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Thanks for posting all the time Gregor. I'm about to start my own thread, finally.

 

[Hawk136439]

Thank you Gregor! This thread is going to be very helpful over the next 2-6 weeks...

 

[Choirboy]

Well, things have certainly changed a bit in the last few weeks haven't they?
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I think Nick thought I was a little nuts when I started ordering groceries on Amazon. I wasn't going prepper style crazy but I wanted to make sure I had at least 2 solid months of pizza supplies. Look, I'm happy to be cooped up at home but it will take more than a pandemic to get me to eat frozen pizza!
...
But, you are home, practicing social distancing and looking for something light to pass the time. Hopefully you have a shop that you can go and work in. We collectively have a lot of time on our hands to get working on projects right now.
...

So I picked up some aluminum stock from Metal Supermarket as the world was stocking up on toilet paper. Also, being on the cautious side, I refilled my Argon bottle so that I have two full ones.
...
So I hope you are all well and settled in - I think we will be in this new reality for quite a while. I will try to post things a bit more regularly so as to provide a bit of a diversion. Both for you and I!

Gregor

Looks like you and I did our last minute panic shopping the same way! We are poor and have a big deep freeze so all of our food is purchased in bulk at a discount and stored, so no need to panic buy food. However, knowing I was going to have at least 4 weeks off of school and knowing I'd be making up that time this summer when I normally work on my house, I took stock of my materials and went to the home center to stock up on things to finish my current projects. I've got way more than 4 weeks of projects so no matter how long this lockdown lasts I'll be busy. I've got a big stack of drywall and enough mud and tape to do at least a few rooms. If the weather gets nice I have a few new windows in boxes I haven't had time to install yet, too...

We've skipped an entire market correction cycle in the past 10 years, so I agree: I think we are headed to recession. Who knows how big it will be; hoping for smaller! Crazy times! I do look forward to your posts being pleasant diversions keeping us all from getting cabin fever!

 

[sakurama]

Ha, yes, Judiaann gave me a rather long list of "honey-dos" that she'd like me to do. My list and hers aren't exactly in alignment but we have some overlap. The kids have been asking for the tree house and if that's ever going to be done it needs to happen before they're too big.

Gregor

 

[monsterbronco]

More details on the power feed now on the table lift please!
Also from following on IG you showed your DRO, what brand model is it? I've always done that math by hand as my DRO is just a simple x and y readout.
Always enjoy your IG stories, they are typically a great way to wind down after a stressful day!
Thanks,
Wes

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[sakurama]

Thanks for thinking of us Gregor - It always cheers me up to see anything you are working on.
I'm patiently waiting for the Guzzi but I have a horrible feeling that will get sold as-is

There's a small chance of that. But there's a greater chance I will build it up and then sell it.

Right now all my work has been cancelled and Judiaann was laid off and we lost our healthcare with that. I haven't posted for a bit because I was pretty upset about this turn of events. We're also in lockdown and couldn't work if we wanted to. Judiaann has a couple of small clients left but not enough to pay the mortgage. Photography as a career has been going backwards for a long time and honestly I'm so much happier when I'm working in the shop. There I don't feel like I'm competing against a million monkeys with cameras. Building and photography are both crafts but one has been democratized to the point it has no value.

So I have a good three motorcycles that I can build with right now, the Guzzi included. The Triumph is the easiest one to both finish and sell. I have a friend who's an investor and he's been trying to buy my Guzzi engine for a few years and the last time I saw him he suggested I just build him a bike with the motor. Of course a few weeks ago I asked if he was serious and because of the crashing markets he said, "...not now"

But those bikes right now represent potential income. Obviously not now when our economy is in a free fall but when things get better the rich will somehow magically have even more money than they do now. If my goal is to build bikes then now is the time. I have 6 months to a year before things improve in any way shape or form and so my goal is to create this thing now while I can't do anything else anyway.

So that Guzzi might just get done and then sold which I'd be sad about but if it allowed me to live and build - then that's the goal isn't it?

