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Awesome Pics RS glad you were able to get out today, sorry to hear about your dad. Mine turns 80 on the 6th so I want to enjoy days like that with him.

Planning on picking up our 68 912’s 5 speed up from the shop on our return trip this next week end to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Goin to Burt and Dick Rutan’s birthday bash!!!! and figured it would be a good time to pick the ol trani (not the dress wearing type) in Bend, OR. It would be fun to get the 912 back on the road in all of its three shades of patina.

This is the 78 SC’s engine that I need to check every single bolt a shop previously touched. Too much to list all of the screwed up things I found.
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This is the 68 912 the trans getting rebuilt is from. This pic was after a particular heavy wet snow collapsed the carport it was under two winters ago. Transmissions are beyond my Peter principle. I would love to learn but under the tutelage of a transmission Jedi Master, and not me banging away with spanners.
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The day I trailered her home from my parents ranch before they moved.
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Hahahaha, I was re-taping the fingers daily. Mrs. Bugs got me a three pack from TSC after seeing them. Throwing blocks eats leather gloves from breakfast. I will admit, those gloves were my favorite. Great ones to use while going through the ARS hoist program/training at work.


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Awesome and bad azz!!!!


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It doesn’t matter, any fix get fix street cred here!!

That chair looks wayyyyyy to comfy. I would sit in it and thenzzzzzzzzzzzzzhttps://media4.giphy.com/media/Avwm4ZRDV0c9O/giphy.gif

Glad you were able to get it fixed.

Nice Baz!!!!!

I think a logo needs to go on the hood [emoji6]


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Nice! Classic old school. I absolutely love it. Mrs. Bugs would be up for an old video game console from the day in our wee office. [emoji848] would be no way to get an awesome pinball machine to fit. That’s next level BIG-D Playa right there….[emoji6]


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Thanks John!
We all keep each other motivated.


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Thanks!! I kinda did…….[emoji1] above my tool box.


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Follow up on my Thorogood boot restoration post. I received my old boots back after the work, and was very pleased with the results. The complete restore ran $125.00 plus shipping. They make the whole process very easy. These are my house work boots so I’m glad to get them back. Local cobbler charged me $85.00 for new soles alone, and they burned out in less than a year. This round, the boots were literally coming apart.

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Thanks bugs. Your parent's ranch reminds me of home. I was born in mariposa. My grandparents lived in Cathy's Valley.... I spent every moment I could at their place when I was a kid and teen, it was more of a home to me than mom and dad's house.

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No prob buddy, Mariposa?!?!? Talk about a small close world. I was found under a rock in an orchard in Visalia. Family was in Fresno, Tulare, Visalia and my grandparents lived in Porterville. I got to spend summers in Porterville and miss my G-parents something fierce.

The ranch my parents sold just got too much for them to keep up. Even though my brother and I spent as much time helping them out as much as our schedules could allow. He was working at Beale AFB and me in Placerville, made it tough. We did the best we could and my parents eventually bought a track home actually next door to my brother.

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In keeping in character of the thread, I “was” working the ranch by mowing. And yes, I miss the ranch and sunsets like this really drive the point home to my core. Helpin pop out by cleaning out the canal water valve, proving the ranch with a full minor’s inch of allocated water.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3cbf8ff758.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e9cde4e7b7.jpgpop would wear a kaydex helmet do to his severe unstable wobbliness. Many trips to the ER due to falls and head strikes. After nearly loosing him on many different occasions, he started wearing it.

I have Red Wings with the white sole. They don't have enough grip on slopes (I do a lot of work outside), so I have to use my Red Wing logger style boots with lug soles when I work on a slope. Plus the logger boots are much higher and hopefully offer more snake protection. I need to give mine a good cleaning.

Been 8 months since the last slot car race.
Vacuumed the track then wiped it off with a micro fiber towel damp with WD40.
Tuned up the track, changed the configuration then a couple friends came over and we got in a few races.
AC and box fans made it tolerable in the garage.
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Bugs....you are tearing it up!

Not only your projects but also the thread...lol!

The boot restoration aspect is interesting. Nice to see a company who offers a service like this - especially for a product that represents so well the concept of work ethic!

To answer your question - if you add soil atop the rock then absolutely use the fabric. I can't really give you feedback on how else to proceed because your climate is so different than here, but I have a feeling between yours and Mrs. Bugs' ability to figure it out, you'll be just fine.

The work you did on your wall project is beyond impressive - I have to tell you. Especially the concrete work at the end for your culvert. Really top notch and much better than what most of us would be able to do, I'm sure.

