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I don't know about selling that Gibson, Brian. I still lament the day I sold my Martin D-35, and even my Eko 12-string electric.

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Twice

Had everything mounted in and checked my measurements twice. Of course the third time I realized that half of 34" is 17" not 18". Duh.

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Ahhh, measure twice, cut once! It pays off big time, glad to hear you caught that.

Brian

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I don't know, it never felt quite right to me, my Ovation, that is my guitar. I sold off a few, the Gibson and an early Strat Squire. I don't miss them.

Brian

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That is pretty damn cool, so how did you do it?

Brian

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You'll be OK then. Sounds like you kept the stuff you want. I'm still stuck with a 50-year old $50 Japanese acoustic, and it's not anywhere near Takamine grade.

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"I dug my graphic plotter out and played with my air cleaner!"

Very cool, Enjoyed the visit Saturday and again a big thank you, Have both door side by side and pondering what to do and how next, if i look at it long enough maybe it will come to me.

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okay guys whos ready to hear something stupid I did this morning? in my defense I didn't know it was dumb until I did it then I knew for sure. last night I left my truck in the driveway with no hood. it smelled like it might rain so I put a trash bag over the air-cleaner. this morning I needed to move the truck up 3 feet to get my car out. I started to pull the plastic bag off the air cleaner but I figured that I was only moving it 3 feet. I started the truck and moved it up 3 feet and when I got out I noticed the trash bad was pulled very tight to the air cleaner and it looked miss-sharpened. I pulled the bag off and sure enough the $120 air cleaner was crushed in. its destroyed. im so annoyed at myself.

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Just to help you feel better, this crap happens to all of us all the time. I can't tell you the number of times I have gone at my own hands!

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I honestly had no idea.

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Thanks Bob!


It's a plotter that cuts a vinyl sheet with adhesive on the back side. I clean up the image and then let the cutter cu out the outline then use a very sharp knife to remove the vinyl I don't want then apply a very low tack masking tape then put it on where I want it and use a squeegee to set the adhesive and pull of the low tac tape! I learned how to do this many years ago making signs at Snoqualmie Pass ski area! here are some other things I've done. this is the same stuff you use for the CHEVROLET lettering on the tailgate.

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Thanks SVR! It was a pleasure having you stop by! and you are very welcome. I've got a couple ideas let me know if you want them, however looking at them both together might change the thinking a little!

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I once finger tightened the lug nuts on my '34 Ford PU, intending to torque them later. Well, guess what I forgot. I went around a corner and the left rear wheel came off. I'd lost all my lug nuts and the wobble had abraded the wheel lug nut holes so badly that my new 10x15 Cragars were ruined.

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I wrote in post #2689: "...this crap happens to us all the time." There will be years of boredom, and then something like this will happen:

You should have been there the day I was tuning my '78 Plymouth Horizon. The car was idling in the garage. I had set the e-brake, and had put the car in drive as I prepared to set the idle, then burped the RPMs up to about 1200 as I fiddled with the carb. The brake released (say "SPROINGGGGG!!!), the car lurched forward with my body hung over the fender, and the front tire caught the edge of my oil catch pan that was sitting in front of the front tire. That soaked my pants and that side of the garage with five quarts of used oil. The car continued forward, crushed the legs of the parts washer that was in front of it full on, dumped three gallons of solvent into the oil on the floor, and drove what was left of the parts washer into the drywall. True story. The only thing that was missing was fire, or it would have been an Allstate commercial.

Speaking of fire, then there was the day I had just rebuilt the tripower on my '55 chevy. I got into the car and fired her up. I was in the same garage as I had been in the paragraph above, with my '85 Astro van directly behind me, in the drive on jacks. No escape. As the car's idle settled down I could have sworn I smelled a little more gas then usual. Then, WHOOOOOOMMMMMM!!! The back carb float had stuck and had dumped about a quart of petrol onto the intake manifold, over the bellhousing and headers, and onto the floor. It lit off. The wife was mowing the grass, and said a huge ball of flame licked one time at the Astro van. As I thought about it later, I realized the '55's fan had blown the fireball in that direction. She ran into the house and dialed 911. I killed the key, grabbed the extinguisher in the corner, hit the flames low, then high, then low. The fire went out, leaving black soot all over the firewall, inside the hood, and generally all over the garage. A few minutes later the fire trucks showed up. Shock was just starting to set in, but I remember one of the firemen saying, "Nice save!"

