Monday Stuff

 

Here's the antenna for my ham radio. The actual antenna consists of two long wires that will be shot up into the trees - that's them with the insulators on the end and the balun in between. The rest of the wire is to get the signal from the treetops into the house. The big white gizmo is an isolator, which as I understand it, is like a one-way valve. The club president made everything up for me and is heading south for the winter. He told me he's got a few club members that will come out to the shack so I can get my radio shack up and running. 

I had trouble pressing the new seals into the fork leg, so I made myself a tool. It's more of a machinist's fix rather than a welder's fix, but I like doing that kind of stuff and it might be handy if we get around to working on the small Harleys. 

After getting the first fork leg dialed in, I started on leg number two but didn't get very far. I can't get the bolt out of the bottom in order to take the fork leg off. I'm not sure what my next move will be but I was hoping to have the front end back together over the weekend.

I did get some decent exercise Sunday afternoon. I walked 4 miles with one of the coaches from the boxing club and since he opens the club up Sunday evenings, I took advantage of the opportunity and did some bag work after the walk. 

I dropped off a print for the bell hanger at the steel supply this morning. He's going to cut a couple of plates out for that job. I'll handle the rest. The nice thing about it is the plates he cuts will not need much, if any, grinding. He said he'll have them cut out by the end of the week or first of next week.