Cobra Sunday

My boss used to be a crew chief for a race team in a previous life. Evidently, once people know you can repair things and do it quickly you always get called. This Sunday he asked his friend Ron and I if we would like to go see some race cars. I said sure as my testosterone climbed!
These are some of the cars.

Marines

Sometimes you just gotta take a look and wonder.

What country can build something like this.

I know one thing for certain, I am glad to be on this side.

It' a bit buggy

These are made of cardboard, about 7 feet tall and gives me a shiver up my spine!

Old stuff / New stuff

Well the art department and engineering were getting rid of several pieces of equipment. After a microsecond, we decided to take the stuff on. Most of the pieces are just in need of a little tender loving care. These are the before shots.

The lathe is a powermatic 18" by 36" three phase 10 hp with outboard turning as well as variable speed. Nice gap-bed style with heavy stand. It needs cleaning and some tooling but all in all good addition to shop.

Here is the Surface grinder. It is a Proth 8" by 16" hydraulic, water bath, with magnetic holddown. This is a great find, makes our shop just a little more versatile. Downside, noisy and dirty. it just needs cleaning and setup.

So in the pile of stuff the department is offing is a Miller CP 200 (s) it is a 100% duty cycle mig-welder. We just need to get some diodes and clean it up. This is a great welder due to its capacity -200 amps- and duty cycle. So we can do some long and deep welds.

We are going to change out our delta 10" table saw to a 12" powermatic. This powermatic needs the surface cleaned and a fence. Since we were going to install a new fence on the 10" we will install it on this one. Also we are going to put in a router lift to the right. Looks ragged but great addition to the woodshop.

Here is an oven just laying outside so we grabbed it to augment our oven. Great for tempering as well as preheating for welding. Not a lot of work here just placement and plug.

The last item is a planer. This one is about twice the weight of our planer and about two inches wider. As planers go weight and width is all. Not sure how this one will pan out.

The interesting part about all of this is they replaced these pieces with new ones and just were going to throw these away!

Rental car

Here is a HHR I rented to drive around Seattle in 06. What a hooptie, tool, toad of a car. Really not sure why I decided on it but damn was it a sorry choice.

Now this is a nice car. A 300 Chrysler smooth and roomy. The Suprano look, At least 4 bodys can fit in the trunk!

This is the latest ride. Lots of attitude and mean stance. Runs like on rails and tight interior.

Only down side is it was not a Z28

Aircraft

Schweizer helicopter, one of Andrews friends was very gracious to show us a helicopter he works on. Cool machine.

Interior, Now let me get this straight. This flys? Rudder. stick - left, right, forward, backward, power - up, down And you have to tell someone where you are going!




It even has a special cover! Thanks Matt for the tour!

Three blade, must be a nice ride.

Seattle Trip Baseball

The Dugout. When I got there I was invited to stay and watch the game from here! It must be because I know a couple of the coaches. First time I was in one during a game. What a blast, these guys were funny.

Here is Andrew as first base coach. Check out the intensity. Some how he turns this intensity on and off but, when it comes to Baseball, he is always on. Increadable resource for a novice like me.

The Pitcher was on today! But I hear he really was only at 50%! Damn I can't imagine 100%