You don't have to if you don't want, but I'd love to see more pictures/read more details of how the One Show and flat track race there went. Was really getting into the cliffhanger story of the last minute bike build! No IG account, so missed the story of the show as it was happening.

I don't have any photos from that day. I was just so focused. I did some Instagram videos but it's hard to do both.

Which brings me to part two of building. I recognize that if I build full custom bikes I'll be lucky to sell even a few at a cost that would allow me to live which is the range of $30-50k each. Sounds crazy unless you do the actual math. But the bikes are just the end result of the story I'm telling.

So the second part of that puzzle is my friend Mikael's suggestion: YouTube. That might not ever turn out to make me money but it sure as hell won't if I don't do it. While I love posting here it is a tiny fraction of the eyes in the world and it's not like Garage Journal or you guys are going to send me money. So the next step is to evolve my stories to where there's the potential do the same thing for a wider audience, build the brand and the story and possibly make a small amount of money doing what i'd be doing anyway. I'm no This Old Tony but we'll see what happens.

But shooting video, shooting stills and then trying to do posts here, on IG and then on YouTube is hard. Fortunately my friend Jesse has taken all my phone videos from the last few months of the XR build and created 8 10-15 minute videos from them. He's sending me the drive with them on it now and I'm going to grade them and start uploading them next week. He has done what I couldn't which is to edit them into something coherent. At some point I'm going to have to do the editing myself but for now Jesse is a life saver and i owe him bigly.

Besides, it seems like a good time to give people some mindless entertainment. And again, what else am I doing? I sure as hell not going to get a "job" as I'd sooner shoot myself than work for someone and that option isn't available now anyway in our world headed for 20-30% unemployment. I would consider teaching - that I don't consider a job per se - but that's not happening any time soon...

So, next week. Fingers crossed. Episode 1. Have low expectations.

More details on the power feed now on the table lift please!
Also from following on IG you showed your DRO, what brand model is it? I've always done that math by hand as my DRO is just a simple x and y readout.
Always enjoy your IG stories, they are typically a great way to wind down after a stressful day!
Thanks,
Wes

The power feed on the mill is a Servo 140.

It was a table feed but I had heard that they were basically the same for the knee so I made an offer of $250 and got it. I had to buy another $100 in parts to convert it and then do a little fixing inside but now it's working fine. Part of me misses the big handle, none of me misses cranking it up from the floor.

The DRO is an Anilam Wizard which is one that was made by Accurite years ago and was sort of a budget model in that it was only $1800 compared to the really expensive ones. There was a company that used to do these huge sales on things and you could stack coupons and I got both the mill and the lathe DRO's with scales for $1500 - retail should have been $5000. I love them.

The big Kurt vise I got with the mill I just sold and replaced with this Kurt II. I have never used the swivel base on a vise so this made more sense. Plus I came out ahead on the deal.

Scott convinced me to get the Speed Handle which I found in parts on ebay. I didn't expect to love it so much but it's very heavy so it can really making opening and closing the vise super fast as one good spin and it will coast for a inch or two. Nice addition.

Next addition is a Kurt Power Drawbar. Don't think that my current unemployment situation is not recognized - pretty much all of this was purchased many months ago on ebay and has been sitting waiting for me to have time. Which I do.

While this and the knee seem sort of like lazy options they're actually very useful tools in that they encourage you to make the right choices by making tedious things very fast. Switching from a center drill to an end mill to a fly cutter takes only a few seconds so you always go for the right tool.

I've always loved the vintage and classic look of drilled parts so that was a natural choice for the disc carrier.

I went ahead and added more holes to the carrier and then mounted it up and used a piece of birch ply to stand in for the caliper bracket. I sighted in the caliper spacing by eye and drew an arc. The pads on the Ducati caliper are larger than the disc's swept area so I'll be beveling the pad a bit but this should keep it centered.

I drilled holes for the caliper mounting bolts and then cut away the wood to allow for the caliper to be test fitted.

