HOTFR8
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Above 1200 Sq/FT Restored 1930's Auto Shop
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BigDaddyUSMC
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Y MANIFOLD GANG at Bonneville
Thomas
The only thing worse than not getting the record in our class at Bonneville was not seeing you ! ! ! We had to leave on Tuesday Morning & I guess you flew in Tuesday afternoon.
Jacobs motorcycle ran great & his son Jacob III did a fantastic job riding it. BUT.... We missed the record in our class by .354 MPH , Fastest run was 126.953 on a 127.307 record. Monday we had 4 back to back 126+mph runs.
Missing the record by .354mph in the GAS class was a hard thing to accept. BUT...IF... we were running in the FUEL class. We missed that record by .001 mph ----- LOL
Lou Bingham & Jacob III
Jacob & Jacob III at the starting line
The Bagnell Baggo Chenowth Race Team
Besides our Bike , this was my favorite machine at the salt , a Watson Indy Roadster running a Offy
Randy
Thomas
The only thing worse than not getting the record in our class at Bonneville was not seeing you ! ! ! We had to leave on Tuesday Morning & I guess you flew in Tuesday afternoon.
Jacobs motorcycle ran great & his son Jacob III did a fantastic job riding it. BUT.... We missed the record in our class by .354 MPH , Fastest run was 126.953 on a 127.307 record. Monday we had 4 back to back 126+mph runs.
Missing the record by .354mph in the GAS class was a hard thing to accept. BUT...IF... we were running in the FUEL class. We missed that record by .001 mph ----- LOL
Lou Bingham & Jacob III
Jacob & Jacob III at the starting line
The Bagnell Baggo Chenowth Race Team
Besides our Bike , this was my favorite machine at the salt , a Watson Indy Roadster running a Offy
Randy
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Coyote Red
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Wonder if that's the roadsters original livery? I think I see 'Rodger Ward' on the side there.
Right behind us in the staging lanes was...
...an early 1950's Buick...
...quite unlike the one my Dad use to drive.
It was powered by a straight 8 engine and I believe they set a new record in their class.
I have more including some new powder coating projects for the shop coming to this space...... as soon as I get all that salt out of my clothes.
Thomas
I'm just wondering how they got madonna's bra for the headlight covers.
BigDaddyUSMC
Well-known member
The Watson /Offy roadster does say Roger Ward DRIVER on the side. It also says A.J. Watson MECHANIC. This was a ALL brand new car. With an old offy motor. They had trouble on the salt , 176.391 was their best run , Thay also spun twice & had 2 turn outs
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Here are a few more "up close and personal" pictures of the "roadster" as I walked around it in the pits.
What at first glance from a distance appeared to be Hallibrad magnesium wheels turned out to be vinyl pictures of the real ones, disappointing but understandable. They need the streamlining of a smooth wheel cover.
Might be the only Indy "roadster" with a parachute?
I liked the old school appearing needles on the gauges.
Even the inside of the wheels were covered smooth for better aerodynamics.
The engine as I understand it was built in Indianapolis and the car is from Florida. Lou spent quite a bit of time talking with the crew while I did the photo shoot of it. Extremely nice car and well prepared. Look for them to return next year.
Sorry I missed you guys Randy. Next year!!
Thomas
Tool Shed Photos!!!!!
What he ^ said!!!!!!
I have in my schedule to spend some time out in the tool shed next week, honest. I got home from Bonneville and then had to clean up after two storms did some damage on our trees out at the shop. We lost a 50 year old Hackberry that was split in two and literary blown over midway up the trunk. Winds were reported in excess of 80 MPH during both storms.
Your patience is appreciated Joe. I keep nibbling away out there and will get those pictures posted.
Thomas
HOTFR8
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Coyote Red
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Yeah after posting I googled for some info and decided it couldn't be an original roadster. Or at least not an original winning roadster. Pretty sure it's in the IMS museum.
Those Offys are bad mothas.
