Started my class last night.....

Last night after work I started my basic machining classes out at the local community college.
Should be fun its something I have always wanted to learn to do. 
I have only had the experience of turning a few gear (ALS unit) parts at an old job a couple of years ago but enjoyed it. I swamped for a gin truck driver there but when we had a rain out I would be placed in the shop with the greybeard machinist, who used to school me on the wicked ways of hedonism, and that "everything is just bullshit", that the oilfield "isnt a business its ran like a mafia", and that "all new cuntry music singers are just wannabe rockabilly posers". At 6 everyday as we were shutting down he would say "and next time lesson 2" even if I had been working in there for a week straight but I always figured he was refering more to whatever social issue he was speaking on that day. Lots of good life stories to listen to.
I'm not sure what I enjoyed more, machining or listening to him.
But I'm looking to get out of the oilfield, still be able to pay my bills, and be able to create something.
Should be fun.

Hold Fast...........

"New boy in the neighborhood
Lives downstairs and it is understood.
He’s there just to take good care of me,
Like he’s one of the family."

"Charles in Charge
Of our days and our nights
Charles in Charge
Of our wrongs and our rights "

"And I sing, I want,
I want Charles in Charge of me. "

"Charles in Charge
Of our days and our nights
Charles in Charge
Of our wrongs and our rights"

"And I sing, I want,
I want Charles in Charge of me."

We would be living in a new regime had the networks not shut down Scott Baio's tyrannical raid......we were on the brink of history repeating.........

Microfiche....a handy tool....

http://partsfinder.onlinemicrofiche.com/ronnies/hdm_oem/hdmc.asp

Thanks to the guys over at Ronnie's

http://www.knucklebusterinc.com/

Also found spec docs for my CB 400four over here.  Lots of usefull and cool info for wrenches, mad scientists, and the like.

weekend just keeps getting better HPB finds and the ol' bought me some new bluejeans.......thanks doll I love ya!;)

Buddies got a Truck For Sale......

from the owner:

"truck is a 1 ton with a 468" big block, 4 speed granny gear trans, 205 gear drive transfer case (divorced and seperated from the trans-uses 2wd trans and I have a spare that goes with it), Dana 60 front axle and Dana 70 rear with 4.10 ratios.  i just installed a new ($200) Borgeson needle bearing lower steering sector (this eliminates the dangerous rag-joint steering coupler).  The A/C works.  It is an old truck with rattles and squeeks, and old truck rust.  The front bumper has a 15,000 pound Tulsa PTO winch in it that runs from a drive shaft from the transmission.  The winch is very strong and dangerous if you really get in a bind....It will snatch/break that cable like nothing at idle without even lugging the motor.  You have to be careful with it, it has a tremendous amount of power through the gear multiplication.   But, with the winch and a boat anchor, you can pull yourself out of almost anything.  The tires are fair.  I want $4500 cash for it with a clear Texas title."

If interested email me and I can put you in touch with the guy (I don't want to post his # up here.) Also can send a link to a flicker account with better pics

Had an hour to kill after work

Marked for death.............strenght in my mortality

"honda hooligan" Mark's 750 chop

I got hooked up with goodies this weekend.........................(free)....

So I ran across a dude ( honda hooligan mark )on cl offering up free cb400 and cb400hawk parts left over from some resto work he did..................and I just happen to have a cb 400four collecting dust in the garage that Ive been meaning to get around to. Well needless to say now I have to, I can't let these finds go to waste. Plus it'll be good for the ol' to learn to ride on since I would like to keep the HD rubbers down, fingers crossed that she dosn't lay anything over (the idea of her riding scares the shit outta me, but once she gets her mind into something talking her out of it is few and far between.+ she's never tried to hold me back from anything so I guess I gotta do the same......at least try....herumph) I love you doll I just don't like the idea of you bleeding.

Aside from the fact that I love her to no end, who would want to see that beautiful body skinned up..?..no one thats who.

one of these days soon.....................

Im actually going to go out and do something, and stop posting filler from the internet

Damn looks like everybody is trading in their old muscle

47 Ford.....soon she will be mine.............

mmmmmm...............

Excitment is almost uncontainable....first garage..........

its filling up quick with projects to get started on.

and then a dream pops up in the crowd only to remain a dream.....for now.

Autorama in the big Heroi... I mean Houston 2010'.............................

It begins

Hello to all of you other sinners, saints, and the unrefined...........................................