Above 1200 Sq/FT Harley Jim's place

[xtremek]

My wife's arm was a bit sore after shot #1, neither of us had issues after shot #2.

I have multiple friends who retired from Pfizer, anyone know about their facilities here in the USA?


As-to having to get a booster towards the end of the year, I am OK w/that. I get the flu shots already, so what's another shot? If I start to behave badly, I'm blaming it on mRNA and nanoparticles.

Glad to hear it wasn't too bad for you and your wife. Their facility in Kzoo is still there, it's where your shot came from. I'm with you on the booster. And Bill Gates had all the real side effects resolved.

 

[harley jim]

Were feeling much better, Pat is cooking country style ribs and baked beans. Just stayed in the house all day and rested, should be back to normal tomorrow. I have a week to get the sewing machine back together and finish the upholstry on the speedy cart, first car show is May 1st.
I was talking to a friend in Ohio and he may have a line on a bumper car body.

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[harley jim]

He sent a pic this afternoon

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[kaymccampbell]

Sweet. That can be your Sunday, go ta meetin cart.

 

[xtremek]

Looks like a fun project.

 

[harley jim]

It's something that's been on my bucket list since I saw these years ago. They are street legal.


Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[shortykorte]

Definitely a cool ride.


Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

 

[harley jim]

I've been doing some checking. In Tennessee you can plate a side by side but you are limited to 35 mph streets. If I find something like a crosley I wont be limited to city streets. This is important because I'm about 10 miles out of town just off the highway so I need to be able to run 55 mph. Maybe a smart car as a doner.

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[driftpin]

Seems like a transverse inline-4 DOHC bike engine of 800-1000cc would work for the size of the body. Look at the 'reverse trike' bikes for packaging the drivetrain, and adapting it to two rear wheels. Vanderhall, Can-Am, Polaris all have 'em.

I suppose an early Gold Wing would work too, low-profile, plenty of power, and probably fairly-cheap. A GL500 Honda transverse V-twin should present a compact package.

 

[harley jim]

I've got this

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[rixtrix1]

I've got this

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

That should be more than adequate to move whatever body you get. So neat of an idea!

 

[shortykorte]

What is that? I can’t read the side plate? It is a nice compact setup.


Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

 

[bugnut]

Sound like a perfect opportunity for a beetle frame.

 

[harley jim]

It came out of a Hammerhead buggy. Now that I looked at the net for a pic it may be the 150, I dont think it's the 208.


Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[driftpin]

Yes, I suspected it was a 150cc rear-drive with a near-horizontal cyl & head. I suspect that if you use it at the rear, there will be a considerable height to the install. That was why I was referencing something FWD, or perhaps a deDion-type torque tube to the rear.

 

[harley jim]

The height will be a concern. Until I get, or if I get the bumper car body it's all speculation. The hammerhead unit was supposed to go in my golf cart but around here you never know what will happen.

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[Grizz1963]

Amazing how these vaccines, despite being attenuated makes us all react so differently.

I had the AZ product, despite being an anti-vaxer (But I need to travel) and it did not touch me.

Conversely, Sally, who is strong as a horse, had her **** kicked by it.

 

[driftpin]

My wife's arm was a bit sore after shot #1, neither of us had issues after shot #2.

I have multiple friends who retired from Pfizer, anyone know about their facilities here in the USA?

As-to having to get a booster towards the end of the year, I am OK w/that. I get the flu shots already, so what's another shot? If I start to behave badly, I'm blaming it on mRNA and nanoparticles.

Glad to hear it wasn't too bad for you and your wife. Their facility in Kzoo is still there, it's where your shot came from. I'm with you on the booster. And Bill Gates had all the real side effects resolved.

Thanks for the reply, I was posing that as a question to-see about who had heard what about Pfizer being a major player in COVID Rx. A couple years ago I was back in Kalamazoo for a landmark h.s. reunion, and drove right-through one of their farms where they do research, they own a lot of land. It's the largest R&D and production location in the multi-national corporation.

I speak frequently with my Pfizer chemist friend and his co-worker at Pfizer wife, a research associate, both retired. They were happy to see the announcement of the half-billion dollar expansion.

Amazing how these vaccines, despite being attenuated makes us all react so differently.

I had the AZ product, despite being an anti-vaxer (But I need to travel) and it did not touch me.

Conversely, Sally, who is strong as a horse, had her **** kicked by it.

Last night, I was speaking with a friend who is an MD, she works in Atlanta, and she said she saw a variety of responses. I get updates from the State of FL Dept. of Health because of my state paramedic license. People are affected differently. The 'bad' effects of COVID affect solid organs and the lungs, capillaries 'leak,' and apparently, the recovery is not-complete, assuming that the disease doesn't kill you.

 

[RivennHewn]

I might need one of those “slightly modified “ carts.
What all is required for them to be street legal?

 

[duckarolltape]

i love the CMU blocks! if you dont mind me asking how much did it cost to have the walls put up by a "professional"?

 

[xtremek]

Lights, windshield, wipers and washers, horn?

 

[harley jim]

Riv
They are about the same as a side by side, like X said lights, wipers, horn, seat belts, in Tennessee you have to wear a helmet as if it were a motorcycle. The way around it is to rebodie an existing vehicle like a smart car, or a Fiat Arbath. Like I said earlier if you go with the side by side then your limited to 35 mph streets or, rebodie a micro car then you wouldn't be limited.

