GRM New Year Game 2019 (a 6-time repeat offender!)

Ok, here we go.

Using the universal razor :

slicing open like a surgeon to reveal:

Wow, quite the stuffed box!

Lets take inventory:

Can of 3M edge sealer (what is that?)

Rainy day fund piggy bank

speakers

suction cup

ice scraper

earplugs

2 stroke oil

air compressor gauge

belt tensioner

clutch master adn reservoir

cut off bolt

knob

welding rods

Flyin' Miata bottle opener. Sweet!

Ford ign coil

Hot wheels cars

2 big nuts

shift handle from a ?  Miata?

Trim remover tool. Been wanting one of these!

scotch brite pad

zip ties

aluminum pulley

magic trick kit

Thanks AWSX1686!

I really need to step up my game. Each year as I see what gets sent out and I think of things I should have put in but too late.

In reply to Gearheadotaku :

Looks like a blower pulley

In reply to RossD :

I'm glad you like the beer and coozies, I made those coozies last year to send Spotted Cow to the PNW. Since you have the luxury of being able to purchase Spotted Cow anywhere I sent a couple microbrews from southern Wisconsin I had in the fridge.  The Milwaukee Tools are a bunch of stuff I scavenged from my desk.  The clamp level is the Milwaukee Pipe-Lock, that was my most recent project launch. It's a little electrician's level for conduit bending but it has machined plumb and level working surfaces.  The throttle body is off of a Chevy Trailblazer, the letters are off of my old Dodge Magnum, the oil filter is a leftover from my Fiesta ST that I recently sold, worn out exhaust hanger from my 91 Ram50 and I think the bushings were from a SN95 mustang steering rack.  Mrs. Racetruck picked out the hot wheels and the broken pliers are a raw casting for either a Leatherman or a Gerber from when I worked at a foundry.   I think that's about it.

I need to add much more to what I send out next year. My box should have reached it's recipient last week! 

I'll be coming home this weekend and excited to (hopefully) find a box on the porch when I get there..

In reply to classicJackets :

As a rookie in this, that is the lesson that I've learned. 

In reply to classicJackets :

I got it, posted at the bottom of the previous page. Took me a few extra days because my mail carrier doesn't deliver anything too large to fit in my mail box and I wasn't able to make it to the post office until today. And quality of junk>quantity of junk, plenty of cool stuff in there!

Wow!! What a generous gift I received with TONS of AWESOME stuff. Whoever sent this, thank you so much for making my Rookie year phenomenal! 

As received:

Opened:

First layer:

Moeller Bros t-shirt – right size – XL

Solvent resistant gloves

Zip ties

ID tags

Kit Kats - Maccha green tea flavor – (interesting…must be an acquired taste :)

Wire – red and blue

Coolant bottle cap

Die set

Second layer:

Safety goggles packed with…

• Head lamp
• Inline solder connectors with heat shrink (I love these)
• Dayco aWEARness tool for checking ribbed belt wear – (nice! I didn’t know these existed.)

Magnesium fire starter – (into the hiking gear)

20 amp (!!!) on-off switch

2 scotch brite pads

Black plastic spacers (for ???)

Lufkin tape measure

3M industrial Velcro

Layer 3:

Flip flop keychain

Blue orangutan keychain (Jungle Book?)

Cassette tapes (Tim McGraw, Hank Williams, Eagles)

Assorted size black and red heat shrink

AC Delco water pump gaskets for GM something or other

K&N filter for ????

2 caribiners

Ethanol fuel sticker (?)

Speaker wire

Shiny silver fabricy stuff (heat wrap??)

3amp inline fuse holders

Drill size card

Layer 4:

Cigar box filled with….(patience….I’ll get to that in the next photo)

5 speed shift knob

Small wire wheel

A FREAKING AIR HORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who does that???? I had to immediately hook it up to my compressor…and that thing is….LOUD!!!!!! Can’t wait until New Years Eve!! This is my new favorite thing.

Locking lug nuts

Quick release battery terminal connectors (it took me a while to figure those out)

Atlas can/bottle opener

Thermometer

Fender washers

Number 40 drills, lots of number 40 drills

Flashlight with bent optical tube

Fuel tank connector kit

Baling wire

Quick connectors for wiring (Wago lever nuts)

Blue rag (air horn protective layer)

Cigar Box contents:

Ceiling fan pull chains

Light socket/plug adapter

Red pivoting (air fitting???)

