Monday, October 28, 2024

Makin' & Wishin'

 


The grandson came down yesterday to make up his fab class assignment. Since he got into the class late, I asked his instructor for the blueprint, and I brought the print and some material home so he could do it in my shop. I neglected to take a photo of the finished project, but it looked pretty good. I gave him a bit of help, but no more than what his instructor would have done.

While he was working on his project, I finished making the parts for the boat console project. Pretty simple looking in the photo but the top of the two aluminum angles had to be cut to fit inside another aluminum angle that gets fastened to the console at an angle. The original plan was to weld the angle to the existing piece of the console, but I'm leaning towards riveting it on. I've got rivets I bought specifically for boat repair but I need to run it buy the owner first. I'll get the pieces in the photo welded together and welded to the other piece and then pow-wow with the owner and see what he says. I am going to practice a bit with the new welding machine first, however. We haven't established a good working relationship yet.


I'm not sure where this was taken or where I borrowed it from, but it appears to be a pair of Royal Enfield Himalayans in their natural environment. I'd love to take mine on some type of epic adventure. I've taken several bicycle adventures, don't know if I'd call them epic, but they were definitely adventures. The AMA has some rides that might be worth looking into. I'm sure I'm good for at least one more two-wheeled adventure. Especially, since I went to the funeral home yesterday afternoon to pay my respects to a friend one year younger than me who passed away. Too old to put things off. If I'm going to do it, need to get after it.

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