This might possibly be useful:
Car bodies, not gym bodies …
Robert, gutsy move. Can’t wait to see your progress.
I need to check on your progress.
It has been slow going lately. Busy with other stuff.
@18bravo, hi Rob - any updates on this project? You got me hooked!
Cheers
Nick
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None in the past several weeks. I’ve gotten caught up doing a lot of 1099 work, couple of bike builds, and entertaining the CFO, which usually involves spending time making ammo. Mine, not hers.
I plan to dig into it again this weekend, Thanks for the interest.
I got a pretty cool offer at SOF Week for a build that could potentially eat up quite a bit of my time. Right now I’m trying to decide if it should be a ground up build or a heavily modified new bike. I think a Scout would be a great starting point.
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NSTR.
But if you like WWII submarines, you may find this interesting:
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HI Rob,
Sort of funny, as I started this reply, a note popped up telling me this has been quiet for about a year - "Are you sure you want to continue this conversation?, well, yes, I do.
Today, I rode up to the Port of Richmond, which is particularly well known as a one-time, large WWII era ship building yard run by the Kaiser Corporation. It’s now a national monument and has good museum, which I’ve been aware of for some time. But today I rode somewhere I hadn’t been, and rolled up on a Victory Ship, the Red Oak Victory. I’ve seen the SS Jeremiah O’Brien, a Liberty Ship several times in the SF Bay, so, as this was new to me, cool to see.
I’m posting these here because of the crane - I now see it’s not the same as the one you built, but who knows? maybe useful to see:
OK, I hope this is of some use, or at least interesting! If it would be helpful, I could ride out again and take more specific pictures
Cheers
Nick
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Nick,
Thank you, I’ve pretty much got all of the photos I need to finish the crane. Whay stopped me for a while was the inordinate amount of work it’s going to take to remove all of the decking and replace it plank by plank with .020x.030 stryrene strips. I just need to get my mojo back. No building for a while now, which happens once the weather gets nice. Plus I just got back from one vacation which was a week in NM, which actually followed a week in NYC, where I did some research on the Intrepid I’d been wanting to do for a while. Well worth the visit by the way. Now leaving in a few days for MO so I try not to start anything that takes too long to put back away. In other words, just cranking out reloads and watching a great new (to me) show called Slow Horses. I never knew Gary Oldman could be so funny.
That is a cool looking crane though.
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