What other projects are you working on?
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Maybe I shouldn't have taken this on at my age.
It's a 1/35 scale model of a 1942 Russian Army sidecar motorcycle. AKA, my Urals' grandpa. Or BMW's illegitimate son. The kit is from Russia, too. Anyway, a lot of teeny tiny parts that don't play well with my sausage fingers.
What's even worse, I have another 1/35 scale German Army BMW sidecar kit from the same era. That kit is from Ukraine.
I bought both kits before the SHTF and I haven't been bored enough to mess with them.
It's a 1/35 scale model of a 1942 Russian Army sidecar motorcycle. AKA, my Urals' grandpa. Or BMW's illegitimate son. The kit is from Russia, too. Anyway, a lot of teeny tiny parts that don't play well with my sausage fingers.
What's even worse, I have another 1/35 scale German Army BMW sidecar kit from the same era. That kit is from Ukraine.
I bought both kits before the SHTF and I haven't been bored enough to mess with them.
Just a passing interest in the vehicles. I have had the opportunity to drive a 1943 Ford GPW.
A friend let my wife and I take this GPW to a car show while he took the Dodge WC beside it with his wife. A very enjoyable experience!
What a freakin' pain in the ass.
That clip is about 5mm wide without the pad. It took about 4 hours, on and off, to assemble the front fork to the frame. There was a lot of 'Screw This' and walking away until I remembered the 'octopus' with the clips in the garage. The frame pieces were bent, too, which helped a hell of a lot.
That clip is about 5mm wide without the pad. It took about 4 hours, on and off, to assemble the front fork to the frame. There was a lot of 'Screw This' and walking away until I remembered the 'octopus' with the clips in the garage. The frame pieces were bent, too, which helped a hell of a lot.
Tomorrow's project, should I decide to accept it, is to get this ancient little Metalcraft lathe out of the back of my pickup and onto the bench in my garage.
I've wanted a small lathe since I first stood in front of one of the South Bends in Freshman metal shop 54 years ago. It kind of looks like hell but it is in great mechanical shape, though the belts will probably be the first thing replaced.
alittleoff
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An engine hoist should do the trick.
And it was also in high school that I learned and gained my appreciation for shop classes.
Since I wasn't a jock, I spent most of my time in shop classes like small engines, wood, welding and drafting.
And it was also in high school that I learned and gained my appreciation for shop classes.
Since I wasn't a jock, I spent most of my time in shop classes like small engines, wood, welding and drafting.
My metal shop teacher was also the freshman football coach. And scary AF when you first walked into the class as a 13 year old kid. I was on the freshman team, so I saw him more than any of my other teachers. Once you figured out that the scary was BS, he was a great guy, a consummate story teller(aka Bullshitter) and probably the best teacher I ever had. I had the opportunity to tell him that before he passed away 10 years ago.
With four letters in Track and two in Football, I guess I was supposed to be a jock.
With four letters in Track and two in Football, I guess I was supposed to be a jock.
I took 4 years of High School electronics, and decided to give metal shop a try in my senior year. Both teachers were fantastic, the electronics teacher and I kept in touch until his passing in 2005.
alittleoff
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My welding teacher was also the football/wrestling coach. He was built like the proverbial fire plug.
He knew that I didn't have a future in sports but, he saw that I learned fairly quickly how to weld.
The metal/small engine shop teacher was into cars & trucks. I was one of the few students that could read & understand a micrometer but, I sucked at math. I even got to make a few parts for his '57 T-bird & '56 Cameo P/U.
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By my tired old ass self, from the back of the truck to up on the bench.
No hoist was available and my neighbor sold his little tractor with the front end loader last week. Just used my experience from moving large CNC machines and dry cleaning plants with 1/2" pipe and grunt.
No hoist was available and my neighbor sold his little tractor with the front end loader last week. Just used my experience from moving large CNC machines and dry cleaning plants with 1/2" pipe and grunt.
Not working on it quite yet (waiting for better weather), but soon I'll be turning this....
Into this!
It says 18-24 hours for setup. So this will be fun!
Into this!
It says 18-24 hours for setup. So this will be fun!
I've taken one partially apart and then reassembled, but never from scratch. I'm decently handy and will have some help from a couple very handy folks with extensive construction experience. Not that that means anything when it comes to following instructions! lol
In 2005 I was on a work trip near New Orleans and one of the guys had one he needed put up so I helped him and another guy build it. I think we started at like 4 and finished at 2am with an outback catered break in there.
Both those guys were offshore service men so all of us had an idea how to use tools and read drawings. The cordless tools weren’t what they are now either. We all determined we weren’t doing it again though.
I recently put together a new bed for my daughter and I feel like if I’d have had a stack of wood and the necessary tools it’d been easier to build it from scratch than piece all of their parts together. It reminded of that playset.
Yea this thing looks to be huge! Luckily when we get to it, our plan will be to put probably two solid days into it and then I'll finish anything left over a couple evenings.
alittleoff
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Loading ramps were the key. I had forgotten that I used my loading ramps to transfer a 120# electric oven from the back of our 4-Runner to a rolling cart so I could wheel it in to our kitchen. That's good thinking for sure.
It reminds me of my Dad saying, use your head and not your back.