Konrad in Lincoln

Those are nice. Several years ago I did a static display cannon (not as detailed or as nice as yours), and I used a pre-fabbed stair bannister post from the local Home Depot for the body of the cannon. So if you don't have a lathe, there are options such as that. 8)

I hadn't considered the hardwood flooring, that's a pretty danged good idea! 8) Now, for the ignorant question.. Vapor barrier? I can talk to you all day long about 6 mil poly vapor barrier for concrete slabs, but what are you talking about regarding the playing surface? :?:

Hey dudes, long time/no post. We just moved into a new house, and the finished basement is begging for a shuffleboard. I've priced these things on ebay, and gametables4less.com , but I really think I'd like to build one. I've built a Vacationer, a OSS, a Wing-dinghy (although it never saw the light of day :cry: ) and the queen size bed my wife and I now sleep in. So a shuffleboard shouldn't be out of hand. The way I see it, the only real challenge (but it's a challenge) is getting the playing surface dead-ass laser flat. I've thought about this for a while, and have a few scenarios. Tell me what you think... 1. Lay up the playing surface with oak strips, and pay a local cabinet shop to run it through their planer to make it flat. Q: Think it will stay flat and not warp over time? 2. Use a cheaper base material of melamine, particleboard, something else, and do a mock layup on the top/sides of it. Probably still have to have it planed, but would likely be cheaper. 3. I saw one on e bay that's actually a plywood top. I really don't like the appearance of it very much, but it would be light years easier to build and may be less likely to warp. I don't really want to make it look half-a$$ed, so this will probably not be a serious option. Just some fun things to ponder on a saturday night, let me know if you have some bright idea.

That web link seems to have died. This one is similar, but not identical. The photo of the man kissing his baby gets me every time, as I have a 14 month old. :cry: http://www.ushostnet.com/gulfwar/911attack.htm

Just thinking back. http://www.thincgrafx.com/movie2.html

Well my friends and my wife think I'm crazy, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I went and looked at it in the shop yesterday... What a big boat! I'm still on the fence about this, I will post again in a week or so when things settle down. We're in the process of moving/selling/showing our home, and that's a big distraction right now.

I may be interested in this for my iceboat that I'm building. But that mast would probably be bigger than what I saw on those photos. Can you send me additional info? hondacr500@alltel.net Thanks.

This forum has classifieds?? Sheesh, I disappear for a few years, and the whole place changes!

I bought the prints for the iceboat called the "Whizz". I hve the fuselage about 50% framed up, but the project has floundered with the arrival of the baby, moving to a new house, etc. Those old projects are cool, but don't expect the same level of hand-holding that the Stevenson Projects prints give you. You have to have a bit of experience to bridge the gaps.

We've been in a drought here for about 3 years. It's had minimal use in the last three years for this reason. The boat ramps are hard to use now. The lake continues to be low enough that launching and retrieving is... challenging. No signs of it recovering anytime soon. Topping it off, my parents have sold the acreage, which has the shop building that stores my vacationer. I don't have a place to store it, and I'm not terribly inclined to rent storage for it. I wouldn't be able to just cut it up and send it to the landfill, though. I'm thinking about giving it up to someone, if they're willing to come get it. There's a few catches, though. I'm in Lincoln, NE and you'd have to come get it. Second, it's on a very very special trailer that I won't part with. So someone would have to have a trailer and come get it. We'd probably have to go out to the lake and launch it and put it back on the new trailer. Third... the rudder box and rudder need to be rebuilt. But I'd really, really like to see it go to a good home. I can't just throw it away. :cry: Anyone know of someone who'd be willing to travel here and get it? There's no money involved, so I obviously wouldn't try to hide any defects or anything. I'll disclose anything and everything. There's probably over $100.00 just in Harken hardware alone on it. But it's not perfect. It's not finished off inside, except for carpet on the sole. I'm keeping the outboard. Pix and details available anytime. Let me know. I'm still on the fence about this. There may be local interest in it, but I thought I'd post here and see what replies I get.

You will identify dry spots because they will be white. (like it was when you bought it, before you added the resin) No white spots = saturated cloth.

I haven't been here in a while. What in the WORLD are you guys doing??

I know this is the obvious but... Would it not be best to simply NOT be on the water when there's lightening?? :shock: When we're sailing cats, the rule is: If you can hear thunder (no matter how distant) it's too close. Tie down the boats and stay way from them till it passes.

Ok, I can add another one. How about all the STUFF you own in your cupboards? Chemicals and bad stuff aside, you never realize just how much other crap is in there until you have a baby to take almost-daily inventory for you. :roll:

In five weeks, he'll be a year old. Back when my wife told me she was pregnant, I said, "This is it. We just hit the fast-forward button. You're pregnant now, but next week the baby will be graduating from high school". Well, welcome to my world of fast-forward... 1. Everyone says they "Grow like weeds". Well duh! He's eaten damned near half of all the POTTING SOIL in our plants. :shock: Miracle Grow called last week to ask if they could sponsor our baby. 2. Once they crawl, it's game over. You don't catch up. :oops: 3. I have been to many a PRC rodeo in my time. Let me tell you, them steer wrestlin' cowboys have a cakewalk task compared to me trying to install a diaper on that squirming 11 month old. I throw my hands up in the air each time I'm done, just like the calf ropers. 4. There are certain levels of danger. There's "real" danger like chewing on lamp cords, and then there's "sort of real" danger like repeatedly hitting the power button on the TV. :roll: 5. You will never know the true capacity of your own compassion until you hold your own sick baby in your arms, in the dark, on a work night, at 3:00 a.m., and all you think about is anything you could do to take the discomfort away from them to give them peace. 6. Unopened bags of egg noodles are way better toys than that $45.00 battery-operated thing sitting over in the corner. :?: :!: :?: 7. Everyone likes to see you come into their place of business when you're holding the baby. There is no easier way to be the most popular person in the room. :wink: 8. I am sometimes saddened by the world that my boy is destined to inherit. Surely there is more good than evil, but it's been hard to see lately. 9. I now have a legitemate reason to have movies like Nemo in the house. (not that it stopped me before) 10. I am unashamed to say that I am absolutely pro-life. You will never, ever convince me that a little baby isn't dying during an abortion procedure. People really need to pull their heads out of the sand about this. Ok, maybe there's one more: Having "number one" really makes you want to have "number two". Hmmm.... . . . .