SNAP-ON !!! 3/8” ratchet

Keychain with: mini-crescent wrench/hammer, spark plug gapper, mini-screwdriver, mini-knife

½” drive 10mm socket

Wire loom holders

¼” carbide drill

White paint stick

Mini-caribiner

Snap-on and MAC screwdrivers

Coach brand zipper pull

MAC multi-knife

SRT-8 badge (maybe I'll put this on the Neon once it is running...just to Berk with people)

“WOOZ” labyrinth token

RockAuto magnets

Western oxygen cylinder wrench ( I had to use my strongest Google-foo to figure this one out)

and Stickers!

Again, thank you sooooo much!!!

Mine has arrive. Been out of town.... Will post tomorrow! 

"It's all Bill's Fault" and "Rattle ok" have me ROLLING!

And I am so stealing that "Berk it, Send it" sticker idea! 

But more importantly, what the heck is up with the postal carriers this year?  Some of these boxes have taken a BEATING!  I hope Mezzanine's theory skips my box, because there is a LOT of duct tape on that badboy...

In reply to Cadman5 :

Sweet Haul! 

In reply to Gearheadotaku :

Edge sealer is used to seal the edges around stickers and decals so they don't peel up. I've used it a lot (though that isn't my box!) And it makes decals last a lot longer, esp in wet environs.

Clear nail polish can also be used, and works suspiciously about as well...

Paranoid Andriod's been busy.  Thanks man!  After seeing all of the loot above I think I may have shorted someone in Sandusky, Ohio.

Cool stuff including a steel cardboard box counterbalance in the bottom. 

Them Gummy Bears are going on to a new owner next Christmas....

In reply to 914Driver :

Lol!  You are welcome!

My goal was to regift a few things from each of the three years I've participated.

****Edit for clarity on some items:

Little screwdriver, chain, jar of LEDs, Microsoft patch are all regifted.  There were more (I think) but I can't remember what else I put in there.

The wheel center clock was my doing.  I hope it works...  Signs are from a bathing suit dryer and a sauna respectively.  The two biggest headaches of mine at work.

The book "Worst Cars of All Time" was given to me by my ass hat neighbor.  His words were "I was cleaning my basement and found this book.  It applies more to you than it does me."
 

I should be getting my box sent out today!

Green tea kitkat are straight fire, almost put some in my recipients box but kept them all for myself 

JohnInKansas said:

Half of a motorcycle brake caliper, a tow loop or matbe a seatbelt bracket, a pair of safety glasses.

Vacuum or pressure stuff. Hoses, fittings, p-clamps, couple of analog gauges, a digital gauge and a couple pressure regulators(?).

Electrical stuff. Note in the bag says "Anaheim Automation stepper drivers, use with Anaheim transformers". Transformers are included, along with a Eurotherm controller of some kind, a 120v fan, and a voltage gauge.

Matt, if you want to clue me in to how I ought to be using the items in the last couple pictures, I'd be happy to hear it.

Thanks!

Okay, so some of this I pulled from shelves in my workshop and some came out of my "I should have eBayed this E36 M3 years ago," box.

Motorcycle clutch slave, I don't remember off what bike, but I put it on an SV650 to convert to hydraulic clutch.  I think the tow loop was under a hitch ball to attach a safety brake pull cable to. The safety glasses have +1.00 readers in the bottom, which can be useful for reading socket sizes when under a car.

Vacuum/Pressure stuff.  I didn't check to see if I sent a pressure or vacuum/pressure digital gage, but it should be programmable to change colors when the value is outside of its range (oil pressure too low, boost, whatever).  Basically it is a gage and idiot light combined. You have a "big" regulator that really isn't big, just precision, and a little baby one that I have no clue what to really do with. Regulate off an airbrush pump, make a wastegate barely open, Christmas ornament? If you figure something out, please post pictures.

The Eurotherms are industial machine thermostats, though they need some for of temperature measuring device connected. They are programmable for displaying temp and turning heaters/chillers on and off.

Stepper motor controllers?  Who knows, you have two; maybe a homemade CNC router designed around obsolete parts?  That could waste all kinds of time. The smart move is to use eBay to pay for next years postage, but I haven't been that smart, yet.

