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OK Don! If you lost out on all of those, HOW did you convince that beauty beach chick to pose in your T? Go Figure!!! Perley

I woulda been RICH, but when my SHIP came in, I was on the TRAIN------

Hello DOn,

Good to hear your ..... voice(?) ........or see you back at it.

I'm struggling along trying to keep focused. Been down working on the cpe. Pix soon.

How bout some undated pix??

See you at BilletProof.

Paul aka/ Ratty 46

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Hotroddaddy--All kinds of really neat stuff!!! About 2 months after I bought the lathe, I went out and bought a vertical milling machine, then a metal cutting bandsaw. I have been building working model steam engines and things to run with them to the point where I am now doing my "How to" build posts over on the "Home Model Engine Machinist" website. I am also going to have an article published in "Home Shop Machinist" magazine, running a full set of engineering drawings for a beam type steam engine that I designed.---Brian

As I watched the video I realized I was smiling, strange how pieces of metal moving in and out, up and down, going in circles can make a person feel good, it did for me anyway. Very nice work!!

I love all things mechanical. It doesn't stop at hotrods. I too am fascinated by many different kinds of machinery. Right now I am suffering from hotrod burnout, so it is really great to have another technically based hobby to be involved in. Especially in the winter in Canada.

Brian...I think you should apply your engineering and mechanical skills to either RC Dirt Track Racing or build a working 1/4 scale trebuchet! (LOL)

Pat

Originally Posted by Pat Monaco

Brian...I think you should apply your engineering and mechanical skills to either RC Dirt Track Racing or build a working 1/4 scale trebuchet! (LOL)

Pat

Ah a trebuchet...Loved the one featured on Northern Exposure.

Stovens.....I think when I retire in a few years, I will try my hand at building one. I always admired the different designs. (Lot different than catapults!) The internet has quite a few sites that have plans for building one. I even saw one made from steel rods. However, I like the wooden ones because of the detail.

Pat

Damn--I had to get my dictionary out to see what a "trebuchet" was. Why would I want to build one? My wife works for Canadian Dept. of National Defence. She can probably get me one discount from her department. Thats all the Canadian military has, along with their Sea King helicopters that won't fly!!!

Brian....LOL!!!!

Pat they sell little desk top ones that would fling small objects at your coworkers. I was sorely tempted to buy one, but the big ones sound like some real fun.

I went through and read your whole thread over the last few days, Don. This is an awesome build, I think I learned more in two days than in the last two years! Looking foward to seeing the finished product.

Thanks. I talked to a sandblaster today while I had him doing a boat for us at work, I am going to get Dan's frame and my '39 frame to him in the next few weeks so we can start prepping and painting both of them. I think we have rested long enough........time to bust some knuckles again.

Don

Hooray!! It'll be good to see those creative juices flowing again. Any possibility that either of those projects will make it to Billetproof?

It will be pretty tight as we are already into December and BP is in March, but we are going to try for one or both. Dan' really is close, yet so far away. The major fabrication work is done but there are still those 1,000,000 little things left to do that take time. My Dodge is probably 60 percent done, and since it is going to be left somewhat unpolished in it's final form it shouldn't take too long to wrap up.

Dan has also come to the realization he isn't creating the Mona Lisa here and that it will not be his final, ultimate hot rod. He just needs to get one running/driving rod on the road and then he can leisurely build the other projects he wants to do. He is leaning toward satin because he sees how good other cars like Gastricks '32 look done that way, and it would fit the era of the rest of the car too. He's been on it for 4 years now, time to git er done.

Don