very few have had the pleasure of listening to their Drill Sergeant...........DRINK WATER..........5...4....3....2...1...TURN THEM UPSIDE DOWN OVER YOUR HEAD..............WHY PVT SOO AND SOO DO YOU STILL HAVE WATER IN YOUR CANTEEN.................FRONT LEANING REST POSITION.....MOVE!.....IN CADENCE......

Air Assault school is the same way. Every Time the Sergeant says to take a drink, he means the whole canteen. Do that or I'd hear, "Sir, drop and give ten to the wind (Meaning: Face forward drop and do 10 pushups, then rise to the position of attention, do a right face, drop and do ten more, rise to attention and so forth until you were facing in the original direction.)

The paint is specially formulated to only run on the side that shows. It flows out perfectly on the Rim's backside which will never be seen

I must have used backside paint on the front side or something because there really is no reason for this.

Well, this is only the "Primer" coat as it were, so who cares what it looks like.

But

It has to be flat for the top coat or I'm going to own one hillbilly lookin hick special!

I got on the brake calipers. They had been coated with shark hide some years ago and really had done quite well. I cleaned and coated them with the silver Runs-a-Lot" paint, and I must have used the can of inside (can't be seen) formula, because it came out OK!

Then I applied one coat of the hard to work with KBS epoxy "runs-a-lot" rust encapsulator and helo pilot aggravation compound.

Interestingly, when I drained the water seperator, I found not one drop of H2O in there!  Now why is that?

And the mystery deepens. I just got a "Water in fuel" message on my DIC, along with a "Change fuel filter" message.

This has me wondering if somehow the air Dog filter failed allowing the water to bypass up to the factory filter which I still run as a safety

Then the Allison got a new filter as well

The magnet I had installed a couple years ago had done its job well. I found sixth gear attached to the magnet backside!

While I was waiting for the stripper to soften the epoxy, I installed some more filters, fuel filters first

I got all sorts of runs. I'll attribute that to improper thinning of the material causing me to have to spray more down in an attempt to reduce the trunk-spatter-paint effect I was getting.

So, OK, this was an obvious fail, so a redo and rethink is in order

We can see that the normal UV happy paint had no problems with the moisture, pressure, or temperature

You two!

The twins again!

My boys were spending too much time in their electronic gaming world

I made a change to all that

They have to earn it

They get an equal amount of time to play with their electronics as they spend working

If they sweep the floor, they get 20 minutes game time

A load of clothes washed and folded = 1 hour.

If they read for one hour, they get one hour game time.

Yesterday, two hours of pulling weeds earned them two hours of modern warfare

An hour spent reading the bible earns them an hour of minecraft

And on it goes. They can't play it until they earn it first.

Dang it, was gunna bring up SQ D. Shoot just did anyhow by accident of course.

I knew that was coming, so I just threw myself into the flames

Note: This advice does not apply to big on-going truck projects,

and

I am the last person who should be giving this particular piece of advice

But

Do one thing at a time. Concentrate on it, and get it done correctly, then move on to your next task

How's that for a first post on a new forum? I wouldn't think you would expect anything less.

That's a safety tip!

Not a "cool idea," tip!

I'm with Dawg & Ken, can't think of one reason this is good for the average American.

You're not thinking about this!

1. US Navy inventory is down 60 odd tomahawks. The tomahawk factory just got an order...Jobs! ;-)
2. Fewer aircraft and aircraft parts in Syria
3. Which means the ruskys are secretly thanking us, because they now get to sell all the replacements to Syria
4. Which under the table improves US/Rusky relations!
5. Fewer pilots flying Syrian jets for our Navee guys to practice on in prep for the real fight with Chinese and Russian pilots.
6. Those Navy guys/gals now have something to do and be proud of. I mean what if you were a killer, but never got to kill anything?
7. Assad has been spanked
8. Sissy Obama has left the building...In 60 times a big way!
9. Hippies all over now have more to protest and whine about
10. Berkley professors now have more hate material to use to brainwash the youthful idiots with.
11. We got a good function check on a bunch of missile launchers.
12. We raised the anxiety and blood pressure with that fat kid in North Korea.
13. We just handed the Chinaman a whole book on "Whoa, we underestimated this rich man with the bad hair."
14. You boneheads conspiracy theorists just got rejuvenated.
15. Church attendance may increase as we now once again start to stare down the gun barrel.
16. A bunch of high school graduates now have a place to go and enlist.
17.A bunch of T-Shirt companies can get busy pumping out big boisterous flag festooned shirts with a big numba 60 on the front!
18. Same goes for the companies making "Infidel" patches
19. It makes for interesting news. You can watch Fox, then CNN and get two different readings of the same event
20. And finally, I sleep better just knowing those Tomahawks found a nice Haji filled place to go to bed!

