GRM New Years Game 2020!!!!!!

In reply to Indy "Nub" Guy :

Glad to year it made it! I was pretty sure you were my recipient, but as I said I'm bad at personalization for these things. I will note though, I've been to a few auctions this year, so the miscellaneousness is in full swing. 

Finally got a box in the mail to GA today...

So what has arrived from Wisconsin?

Ok, let's pop the top...

Ah mysterious treasures abound!

3D printed GRM can koozie, put to immediate use. A real vaccum tube! Sparklers, bits of wood, battery cable, feather. Neck mounted flashlight, small throttle body, oil filter, flasher, weed eater spool, strapwrench, copper coil, a very strange c clamp, knife, hose, lots of nuts and bolts for extra rattling, zip ties, 220v plug, level, air Chuck. Stickers, air freshener, cutting and grinding discs, another can koozie, and a big beverage holder. Magnum lettering, a round slide rule and a tiny stuffed mouse!

Thanks for the cool and useful stuff.

Ooooooh, I got a box.

Hey, I got THE box!

And unpacked:

Book light, rabbit ears, smoke detector. A couple watches, key holders, and various lanyards(one has what appears to be an autoX medal attached). Glow plug, E-shop manual, a saw, and a collection of tiny tools. The Thunderbird plaque is super cool! My daughter absconded with the hot cocoa, and my son sniped the book.

Thanks bgkast!

As my trash left today, I didn't feel anything but excitement as I opened my box. 
 

First up, mudflaps? They say jeep so I "get it" now. 

along with some tool I don't know the use for:

motorbike parts I can use!

My first cigar! And assorted paraphernalia. I don't smoke but I'll either save it for next year or give it to a buddy.

Brake juice receptacle  

A bag in a box! Pretty useful looking. much excited.

Ear plugs and safety eyebrows  

They fit!

Foreign shots

Brass(?) bell. Sweet  

A CD! My new car has a CD player so I'll be able to test it out.

Tools,hardware, stuff. 

patch panel

Club security:

stickies!

And something that genuinely frightened me after yesterday's thread: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/why-are-they-doing-that-calling-helicopter-people/180036/page1/

Awesome haul! Thanks Kansas Santa!

*oh! I missed stuff:

Some kind of wizard or something:

And a syringe for what I've heard called "heroic doses"

In reply to barefootskater (Shaun) :

The tool is a dressing wheel for grinders.  Used to get it flat again

You were not my victim but that tool is a stone dresser for a grinding wheel. They work great.

My card is unberkeleyed. Final prep has started. Should be Thursday into the mail. 

I told my wife I was going to open the GRM Exchange Package, and she did a little hippity-hop dance.

So... It looks like wrenches may have been responsible for the box splitting. Right on top was a personalized note from jfryjfry, our resident stunt driver. 

TWENTY FIVE wrenches, assorted sizes. Some look old, it looks like ALL of them were made in the USA and many of them are in SAE sizes I needed.  This is freaking awesome. My wife thinks that the very tiny wrench on top is adorable, so I'll not be surprised if she steals it after I clean it up a bit.

What else was in the box?

A boost gauge, 1963 Austin Healey Roadster, a pretty neat T-shirt from a chase car company that the girl-spawn is getting (I'm an extra big bastard), an ice scraper, scissors, an oil pressure gauge,  a black and white art print (classic Mini and another British looking car I couldn't ID immediately on a track), a model car (Dodge Dart Sport), clutch cylinder, sticker, propane torch, transmission sender, window crank A, window crank B, a metric socket set (including 10 mm), more assorted sockets, a broken Dremel (I have one of these, too, hoping to make one good one out of the pair) and lastly one of the 25 wrenches in the box- a neat combination socket and wrench. 

Thank you, Jeremy,  for the most excellent and useful GRM Box, even if you weren't able to stalk me.

In reply to barefootskater (Shaun) :

As noted, that is a dressing tool for grinding wheels. It came to me last year(?), and I still don't own a bench grinder, so its yours now.

The brass bell is an old superstition. Fasten underneath your motorcycle, low to the ground and close to the front of the bike. The tinkle of a small brass bell wards off the evil spirits and road gremlins that will give you trouble. Might work on cars too, for all I know.

Bag is Army medic fare. Snagged a bunch out of the dumpster when they upgraded a few years ago.

Wizard used to hang under the back of my Beetle, but I think one of the dogs pulled him off.

My box full of totally random awesomeness is winging (okay, probably slow-trucking) its way to Texas as we speak (type?). Good luck, poor (I mean really lucky and blessed) GRMer!!! 

In reply to JohnInKansas :

Oh I forgot to get a photo of the snacks! Wife enjoyed the squid more than me. The bag will be genuinely useful, and I already have spots chosen for the stickers. I suspected it was a demon bell, but wasn't sure. Thanks John!

In reply to AWSX1686 (Forum Supporter) :

Awesome box !