I hemmed and hawed about starting to machine the block of aluminum and decided that to do this right I need to make a much better way to bolt this to the rotary table. I needed a perfect fixture. To do that I needed to be able to screw directly into the surface of the rotary table.

So I dug out the faceplate that I got with my lathe and have only used 2-3 times and cut a disk of aluminum from some plate and machined a fixture plate to go on the rotary table. The lines I put in are spaced at 5mm to serve as a rough way to align parts as you mount them. I thought it might be helpful and it's already mounted.

So I spent a solid day building a way to hold a block of aluminum. Now I'm ready to machine it.

Gregor

 

[douglawrence42]

Sorry to hear about your wife’s employment. But your “now is the ideal time to chase my dream” response is inspirational. Good luck. If YouTube is the model, remember to spread out and sell yourself. A couple thousand people like me aren’t in the market for a $50k bike, but we sure as heck would buy a T-shirt.

 

[GeddyT]

For all the inspiration I've gotten from you, I'd be willing to support your bike builds in the form of T-shirts or Patreon or something like that.

 

[H1Pete]

For all the inspiration I've gotten from you, I'd be willing to support your bike builds in the form of T-shirts or Patreon or something like that.

Same here.

 

[Choirboy]

Easy for me to say it while sitting in my armchair, but I KNOW the quality of your work is better than most of the big rollers on Youtube, and your style and sense of artistry are better, as well. I think you could do well, but as mentioned above you'll have to sell yourself like crazy.
What gets me is how much the people who get big make. Just today my toddler asked my mom to show him a video of a tractor as he is obsessed and she found some super annoying dude named Blippi. So I googled him. Turns out he makes $15 million a year for being annoying. Wow. Of course he has 8m subscribers...
If you do end up rebuilding your spare bikes to sell, please please please make videos of it. As a Guzzi fanatic I'd love to see you do even a half-fast (say it aloud) job.
I agree, teaching is sort of cheating at a job. Not every day, but many days, I say to myself "wait, I get paid for this? This is fun!" Then parent teacher conferences roll around and I'm like "they don't pay me nearly enough for this..." LOL.
I'm sorry about the layoff and the resultant lack of health insurance. Not at all a pleasant place to be. We're all rooting for you, if it makes a difference!

 

[02blueru]

In for a t-shirt!

 

[GeddyT]

Just have a T-shirt printed that says "MISSION CREEP" above a picture of a motorcycle in a million pieces, then shut up and take my money.

In all seriousness (not that I'm not serious about a market for Sakurama merch), I absolutely can't wait for the YouTube channel. I've spent hundreds of hours taking breaks at work and watching people half as talented as you do amazing things. Hopefully you are able to keep the projects rolling through to maintain content. And my advice: Don't make the channel singularly focused. Just like with GJ, people have diverse interests, and you never know what rabbit hole viewers might follow you down. As you finish your house, arrange your garage, make pizza, whatever. It's all YouTube gold, Jerry! Gold!

 

[Choirboy]

Just have a T-shirt printed that says "MISSION CREEP" above a picture of a motorcycle in a million pieces, then shut up and take my money.

In all seriousness (not that I'm not serious about a market for Sakurama merch), I absolutely can't wait for the YouTube channel. I've spent hundreds of hours taking breaks at work and watching people half as talented as you do amazing things. Hopefully you are able to keep the projects rolling through to maintain content. And my advice: Don't make the channel singularly focused. Just like with GJ, people have diverse interests, and you never know what rabbit hole viewers might follow you down. As you finish your house, arrange your garage, make pizza, whatever. It's all YouTube gold, Jerry! Gold!

Gregor, this is good advice. Videos on bikes, tools, machining, watches, baking, all would go over really really well on Youtube. You might do multiple channels; do your "garage" stuff on one and your pizza stuff on the other. Let's be honest, your wife is very beautiful and she is a chef: a cooking channel shared between the two of you would probably go over really well. You could make it however you like; lots of narration, no narration, have her do the cooking and you overdub, really whatever.