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I need a fire extinguisher...

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I hesitate to tell everyone I'm LMAO because it is such a serious topic. Get one later today!

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Something you have done that I no longer have too. We all knew what would happen, but the whole "what if" in our heads gets the best of us. Thanks for the photos and the laugh. A video would have been cooler. LOL

:metal:

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Been trying to figure out my door problem. I made a template for the outside of my door from my good passenger door. My drivers door had significan distortion right at the body line, some above, mostly below the body line. I put the template to the other door i got from idbeast and it had a bit of the same problem, not near as bad but some. Both his door and mine at some point in there life had the skins pulled away from the bodyline of the door catching on try the fender i would guess. Inside the jam they had pulled the flange of the door jam away from the skin bending the flange. After looking and thinking and measureing awhilei wondered what would happen if i hit the outside of the door if it would go back in place. Which door to hit first? New door didnt need as much so i scared up a nice 1x2 stick and a BFH and layed the stick flat on the door and hit it. It moved pretty good, a couple more hits and my template fit pretty good. Wow lets try my old door probably going to crack the paint creating body work but have nothing to loose. Same stick and hammer it took quite a few more hits moving around both above and below the body line. It worked, some fine tuning with hammer and dolly the temple fit very close to the pass side door. A bit of putty to smooth things up and am happy with the outside. Still dont have a plan for the inside problem.
Template

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Finished outside

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You're on the road to recovery!

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I'm biting my nails watching this...

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Looking much better!

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Didn’t do much to my 59, too cold at. 14 degrees. Purchased some tires for it.

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Well, I am about to go crazy spending money! I just sold another of my old goodies and will be getting my axle dropped.

Brian

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Nice! Keeping the ball rolling.

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That's the predicament I'm in: garage is too full so I must work in the driveway, but it's too cold do anything outside. Huge blizzard predicted over the next three days. Where's that global warming they keep promising me? If I can't move to a tropical paradise, I want the tropical paradise to come to me!

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Finally some progress!! Frame painted and going back together.

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Dang that looks good!

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I'm confused: where's the mess in your shop? :lol:

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Organized chaos...lol

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I'm REALLY confused. There's a POOL TABLE in the "shop". I think he stores that awesome truck in the basement...

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I got out and did an official 5 minutes in on my truck. I am getting stuff ready to be powder coated and tied these parts together in groups. I drilled a rivet out of the front bumper brackets so they could be properly powder coated.

I also got a few more things that I know will not be used ready to sell.
a couple of days ago I ordered up my primer from SPI and bought a few parts I needed on ebay. I also measured and weighed the front axle and all the components I will be sending to SIDS for dropping and mods. Going to have them do the whole thing, install the spindles and all, modify all the steering components and buy the new drag link and tie rod from them. That way it's all ready to go, done deal.

Brian

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Been working on hydroboost brake set up. Took out vac booster and converted over. Down to hoses and figuring out remote reservoir.
Mac

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you probably already have what you need but in case someone else is lurking....

http://my.cardone.com/techdocs/PT%2052-0001.pdf

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The truck project is on the shelf 'til the weather gets a little better. I just finished building 30 more "throttle boards" for "EnterTRAINment Junction", where I volunteer. (Google it to view the largest indoor train display in the world.) We're just about done replacing all of the old microcontroller-based controllers with PLC controllers - for 85 trains that run at the same time.

Then I got wrapped up in building a $69 guitar kit, which should take less than 4 hours if I don't get carried away. At least it'll (probably) be the same color as the truck. I'm painting it like a car, of course... :)

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Thanks, I am getting a pretty good hold on things now, just need to take my hoses off my pump and see what thread I have. I think I would just use a reservoir on the master cylinder if I can find the right one that is level and not made to be on a slant.

Mac

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Heres the reservoir i used for my hydroboost, was cheap enough.

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I honestly believe it will be less work to install my dropped axle on the truck than it is making the friggin box to send it to SIDS. I am not kidding, I have put about 4 hours into this!

Brian

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brian - why don't you just by the axle out right from sid's? I found the cost for shipping the axle was more than the core cost. plus you have a stock axle as a spare or to sell on flea bay.

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Oh jeeez, I thought I already went through this, crap. After all the work of making the box, I think it's going. LOL

Brian