I upgraded to a new plasma table that uses different software so had to update the base CAD file for one of the awards I'm making for WCR 2022. It took the better part of the day.
When finished, this will be just over 25" tall. I included a pic of the last one I did so you can see how all the piece and layers end up working out.

MMMMMMMMM

At the beach in Florida with the family for a week or so, but did manage to pack away a pair of Italian Weber 40IDF's to rebuild for my fix.

I would be in soooooo much trouble if I did that.

Think I will next time.

Puerto Villarta

A beautiful all-inclusive resort, nice but 1/2 of all the wedding guests came back with food poisoning.
The poor bride spent 1 1/2 days at a local hospital.

Don't plan on ever returning

Rather play in my garage....

Oscar

So sad and sorry to hear that Oscar. Horrible way to have a honeymoon.

The first time i ever got food poisoning was at the Corona restaurant at the Cabo airport. I got the 3 taco special. Chicken, shrimp and steak. The wife and daughter ate the shrimp and steak taco and were fine. I ate the chicken taco and had diarrhea for almost two weeks and had to get special medication to kill it. I then googled the restaurant and there were tons of reports regarding food poisoning at this restaurant. However I still drink Corona Beer!! I also never got sick at the all inclusive hotel or local restaurants.

I have two cars to move to my new place ASAP. How soon can you get here tomorrow? 8 AM, 7??

Oh Yeah, Why didn't I work on the 914 today? Because I am prepping the new place for 2000+ sq/ft of laminate flooring. I will be doing the install and then I will be moving. No 914 work in my future other than hauling my project car from the old house to the new.

OK, I guess thats acceptable, so long as the stable will house more cars/parts

I had a similar experience in Puerto Vallarta, on my honeymoon.
Not food poisoning but a sinus infection that was hell!
When it rains there ..watch out.. its serious.
Stayed in the resort at Mismola beach or something supposedly famous for being the site of the Houston film Night of the Iguana.
Ill never go back either.

LOL ... I'm still stuck in So. Cal, it'll be a while before I get back out to my place in AZ

I applied stain/weather sealer to the planks, installed an old toolbox from one my previous trailers and started on the winch installation yesterday. Will get it wired up this weekend

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I've got the same Knack Toolbox from an old trailer too.

Got a little more done today - winch all installed ... 'smoke test' tomorrow

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Actually, I re-routed the battery cables to the other side of the box where the battery hold-down is located - no pix yet ... film at 11

Ready to thread the rope cable through (had to cut out a slot ... used up 3 Dremel cutting disks) ...

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Kind of good news - I have a friend out in Riverside who has frame straightening apparatus and is willing to try to pulling HOWARD's trailing arm mounts back into place ... so the trailer's gonna be pressed into action soon

Smoke test, I smoked all day yesterday and might do that again today. I'm making progress on tuning it but I think because of it's size and the way that I roll it may take another day or two to get my head clear.

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The thermometer said 225 but it took 4hrs for me to stop paying attentional to it and finish the chicken in the oven. The thermometer is at the very top of the chamber and at the bottom of the chamber is about 150° so I added about 30% more heat and overcooked some chicken in about 2hrs. In my other smoker it takes me about 1hr and 45 minutes to get the results that I want. Nice smoker but I think I will still finish off my ribs in the oven.

I hope you didn't find any smoke Mark....

Hey, Joe ... nice smoker

I decided to add an additional winch brace under the deck for good measure

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Redressed the cables and mounted the hand control socket. I thought about shortening the motor cables, but they had nice terminal ends on them, so I said - what the fv<k

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Then, installed a 100Ah AGM battery & prepared for the 'smoke test'. Pulled the cable rope out to the back of the trailer, locked the drive, crossed my fingers & pulled the trigger. Works like a champ, albeit no load on the winch ...

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I made a b-day present for a buddy's 60th.

Sinus surgery....

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Not doing anything this weekend at all......

Clay

Damn.. Get Well Soon ..

Jesus Clay- Take it easy and try to relax. Watch some TV or read a book until all that comes off and you can breathe normally again.

Get to feeling better soon Clay

Hey Mark, nice work. That should make life easier.

I am taking the online tutorials for Fusion 360. I need to make some brackets for the ITB setup for my engine. So, in a way I am working on my 914.

Zmax raceway 4 lanes wide baby. I did install brake pads thiugh this morning in the 6.