You see, Shawn, Ken, Kyle, and others...You just weren't thinkin'!

Don, just a thought on the bubbles in the wheel finish.
Could it be moisture in the compressed air, or the fact it was thinner ( possible not compatible ) and sprayed vice brushed.
I say the latter not knowing the application instructions.

Sam, no sir, none of the above

I had a moisture filter attached to the air line at the gun
The thinner came from KBS, and was for that paint
Paint can either be sprayed or brushed

Now having thought about it, here's my thoughts
1. This epoxy cures by being exposed to moisture. It was raining yesterday, could that have made for too high a humidity?
2. The paint has a temperature range and I was skirting the bottom of that range, possibly outside of parameters
3. This stuff is thick. Ranges between Latex house paint and elmers wood glue. Thicker materials require a more generous nozzle at the spray gun. I was using my most generous "Primer" nozzle, but it was still sputtering. So either I need to thin more, or up pressure more, which is not characteristic for HVLP guns...

Good, strong words there dad!

They will resonate











Point of order: This guy was a grunt?? Grunts utter single syllable words, then get back to sleeping, eating, of breaking stuff. If this man wrote this...And he was a grunt...Then this may well be the first time this has happened!

What next, Bobby writing poetry? 

Just kidding, of course. Men who carry a gun and fight in the dirt are the best of us, always have been!

Hmmm, seems like my tape idea is old school!

And it doesn't work all that well

It's the morning after and I just examined those wheels. The Epoxy silver stuff did something weird. It seems it reacts with moisture in the air fairly aggressively. Meaning: It swells and almost bubbles up. The finish is anything but level, (pictures to follow tonight) and will have to be removed.

The paint, (Lighter gray) turned out great. I'd call it a semi-gloss flat finish which will both add color, and reduce shine which is in keeping with the overall theme of this project

Finally: Had a thought! One of two I'll likely have today

We're going to birth a new section in the tool board.

We'll call it "Tips" so we can capture all the cool "Barbasol ideas"

Even though I enjoy giving our steelhead, Shawn, a hard prow to hoe, In all fairness, He gets the credit for this new area. And since it's his baby, well, it's his baby!

Don I was referring to CNN not Tillerson. I have no doubt that memo meant exactly what it said.

Sorry!

Don when you have no ba**s, no ideas, no spine and no backbone all that's left is talk. So the idea that someone is "done talking" which may mean "action" is totally foreign to them. They're all idiots

I don't think Tillison is an idiot or a fool.

Knowing, well suspecting what may be in the works from my old days when I was in the middle of things like this, I'd bet good money we are rehearsing an op-plan at the moment.

We can get into N Korea, it's not hard at all. I'd bet if we could get to his nukes, we just might give it a try

More motivation:

Or maybe it's just good advise and wisdom

Back at it tomorrow

Got the fuel filters in along with a set of LED long range driving lights to get bolted on

The black coating I used on the suspension and hubs set up like steel. THis stuff is unnatural! Where a drip would contact the garage floor, it bubbled up a bit and hardened like that, I can hardly chip the stuff off!

The jury is still out on whether I will leave everything gloss black like it appears here. I might just top coat that as well

Back to the wheel with the silver epoxy base coat, the paint doesn't run, but the metallic flake definitely migrates as you can see here:

This was an experiment to see how the stuff sprayed and what the coverage was like.

Coverage is excellent, but it takes a bit of pressure to spray, like almost 30psi, and I had to thin it 10%. Even so it goes on scary thick

Next up: A third pressure washing to remove the acid and any remaining dirt

Then I swapped out the wire cup for a new one and hit the wheels once again, this time completely removing everything and marring the surface which will allow the paint some good adhesion

Then a second pressure washing to remove the stripper