Amen.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Fox" <v4gmr@yahoo.com>
To: "Vaughn Warriner" <warpwr2@comcast.net>; "Ronald Gildersleeve"
<bronco_ron@sbcglobal.net>; "Vancine Clanton" <damsel@clearwire.net>
Cc: "Zenor Lukasiewcz" <fiveccollet@gmail.com>; "Landspeed list"
<Land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:51 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] Life as an old guy
> So on Monday I thought I would make some method of attaching a push board
> to
> my new GMC. It has sort of a bumper bolted to some crush thinks, but it is
> all
> pretty sturdy and should be great. So I cut out some angled aluminum
> blocks 1
> X 4 X taper from 3/4 to 2 1/2. They bolt on and sandwich the bumper
> between
> them and the frame. But the bumper flexes more than I thought it would and
> they don't end up vertical. No worry. I'll cut some steel brackets to
> allow
> for the angle and support the whole board top to bottom. I need a right
> and a
> left version. So I saw them out and finish them on the mill. Then I sit
> down
> to bolt them to the truck. Naturally I have the right one that I'm trying
> to
> bolt to the left side. So I put it down. Pick up the left one and bolt it
> on.
> Now I need to move the truck to get a better shot at the right side. Done,
> and
> I move my drill motor, bits, wrenches and all to the right side. Where is
> the
> bracket? The one I just had. I look for
> it for 45 minutes and it's getting to dinner time so I decide to pick it
> up
> later. .....Tuesday is senior discount day at the market so I
> have
> to go grocery shopping and then go up to Norm Rapp's to pick up some
> change
> gears to take to Bonneville for Flat Cad. Then I spend 2 hours looking for
> the
> bracket. How far could it go? It's got to be right here......Today I had
> some
> people coming by to look at the Studebaker Hawk I was selling, so I'm in
> the
> garage kind of looking and kind of selling. My neighbor Jay comes over.
> New,
> young eyes. And we look for about half an hour. No luck, and I could have
> made
> 5 of them by now, so I saw another piece off the tube, lay it out, and cut
> i
> rough to shape on the saw. Set it up in the mill and make the first rough
> cut
> on the tapered side. Measure it against the existing bracket and begin the
> finish cut. About 3/4 way through the finish cut I notice the lost bracket
> laying on the cart with the
> mill vices and rotary chuck. A good 80 feet from the GMC. It didn't walk
> here. I must have brought it. But why? Jay and I had agreed that if I made
> a
> new one I would find the old one. If there is a God he has a nasty sense
> of
> humor. RF
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