I hope you have fun with it all,

Matthew

In reply to Cadman5 :

Dang! This is my favorite box so far!

Back from vacation.  Mine should go out on the 2nd!!!!

Rattle OK.

In reply to EvanB :

Oh yeah, the white ceramic square is an electro-themo cooling/heating device. Think thermocouple but in reverse. The silver doodad is a 95°F cutoff switch. It opens the circuit at that temp to protect whatever is inline with it. The hot side of the ET device doesnt like to exceed roughly that temp. Run the device from 0-12 VDC, IIRC. might have to google the number for databsheets.

Package dropped off. Should be headed towards Oregon soon.

My box made it all the way from AL looking very good. 

I feel like mine is a bit lacking now, great stuff in this one!

Unpacking!

Little box had a package of resistors

A mostly complete pair of Itailian made Trubo mirrors

Awesome E36 M3 from the Pedal Pushers Klunker Class. My bikes definitely fit the Klunker definition.

An official Team GB shirt

Ford stereo Harness

Package of Orings (laughing at my oil leak oring misadventures?!)

Bag of ~1/4" vacuum plugs (Always needed!)

One very cool Tardis watch. Uhhh yeah I tried top explain a Tardis to my daughter. She thinks I am crazy

Three Knives! Two Opinel (always wanted one of those actually) and a Kudu?

Yes they are sharp....

Two Koozies, what on earth is Cleopatra's Animated Adventures? Will have too google....

One large box of assorted "Wave Springs". What are they for??

A little walnut box.

Ballast and a screwdriver 

Nifty little terminal blocks. They stack so you can make whatever size is needed.

Awesome stickers. Debating if I should piss a lot of people off and put the prius killer on my big diesel....

Clymer for  a Yami 2stroke.... Maybe I need to buy one to flat track?

This one I will have to study. Perhaps the IH needs some! Gave it a quick read through, and it seems VERY through and hard to do :D

And last but not least, one zip tie and two #8 ish screws.

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Thank you Robert!!!

Mine went out today. I'm fairly sure that my recipient was the person who sent my box last year. 

I completely forgot to enclose the note I'd written. I found it on my desk when I got back from the post office. 

The note should say: Happy GRM Gift Exchange.  In the spirit of the law that bears my name, I've sent an oil pressure gauge for one of your Mazdas.  - Brett Murphy 


 

Paranoid, you may be seeing these again in 12 months!  

RossD said:

In reply to EvanB :

That electronic distributor conversion does a Renault 688 engine with a Bosch dizzy or a 914 with a Bosch.

Sounds like it's finally time to buy a Renault. 

java230 said:

My box made it all the way from AL looking very good. 

I feel like mine is a bit lacking now, great stuff in this one!

Unpacking!

Little box had a package of resistors

A mostly complete pair of Itailian made Trubo mirrors

Awesome E36 M3 from the Pedal Pushers Klunker Class. My bikes definitely fit the Klunker definition.

An official Team GB shirt

Ford stereo Harness

Package of Orings (laughing at my oil leak oring misadventures?!)

Bag of ~1/4" vacuum plugs (Always needed!)

One very cool Tardis watch. Uhhh yeah I tried top explain a Tardis to my daughter. She thinks I am crazy

Three Knives! Two Opinel (always wanted one of those actually) and a Kudu?

Yes they are sharp....

Two Koozies, what on earth is Cleopatra's Animated Adventures? Will have too google....

One large box of assorted "Wave Springs". What are they for??

A little walnut box.

Ballast and a screwdriver 

Nifty little terminal blocks. They stack so you can make whatever size is needed.

Awesome stickers. Debating if I should piss a lot of people off and put the prius killer on my big diesel....

Clymer for  a Yami 2stroke.... Maybe I need to buy one to flat track?

This one I will have to study. Perhaps the IH needs some! Gave it a quick read through, and it seems VERY through and hard to do :D

And last but not least, one zip tie and two #8 ish screws.

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Thank you Robert!!!

If that pinstripe book needs to find a home, I would care for it. 

Also, my box is packed and addressed. I'm hoping to find an apc tomorrow so I don't have to explain to a postal worker what the hell I've done.