draw and torque. Then trying to find someone who had already dismantled my particular m

Deck is finished: Pretty straight forward, a little rubber mallet action is required to get everything to align. All setup, just needs a ramp. ...... and we bought a house. So we gave the shed to her brother, took it apart all the way down to the lumber and moved it all to his house. lol.

There were no new seats left for a 2002 model, so a junk yard sent me one for $25 shipped. Just that easy, three pictures long. Unbolt the old and bolt down the replacement.

base completely trashed, mirror was submerged, mirror cell dry rotted. Secondary mirror support rusted. Primary mirror in the sink. Using DI water and carefull technique to remove mud/debri. There are many tutorials on the internet. I lifted a corner to grip the mirror, the other side chipped. : / Not a big deal, but it is an "idiot" moment. cleaned. Using the old mirror cell to make templates for the replacement cell. Working on the whole "cut a circle" thing. He who c

What started off as a simple "install a new hard drive" project has quickly gone off the rails. The dell power supply was only a 235w unit. I'm not even certain it had enough power to have been running the system. This was when the 1050TI was the card to have. Anyway, to install the new drive, I needed a new power supply, the new power supply wouldn't fit in the case, so I needed a new case, the old motherboard wouldn't fit in the new case, so now I've ordered a new motherbo