I like

Although I don't like Fords

Used to

Once owned a real 1970 Boss 302

Which was at one time the NHRA drag car which I was told was a record holder

I found it under a bunch of straw and parts in a barn, faded school bus yellow, carb off the manifold and mice living in the intake runners.

So, ya, have a soft spot for the Boss 302

How's the engine holding up in that thing? Rings?

She has to be RPM'ing the thing and all those back to back races.

Frankly, I'd be a bit scared at this time. Want to pull the motor, pull it down for a good inspection and fresh rings/bearings

Maybe we can auction it off to help the needy?

Crazy talk right there!

Thanks...

I have some inquiries into a chebby dealer to look at one when they get one this spring.

And creating a groove of the same width in opposing faces of the scrap pieces, then gluing and clamping it up, I had enough to finish framing out the collector boxes. It's not perfect, but it's strong!

The actual collectors are framed with 1" X 6"

South wall where the collectors will be fitted to the large openings

All four walls framed

I'm likin' Koot's thinkin'

I am just stayin' covered up with that farm stuff. But I feel a bunch mo-better today, so maybe I'll get out there and set the idle. I need to get that done, thing idles too slow...

Islam...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9e_vcSut0A

^^^See how I got him right there ^^^^^

So i have an abundance of poison ivy on my property. i need to do something with it and was thinking possibly starting a line of beauty and skin care products with it.

It may catch on quick with the emo/hipster crowd.

Any thoughts?

You could only hope!

Does that site have its own crew of DOTs, or are YOU the sole member of said "solar" faction?

They seem to be a friendly lot, techno oriented
I'd say I may be an odd-ball there (or here??)

I joined up on a solar site to learn more about the project at hand. I guess I use a bit of my humorous writin' style over there, so one fo the readers wrote back that I write in a funny manner. That was all it took to lite it all off and here it is:

Got the funny writing from:
1. Being in the Army too long...
2. Being too close to the sun's damaging rays (High altitude) too many times
3. Realizin' (In the tuck, we don't see the need for "g's) well, realizin'... something that I can't remember what the heck I was going to say...Possible CRS onset there...

Ah, forget all that, I'm havin' a CIMER moment (Coffee Induced Early Mornin' Rant) of the humorous variety.

Yea, so, on my build, with this darned cold kicking my butt I managed to cram an hours worth of work into about four hours! Translation: Progress is a clogged up head, slow!

But I did get the south wall framed out for two 36" wide and something between 1" and 60" tall collector. I hope to do that later on after I get through coughing up my left shoe. Actually the daughter is bringing up her dog for breakfast. No, we aren't actually going to cook the dog! But, the thing is, this dog, named Dumas... will be within attack range of my German Shepherd, a little fact that no one seems to have considered.

So If I don't write back for a few days, I'm thinking it is something like 48 hours in the county jail for shootin' your daughters dog within the town limits or something like that. And although I only go down there to share the good word with the boneheads who inhabit that place, I hear the chow is pretty good!

OK, CIMER kickin' in here...What were we talkin' about?

Ah, I remember, sunlight, that's it! So Since I am making an elaborate write up of this contraption on my web site, I have to 1. Keep things simple, 2. Keep it inexpensive. 3. Create it in such a way as our recent vintage of "Educated" people fresh out of school can actually duplicate, and a not so distant 4. The thing has to work

So that is the spirit of the thing. But if you have taken time to look over the various things I/we have going on at this funzy laboratory of hillbilly science, you'll have picked up the fact that Don don't do simple. No I have a derange need to over build, over complicate, and over engineer most things I do. As a pilot if I am flying somewhere three hours away, then 6 hours of fuel is my minimum. If I am going down to the farm for two days and an overnight, the cost at the register at the grocery store is $164. Half tank on the fuel gage in my truck is "Empty" to me. My shed has 200 amp electrical service, and to clear off a two hundred by twenty patch of cedars, I purchased a bulldozer.

So that all means, slappin on a spot of schwartz paint on one side of my hillbilly water tanks and a bunch of old news papers and straw on the other other sides would be a "Yawn" and about three rungs below boring!