Well after two weeks and two rides, the test patch on the underside of the fuel tank is A-Ok. My buddy rides an XR250, and he used Rust-Oleum's version of this stuff. It's been on his bike a few weeks now, with no ill effects. I'm going to shoot the whole tank white, and also apply new graphics. I'll do before and after pix for you. More later. K.

Ok, here's what I got going on. Krylon came out with a new (at least I think it's new) line of spray paint called Fusion, specifically for applying to plastic. I used red on my CR 500 plastic body panels, and I must say it looks a world better than the faded OEM plastic from '92. However, the fuel tank is the catch. Plastic fuel tanks on dirt bikes allow fuel vapors to slowly permeate through them. This is why, if you don't spend good money for good adhesive-applied graphics, they will eventually blister and come off. Good graphics panels have slits machined into them that allow the tank to still breath. But the white plastic parts of the tank that are not covered with graphics have slowly aged to a dull yellow. I want to apply Fusion white to it, but not if it's going to blister up. I've done a test area on the underside of the tank where it'll never be seen. It's been on there for about a week, and so far so good. I think I'll leave it there another week or so, and if all looks good, I think I'm going to shoot it. New plastic body parts for the bike = $130.00 New Fusion paint applied to the bike = $10.00 It's a no brainer.

Will spray paint "breathe" like typcial latex paint does? I want to apply spray paint to something, but it needs to be able to allow vapors to pass through. Thanks, Konrad

As the obnoxiously-proud daddy of my now-9-month-old boy, I can solemnly assure you that your baby will have outgrown that thing by age 7 months! :shock: But it's still one of the neatest things I've seen plans for online, and I almost built one myself a year ago. :wink:

I know I've irritated people in the past with my political posts, and for that, I apologoze. I went through a real Michael Savage streak there for a while, but this post should hopefully strike a chord with everyone. All of these "hearings" and "investigations" about 9/11... Why are all of these people spending so much time and energy trying to point fingers at each other about who was "at fault" or should carry the blame?? If they REALLY want to identify who's to blame, I'll tell you: Blame the hijackers who actually flew the planes into the building. There. The end. Look how easy that was. It was them. THEY did it. Why all the rest of this nonsense?? "For God's sake, Marge! Turn on the TV, I'm starting to think for myself!" ~ Homer Simpson

Egads! Tom Holder is really... . . Yanni ! ! ! ! :shock:

These guys are good at what they do. I guess they specialize in cold water and ice diving. Not sure if I'm into that though. They've told me there is a wreck up in Lake Michiagan (I think) called the Cam Loop (or Kam Loop?) that actually still has a body on it!!! :shock: :shock: These divers say it's pretty unknown, because the wreck is quite inaccessible to most divers. (I imagine they're using mixed gas to get to it) Something about the water chemistry and the water temp and depth of the wreck has caused the body to *not* decompose. It's the engineer of the vessel, and his body is somewhere in the wreck, I don't remember where they said it was at. Can you imagine that?? That's some freaky crap. Glad I'm not going there. I'll take Table Rock Lake down in AK over that any day.

He put a motor IN the keel?? :shock: Are there pix of this? I want to see it.

Hey Bruce, I got a hell of an offer today! Today I was invited to attend a dive trip with an underwater salvage diver next weekend, in Table Rock Lake, AK. He's hooking me up with the owner of Heartland Scuba, and this guy is trying to achieve some advanced teaching certificate or something. So he wants me to go, because I'm another student that he can add in his tally of required students that he's trained, to qualify for this certificate. He is going to get me the following: Advanced Open Water, Dry Suit Diver, and Wreck Diver certifications all for free. (except air refils) And it gets better. Because he's the owner of Heartland Scuba, he's going to loan me all the gear I need to go with him, again, for free. He's letting me into their pool on Sunday morning to help me learn bouyancy control with a dry suit. 8) They are going down there to relocate 3 or 4 boats that have sunk to the bottom of the lake, to make them more accessible for recreational diving. Using lift bags and a surface barge with a crane on it. We talked about mixed gas, but we agreed the above certifications are quite a bit to cover already. If nothing else, I'm establishing a really, really good contact. This is just too good of an offer to pass up. It's a group of professional salvage divers, so I could never ask for better company. It's sort of like a private pilot being allowed to fly an F-18 Hornet for a day. I'm completely stoked. They have a houseboat that we'll live on for the weekend. He says vis should be around 70 feet. Nyeah nyeah... Free, free, free.... . . . . . .

I admit I only skimmed through all the replies, but.. You won't have to spend $5,000.00 to build a Vacationer. If you're carefull, you can do it for half of that. Maybe. You CAN spend that much, but it is not a requirement.