What did you do to your Volvo today? Topic is solved

[abscate]

. So I stuck a rare earth magnet inside my glove

this is Huge !

[amblerman]

. So I stuck a rare earth magnet inside my glove

this is Huge !

I had a few false starts with this idea as I was trying to hot melt glue or tape the magnets to some stick or rubber hose but it wasn't working. I then started thinking of some way I could attach it to my glove so I could just use my finger. And then I had that DOH! moment when I finally realized I could just put it IN the glove. No complicated attachments or anything.

I had a brief moment of fear when I worried my finger would get stuck in the hole in the frame but thankfully that embarrassing situation didn't manifest. The magnet I used is a tiny cylinder type magnet. about the size of a grain or rice. Those rare earth magnets are so powerful.

Those spherical rare earth magnets that are parts of toys would well too.

I thought back to all those bolts and nuts I've dropped in hard to reach places. A magnet in a glove would make getting those so easy.

I probably will never drop a bolt ever again.

-A

[ZionXIX]

MVS will never be the same. Soon everyone will be shoving magnets into their gloves.

[abscate]

So many applications

I just did three battery replacements on iPhones and holding those small screws just got easy

I’ll cut off a finger to make a magnetic finger cot for that next time

[jvl]

Not today, but over the past few weeks:

- Oil change
- DIY toe-in alignment which turned out pretty well
- Put my propshaft up for sale, since I deleted the angle gear after finding out it was broken. The propshaft had just been rebuilt, so that sucked. Ad here (based in Netherlands...): https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1418529110

Camping season preparations:
- Bought and installed a rooftop tent which is awesome for short camping trips! We love a 'ground tent' but the one we have is quite time consuming to set up, so more suitable for longer trips.
- Electrical work and planning: ordered new solar panel setup (old bulky panel I have been using doesn't combine well with the rooftop tent)
- Laid out camping kit to fit bottom drawer, ordered parts to install drinking water tank + tap in bottom drawer

Temparatures are rising, getting excited to do more road trips!

[cmblackburn]

I did...a pretty big thing!
...Now fighting with master cylinder installation, and then have the long road ahead of me with the rest of the swap.
I miss driving this junkheap.

[bmdubya1198]

Nice! That master cylinder is a ton of fun to install...

Did you decide on yanking the whole thing out the top or dropping the trans from underneath?

[cmblackburn]

Nice! That master cylinder is a ton of fun to install...

Did you decide on yanking the whole thing out the top or dropping the trans from underneath?

Yanking the whole thing out the top. I dropped my Escape's out the bottom of the car using an engine support bar, but with the addition of having to drop the subframe and all on the Volvo I'll just as soon yank it back out the top, even though I just did that 5k ago during the engine replacement.

[bmdubya1198]

Yanking the whole thing out the top. I dropped my Escape's out the bottom of the car using an engine support bar, but with the addition of having to drop the subframe and all on the Volvo I'll just as soon yank it back out the top, even though I just did that 5k ago during the engine replacement.

That's definitely how I'd do it. I feel like it's much easier to do it that way if you don't have a lift. I pulled it from the bottom last time, not doing that again!

[ZionXIX]

Oil change day. Literally could not ask for better weather. 77F and partly cloudy in Texas.