Nossir, not for me! Mine is going to have some advance aeronautical engineering concept in play. I'll start with Mr. Bernolli (That guy who invented the lift equation, and overly complicated my life as an aviator!) then add some stealth technology, and finish with a serving of quantum mechanics!

So I was thinking...Hold on, just remembered something
Three of the most dangerous people in the Armee:
1. A captain who says: "I've been thinking"
2. A lietenuent who starts off saying, "It's been my experience..."
3. and The Warrant Officer Pilot who's voice on the cockpit recorder, later recovered from the scene, says, "Watch this!"

Sorry, I seem to have diverges a tad bit, back on point with ya!
OK so I am thinkin' about making up a box, say 36" X 36-48" and placing within it a pretty little grid of copper. Attach the top n' (Kintucky phonetics right there) bottom to a pex which is:
1 Sealed well
2. Filled with RV antifroze (Not freeze, it's froze!)
3. routed from said ends of da radiator grid into the 330 gal water tanks and coiled all over in a mess like some black lives matter protest crowd
4. Blessed by Tibetan Monks for a long and happy live
and
5. something else I can't recall at the moment EMF (Early mornin' forgetfulness) due to lack of quoffee and this CIMER psychological quirk thing I seem to have goin' on.
So,
For reference purposes only, I post the construction of the thing over on my web site...Just makin' a reference, not trying to slide in advertising or anything, but really, its too much work doing those write ups and pics twice.

So, I'm in a state where the quoffee effects are at war with this super cold I have and the results are less than desirable..Therefore I bid you all adieu'

I am building the walls with a 2X4 upright affixed to a 2X6 base. Reason is I'll drill holes in the flange part in which to place 18" rebar spikes to hold the contraption to the ground

Here is a finished side wall measuring six feet wide and 63" tall

This is the south facing wall. The two large openings are where the built in solar collectors will be fitted.

I'm building it in this manner so as to make those removable so i can change them out or modify them later on when I unearth some kryptonite on my property and put crystals of that in some future modified panel

I cut a pile of studs. The side walls will rise a little bit over 5 feet not counting the roof rise

This "Cold" is kickin' my butt!

But I am going stir crazy having building materials fifty feet away, a plan in my head, screws scattered about and electricity in the outlets.

So I went down there to work.

I'd say I crammed an hour's worth of work into four hours, but I do have something completed

Picked up the 2 by's purchasing pressure treated for direct gravel contact, and syp for the rest of the framing.

Truth be told he was probably helping to recover said big black truck from the mulch beds.....

It's all new pavement there. I actually feel safe! Although there was some visible moisture on the ground, so I locked in 4-Hi and motored right out of it!

Possibly usable

I'm going downstairs. Cut some boards, spread around some sawdust.
Get some pics so there will actually be some material on my "Chat" thread here!
DOTs...

Took you a minute on that one don!

You should'd had that one there Sarge!

Link didn't work for me? That's the way I'm leaning to the M&P.
https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/2084_2108/products_id/48723/S&W+M&P45+10+1+45ACP+4.5%22
I would like your price much better!

Go to Aim Surplus right now...

I posted a link to the sale somewhere. They have used LEO M&P45's for $399!

Nate,

What happened to your brain?

a .380?

The only way you can hurt anyone with those is to do a mag dump on your assailant, then stuff the weapon itself into the wound, and hope that he develops a nasty infection

Seriously bro, you're changing...

;-)

emoji pics showin' up now!!

Kyle: how can we PLEASE get some decent emoji's on here!

For truck drivers trying to pass it normally isn't their fault. They would love to have the top end open so they could pass quick and then get back in the right lane. All company trucks are shut down to 55 or 58 due to safety or fuel mileage restrictions. The Ecm on the engine controls it all and feeds all of the data directly to company via satellite. It's all about the dollar.

It would be frustrating to be a driver in this day and age. No respect. Low wages. Dealing with weather and bad 4 wheel drivers. Basically work 24x7 when out on the road. Bad food. Overcrowded truck stops so you have to fight for a parking spot so you can pull in and shower and sleep. People mad at you if you show up too early or late for pickup or delivery. Then the DOT or every part of your life regulated. Etc..etc..  lol. I'll stop.






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Almost sounds like the Obama model for future American life...

^^^Especially this one^^^ Pay little to no attention to him!