Thanks.
The pictures of the Leader Card Special replica with an Offy makes me wonder if anyone has brought a Novi to Bonneville. If nothing else, it would be fun to watch and listen.
Over the years I've heard so much about the Novi sound at Indy-I've watched the Youtube videos a few times, but am sure they don't really do the sound justice. Would be neat to see some new video on the Novi.
GGB
Over the years I've heard so much about the Novi sound at Indy-I've watched the Youtube videos a few times, but am sure they don't really do the sound justice. Would be neat to see some new video on the Novi.
GGB
Interesting thought GGB. Here are two links for more information on the Novi and Bonneville. The Novi engine was used briefly at Bonneville in 1947 and set two International records and two National records but nothing of any real consequence.
http://studebaker-info.org/Indy/NOvi/Novi1b.html
https://home.comcast.net/~webspinner/dralstin/stories/Novi-Chapter5.htm
The superchargers the Novi used had impeller speeds of 40,000 RPM which resulted in the distinctive Novi shriek.
Here's a very nice, professional produced youtube clip about the 1964 Novi Indy effort.
It has some great vintage Indy footage.
Thomas
BigAl62
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Hey Tom, thanks for the Indy car pics, those cars look great! I like the picture of the interior showing the old 2 speed "crash box" shifter, things were simplier then. Glad you had a good time, I'd like to get to Bville someday, maybe run my CVPI and see how fast it is! (just joking, it will top out at 129 mph - rev limiter limited)
HOTFR8
Banned
All the Aussies at Bonneville exceeded the 200mph speed. The Aussie Belly Tank had its maiden trip on the salt at Bonneville as for the last few years it was to wet to run on Lake Gairdner.
rlwhitetr3b
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I got to see Gus in the “flesh” today at a local car show. While he did not say much I have a nice chat with his caregivers Tomas and Chris. It is great to be able to put real faces with the names and pictures on the web!
markviii
Well-known member
We love having GJ members drop in for a visit. I'm so glad we were both there to greet you, Rick. Wish I could find the link to the newspaper article featuring Gus (and Tom). I know Tom will post some pictures soon.
After getting the parking and registration sorted out, it's always nice to be able to enjoy the show and visit with people before the craziness of the door prizes and awards at the end. (I started my day at the show around 6:30am and we just got home after dinner at 9pm.)
The weather was great and the show was well attended (100 cars/trucks and countless spectators). A good time was had by all for the 16th year of the Motor Muster put on by our Illini Collector Car Club (and the Sweet Corn Festival was a success as well for its 37th year).
Chris
After getting the parking and registration sorted out, it's always nice to be able to enjoy the show and visit with people before the craziness of the door prizes and awards at the end. (I started my day at the show around 6:30am and we just got home after dinner at 9pm.)
The weather was great and the show was well attended (100 cars/trucks and countless spectators). A good time was had by all for the 16th year of the Motor Muster put on by our Illini Collector Car Club (and the Sweet Corn Festival was a success as well for its 37th year).
Chris
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Boy do I miss the "Illini Super Sweet" corn. One of the few losses living in Texas instead of Central Illinois.
Yeah, I know I would have great neighbors like Chris and Tom, but i can always stop and visit on the way through to see the Inlaws and Outlaws.
Yeah, I know I would have great neighbors like Chris and Tom, but i can always stop and visit on the way through to see the Inlaws and Outlaws.
I am so far behind here!! The last 3 weeks have had me in Brazil on 3 separate occasions plus almost a weeks worth of Bonneville fun, er I mean work. But today was a not work day, instead it was spent with Gus, Chris, lots of other neat, cool vehicles and on occasion some Johnson family members plus a brief visit with Rick from our gang on this thread.
Today was the first time Gus had been to a car show and even though he's far from a pristine show truck, he still was strutting his stuff.
And as it turns out he was a featured vehicle at the show as well...