Lastly, looking at yours and Guy's early cars really makes me miss my '73 911T all the more. But I do have an '83 SC Targa with both engine and trans out being rebuilt. Lots of corrosion on the body but we're rebuilding so at some point, I hope to have her back on the road.

I also need to finish the brake work on my tub - but that's another story for another day.

Happy 4th everyone!

Been working to clean/paint/refresh/fix/update for it's 50th birthday and my 44 years of ownership...

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[QUOTE=ted;12037939]Been 8 months since the last slot car race.
Vacuumed the track then wiped it off with a micro fiber towel damp with WD40.
Tuned up the track, changed the configuration then a couple friends came over and we got in a few races.
AC and box fans made it tolerable in the garage.
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That's a viper track! Hopefully this is the year I snag one for myself! They're made an hour south of me. Right now this is what I have and the little grand kids and I tear it up when they come over.:D

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That is as cool as it gets..... PERIOD.

Looks clean as can be but what kind of car is this? track car right?
What are the specs and does it have a body?

Looks good I had a similar track on a ping pong table.

[QUOTE=rsrguy;12038149] Yes I got the track from Viper in SLC a couple years ago.
Dan the owner of Viper was very helpful, track is fun and the Viper cars run very well too.
It's called the Game Changer and includes extra track sections that allows for 4 different configurations.
Works well less click clack than the AFX track.
Big improvements are issues you can do to your track now.
Variable voltage, we run 13.5 volts mostly, 18 volts max with experienced drivers.
We have the DeFalco 2 wire/no brake controllers with adjustable throttle sensitivity and that helps make the cars much more controllable too.
The lap counter bridge and race program work well too.
We IROC race with identical cars in each lane.
In a race each competitor drives for 2 minutes on each of the 4 lanes, after 8 minutes driver with the most laps wins.
Perfect number of entries would be 8, so 4 are driving and while the others turn marshal/re-slot cars.

Only gripe is if you run strong Neo magnet high downforce cars the stronger car magnets can slightly lift some rail sections, easy to fix just push the rails back down and reseat them where they have lifted.
So we run cars with less magnetic downforce and the rails then stay in place no issue.
The cure would be to spot glue the rails that are lifting, instead we chose not to run the super fast/expensive Neo style magnet cars.
Good luck racing!

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It was a track car but is now autox only.

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You guys are killing me with those slot car tracks. I can remember my brother and I had an Eldon slot car track back in the day. Then we discovered our neighbor had slot cars of the big track kind, made out of piano wire and brass tubing. The rest is history.
Today I broke down and took my sander to the Heywood-Wakefield cabinet top.
Tomorrow it gets some stain.
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I was able to get 90% of the water stain marks out with the sanding. Top is still smooth.

The pro tree people came and toppled the 'tree of heaven' at the rental. Their 4th job for today. Took them an hour or so. $425 to get it down to a stump and leave the rest. I am paying me the other $575 saved to chop it up for the bins with the leaky HF electric chainsaw. The ladder tried to off me and it's gone. The tree tried to off me and now it feels my wrath. The Montmorancy cherry tree planted will now get full morning sun and feed the bird/squirrels. A 'feels good man' day. Filled up a couple bins and will probably be done with another compost pickup or two.

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The GF had a pool built this year, and mentioned she wanted some palm trees.. So I said.. Ill get you some, which I did...got 3, 25 gal Bismark Palms... Turn out planters that will fit a 25 gal pot... can be costly...

So I said, Ill make you some planters..... Got some 5/4 Cedar.... S/S screws. a new bottle of gorilla glue... And.. I get to make 3 planters...



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I looked for like 2 days for my dad's flare tool.... wouldn't ya know it, it was in the last place I looked..
First time using it since dad got called home.
Managed to build a new hard brake line for the French manufactured cap10b. We'll be bleeding them out tomorrow. Any of you build custom soft brake lines ?


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Don't skimp on inner lining. Staple a couple layers+ of fabric to keep moisture in and rot out.

I do as much tree work as I can but have to say I also have hired tree companies to do some that I'm not equipped for. No shame in that! And yes it DOES feel good when all is said and done!


Beautiful palm but they get quite large. Here is a youngster in my front yard that grew from fruit from a larger one I used to have, but died from the dastardly palm weevil.

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Also not very cold hardy but you probably already knew that.

Common mistake is to leave out the "c" in Bismarck. SmileWavy

Windmill Palms have decent cold hardiness.....

