I’m a tad frustrated. I worked on my Splintered Road screenplay and I’m damn happy with it, but I couldn’t print it out. Who knows, maybe my version of Final Draft is too old. Bullshit.
We worked on the Salt Torpedo today and made some progress. We hit it to Phillips steel to cut out the front plate for us and lazer cut some holes for frame members and the rack and pinion steering post. Phillips looked at us a little crazy then went out back. We were afraid we might get turned down or the bill would spike through the roof.
The guy returned and smiled, “No problem, 65 bucks will do it.” Relieved we returned to the shop with supplies and café leche from Hoyas, the local coffee shop. The shit is damn good.
We started to mess with the gas tank, the battery mounting and parachute system. Kevin doesn’t get the tube for the parachute and wants a picture.
BIKERNET TO INTERVIEW THE PRESIDENT?–Here’s the letter to the dude that’s ALREADY IN THE MAIL!!!
I want to interview you for Bikernet.com. I will only ask questions you will actually be interested in answering.
Dear Donald Trump; Have you noticed you never get asked actually-interesting questions? That’s because you are only interviewed by boring, agenda-driven commie asshole miserable losers
Bikernet,com is a very professional pro-America, pro-Trump, pro-flag, pro-National Anthem, pro Pledge of Allegiance….capitalist enterprise. Manned by normal people. I know what you’re saying: “Didn’t Keith Ball the owner of Bikernet.com once edit Easyriders Magazine when it started? And you’re saying he’s normal?” I am standing by my statement.
Listen: I just went to Trivago for some reason and noticed that the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas still has a five-star customer-service rating. And that’s just one of your hotels. You are running the fucking Country – or trying to – and you are still maintaining 5-star ratings in your hotels. While that fucking useless load of anus-infection, Mueller, is doing nothing other than stealing tax dollars to create a Jussie Smollett version of….do we even know what the fuck he’s doing? Meanwhile you are still running hotels and providing 5-star service to non-bureaucrats – or the people who actually matter in other words. Despite all this political crap you are still doing your Actual Job.
You are far more interesting and able-bodied than this Presidential torture you’re putting yourself through. And I am very curious about it. Hey, if you don’t like the questions?….send in Vito. Simple solution.
I will only be asking you questions you want to answer: because you will be hearing them for the first time in your life and you will be getting excited about responding!!
Thank you. Lemme know.
J.J. Solari
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All of AMM’s high-performance ignition systems feature programmable advance curves and are being used in the following applications: Street, modified-racing, drag-racing with top-gas engines. Top-fuel engines are not supported by AMM products. AMM’s fine ignitions are available worldwide and come with a 5 years limited guarantee. AMM’s products are also distributed by the following companies: W&W, Zodiac, DUX, etc… Altmann Micro Machines is owned by Dipl.-Ing. Charles Altmann, who founded the company in 1994.
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This is what we are using on our Salt Torpedo, 5-Ball Racing Bonneville Project.–Bandit
A NOTE FROM THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA– Here in California, we’re taking these issues head-on.
We’re supporting immigrant communities and rejecting the federal government’s efforts to force our California National Guard to play a part in Trump’s manufactured border crisis.
We’re moving California closer to the goal of universal healthcare for all, expanding Medi-Cal coverage to all Californians up to age 26 and taking first-in-the-nation actions to control the costs of prescription drugs.
We’re committing to expanding access to affordable housing — because if we want a California for All, we have to build housing for all.
I’ll be talking a lot about these issues and more in the coming months because I truly believe we have the tools to solve them. Taking care of each other, showing courage when it matters most — this is what we do in California.
What we accomplish here will inspire the nation. I hope I can keep counting on your support in this important work and the tough fights ahead.
Thanks for everything,
I just don’t get it, and I responded to him respectfully. I asked who his constituents are? Are they the hard working, taxpaying Californians who are going to pay for free health care, or homes for the homeless, or for illegal immigrants programs? I’m sorta lost here. Don’t all these programs need to be paid for? –Bandit
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BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY OPENED THE SHOP WING–
Good info on your tools in your tool chest.
SKIL SAW :
A portable cutting tool used to make boards too short.
BELT SANDER :
An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
WIRE WHEEL:
Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light.
Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say,
‘Oh shit’.
DRILL PRESS:
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
Channel Locks:
Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
HACKSAW:
One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle… It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
VICE-GRIPS :
Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available,
They can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH :
Used almost entirely for igniting various flammable objects in your shop and creating a fire.
Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.
TABLE SAW:
A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
Very effective for digit removal
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK :
Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
BAND SAW :
A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut large pieces into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.
TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST :
A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of all the crap you forgot to disconnect.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER :
Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt.
But can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER :
A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
PRY BAR :
A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
PVC PIPE CUTTER :
A tool used to make plastic pipe too short.
HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent to the object we are trying to hit.
UTILITY KNIFE :
Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door.
Works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts.
Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.
SON OF A BITCH TOOL:
Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling “Son of a bitch” at the top of your lungs.
It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government
take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
–from Sam Burns
Okay, so my list is long today. I must order the ignition system for the Torpedo. I must reach out to BDL again today. I’m hoping to use their controls for shifting, rear brakes and clutch.
I need to be able to print out my screenplay, edit it some more and share it with some folks. I reached out to Paughco late last night about a gas tank. Hell, I need to go back to Home Depot for more parachute pipe. We need to make this a very productive week and get back on track.
Have a terrific weeks and Ride Free…
–Bandit
