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Ulu last won the day on December 9 2023

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    CenCal
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    cars, computers, motorcycles, boats,, fishing
    all machines and machine work
  • My Project Cars
    1947 P-15 Special Deluxe Club Coupe
    1963 IHC Scout
    1973 VW kit car

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    65 y.o. grease monkey
  • Occupation
    retired computer geek

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  1. It’s a burn day in the San Joaquin Valley (for Ag purposes.)
  2. More random content… I decided to build another little stove, for my own amusement, and for TIG practice on unusual surfaces. I am building it from a small refrigeration compressor. So far I’m just cutting, and no welding yet, but probably today. The wind is almost gone and it has blown the boatyard 100% dry. A while back I bought three new Oscar fish for my largest aquarium, and I’m sure I have a breeding pair and one runt. This is a pic of the pair. I had to put the runt in a separate tank to keep him from being chewed up and spit out by his tankmates. He looks the same as the pair in my photo, but he is about 1/5 the mass of the largest fish, yet these 3 were all born at the same time. I named these fish “the three bears” when I bought them, and “baby bear” is now in his own 55 gallon tank, with 100 baby guppies to snack on and fatten him up.
  3. If you have that they just rip it all out. Nobody will patch that stuff.
  4. I threatened my wife with that 5 gal bucket, or she could drive to Walmart 1 mile away. I got “the look” . . .
  5. Settlement of the house is to blame. Fortunately we still have plenty of slope. Roots from a rose bush had found the crack and plugged the sewer. This is how we found out.
  6. Nothing intellectual has gone on here. I’ve been clinging to the dumb end of an idiot stick. We had a cracked sewer, so my whole week was shot. We took out a yard of silty clay & brought in a yard of real soil. Really lucky the crack was almost under the garden.
  7. The rain finally stopped, and wind blew everything dry. I had been hiding in the garage for days, building a small rocket stove from some old junk. Last night I fired it off and tried to burn off whatever paint I hadn’t wirebrushed off already. This started life as two boat seat pedestals. I was easily able to boil water over the chimney with a little grate. The sooty teapot got its soot elsewhere. This stove is smokeless. Once you get it going, it has a constant chimney burn.
  8. I vote for gold metalflake on the wheels.
  9. I am plodding along alright. I decided that with 3 vehicles running I had no reason to rush. BUT, this season has been the wettest in 50 years since I moved here. Lots of rain days, and it just started again as I sit here typing... This global warming/cooling/changing Is making us less a desert and more tropical. Things are rusting faster ;-( Anyhow, the metal is cut and there’s no going back now.
  10. I finally got the new frame rails cut, notched, bent, and clamped up in approximate position. Tomorrow I can clean it up a bit more, square it up, and tack it together.
  11. SAFETY It’s all in your head . . .
  12. Yeah, those bits are amazing! I expect them to snap off, then they bend over 90°.
  13. I haven’t had to wrestle anybody since I was a school boy, But I was a regular skater with a huge collection of boards, right up until the time I decided to start building bicycles. My 69th birthday is about 6 weeks off. I think I will tune up my favorite board and take my chances. BTW, I don’t do any stupid skateboard stunts. I ride strictly for fitness & distance. I don’t do serious downhill either.
  14. This thread is about the worst car parts you ever bought. I have been pretty lucky, except rebuilt Ford starters, but here is the real deal: This 50 year old sticker on a fruitcake tin is the only remaining proof that I once owned the worst aftermarket stick shift ever sold. It frequently slipped into the neutral position while the transmission was in second, meaning you were stuck in second, until you stuck your arm under the car and shifted the trans to neutral. I sold the car to a guy who decided not to bother. He drove from Reno down to Sacramento in second and cooked the engine. Good riddance to him, my high school built Ford coupe, and that awful Spark-O-Matic stick!
  15. As it turns out, the inner rails of my jig interfered with the crossmember assembly. I redesigned it a bit and removed them. I also redesigned the crossmember itself. It needed to provide a body mount for the upper cowl, plus support the steering column, provide tunnel access, and mount the master cylinder and reservoir. I cut the big holes with a flycutter. That plate came from some folding RV steps. These access hole covers were cut, bent and flanged from a desk drawer divider. Four little bits of conduit made the clamps. I welded all the corners after stripping paint. The bent 1” tubing came from an electric powered chair. The straight 1.25” tube came from the Brian Wind Trainer. Red flanged plates came from a Harbor Freight welding cart. I made the tunnel closure plates to also clamp the fuel and brake lines. My welding table was once the shelf for a massive 1930s typewriter. Everything gets TIG welded. The electro-seam-welded tubing had some weak seam welding, and popped open here. I ended up re-welding all the seams. It was either that or scrap the whole weldment. You can see it clearly where it is clamped, and here I have started the seam welding. Here it is on the chassis. The seams aren’t all done yet. I need to square up the tunnel a bit more and tack this on, so I can start fitting the rails.
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