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I have for my '02 Silverado. All of them! What was GM thinking? :rolleyes: Used NiCop line....


John's comment is for Tim's planters. ~ Captain Obvious ;)

Here is a Windmill Palm (per my comment above).....hardy down to 0 degrees!

Before and after pruning pics......

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Seasoned some cast iron skillets. I was cleaning out my storage building the other day and found these skillets that my mother-in-law had asked if I would burn them the next time I had a fire, (that was over a year ago), so...
had a bunch of stuff to burn and left the skillets overnight in the coals.
After thoroughly cleaning them I started the seasoning process by oiling them, wiping off excess and heating in a 400 degree oven for an hour, the plan was to repeat this process at least four times being that I was starting from scratch.
After the first round, I noticed that they had a very rough texture inside and out and I didn't like that so I wet sanded them inside and out with 100 grit and then 400 grit for a smooth cooking surface and started the whole process over again. So far, after two rounds of seasoning, I think they are looking pretty good. The larger one was more of a silvery gray color to begin with and after one round it was looking that nice warm bronze, after two rounds it is a little darker.
I used vegetable oil for the first two rounds but have now switched to coconut oil. The third round is currently underway so round four may have to wait until tomorrow. My wife liked how they already looked and said jokingly that we may just keep them, I'm sure my mother-in-law will like them. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d5cfa7768f.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b62d78e79b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e53e14c7f5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5fc1bd0f89.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...183c2b61b6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f53c4caf3f.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ff3544f577.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0ab13a9ec0.jpg

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Finished. The larger one still has a nice dark bronzy look, it will darken more as it is used. The cooking surfaces are smooth and slick, almost hate to cook in them, I won't because they are for my mother-in-law. [emoji846]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...752b94dcff.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c145f84ac7.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...17860cc89a.jpg

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Hopefully we have a mild winter here and these survive... If not I'll get her palms again next year... "the gift that keeps on giving"

I offered to get her Windmills but when she saw the Bismarcks, she had to have them, she loves the look and blue overtones of the foliage..

The planters I made don't have a bottom... I doubt we'll be repotting these palms.. If they do survive possibly repotting them next year....

The three I got:

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A tip-get some Tordol, and coat the top of the stump with it. Alicanthus will shoot up a gazillion little hardy trees from the roots after being cut if you don't. Tordol will be absorbed and kill it off. Tractor Supply usually stocks it.

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Hiya Baz

My mum sent me these pics and asked if I knew what they would be. These are on two of her Sego(sp) palms. [emoji2371]
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Any suggestions?

Bugs
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Picked up our 912’s 5 sp after an overhaul. Picked it up in Bend,OR as we were passing through returning from ID.

If I lived closer to the shop, I would be his oldest shop gofer with the hopes of learning g the ways of the force.
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King Sago Palm - Cycas revoluta
Not a true palm
Member of the Cycad Family

This species have male and female versions. Yours are males and those are the male "cones" - they produce pollen.

Here's a random webpage I just found that goes into more detail:
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/cycas-revoluta/

BTW, the female King Sago produces red fruit which when digested can cause harm to pets (dogs).

Thank you Sir!!!!!!

Belly rubs to the puppers from us. Mrs Bugs just had to visit a local shelter next to the airport. We are now on a list to rescue two mini schnauzers (Holms & Watson). Very ironic since Sir Henry was “Sherlock” at the shelter she rescued him from. At lest it is only 900 miles away from us.


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Happy to help!

No more puppers here. Or kiddles. Just one human. For now.

Friend of mine had 2 mini schnauzers. Both at the bridge. But they ended up getting another.

That is ironic about their names! Best of luck with the acquisition! SmileWavy

I’m sorry Baz, I haven’t been on the dog thread since Henry crossed the bridge. Now I feel like a bloody Heel. [emoji853]


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No worries, Bugs.

Been over a year now since Winkipop crossed the bridge and Billabong a year earlier. I can't really commit to another innocent right now because I'm still taking care of Mom. Like so many things in life - the timing just isn't right.

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Your 912 gearbox looks so nice! Great investment getting that rebuilt now while everything is out.

My 911 gearbox is also out and while it won't get the same nice treatment as yours I know it will at least be cleaned up and checked.

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I ran over to Mom's first thing this morning and got caught up on pruning her 3 Queen Palms and some weeding. Pickup day is Wednesday. I will return a week from today and prune the Cabbage Palm you see to the right. I do it every year. Takes about 1/2 hour. Felt good to get caught up on some stuff over there.

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