2020 .. What are you doing today?

kb426 · May 13, 2020, 07:09:15 PM

^^^^^
I expected that. LOL

Crosley.In.AZ · May 14, 2020, 12:12:40 AM

Shhhh. Keep this quiet. I was in Chandler AZ today. Chandler uses many speed monitor cameras , lights, radar warning signs. I try to stay away from there. Wife drove today.. I am near calmed down just from that.

Bought some meat from a local owned butcher shop. Suppose to be real good meat products. At the prices, it had better be. Will be smokin meat by 8:30 am .. thursday

chimp koose · May 14, 2020, 01:10:02 AM

had to pick up a parcel from post office today . I bought a glenwood , finned aluminum timing cover for the T . In talking with the po , it came off his front engine dragster . Now I have the whole finned aluminum set ! Oil pan , valve covers , oval air cleaner , Timing cover and fuel pump block off are all finned aluminum. Now I will have to make spacers for the water pump to clear the timing cover and a plug for the fuel pump drive hole . I will also have to make a timing pointer now as the one I bought a couple weeks ago will be too short ,(besides which I have an idea of a neat one to make ) . The pulleys were not lining up anyways so this may actually help in that regard . Only problem is that with the school I work at shut down I have no access to a milling machine other than getting the phase converter and wire up mine at home .

kb426 · May 14, 2020, 07:22:13 AM

C.K., where is the pics?

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Crosley.In.AZ · May 14, 2020, 08:10:32 AM

I thought as retirement hit... would sleep in some. Nope. Awake at 3am usually. Refuse to get out of bed till 4:30 or 5am ... most mornings

Kinda kool here still in the mornings. 68*F right now

Crosley.In.AZ · May 14, 2020, 05:44:03 PM

Well , i lied. I had the meats smoking by 7am... I fired up both of my smokers. Got the task finished in just over 4 hours. Then the clean up began. LOL

1 T-bone thick cut. 2 Rib eye steak. 4 burgers from ground tri-tip meat. 4 sausages ; Italian with jalapeno and cheddar cheese ground in. Beef rib rack too.

We should be good for about 1 month or so.

WZ JUNK · May 14, 2020, 07:07:05 PM

I did some more tuning on the 460 engine in the Ranger. The vacuum secondaries are not opening. I have tried different springs and I now have the lightest of the options. I have one more trick to try the next time I do my back road test and tune. I am about ready to go to the dragstrip to answer the question, whatshedo

phat46 · May 15, 2020, 10:49:54 AM

I was going to do a quick cartoon type painting, maybe an hour or so...two days later, this, I cannot loosen up! 🙄 LOL.

chimp koose · May 15, 2020, 11:13:48 AM

Wow you are really letting loose ! Love the creativity . Was this just something you came up with or did you see something and get inspired?

phat46 · May 15, 2020, 12:13:42 PM

Quote from: "chimp koose"Wow you are really letting loose ! Love the creativity . Was this just something you came up with or did you see something and get inspired?

This was inspired by a picture in an old Rodders Journal, an unfinished, bare metal project. I took a few (quite a few) liberties with it!

kb426 · May 15, 2020, 06:57:50 PM

^^^^
Good work. I'm thinking 2 days isn't much time if you spend a lot of time seeing where you need to go after each brush stroke. I'm guessing that you can visualize pretty good.

chimp koose · May 15, 2020, 07:29:19 PM

Have you ever thought of painting this kind of stuff on a rusty old running board apron or some other part , maybe half of a beat up T or A hood top? It would make for some pretty neat garage art !

phat46 · May 15, 2020, 09:58:05 PM

Quote from: "chimp koose"Have you ever thought of painting this kind of stuff on a rusty old running board apron or some other part , maybe half of a beat up T or A hood top? It would make for some pretty neat garage art !

Funny you say that. There is an artist on one of the auto art sites I frequent that paints really nice auto art on door skins. I have an old door from my '46 Ford pickup in my shop.....🤔

enjenjo · May 15, 2020, 11:09:32 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tole_painting

WZ JUNK · May 16, 2020, 06:10:29 PM

I changed out the seat belts in the 54 Chevy. I did not like the ones I originally installed with the airplane style latch. In this application they did not work well. The new ones are much better.

My wife and I went for two long test drives in the Ranger. We were just being lazy and we wanted to go for a ride.

I had not used my sewing machine for nearly a year. It was acting up and making a mess of the sticking. It took me awhile to get the tension on the thread adjusted. All is well now.

A good day.