Drove friend's rally-prepped 911SC in local speed hillclimb event. Pretty narrow in places and reminded me how much more balanced my 914 feels compared to a 911...

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Had been feeling crappy for a few days, went in for a test earlier and confirmed positive for covid. Hopefully won't take me down for long and I did get the vaccine

Wow, hope you boys & girls who've been getting sick and having surgeries get well soon


Trailer winch worked out fine ... loaded up and dropped the 912 off to get the restoration process started ...

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Already disassembled and sent to the the blaster this past Friday

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Started the laminate floor installation in my laundry room remodel yesterday - finished it today, except for the thresholds and baseboards ... will do those after painting.

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Now I need to finish the drywall stuff

@euro911 Ha, you haven't slowed down at all. Floor looks nice, 912 looks better.

Wow! I turned 60 in February! Hope I'm on your list of charitable b-day gifts, @tygaboy !

Thanks, Paul.

The 912 looks even better now LOL

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While all that's going on remotely, I decided to rearrange to mess in the garage a little bit so I could dig out a 911 motor and transaxle that needs to get down to the restoration shop for another car.

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Never a dull day around here

Out traveling with the family......miss my 914

I got it done a couple years ago for the third time. Get well quickly.

Got distracted driving my friend's 911 on a speed hillclimb...

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Spent time drooling over my BMW E9 (3.0 CS coupe) and its freshly rebuilt 3.5 with 5-speed swap! It's running and will be on the road next week.
Not the sexiest engine compartments but this is essentially as close as you can get to the euro CSi set up and is super awesome in the E9 world.

Very nice!!!

Looking good Chris! Assume she is still at the shop.

Friend brought his toy over.. bought this car for ~55k five years ago

@tygaboy - That's as clean as them come under the hood. Looking forward to seeing it in person- soon I hope.

On the highway in northern Virginia headed south toward Bristol TN. Helping a friend move his 914 back from his daughter's house to Texaa.

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We are on 81 headed south to 40. Then we will be takiy40 all the way to little rock. From there we take 30.to Dallas. If y'all see us, give us a wave!

Clay

Too busy smoking RIBS today. Only did 5 racks but as always they were great. Tender, juicy some people say the best they have ever had. Over done today as they are falling apart trying to get them onto a plate.
I have been called a lier cause I told him what I do to make them so delicious and really it is so simple.
1. Cut the package open and rinse off the grunge from packing.
2. Cut them to length.
3. Put them in the smoker for 1.5 hours at 225.
4. Wrap them in tin foil and put them in the oven for 4.5 hours at 225.
5. Check them for tenderness. Cook longer if the bones don't pull easily.
The flavor doesn't come from the smoke it comes from the meat, has to do with the supplier. I have tried all of the butchers with in 30 miles of my house. And I am ashamed to say that my supplier is, God I hate this

Walmart...

My weapon of choice...

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Work in progress ...

Miss your Bar-B-Q get togethers, Joe.

Looks interesting are you trying to make a tesla 914?

Chip tester? are you recovering roms?

Got back to my 8-bit roots and got myself a bunch of early commodore 64s, including several rare very early "silver label" machines.
Been collecting replacement chips but the early ones from '82 are hard to find and chances are they don't work anymore.

That's what the chip tester is for, it can test several hundred different types of old chips as well as burn old eproms. Anything you can find in an old c64 is supported.

SYS647380

@ClayPerrine
You're off by a magnitude of 10. The c64 only has 64k of RAM.

I'm guessing you meant SYS 64738 which is the Power-On Reset Routine that is vectored through $FFFC.

Yep.. added an extra zero on the end.

Had a PET, a VIC20, a C64 and a C128. I even had two disk drives, a modem(with a compuserve account) and a dot matrix printer. Yep I am

Cleaned up and primed* some 912 parts . *Priming to keep rust at bay until I can get the suspension & steering parts to a reputable powder-coater.

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Normally, I'd blast the parts myself, but unfortunately, my bead-blast and soda-blast cabinets are both in AZ, and I'm stuck in CA for the foreseeable future

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Had to straighten out a bent flange on one of the control arms ... a vice and a 5 lb. sledge hammer did the trick

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Also started disassembling a spare passenger side door I had in the shed. The body shop is going to use it to replace the outer skin on my original door, rather than deal with some previous damage repairs & Bondo

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