Also, I don't hit subscribe for any youtuber. I don't hit "like". I don't comment on videos. I don't do instagram. I don't fanboy out for online personalities. I would absolutely buy a "Mission Creep" t-shirt with one of your photos of a disassembled bike.

 

[tj675]

As others have said YouTube and T Shirts.

 

[bobbo138]

Gregor, sorry to hear about your current circumstances. It's going to be a weird couple of months for all of us moving forward. Given your situation, I had a couple of thoughts I wanted to share. As a follower of this thread from the beginning count me among those that are super excited for your YouTube channel. That said, YouTube's algorithm is a tough nut to crack and it can take a significant amount of time to build a subscriber base and monetize the channel. Given your field of expertise there are some other service based platforms that you may be able find commercial success on more quickly. You are a Hasselblad Master photographer. You are the 1% in your field and you should recognize that and capitalize on it. You are also a natural story teller and documentarian. A service like Masterclass, Skillshare or others might afford you more commercial success in the short term while you build your YouTube channel. It would be the same amount of work up front developing the videos for the classes but after that you would start seeing residuals for your work from anyone that took the class. Either way, keep making content and make sure you open a Patreon account. You'd be shocked at how many people appreciate your talents and are willing to support you. And definitely get some merch going. That mission creep T-Shirt is genius. All of this being a long winded way of saying I wish you the best and can't wait to follow along on your next adventure.

Bobby

 

[Bob Heine]

^^^^^+1

 

[E12-535iTurbo]

And please go through this tread and finaly make that coffee table book. I'd buy that.

And just to provide some comfort: If all fails I'll adopt you. I'd love a stray-photographer-do-all-know-all in my garage. Plenty of projects to work on and I even know how to make your favourite pizza. Although I'm a little low on experience on that.

Best of luck in your next steps and keep us posted!

BR. Jan

 

[wout]

Sorry to hear about your troubles but wish you all the best with all of your new plans!!!! All bad things, bring good things to!

Wout

 

[JollyRogers]

Another one who is all for seeing you take on Youtube, your eye and artistry are a match made in heaven for youtube. My suggestion aside from the T-shirts (PS I'm in for one as well) is if at all possible, try to find a similar but established channel and try to setup a collaboration. I am sure that you could find a way to make it mutually beneficial by providing some professional stills of their product or something of that nature, but I have seen numerous channels get launched in this way. It is amazing how quickly a YouTuber's following will jump to support someone that YouTuber recommends.

 

[gasgas17]

Hi Gregor, I have been enjoying this thread since the start. I am also self employed and pretty much in the same boat as everyone being left without an income. I wish you and your family nothing but the best. Take care! Who would have ever imagined the predicament we're all in. It's like a really bad movie. I look forward to your future Youtube endeavors. If would like something to read instead of write, we did a street bike trip from Halifax NS to Lake Placid and back last fall. https://advrider.com/f/threads/sea-to-sky-adventure-ride-halifax-to-lake-placid.1404050/#post-38333816

 

[douglawrence42]

Just a few more thoughts on YouTube. I think a good benchmark for you would be bad obsession Motorsports of project binky fame: https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport

These guys are top notch fabrication and entertainment, with fairly good production value. Their work and approach is good enough (like yours) to grow their audience beyond “people who are interested in their specific project” to “people who want to watch whatever they build”. However, there is a realistic cap for people who are interested in excellent fabrication, and that cap is a lot less than people who want to watch some kid unboxing toys. They have about 300k subs, put out 4-6 videos per year, and average about 500k views per video. Average ad sense revenue for this type of channel is about )$2 / 1k views. So, despite being a very successful channel, they are only pulling in less than $10k in ad revenue. The shortfall has to be made up with merchandise, sponsorship, and patreon. I’m sure you are researching this already, but just wanted to throw some numbers out there to quash any “I heard about the guy who made $20 million on YouTube comments”.


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[civhatch90]

Based on your bike building/fabricating skills, your photography/video skills and personality I would definitely encourage your to try youtube. I am sure you will do great. I am eager to watch your content. You could even do a "thing" with your coffee talks. It could be your "Coffee time with Gregor: Episode 1". Here you could discuss the equipment you use, tools you have built, techniques, everything else besides actual bike building.

