Good o'l Gulf of Mexico...

[Russ79]

Wow, you got some cute kids. Sorry, the coal mine was just a metaphor. But I can send you some pics of snowplow trucks, and heavy equipment. Not much of a trade off for pics of the ocean though. Sorry.

Russ

[bigray03]

Ha-Ha...!!!LOL

Russ
Now I see KS. Yeah, never remember hearing of coal mining going on there. ha. It's warm right now and that's causing the heavy, heavy fog, but when it's cold it's cold. Offshore anyway. It is very common to hold at 30-40 degrees out here during winter for weeks at a time. Doesn't sound bad to you up north I know, but add a constant 60-70 mph wind and fog with 10 yrd. visibility, you get pretty cold, miserable, wet, weather.


Anyway, here ya go.


















When all hell breaks loose the sea can become a much less beautiful place.

[bigray03]

Photobucket always works for me, just leave a space between each picture and you should be fine. I remember seeing a couple oil rigs off the beach growing up........ probably where the tar came from. I think after hurricane Ike, the old beach house is probably gone.

Nan. Probally not Blue,
I was around that part "Corpus" about 3 weeks after huricane Ike and they really lucked out around there. Nearly no damage. No much anything much further south than Galveston had much of any damage at all.,

So, Blue your boyhood beach house is probally still there.
Unless they bull dozed it down to put a f*c*i*g Holiday-Inn on it.

[prometheus578]

"I see..."

Either "M82 blank"... or "M62/M80 1+4 linked...?

Shops at Harbor Freight...

Had a horse at one time, but not for a while.

Hope the frame turned out nicely..., but what slovenly disregard.

Did you replace those fork seals?

Boy, someone's gonna have his hands full in about ten years... times 3!

[rpgoerlich]

Nice Pics!

I was thinking the same about his hands full in 5-7 or so!

I get out to the rigs a bunch, but only to fish.
My son and I made our way out to Boomvang early this December for some Tuna.
His went at 107.1lbs.

[prometheus578]

"You need to put more stuff in your garage."

Geez, Richard....
Ya didn't give me much to work with.

Lincoln Electric AC/DC 225/125

Best guess would be a Yamaha 650... like an XJ

[Wildkat]

Great pics!

and REALLY cute kids!


How long are you usually out? I understand the pay is pretty decent... but time away from home kind of sucks...

I remember jelly fish, Portuguese Man O' War, syringes, sea weed and tar on the beach..... lots of fun!

I used to go to Galveston a lot when I was younger... always had to avoid the tar on the beach... and it was the only time I was ever stung by a jelly fish... I don't back so much anymore...

[bigray03]

alrighty.

and REALLY cute kids!


How long are you usually out? I understand the pay is pretty decent... but time away from home kind of sucks...



I used to go to Galveston a lot when I was younger... always had to avoid the tar on the beach... and it was the only time I was ever stung by a jelly fish... I don't back so much anymore...

Hey, Kat,
I usually just go for a day or 2 at a time. Something breaks, they call me, I go out fix it, and go home. I usually work about 4 or 5 days a week. I make 3 times the money I could working the same job 8-5 and I still sleep in my bed at home about 3/4 of the time and take off pretty much whenever I want or need. I also hate working an 8-5 job. Up the same time every morning, drive to the same place every day, see the same o'l faces every day. Can't stand it. Hate it with a passion. So, this I what I have chosen for the last 10 yrs.



Prometheus, Ok,
Have not done the forks yet.
And,,,, What exactally are you getting at? Giving me hell again ay?

[prometheus578]

"The game is afoot."

"You see... but you do not observe, Watson."

No, Big Ray...
Just my usual "What insight into the man can we glean by looking in his garage".

The 7.62mm ammo can: Most commonly holds blank ammo or belts of 4 ball/1 tracer.

Harbor Freight: Orange hydraulic press

The saddle: Implies a horse. A saddle in a garage means no current horse. A saddle stored in an inaccessable spot means no horse for quite a while, but holding out some hope of getting another one in the distant future

Bad fork seals: The pattern of smeared fork oil on the front brake rotors.

