Mother's Day

It's hard to believe another week has gone by. Didn't get up to work on anything much this week between work and Mother's Day, but did take a couple of hours out Saturday morning to haul the trailer over to the scrap yard. We had been watching the past few months for the steel to build a new rotisserie. The last one was lent to a friend who bought the Notchback, who abandoned it at the paint shop and never returned it. Argh.

So, the second scrap yard we stooped at had just gotten a whole bunch (15 or so?) of these really nice 3x3 posts about 8-9' long. We also found some nice 2.5x2.5 posts, and some 20' 2x2s. We bought pretty much everything they had since it doesn't come in too often, and there are always tools and stands to make. It ended up being 1600lbs of steel! Each of the sizes nests pretty well into the next.

A couple of weeks back I had bought some 10" pnuematic double bearing casters when Harbor Freight had them on sale for just $10. (Tractor Supply wanted $48 for the exact same brand/model caster!) I also managed to pick up the 18.5" pnuematic rods when they were on sale.

Since the Oval is just the first of the cars that will be going in to paint soon, we're going to build adapters for the two Things, Ghias and Bugs that are all waiting to be next. It will be quite the deluxe rotisserie, but that should be great to help us in the long run when we can roll everything out in the lawn for blasting, and use the compressor to help us raise and lower the shells as we rotate them in the garage.

My friend also got a lot of work done on the template to make the H aprons, and put the order in for the Planishing Hammer this week. We finally decided that even the super cheap $130 of the Harbor Frieght Planishing Hammer wasn't worth it for a glorified air chisel. It had a max of about 220 pounds per minute, and the one we ordered had a rating up to 4000 ppm instead. The higher the better as you seek to minimize the anvil marks and smoothly pound out the metal. If all goes well, we might be able to bring a couple of reproduction aprons to Bad Camberg to see if there is any interest in them...