I would also buy a cool shirt!

Thanks for entertaining us!

 

[Kriesel]

Coffee book table of images by Gregor.

 

[Brian R]

Coffee book table of images by Gregor.

Plus 1.

 

[TwoBytes]

Sorry to hear about your current situation Gregor, the world is a crazy place right now.

I'm in for a t-shirt, and I've already subscribed to your YouTube channel, eagerly awaiting content.

I second the Patreon thing too.

 

[TwoBytes]

Just started following you on IG, not sure why it took me so long.

Love the HiFi gear upgrades. This stuff should be on YouTube!

 

[jlevers]

Just a few more thoughts on YouTube. I think a good benchmark for you would be bad obsession Motorsports of project binky fame: https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport

These guys are top notch fabrication and entertainment, with fairly good production value. Their work and approach is good enough (like yours) to grow their audience beyond “people who are interested in their specific project” to “people who want to watch whatever they build”. However, there is a realistic cap for people who are interested in excellent fabrication, and that cap is a lot less than people who want to watch some kid unboxing toys. They have about 300k subs, put out 4-6 videos per year, and average about 500k views per video. Average ad sense revenue for this type of channel is about )$2 / 1k views. So, despite being a very successful channel, they are only pulling in less than $10k in ad revenue. The shortfall has to be made up with merchandise, sponsorship, and patreon. I’m sure you are researching this already, but just wanted to throw some numbers out there to quash any “I heard about the guy who made $20 million on YouTube comments”.


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Through a series of coincidences (involving no skill or effort on my part), I have some direct knowledge of how the finances of a few of the big players on YouTube make their money...my best friend/cousin has worked for some of those people.

My understanding is that for most of the bigger creators, direct AdSense revenue from their videos provides almost none of their income, especially because YouTube demonitizes many of their videos. Most of their income is from brand deals, selling merch, and from fan-supported platforms like Patreon. Quite a few are making 6-7 figures on merch alone. Crazy stuff.

 

[TwoBytes]

A Festool product placement deal maybe?

 

[sakurama]

Thanks for all the support. It's really nice to know you guys appreciate the stuff I do. As for YouTube - I would probably go ahead with this without any hope of it making money because it's just a bigger thing. It's where I spend a lot of my time relaxing and because I think it's democratized the whole TV thing in a very interesting way.

I should have the drive back from Jesse today or tomorrow. It should take a few days to figure out how to do the color corretion and then how to upload. Hopefully I'll get it up this week and then you can all walk back your encouragement and give me a slap of reality! Ha.

Right now I've been only shooting things with my phone. Audio *****, the video is fine actually but it's not exactly anything I'm happy with. The difficulty is that I know how to do good video and to make good light but it's suddenly it's own sort of job. The light in the shop is fine so I can work with that but I need to make the jump to the better camera. And I have to accept that projects will take 2-3 times as long when I film them. I'm impatient in the shop and want to make stuff so I will need to reset my mindset to make the improvements needed.

But it's a process. Once that will evolve. I am very grateful to Jesse because he's very good figuring me out and sort of boosting it up. It's helping me see me.

But let's get on with more interesting things.

I am working more with the band saw and finding that changing blades isn't too hard and it's important to do. I should have left extra material on the sides so that I could held the bracket but this is my first real rotary table project and I learned a lot about it.

I had visions of tipping the mill head with the rotary table and making these cool angles and the reality was that it's harder than it looks. I milled what I could and then used a ball end mill to transition the thickness differences so that there would be no stress risers from right angles.

I had to support and then hold the part with clamps to get rid of the material under the bolts... Poor planning on my part.

The good news is that the actual part works - perfectly.

I need to come up with a way of removing some more material as the slab look of it makes it look sort of homemade and not very finished. Obviously I have a theme going with holes so I'll look at some patterns with them.

