Got a lot accomplished over the past week or so I've been home, and particularly this weekend. Winter is coming, and I've been trying to get the yard in shape, mowing, weed-whacking, and trimming hedges a little bit. Needless to say, the mowing necessitates moving the vehicles so I can mow under them. So far, the move-ees include: '64 Avanti, '64 Wagonaire, '64 Daytona, '52 2R15, the Studebuggy, '63 Lark VI, '53 2R17A, '62 Champ, '47 M16, and a Cacavalier, which has been tentatively sold down the road. All these moved under their own power, and four of them were moved today, the largest per-day migration of this season.
The M16 also is in the throes of getting a little work done on it. I fixed the loose exhaust flange, and put a gasket in it, and I began re-installing some of the sheet metal for the front clip that I took off and painted a couple of years ago. I'll do some more tomorrow, and hope to have everything, except for the front fenders, back on it.
Yesterday, I spent literally hours making a tire leak-check basin out of a segment cut from an old tractor tire, and some scrap metal for its support stand. I had a brilliant idea that turned out to be less than brilliant. I figured when I cut the tire, I'd leave a little of the wire bead hanging out, and weld the support frame to those stubs. Well, I couldn't weld to that stuff to save my life. Tried the stick welder, and tried the acetylene torch with some brazing rod. No stickum at all. So I cut the stubs off, and trapped the bead behind pieces of angle iron instead. The finished product is ugly as all get-out, but it will serve its purpose.
And I have enough tractor tire left to make at least one more basin. Might be good for an electrolytic deruster. I cut the bead wire with a cutting disc on the angle grinder, and a reciprocating saw cut the rest of tire pretty well.
The tire test basin will get put to good use during the next few days, I'm sure.
The M16 also is in the throes of getting a little work done on it. I fixed the loose exhaust flange, and put a gasket in it, and I began re-installing some of the sheet metal for the front clip that I took off and painted a couple of years ago. I'll do some more tomorrow, and hope to have everything, except for the front fenders, back on it.
Yesterday, I spent literally hours making a tire leak-check basin out of a segment cut from an old tractor tire, and some scrap metal for its support stand. I had a brilliant idea that turned out to be less than brilliant. I figured when I cut the tire, I'd leave a little of the wire bead hanging out, and weld the support frame to those stubs. Well, I couldn't weld to that stuff to save my life. Tried the stick welder, and tried the acetylene torch with some brazing rod. No stickum at all. So I cut the stubs off, and trapped the bead behind pieces of angle iron instead. The finished product is ugly as all get-out, but it will serve its purpose.
And I have enough tractor tire left to make at least one more basin. Might be good for an electrolytic deruster. I cut the bead wire with a cutting disc on the angle grinder, and a reciprocating saw cut the rest of tire pretty well.
The tire test basin will get put to good use during the next few days, I'm sure.
We've got to quit saying, 
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