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Hi there Bob, and thank you for the kind words. Our car club is titled Illini Collector Car Club. We embrace all makes and models of vehicles. I personally consider myself an automotive enthusiast. I like them all and so do our club members. Yes, Chris is for sure a Lincoln Queen with her...

Sharp eye Bob, yes that's my sweetheart enjoying 1st class on a UAL 787, non-stop ORD-HNL. After all those years flying other folks it's fun to lay back and relax during the flight. We've all been told life is short and isn't that the truth. So hard to believe we've been Mr and Mrs for 50...

Thank you all so very much for the nice wishes. Chris and I celebrated earlier for 2 weeks in Hawaii and we both agree it was our best visit ever. Then last week, on the actual day of our 50th wedding anniversary ... ...we hosted ... ...our 13th annual... ..."Picnic with the...

And while I'm at it, no I haven't forgotten to post... ...about driving Lou's old '32 roadster... ...and getting... ...my Bonneville competition license... ...last August! Honest!! As you can imagine, Chris and I stay very busy. So many clocks... ...so little time!! Take...

Hello there stoneECHO and welcome to our gang. We love anvils here but XJSuperman was probably correct. Post a dedicated thread in the anvil section of GJ as per his link and it would generate the type of information you seek. I'm not an anvil expert but you have a handsome one that has clearly...

Busy times for me lately. Just today I spent 10 hours wrestling with a stump grinder grinding out 7 stumps and I'm pretty tired. I'll get something on here. I continue with all my clock work, motorcycling, Bonneville, drag racing and a whole bunch of other "stuff"! This is the space in the...

I have indeed, I use TimeSavers: https://timesavers.com/ They are nice folks over there and have an extensive supply of clock material. For the cable, if you have a piece of the old one, use a caliper and measure the diameter and length of the old cable. They have various thicknesses and...

Here's a few pictures that I just like looking at... . ...don't get me wrong, the VW is great and so is Gus, but to me, that is just pure visual art. I never get tired of looking at them...... or Chris either for that matter! :bounce: Thomas

Good point and exactly correct. Those Beetles are so tight and well made that they were/are legendary for having to crack a window open to make shutting the doors easier. If the windows are all up you better shut the doors with authority or else they won't completely shut. Thomas

oldschoolbob, that is one slick bug! It seems to me you had a ball both building it and driving it. Thanks for the pictures. Thomas

Who, Gus? He's better than ever, fit as a fiddle. Thanks for asking! This was a couple weeks ago outside the old shop. I had Gus parked there to greet club members when they came to the shop for the picnic. I gotta tell ya, Gus is one happy camper. He starts instantly, idles like a little...

It is a really nice VW. It's a 1970 that was bought new by a friend of ours. She bought it, (it was her car!) new locally in Champaign... ...pretty much all original... ...it has a little over 71,000 miles. She kept every bit of paperwork associated with the car including the window...

Two words......." Bring It!!!" I would absolutely love to host the Cobra Club. I'm confident they would find it a worth while trip, about a 3 hour drive I expect. I've had Cobra's on the property before. This was 2018 prepping for Road America. And here's the Cobra in our pits at...

Very nice of you to post in ranger101ran and it's nice to know you enjoyed what we've been doing here over the years. No worries about Chris and myself, we're hale and hardy, blessed with exceptionally good health. We celebrated our 49th year together a couple weeks back. She is still quite the...

Hello Barry and welcome to the gang here. Many thanks for your post and kind words. Because you might use some of the information from the bench build post, I've updated a couple of photos from that post that I was never very happy with. I'll attach them here so you don't have to go back to post...

Also if I file using my lathe, I lay a shop rag on the bed rails to help prevent as Old Man Roger says, " turn a decent lathe into a grinding lathe." I never do any operation that would throw very small metal particles/dust into the air like grinding. I also keep a cover on my various lathes...

No worries Roger, I knew exactly what you meant. I didn't read anything sinister into it, honest! As always, I do appreciate your interest and support for all these many years. If wasn't for guys like you posting in I'd probably get really far behind here, thanks! Cheers, Thomas

Roger, I've seen some other folks fashion this same type of socket using a bench grinder. I mean it worked and was functional and everything, but boy, was it ugly!! Since I knew I had access to a nice, powerful lathe and tooling that would get the job done, that's my preference. I'm not a tool...

That's a fair question JB. I'm re-lubing the input splines on the BMW. To pull the transmission back far enough to expose the input splines and not remove the driveshaft, I had to remove the swing arm pivot pins. The lock nuts that secure those pins... ...are situated in a recessed area on...

Hello everyone who might still be around. Have I been busy, why yes I have, but a good kind of busy. Doing various clock repairs has taken an enormous amount of my time. I doubt that you'd be too terribly interested in seeing dozens of clocks but here is one of the more interesting ones I just...