Duck
I think in 2013 the entire shop cost around ten thousand dollars, that included the dirt work, the floor which was poured thick to support a lift, and the roof, I put the roll up door in myself to save the markup of having a contractor install it. That dose not include the two additions that were put on later. The rule of thumb on block is whatever you pay for a new block that is about what a good mason will charge to lay them. i.e. 2.25 each for new block, 2.25 each to lay them.

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[harley jim]

Got the sewing machine back together this morning. Did some test runs, there is a small catch in the mechanism some where, it dosnt seem to affect anything but I can feel it. I oiled it well and am hoping it will help.

This is the part that was seized, The grease was so dry I wire brushed the old stuff off, it was that bad.

This is the drive plate, the flywheel on the electric motor has a cork lining on it and the drive plate is pressed against it via a fork to run the machine.

I replaced the power cord also.

It was a little brittle.
The bil showed up with trailer light problems, I spent the afternoon rewiring his trailer, I have never seen so many scotch locs on one trailer as this one.
Had a meeting at the lodge tonight when I got there the pop off valve on the water heater had popped off. Going to clean up the mess and go get a new valve tomorrow.

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[don long]

Jim
You have gone so far above my pay grade that I have nothing to add to your work except that I'm totally impressed with your talent and skills.
My moto is I only make things look good I don't make um run. congratulations friend

 

[xtremek]

If I ever find the idiot who invented Scotchlocks, there won't be enough of him left for forensics to identify. He as bad as most engineers.

 

[harley jim]

Don, thanks so much, it's people like you that make me strive for higher achievement. I cant wait to shake your hand.


Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[harley jim]

X, I have a backhoe if there is anything left I know a place!!!
The wire came into the bottom of the ramp near the hinge every one of the wires had several scotch locs in them like they were using the cut off scraps to make the wire long enough. They were all rotted. I dont understand why someone would put there name on that kind of ****.
But then again the reason I get them so cheap is because people cant figure out where the problem is.

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[Jayman17]

HJ, I’d say you got your money’s worth on that sewing machine power cord.
You sure are a jack of all trades.
Have you planted your garden yet?

Jay

 

[racer-john]

Hey Jim, wat the hell are "scotchlocks"? I don't recognize the term.

 

[xtremek]

One of these.

 

[harley jim]

John they are the bane of anyone who is trying to find an electrical fault.
They are used to intersect a wire or to connect two wires. They get wet and corrode thus you get no continuity in your circuit. And the builders that use them bury them in places where you cant easily access them.

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[harley jim]

Jay, that's what comes from having an expensive hobby and no money, you have to do it all. Lol
I haven't decided what to do in the garden yet. I want to plant some things but I have so many other projects started that I haven't got started on it yet, I am running out of time so I was thinking about getting some chickens and building a coop in the garden area, but that takes time also: Dunno:

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[Strouty]

Scotchlocks are the devil.

 

[xtremek]

A lot of hitch, and/or trailer guys love them. Who has the tar and feathers? I've got my pitch fork and torch.

 

[racer-john]

I have on several occaisions had to use them, didn't know your name for them (we call them taps), Lwrapped them with a good coat of liquid rubber, never had a problem.

 

[xtremek]

I have on several occaisions had to use them, didn't know your name for them (we call them taps), Lwrapped them with a good coat of liquid rubber, never had a problem.

There's the difference. Most trailer guys either don't put anything on them, or just wrap them with electrical tape. Personally, I like the crimp **** connector that have the heat shrink with adhesive on them, but even those that aren't supported will work open after a while. Most of my stuff gets electrical tape over the HS **** connectors. And I'm always looking for a better way to do things.

 

[cbacres]

I have on several occaisions had to use them, didn't know your name for them (we call them taps), Lwrapped them with a good coat of liquid rubber, never had a problem.

There's the difference. Most trailer guys either don't put anything on them, or just wrap them with electrical tape. Personally, I like the crimp **** connector that have the heat shrink with adhesive on them, but even those that aren't supported will work open after a while. Most of my stuff gets electrical tape over the HS **** connectors. And I'm always looking for a better way to do things.

I love the heat shrink crimp connectors. I first used them when I had to repair about every wire on my truck bed harness. A cat had come on the property and was chased by my dogs to the bed of my truck. I guess the dogs thought they would claw their way through the inner bed to get to it, guess what was a easy target for them.
Next time I’m just going to the you pull and get a bed harness.
But I never had a issue with the repairs, that was at least 5 years ago.

 

[cbacres]

Hi Jim, I stopped by and BSd with xtrem and didn’t say squat to ya,

If you could, plan on bringing your cart down in November to ride around with us at the Flywheelers. Huge swap meet, bunch of old tractors, tractor pulls. We have a blast. They have all the lanes one way to keep traffic flowing and road rage down

 

[harley jim]

Hey Craig, it's just like at my shop. I'm working and the others are talking, I like it that way. I'll see what's going on, what date is it.
I got a good start on the upholstry today, it's been 20 years since I ran my sewing machine, I hope the lines come out straight.

I cut some foam

Then some vinyl

Did some layout

Chalk lines

Ran it through the sewing machine

Put some layout lines on the cushion to get an idea of how it should look

Cut three pieces to frame the tuck n roll panel


Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[harley jim]

I will need to put cushion backing on the edges

I had to get out a new roll of thread

I need to get it done, our first show is saturday

Sent from my SM-A102U using The Garage Journal mobile app