keskiviikko 31. lokakuuta 2012
lauantai 20. lokakuuta 2012
Partytime @ OSC
How to get drunk at OSC's garage, simple ten step guidance:
1. Take old bicycle and cycle to train trainstation. If you're in a hurry, you'll be there faster. Fast is good.
2. Jump to train that takes you to Turku.
Yes, that is just the opposite direction from OSC's garage.
3. When you'll get to Turku, step out from the train before harbour. Walk to nearest grocery store. Buy beer. Walk to WK's garage.
4. Step in Mane's car. Travel to Masku.
Yes, that is just the opposite direction from OSC's garage.
5. Step in Uncle Henri's Cadillac. Get mesmerized of that smoo-oo-ooth ride. Drink beer.
6. Stop at Riihimäki and try to refuse from offered cognac. Drink anyway.
Try to refuse again. Drink anyway.
Try to refuse again. Drink anyway.
7. Get in the car with others. Drink beer.
Mane will be anxious to drive. Drink beer.
8. When at Old Soul Collective's place, pay the admission to entry and buy drinking tickets. Drink beer.
9. Drink beer. Fool around. Drink beer.
10. Mission accomplished!
1. Take old bicycle and cycle to train trainstation. If you're in a hurry, you'll be there faster. Fast is good.
2. Jump to train that takes you to Turku.
Yes, that is just the opposite direction from OSC's garage.
3. When you'll get to Turku, step out from the train before harbour. Walk to nearest grocery store. Buy beer. Walk to WK's garage.
4. Step in Mane's car. Travel to Masku.
Yes, that is just the opposite direction from OSC's garage.
5. Step in Uncle Henri's Cadillac. Get mesmerized of that smoo-oo-ooth ride. Drink beer.
6. Stop at Riihimäki and try to refuse from offered cognac. Drink anyway.
Try to refuse again. Drink anyway.
Try to refuse again. Drink anyway.
7. Get in the car with others. Drink beer.
Mane will be anxious to drive. Drink beer.
8. When at Old Soul Collective's place, pay the admission to entry and buy drinking tickets. Drink beer.
9. Drink beer. Fool around. Drink beer.
Mike's Triumph has perfect stance and all right parts!
10. Mission accomplished!
keskiviikko 17. lokakuuta 2012
Backyard aluminum casting, vol. 1
This was my first attempt on casting aluminum at home, did this more than year ago in august. After this, I've melted even more aluminum few different times and learned a lot about it. I'll write another post about it later.
Before this, I had done casting patterns and taken them to real foundry to cast. Check my older posts to get more info.
Everything was done with budget of "next to nothing".
Got these bricks from a friend, they're taken apart from old demolished house.
Two pipes going under all charcoal, and compressed air with less than one bar pressure turns this brick-pile to a furnace. Bricks were covered with sand to make it airtight, or at least near airtight.
Check out this hellfire!
Bucket full of scrap aluminum. These were old moped parts, Saab valve cover, compressor parts etc, in their earlier life. Got them from another friend. All this was hacked to small pieces, it makes it faster to melt. I'm using only aluminum that was originally cast, not sheetmetal or tincans.
Box was made of tubing I had laying around. Filled it with casting sand, and poured molten metal in.
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And this is what was found inside casting mold after it was allowed to cool... looks like a fuel block! Not perfect, though, so more practising was needed. More about that later on some other posting.
Most common question is "can I use empty beer cans, I have lots of them". Answer is yes you can, but. You'll still need real cast aluminum material, and when you've melted them, then you can throw few empty beer cans into the molten metal.
That's all for now, next time with better pictures and even more detailed info.
Until then,
take care,
Otto
Before this, I had done casting patterns and taken them to real foundry to cast. Check my older posts to get more info.
Everything was done with budget of "next to nothing".
Two pipes going under all charcoal, and compressed air with less than one bar pressure turns this brick-pile to a furnace. Bricks were covered with sand to make it airtight, or at least near airtight.
Bucket full of scrap aluminum. These were old moped parts, Saab valve cover, compressor parts etc, in their earlier life. Got them from another friend. All this was hacked to small pieces, it makes it faster to melt. I'm using only aluminum that was originally cast, not sheetmetal or tincans.
.
Most common question is "can I use empty beer cans, I have lots of them". Answer is yes you can, but. You'll still need real cast aluminum material, and when you've melted them, then you can throw few empty beer cans into the molten metal.
That's all for now, next time with better pictures and even more detailed info.
Until then,
take care,
Otto
perjantai 12. lokakuuta 2012
Norm.
Norm Grabowski just passed away from this world this morning. He was known as car builder and actor, plus talented woodworker (just like me, hahaha...) but he is most widely known for "Kookie Kar", one of first showcar hot rods. He built this car was in 1952, powered with then-new Cadillac engine. For people of that time, car became popular in TV-show "77 Sunset Strip", aired every friday evening.
It's '31 model A V8 with '22 T-model body and shortened model A pick-up hangin' on the rear.
Flames were painted by legendary Dean Jeffries. Later on, Tommy Ivo built his nailhead powered "Ivo T" with measures copied from what Norm had done first.
Photo from 1996, Norm on the right, and bearded guy on left side of picture is... well, if you don't know who he is, you are reading wrong blog.
Flames were painted by legendary Dean Jeffries. Later on, Tommy Ivo built his nailhead powered "Ivo T" with measures copied from what Norm had done first.
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