Road trip

                        Ashland WI. city park backed up to Lake Superior.

                                                Hinkley Minnesota

                                                   Pumpkin cannon

                                                Trebuchet with weights

                                              Trebuchet with springs

 Poniatowski WI. Center of northern half of western hemisphere
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                                  Corn on the road...15.9 AFR and 56 MPH

                                                         Weidners in WI

          Larry was working on his coach like a true GMC owner

    

                                         Lake Michigan in the morning

                                                    Pocahontas Iowa

No gas only E10, E20 and E30! South Dakota

LED Conversion from Dan G

These LED's need a heat sink. They have double sided tape and fit in the groove of the original fixture. Lamp base has capability of plugging more LED modules in it. Available from

gregg_dan AT hotmail.com ,use LED in subject

These are supposed to be equal an 1156 in lumens. Pretty good!

LED conversion for a bi pin halogen

LED on for the reading light. No heat like a halogen.

Red neck propane transfer, Needed to use warm water to get enough of a pressure difference to pop open the fill valve.

Chips in black and white

Sight seeing flight over the flood

Missouri river way out of it's banks

 Approach to KOMA. Airport would be under water if there was no dike. Many wells were put in and kept pumping to keep the water table down and save Epply Airfield

Sue had me painting

 

Walmart boondockers from Georgia and South Dakota. Big van was present day before too.

Road testing transmission governors and machining new cans for them.

Junkyard parts run

U pull it tour

U Pull it North yard

Oh man a Toro! don't see many of these. Grabbed the transmission governor.

Checkout... they wanna look in your tool bucket too.

Raised road, pinched finger and spark coil gap

I-680 and I-29 north of Omaha

I-680 after the flood went down some.

Raised road because of flooding, headed home after work

Pinched finger

Nail finally fell off

No spark, repositioned coil to make gap even and closer. It runs! Nothing to loose.

I-29 goes under water

Looking south.... This is I-29 north of Crescent Iowa. Image from the rustic chicks blog.

Fort Calhoun Nuke plant and I-29 closed

Gavins Point outfall

Fort Calhoun Nuke power plant is North of Omaha and getting plenty of water

I-29 North of Omaha is flooded and closed. Image is looking north. I-29 is north and south. The overpass is I-680 also closed.

I-29 image taken from rustic chicks blog
http://therusticchick.blogspot.com/

Missouri flood at 32 feet by Omaha

32 feet trees in the water

Flooded Missouri river looking South East from the Bluffs on the Iowa side. I-29 (closed) in the middle of the image. Omaha in the background. This image taken from Rustic Chicks blog.
http://therusticchick.blogspot.com/

Missouri river floods

These images taken around the first of June downtown Omaha. River was at 30 feet level which is flood stage. Supposed to go higher later...

Everlast plasma cutter and welder

Trimming 5" channel with plasma cutter. Used 40 amps.

Plasma cutter needs dry air so I used snow for a refrigerant dryer.

Everlast PowerPro 256 combination stick, TIG welder and plasma cutter. A huge bargain for what it does. Wish I had it years ago.
http://www.everlastgenerators.com/welding-equipments.php

Press brake in progress. Bottom dies are next to be made. Welds were done with  1/8" 7018 at 130 amps on the Everlast. Springs are Olds 455 valve springs, two on each side.

South Bend shaper oil pump fix and making a press brake die

Shaper oil pump has been erratic and it finally quit. Serial number shows it was built in 1959

This lever that actuates the pump quit moving.

Took it apart and found that the lever got out of the cam groove and slipped between the cam and case. Added a few washers so that might not happen again.

The lever is supposed to stay in this eccentric cam groove on the back of the bull gear. I was glad to find the gear is steel and not phenolic plastic like some shapers.

Shaper parts

Tapered pin holds stuff in place



Cutting off parts of the scrap metal I'm going to make the die out of.

Fixture to make the bevel with. 40 degrees from horizontal.

Cutting the bevel



Short stroke for this. Oil pump stayed working :-)

All done. 80 degree edge for springback making true 90's. Steel for die is 3/4 X 4"



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