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I pointed out to them that the code called for respecting our sponsors and our welder quit. I like harmony and have created an incredible nirvana in my shop. Fucking with Nirvana doesn’t sit well with me. I spoke to Denis Manning about team dynamics and he mentioned how throwing a coffee cup against the concrete has a dynamic effect.
I try to make a point of listening to all comments and paying attention. Micah reminded me of the severity of Kevin’s illness, so I put his comments into context and let them go.
So, let me ramble up to this last weekend. I have an electric roll-up garage door that’s about 20 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Installed in 1981 it barely worked in 2004 when I bought this building. I tried to get estimates for repair and ran across a notorious business model. A guy in a slick truck came out and told me he could not fix my door and it would cost me $5000 for a new door. Bullshit.
Let’s take a break for a news flash.
By: Marc Morano
President Donald Trump touted Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore’s statements that “the whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science.” Trump responded “Wow” at the end of his tweet.
Moore continued: “There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.” Patrick Moore is featured prominently in the new skeptical book, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change.”
Moore made his comments while appearing on Fox & Friends today. He also explained why he called AOC A ‘Pompous Little Twit’
Thanks President Trump. I am in DC for a meeting of the CO2 Coalition founded by William Happer, who I admire greatly. CO2 is entirely beneficial. The EPA finding that CO2 is pollution must be reversed.
–Patrick Moore
This whole topic of doomsday because your wife drives an SUV is going to blow up this year. Hang On!–Bandit
I kept looking and found an old school door repair company in Long Beach. They came out and fixed the door in a day. The owner said the door would last another 15 years. That’s about right. Last year the bearing on the mechanical end gave out. I tried to replace it, but working with one hand, 20 feet in the air on a ladder was a bitch. My bearing wasn’t centered properly. The door worked but wasn’t happy. It screamed at me from time to time and started to fail to open.
I crawled back up the ladder and discovered the new bearing tore the shit out of the sheet metal bulkhead it was bolted to. At first, I thought I was fucked and facing $5000 replacement costs or more 15 years later. That’s when my goof-ball creative mind started to spin. There’s a sprocket bolted to the end of the drum. Could I make a new plate with the bearing centered and bolt it to the sprocket? That’s when shit got crazy.
The sprocket was bolted with three bolts, a triangle. I made sure the nuts would come loose first and measured the triangle, 8-inches from bolt to bolt. I went on line and studied the make-up of an equal triangle and how to find center. I made a mechanical drawing and took it to Phillips steel to have them cut it. I could have done it, but they said they would do it for 25 bucks out of 1/8-inch steel plate and blow a 3-inch hole in the center.
I went back the next day and they hadn’t finished it. Two days later I returned and after a lot of waiting around they admitted they couldn’t do it. Something about the triangle fucked with them. Fuck! I returned to the shop and broke out my plasma cutter and went to work. The triangle aspect was daunting but not impossible. Anyway, what a challenge, but I got it done and bolted in place.
At times I had to make a safety harness out of a piece of rope so I could use both hands to install the plate and then the bearing. I had to make a jack to push up the drum to get the plate and the bearing in place. I was damn proud of myself when I finished, but then I had to make a chain adjuster to position the sprocket, so it didn’t jump teeth.
Damn, we could go back to work on the liner. Monday was a scramble. Micah came over and we installed the shift linkage and BDL shifter system, which will need to be machined this week to finish it. I’m waiting on a coupler to finish the steering and a couple of clevis units.
We received a different drag chute from Strouds Safety, but I just thought about the release system? Where is it? A great piece of the puzzle is communications with all the players in this effort and watching for missed details.
This week I will try to plug together a Salt Torpedo report. I have a couple of features headed this way including the David Mann Panhead built by Micah McCloskey our Salt Torpedo pilot. It’s currently on the cover of Cycle Source Magazine.
Hang on and continue to Ride Free Forever,
Bandit
