Cold Shop Tips?

[John K Jordan]

Depends on how much you strip down. Youtube might object to a video of you changing!

Mostly the shirt - I tend to splash diesel fuel on the sleeves. For some reason Kubota designed the fuel filler neck so it is nearly horizontal. Almost have to drizzle fuel into it or it quickly overflows. Sigh. Takes a long time. None of my other diesel machines are made this way. I fill from a 300 gal tank with an electric pump. (The tank is SO nice - I used to haul diesel in 5-gal cans - now a tanker truck comes and fills it up.)



Maybe I should design a physical limiter for the nozzle handle or an add-on fuel restricter. Or revert to the manual lever pump. (NO!) Or get the farm hand to fill it.

Wait, I'm the farm hand...

(Sorry, can't think of any way to tie this to "cold shop tips")

JKJ

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

I have an electric boiler for the floor heat in my 30' X 40' shop. The floor has 2" styrofoam 10" sand and 4" concrete. The tubing is mounted on the styrofoam and the sand is the thermal storage. The power is "off peak" meaning it only comes on for 8 hours from 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM and costs half of the regular rate. The thermostat for the electric heat I have set for 40 degrees F and that is enough to keep the floor from freezing without breaking the bank.
I have a wood burning furnace in there that I fire up when I need it and that cleans up all of the scrap and much of the shavings.

 

[Darryn Achall]

Mostly the shirt - I tend to splash diesel fuel on the sleeves. For some reason Kubota designed the fuel filler neck so it is nearly horizontal. Almost have to drizzle fuel into it or it quickly overflows. Sigh. Takes a long time. None of my other diesel machines are made this way. I fill from a 300 gal tank with an electric pump. (The tank is SO nice - I used to haul diesel in 5-gal cans - now a tanker truck comes and fills it up.)

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Maybe I should design a physical limiter for the nozzle handle or an add-on fuel restricter. Or revert to the manual lever pump. (NO!) Or get the farm hand to fill it.

Wait, I'm the farm hand...

(Sorry, can't think of any way to tie this to "cold shop tips")

JKJ

When I was younger we had a trailer with two 500 gallon tanks on it. One for diesel and one for gas. Only had a hand pump and I spent a lot of time as the farm hand filling equipment.