Here are the pics:

The Chainsaw was too dull this year to do the job, so with all the talk recently about battery operated tools, I though I'd use my other saw to open it up properly:

Looks promising upon first glance:

Look at all this loot!

Some really cool stickers, that the Indy-Kids immediately started fighting over:

Cresent wrenches, a life time supply of hack saw blades, heavy duty brush and its little brother,  Jigsaw, box cutters, a bike horn (that the kids used to make Indy-Wife plug her ears), and a few bearing races.

Cool Hand powered drill, drills bits box cutters, scrapers and some pokey thingies:

A couple 3/8 ratchets, cutter, church key, some bandaids in a case, locktite adhesive, a couple lock tumbers and pad lock without keys, compass, and some straight line chalk strings.

Can cozzy, a green thingy, scented candle, a car radio with remote control, but missing the face plate, screw driver offsets, and some ball joints that I REALLY hope are for one ton Ford E-350 (because if thery are, I'm going to use them)

And I was SUPER excited when I saw this black pulley.  I thought, OH It's a 15 % over drive SuperCharger pulley for the Jaaaag, but then I also saw the alternator pulley in the labeled box, and then I realised, it's probably also just an alternator pulley.

Thanks again !

Hey Shaun, realized/remembered something when I was checking the thread again.

Cigars go bad, they dry out and generally become crappy to smoke.  Including a year(s) old one would be well in the spirit of the GRM box, but you probably want to hand it off to a friend.

In reply to barefootskater (Shaun) :

Dude use that syringe instead of the brake bleeder. Very nice to be able to add a little pull or push to the process...

Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to barefootskater (Shaun) :

Dude use that syringe instead of the brake bleeder. Very nice to be able to add a little pull or push to the process...

I use a syinge to pull some of the old fluid out of the master cylinder before bleeding. Definitely a handy tool.

Haha, I use a turkey baster...

In reply to Mr_Asa :

Good to know. I figured they age? Shows what I know. Maybe it'll be good bait to get my flaky friend to actually show up to clip the dogs claws. 

preach said:

Haha, I use a turkey baster...

Man, I have zero baster skills. I dribble all over the place trying to use one of those.

In reply to Indy "Nub" Guy :

Glad you enjoyed it! 
 

Here's couple notes for ya. The ball joints were for my 2000 f250, 2wd, but if I recall correctly turned out not to be the correct fitment. It's been a while since I dealt with that. 
 

The alternator pulleys were from a VW something that I fixed for a kid in the youth group. Put a new alternator on and didn't keep the pulley when we returned the core. Had to hunt down one that would fit, so those are the ones that didn't. XD

Yeah, that cigar is old balls. Use it as bait and smoke one of your buddies cigars instead, if you really want to try one. Pass it on in next year's box.

And that's exactly why I bought a box of syringes for, clutch and brake bleeding.

Someone in MO is getting a box today. 

Bombs away! Dropped my package off at the post office yesterday. Managed to cram 13 pounds of crap into a medium size USPS box. Hope someone needs an obscure third-gen F-body strut tool

In reply to Brett_Murphy (Ex-Patrón) :

I'm glad you got it

not glad to see the hole

glad to see that is says it's insured

also glad to read later that it looks like not much, if any, fell out

i tried looking around for any indications of specific things you would like but we all know how the search feature here is neither. 
 

some of the stuff is regifted, some I accumulated and some I bought just for the box. 
 

I love those wrenches, especially the old protos and whatnot.  I think the two combo wrenches are particularly great.  
 

a family friend does those drawings and I ended up with an extra.  I hope it made it relatively clean as he charges a lot for them. 
 

I save bits of cars I've crashed to throw into the boxes but this year I've coordinated and not crashed anything when I have been behind the wheel so I felt bad about that. 
 

merry new year!

It's a box!!!!

Santa salt shaker approves and is impressed with the weight.  Mrs Glueguy reminds me I can't be a child and open it until she gets home and then we can be children together.

It's gift wrapped!  Nice touch to extend the suspense.

Ooooo, this is going to be good!

Two BMW emblems suggests a bit of stalking, nice driving gloves in the right size (!) some cool Hammer Store tools I don't yet have, a fascinating 18-in-1 toolset on a keyring and parts from the donor truck for the 76C20 build and the legendary APV-R.

Tasty treats, a lug wrench for weight, badges with forum significance and the separate AM/FM and cassette equalizer from the 90 pickup.  Total flashback to my 94 Suburban.  I pressed a lot of buttons and did a lot of reminiscing with this last night, thanks for bringing back the memories.

Amp from the radio (more heftiness), a found obligatory 10mm, cool stickers, a special 2017 decal and a Pontiac key assumed part of the APV-R project.

Yum!!  Mrs Glueguy didn't realize it was appropriate to ship goodies, so someone's getting some good stuff next year.

Thanks, ShawneeCreek!  This was an awesome box.  It made our night to go through it, especially realizing the connection to build threads.  You berkeleyin rock