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There was a sliding door in the credenza where I kept my hifi. Sadly if you reversed the way the doors closed the door slammed into one of the knobs. There weren't the right knobs for this era of Naim gear but I loved their oversized proportions and this was one of my very early "mods" from around 1988 when I worked in the high end hifi shop in college. Holy cow, I'm old! When did that happen?

So I looked on ebay to see if anyone was selling those old knobs and of course they weren't because they were sort of obscure even then. So I did what any reasonable person in quarantine who happens to have a full machine shop in their garage would do.

And exactly what you'd expect me to do.

There's actually more to this story on IG because I did more video than still photos. Sorry.

I machined the knobs from some 6061 I had lying around. I'd liked to have made them a bit larger but I didn't have any larger rounds of aluminum and wasn't going to try to cut them with the band saw although, now with a new blade, it might have been easy enough. I really wanted to just knock them out in an afternoon.

Turned on the lathe, the ridges milled in my indexer. I tried a few variations but this felt right. I didn't want to make them fussy to fancy. I wanted them to hew to what was there that I liked. I thought I'd maybe anodize them black.

There wasn't really anything too hard about them. I had to grind back my 4mm tap for the set screw but that was about the only thing. The backs all needed to be slightly different to accommodate the variation in shafts and locking nut protrusions.

The cases of the Naim gear were always brushed aluminum on the fronts but I painted the knobs and swapped/painted the case edges black so the whole thing was murdered out as they say. I was into black on black long before there was goth! Once I put the first knob on when testing the fit I figured I'd just change the look and embrace the old school nature.

So I scrapped the paint off and scuffed the edges clean and I sort of like the look of it. It's retro and yet sort of fresh in a way. And it only took two days!

Now I'm going to get back on to the XR100 and finish that up.

Then I'm not sure but most likely the Triumph.

Gregor

 

[Boosted1]

Nice work on the caliper bracket and audio knobs!.
One comment from the peanut gallery, have you considered adding a radius to the back edge of the caliper bracket or some speed holes to break up all the flat Aluminum area?

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

You could lightly deburr the surface to reduce any mismatches or cutter path's and then place it in a tumble burr. Kind of like the ones they use for polishing rocks. the sell different grits of stones (media) for the finishes. Aluminum comes out very smooth.
I bet a person could make on easy enough.
Hear is a link.
https://www.kramerindustriesonline.com/product-category/vibratory-finishing-systems/

 

[sakurama]

Nice work on the caliper bracket and audio knobs!.
One comment from the peanut gallery, have you considered adding a radius to the back edge of the caliper bracket or some speed holes to break up all the flat Aluminum area?

Yes, just not sure what yet. Looking at it last night I may put it back on the rotary table and bridge that triangle the caliper makes. Can’t see a pattern I like with holes yet.

You could lightly deburr the surface to reduce any mismatches or cutter path's and then place it in a tumble burr. Kind of like the ones they use for polishing rocks. the sell different grits of stones (media) for the finishes. Aluminum comes out very smooth.
I bet a person could make on easy enough.
Hear is a link.
https://www.kramerindustriesonline.com/product-category/vibratory-finishing-systems/

I actually have a case tumbler that I kept from when I used to do reloading. I bought ceramic triangles from McMaster just for it... maybe I try that. Good idea.

Gregor

 

[Kriesel]

Maybe use that space on the caliper mount for some subtle branding? Your initials or something? Company name/logo?

Or not punch all the way through and just make some depressions, and try to follow some lines on the bike?:

I just googled "motorcycle rear caliper mount" and scrolled through images... Might give some inspiration?

 

[Arclitgold]

Whoa! Those jobs are awesome! Not sure if you already mentioned it but what amp is it?


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[sakurama]

Whoa! Those jobs are awesome! Not sure if you already mentioned it but what amp is it?

It's an older Naim 42 Preamp, Hicap power supply and 250 stereo amp.

And thanks.

So I've got most of the episodes color graded and, if my kids are to be believed, they're mildly entertaining. We'll see.

