Recent content by stretch5881

A free cap is always good.

Finally, this is something that I at least recognize. All that other stuff you're playing with is black magic to me. I always figured, if we broke down, it was easy to get going again, if it was kept simple. The cars with black magic were usually trailered to the shows. But that was in the early...

I never gave thought of the age of my pans. I acquired 3 of them from my grandmother, and they were likely my great grandmothers'. If she bought them new, it would have been around 1900. Cool!

Do you have any hair left?

Auctioned off. My folks had a lot of stuff. I brought 1 load home of stuff that I could use and took 5 loads to their place of stuff that I didn't use anymore.

Yup

My Dad had one. It made quite a pile of sawdust and made your ears bleed. It still ran when he passed away 5 years ago. He bought it new in 1964 I think. It replaced a 2 man hand saw.

My rust penetrant is 50/50 mix of atf and lacquer thinner.

I just removed a clutch that was frozen. I welded a nut on the head of a longer crank bolt, so the air hammer bit couldn't slip, sprayed with penetrant, used a prybar and rattled the bolt with the air hammer.

Winter is now officially over.

Nice. Looks like he even took the time to Z the frame to raise the box.

Interesting. I've never seen a booth like that.

Sounded better in person.

That was a close one. Great game.