Progress on a menial project

bronson — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:46:00 -0700

The power supply on the 7904 is definitely toast. I’m leaving Ventura in a few hours so it will remain broken until I can return with some real test equipment. Current score: machines 3, humans 2. I’ll have to return.

Got a good pic of Detch laying some of the worst MIG beads you’ve ever seen. We fabbed a trailer hitch keeper out of a rail off a broken bedframe. It looks like hell but it works great. As usual, it got dark before we finished. Trivia: Festival pronounces Detch to rhyme with hitch instead of how it should, rhyming with wretch. It’s got to be a bug.

Notice how he’s welding to the frame right under the gas tank. We had the spray bottle there for safety.

(We actually bricked the tank and filler in with plywood and had big fire extingusihers and a garden hose ready to go. Not that they would have done much good if the gas had caught…).

Also, Detch introduced me to Adblock. On the left, the regular ebay home page. On the right, ebay with all DoubleClick ads removed. No more flashing. This rules!

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Progress on a menial project