I hope everyone is doing well. At this point I think the reality of the situation is starting to sink in for people - we're living in a very different world. My friend Gino had to close his restaurant and he has no idea what will happen April 1st. If he can suspend his rent he may be able to reopen but if not - why bother? It makes more sense to just throw in the towel and wait. Rents will plummet in a depression so why keep paying 11,000/month for a place you can't use? Better to give it up and then rent it again for $3000.

Another friend had to lay off 175 people last week as their factory was forced to close. He sounded very rattled. The hardest thing he said was that no one was upset - they were just sad. He said not being able to give anyone a hug was the worst part.

It's a strange time. We won't be the same country after this. It's hard to say what it's going to look like on the other side...

Stay safe and well.

Gregor

 

[Lotusnut]

It's a strange time. We won't be the same country after this. It's hard to say what it's going to look like on the other side...

Stay safe and well.

Gregor

There are very few people that will not be affected by this pandemic. There will be a few that were in the right place by luck but most will not be. Your friend loses his restaurant and has to start again but many landlords have purchased resently and have huge mortgages that will cause them to default also. I find that most people are only looking at how it is affecting them and can not stop and see the big picture. You are very right none of our countries will be the same when this is over and many hundreds of million innocent people will have their lives turned upside down. I hope your family comes through this OK in the long run. I feel I know you and your family from having been silently following along from the beginning of this thread.

Stay positive and keep pushing forward there are many silent folks cheering for you.

Rob

 

[E12-535iTurbo]

It will also provide us with many new opportunities like fabrication that is currently outsourced overseas will inevitabily be moved back. It's clearly shown now that low costs on products etc. also has their downside especially in high risk areas like health care. I'm very curious how everything will evolve in the USA. I certainly hope no stupid world affecting actions will be taken.

Best of luck everybody. Sleep well, eat healthy and overcome this virus. It seems like most will be infected at some point.

 

[Bob Heine]

It seems like most will be infected at some point.

E12-535iTurbo, I am hoping we see infection rates below our seasonal flue numbers. 2017-2018 flu season infected about 45 Million Americans, with 800 Thousand hospitalized and 63 Thousand deaths. COVID-19 is far deadlier but maybe if we all do our part we can keep the infection rate down, especially since we have the flu happening at the same time.

Haven't decided what I'm going to do with the gummint check but I'm sure not going to keep it. Probably will have to pick which of our 9 young adult grandchildren will need it most. Maybe the single father with child support first.

 

[Baroquenstrings]

Gregor, I just caught up from the past month and my thoughts are with you, Judiann, and your children, your sister. Not only am I concerned about the healthcare situation regarding your family under normal circumstances, but especially now under this virus that us humans have no immunity to, and can affect people in different ways....some more extreme than others. Please take all precautions that healthcare workers are stating, but especially while out in your garage with that potentially dangerous machine and no healthcare coverage. I know I stated it several months ago, but I need to state it again, having saved someone's life in the machine shop I worked at, and knowing that a coworkers life was taken many months later in that same machine shop.

On a more positive note, this guy

restores a variety of items much like yourself and it's a very satisfying channel to watch. In part, what I like is that he typically doesn't say anything and simply shows the viewer what he's doing.
I would really appreciate learning from you as you go along and I usually prefer the explanations on the channels I watch, but thought I'd point that out. Finally, what lead me there is the Ducati he beautifully restored. Perhaps you can get some inspiration from him?

Also, would you share what your experience was at this last American Supercamp? I couldn't get a spot, but it worked out for me anyway now that we're in lock down and it's a bad idea to be out in the dirt with the potential for using emergency supplies that others might need. I'm tempted to get a spot in November, but I'll simply wait until next spring to do anything as that will allow me to practice what I learn over the following spring and summer anyway.

 

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We're looking for healthcare - and there may be some good options before returning to Obamacare. We'll see.

On other news...

First video is up. You ******* better like that and give it the thumbs up - not that I know what that does for me. I just know I hear that from my kids all the time, "Please like and subscribe!"

I'm sure I'm doing all sorts of things wrong but I'll figure it out one way or another.

Gregor