THE Random Chat Thread - AKA "The RCT" - No shirt or shoes required - Open 24 / 7

[newnan man]

Upgrade ! Little shotgun ! Inexpensive ! Taurus judge magnum, it will fire 3 inch .410 rounds. The home defense round 000 buck has 5 .36 caliber balls. Fast and easy to clean if dropped in a creek ! (prospecting/mining)


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Bad ass gun!

 

[releventchair]

Load dammit!

Reworked prop and sanded it near smooth before painting.
Lower unit had enough funk growing on it I kind of winced buying it even cheap.
It sanded off alright. Mismatched paint but the nearer match has to be ordered and isn't cheap.
So run paint up from the bottom a ways to reduce the clash.

 

[releventchair]

Color match is off. Knew that when I bought the paint.

1967 Johnson.
Not bent/crooked.
Optical illusion from phone magic as the motor is turned to right slightly.
( Phone won't find internet from pole barn either.)

 

[releventchair]

87 Johnson. 87 Eska with Tecumseh air cooled motor.

 

[releventchair]

Tank with diesel fuel that gets swished daily trying to loosen deposits.

 

[releventchair]

New tires. Seats. Lithium battery.
Some paint. Springs in rear. Wiper switch for throttle. Some paint touched up. L.e.d. lights and more await.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Present.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Present.

There's presents ??

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

There's presents ??

Nope, just singular diz ...

 

[ARC]

 

[pepperj]

Tank with diesel fuel that gets swished daily trying to loosen deposits.View attachment 2263101

Buddy mechanic uses Muriatic acid, a tad aggressive but it sure looks clean.

 

[pepperj]

Morning everyone

 

[ToddsPoint]

Good morning!☕️

 

[Pick_axe]

GRRRR! One of those mornings when I could kill and eat Bambi.

 

[pepperj]

GRRRR! One of those mornings when I could kill and eat Bambi.

I'm up for a Bambi burger

 

[pepperj]

Planning a trip to the big smoke (Toronto) Traffic is a nightmare to say the least.
So I was thinking of doing a 407, 53 mile Toll trip.....NOT!
Insanity paying these charges.
Got to love it when a party sells a taxpayer's asset off to balance the books.

Folks have it so good in the States.
Toll highways, get on and off again, and a few bucks takes care of everything.
(Not including the Chesapeake Expressway)

Well I guess it's the 401-18 lanes total going east & west, and it can be gridlocked up.

The best part is: Folks from The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are from approximately 170 to 180 different countries.
And everyone has a different set driving rules.

 

[Gare]

Morning all

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.

 

[oldmxrat]

Good morning

 

[releventchair]

Buddy mechanic uses Muriatic acid, a tad aggressive but it sure looks clean.

Clean is good!
Hmm I have some citric acid still I've used for wine making and lantern parts cleaning... Milder perhaps but doable. We'll see after I remove the diesel.
The motor can be run off the onboard it tank , or a portable tank. The portable Dad had with it has about a pound of yuck in it still after I dumped the former fuel. The float for the gauge on the fill cap disintegrated. The metal frame it ran on so rusted it couldn't ride it anyways. Why the tank doesn't have holes in it. Must be the crud lining it.

Eased Tecumseh carb apart ; and oh my.
Getting the float released from the crud welding it to the body and having the carb in two pieces without a pile of broken parts felt like a major accomplishment.
Extracted a couple grams of varied crud before using the last 1/3 can of carb cleaner.
Added a slight dent to top of float adjusting the tab the umpteenth time to set it level.
Put it on the motor and surprise , it raced. I'm still laughing about it at times.
I haven't frogged with it at low idle. Air cooled but it has an exhaust cooling pipe for when underway so I shut it down. It seemed alright mid range on the way to stopping it. ( I had dumped my water test tank earlier. It was getting nasty from bugs ect.).