Oh, now this was a fun one.
What was painted on the bike lift?
Judging by the color of the over-spray... it was something that the owner valued or wanted to make pretty.
The pattern of the two "non-oversprayed parts" indicates that the part to be painted wasn't placed directly on the bench... and that it was just one large object, not several. How would one be able to paint the "inner" sides of two objects if they were placed that closely together. It becomes obvious that the object to be painted was placed then on blocks, or something similar to elevate it.
There was a lot of "downward" spraying, and from all angles, as evident by a uniform coat of paint even between the two "elevating blocks". This indicates that the object wasn't solid, it didn't span the width of the table but was an open structure... a frame work of sorts. The third "non-oversprayed outline means that the object was rather long and might have needed an additional support... and that that block was placed there at the same time as the others, and not later.
That all the painting was done toward the rear of the lift means that the owner realized that he'd have to paint from all directions... walking around the lift, and that the wheel vise at the front of the lift would be in the way... Indicative of a large object.
Having to use the bike lift to paint it... it was either heavy or bulky and cumbersome.
I figger'd... a motorcycle frame.

Now... some members have PM'd me... stating that they believe the owner is also illiterate. "Were he able to read... he would read newspapers. If he had newspapers, he would have used them to cover the lift prior to painting, hence, no over-spray." (A good deduction had the painting been done at the kitchen table... where papers are read, but few people read papers in the garage so there'd be none readily accessible. Further, if he couldn't read... how would it be possable for him to type and post on this forum?)




So... all that remains, Big Ray... is for you to fill in the blanks for me... point out my errors in logic or supply details where I have been correct.


(Way, way too much time on my hands.)

[bigray03]

Damn Promethesus.

You sure do observe well... Where do I start.
1). Yes, you were correct about the Lincon in previous post.
2). Yes the press is Harbor Freight. A little closer look you may have also noticed the orange blade guard of the chop saw on table in front of press, also Harbor Freight.
3). Yes, the horse is gone. A saddle is just one of those things you oil well before storing but nover get rid of. "Motorcycles need no feeding."
4). Yes, what a shame to have messed up the lift.
5). No, the owner is not illiterate. Nor does he read his paper in the shop.
6). Yes, had to ellevate the object being painted so you get block marks in the overspray.The table made this object closer to eye level making it easier to spray.
7). No, the object was not a frame but a motorcycle trailer.
Oh, this one is fun! Had you looked a little further you may have noticed even though overspray that the red matches the Venture in background that I think was in one of the pics.



8). Yes, the fork seals do need replacing.
9). Finally, yes you just may "have way, way too much time on your hands."

I give you an A+ on paying good attention to surroundings. LOL!! So what insight have seen from this mans garage? I'm starting to like you just when I was starting to not be sure about you. LOL.

Oh yeah, just for the record. I would be restoring bike original if my 80 had its original 80 motor but....... So I said the hell with it. Let the chopping begin.

[bigray03]

Nice Pics!

I was thinking the same about his hands full in 5-7 or so!

I get out to the rigs a bunch, but only to fish.
My son and I made our way out to Boomvang early this December for some Tuna.
His went at 107.1lbs.

Nice, very nice Richard.
Isn't that a blast when you hook one of those big bastards?

[prometheus578]

I am intimately familiar with the Harbor Freight press, but have no personal frame of reference for the chop saw.

"Lincoln" arc welder took a little bit of Google searching to nail down.

That the color was the same as the bike in the background was immediately apparent.
But what on the other bike could have been repainted or needed repair? I figger'd an accessory of some sort, but what?
Not the saddlebags. They weren't placed on the lift, again because of the closeness of the unpainted spots and the difficulty of painting the inner sides. Plus, you used two dissimilair shaped blocks to elevate the object... not the correct outline shape for saddle bags.

It would have been of considerable size
Fairing? Wouldn't have needed the third elevating block
And it was this third unpainted area bothered that me...
It did suggest a tripod approach was needed for some reason... I figured thusly:
If it was a bike frame, it was first painted upside down... and the third block was used to support the steering head area, but it being a block of lower height than the other two. Painting the frame upside down first has it's advantages. You obviously paint as many areas as are accessable and then flip the frame over. One doesn't worry much then about the freshly painted lower "underside" portion of the frame that rests on the blocks, as it's under the bike where no one can see if the paint becomes slightly marred.
Bike trailers are tripod shaped, but being somewhat of a rarity... I opted for a bike frame.
(Though not enough evidence to support this... the frame might have belonged to the spouse's bike... being painted to match the master's.)

All in all... a good mental exercise.
My work is finished here....
I now return to my lodgings at 221B Baker Street, London.

[manshack_one]

I'm not sure I want to see any more after this one...

[Shuriken]

Sometimes it previews fine, then only half of pics show up. Am I doing wrong, is photo bucket a piece of crap, does my connection suck? What??

Photo Bucket sucks.

[Rasputin]

Big Ray. Glad to see you have it all figured out now. I have had no problems with Photobucket at all ....yet.