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I agree but no Park District in town, so no public pool. No beaches, either, unless I go into Chicago to the shores of Boul Mich, then I have to share with 8 million other people.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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I got the okay to start riding a minimum of 3 wheels yesterday. Bicycles and Honda are still at least a week out. Driving a vehicle with a foot operated clutch is at my own discretion. I'll see if that works later today.
Yesterday, I had Stephanie the Amazon for a therapist instead of Jared the Timid. She managed to find an exercise I had trouble doing. I can walk up steps like a normal person, albeit, slowly. Down, not so well. I lead with my left foot and follow with my right, only one step riser at a time. She had me change that up and lead with my right. JHC, that hurt. ![]()
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Jeep attempt day. it went well-ish. My ankle is a bit bitchy but that may be more from my boot and the ungodly tight Achilles tendon than the clutch. Drove about twenty miles.
Kind of disappointed in new Jeep owners. A half dozen Jeeps passed in the opposite direction and nary a one returned my Jeep Wave. Sad.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Have you been ducked yet ? I was parked in a parking lot ,and came back to 3 small rubber ducks on my hood ,I gave them to a little kid coming out of a stroller a few cars over ,and later found out it’s another Jeepthing and we are supposed to collect them .I don’t care about my Jeep ,it’s a work tool/toy at this point ,but in the past I have built some magazine quality pretty jeeps ,dropping plastic shit on a $10;000.00 paint job would probably not end well for you .Give the toys to the kids please ! I also refuse to wave to the Cherokee’s ,grand’s ,patriots etc,unless they are modded ,they are owned by people who don’t have a clue what a Jeep is capable of (even theirs in many cases ) ,or the brotherhood involved . Anyways Cheesy ,of course your rusty ,crappy ,worn out ,no good Jeep is still welcome to join my stable anytime ,since nobody waves at you anymore perhaps that should happen sooner than later ! |
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I still have a hard time with power windows in a Jeep.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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I have been medically cleared and can return to doing stupid sh!t. Except for skating. They want me to hold off a while longer. I won't argue. Yet.
So, I rode the Ol' Phart Lefsa Special for one lap around the subdivision, which equals about 3.5 miles. Since I haven't done any riding since October, it was a workout. Back to the lathe. I'm heading up to N. Wisconsin soon to attend an estate auction of one of my Dads' friends who passed a couple of months ago. The guy had buildings full of old cars, bikes, tractors, parts, machine tools, and farm stuff. I'm going to see if I can score a 6" 3 jaw chuck with 1 1/2-8 threading and a face plate with dogs. Dad has his eye on a 1948-ish Jeep CJ2a.
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Well, the auction was a bust. It was a two day affair and I was only there for the first day. Machine tools sold on the second and prices were whacko anyway. I was interested in a 50 year old Troy-Bilt rear tine tiller. I would have bid maybe a hundred because it was in decent shape. But still, 50 years old. Damn bidding started at $180 and it sold for over $500. My Dad's new pick up is keyless and it sat in the parking lot, running, for five hours.
![]() I made a new shaft for the mini-bike on the lathe today. When I say made, I bought a 12" x 5/8" shaft with a 3/16" keyway already cut in it. I cut it to length, faced, bored and tapped both ends.
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Original plan was to do the entire shaft from scratch, less the keyway. I'd farm that out. Digging through my stock, of the two pieces of 5/8" round stock I had, one was too short and the other was bent.
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![]() The lathe and I are getting better acquainted, though there are still some issues to work out between us. I'm getting used to its 90 year old quirks and it's giving me fewer middle fingers. I turned down some Oilite bushings for the swing arm of the mini bike project over the weekend. it took a couple of attempts to get them right but the slop between the swing arm and the shaft is is now gone. One more thing to do on the swing arm and I can put the mini bike back together and get it out of my garage.
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I just haven't gotten that far yet.
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