On This Day

 I received an email from "one drive" yesterday that included photos that occurred on that day in my computer history. 

HD Sprint frame I made about 30 years ago. 350cc power from my race bike. Aircraft strut tubing perimeter frame, aluminum tank and seat. You can't tell from the photo but I made the front wheel hub and drum using a Triumph backing plate. Sort of the same thing I'm trying to do with the jitney project - make it all from scratch.

Sportster I put together from boxes of parts. When I finished it I was planning on leaving it until the following spring and then gassing it up and riding. As it worked out, it went back to the previous owner before I even took it for a ride. Fun project. Didn't make any money on it but didn't really lose any either - unless you count my labor. Lost my ass there but no regrets.

And one of my all time favorite cartoons - not only because I have a thing about how much algebra is stressed in school even though most people will never use it, but also there's nothing finer than a smart-ass teacher who would make a comment like this. In my case the statute of limitations has run out on all of the insults I threw out as a shop teacher but we shop teachers were always able to get away with a little more than most classroom teachers. And most of us appreciated the student who could give as well as take.

I got the action plan worked out on the cylinder head repair. I've got the tools and material all laid out. I've got a dentist appointment this morning but plan on getting after it later today. It's supposed to be hot again but I should be OK as long as I keep the fan going.

I got a phone call from the guy with the Ranger I recently repaired. Seems he needs a cast iron manifold repaired on a big bucket loader. I've got a portable welder but it resides on a skid that I can haul around with my tractor. Loading it on my pickup would be a pain in the ass and it runs AC current and my cast iron rods run on DC electrode negative. I can gas weld cast iron but I checked and couldn't find the flux or the rods. I must have left them at the high school when I retired. I gave him a number to call of a local guy who does field work. Hope that takes care of him. I really don't want to start doing a bunch of outside work. I've got plenty of my own.