...and as such enjoyed a place of prominence at the show. A newspaper article with pictures had been done on him a few days before the show which also included a brief mention of the Johnson welding shop restoration.
It was not your run of the mill car show, instead this year, service vehicles were the featured vehicles at the show so Gus fit right in with that. Parked by Gus you can see a restored 1950's vintage city bus that was there...
... and a 1920's vintage tow truck for example...
...along with some 1950's Cushman scooters.
But the truly fun part was when some of Mr Johnson's kids came to the show and saw Gus for the first time. That triggered more than a few smiles and tons of old shop stories came tumbling out. They were seeing Gus for the first time and some thought it was the original old shop truck brought back from the dead.
Several pictures were taken with Gus and various family members. The young lady standing at the door is one of Mr Johnson's grand daughters who recalled sitting behind the wheel of the original shop truck on more than one occasion, when she was about 7 years old and having a wonderful time "driving" it while it sat in the shop. Behind her, sitting in Gus is her mother who...
...is Mr Johnson's only daughter who was quite taken with Gus and the whole concept of restoring the old welding shop and saving all those family memories from there. She, more than any other family member, over the years has provided me with many of the old family photographs that I've shared here on this thread. There were other family members present that I got a chance to talk with at length and gather a bit more of the shop history. I found out the property was purchased by Mr Johnson in 1937 and the shop built soon after that. The hedge row was already there but the trees were not quite as large as they are today of course. Most of the family has by now, seen last year's Car Craft article on the shop. Overall the family is delighted that everything wasn't just torn down and a housing development put in its place. That I've restored the building along with various pieces of shop equipment and now brought forth the old shop service truck in the form of Gus, is just more than they could have hoped for. A win - win situation for everyone that continues.
I have more shop material coming so stick around.
BTW Rick, a special thank you for making the effort to come to the show and meet myself, Chris and Gus too!
Thomas
But today was a not work day, instead it was spent with Gus, Chris, lots of other neat, cool vehicles and on occasion some Johnson family members plus a brief visit with Rick from our gang on this thread.
Today was the first time Gus had been to a car show and even though he's far from a pristine show truck, he still was strutting his stuff.
And as it turns out he was a featured vehicle at the show as well...
...and as such enjoyed a place of prominence at the show. A newspaper article with pictures had been done on him a few days before the show which also included a brief mention of the Johnson welding shop restoration.
It was not your run of the mill car show, instead this year, service vehicles were the featured vehicles at the show so Gus fit right in with that. Parked by Gus you can see a restored 1950's vintage city bus that was there...
... and a 1920's vintage tow truck for example...
...along with some 1950's Cushman scooters.
But the truly fun part was when some of Mr Johnson's kids came to the show and saw Gus for the first time. That triggered more than a few smiles and tons of old shop stories came tumbling out. They were seeing Gus for the first time and some thought it was the original old shop truck brought back from the dead.
Several pictures were taken with Gus and various family members. The young lady standing at the door is one of Mr Johnson's grand daughters who recalled sitting behind the wheel of the original shop truck on more than one occasion, when she was about 7 years old and having a wonderful time "driving" it while it sat in the shop. Behind her, sitting in Gus is her mother who...
...is Mr Johnson's only daughter who was quite taken with Gus and the whole concept of restoring the old welding shop and saving all those family memories from there. She, more than any other family member, over the years has provided me with many of the old family photographs that I've shared here on this thread. There were other family members present that I got a chance to talk with at length and gather a bit more of the shop history. I found out the property was purchased by Mr Johnson in 1937 and the shop built soon after that. The hedge row was already there but the trees were not quite as large as they are today of course. Most of the family has by now, seen last year's Car Craft article on the shop. Overall the family is delighted that everything wasn't just torn down and a housing development put in its place. That I've restored the building along with various pieces of shop equipment and now brought forth the old shop service truck in the form of Gus, is just more than they could have hoped for. A win - win situation for everyone that continues.
I have more shop material coming so stick around.
BTW Rick, a special thank you for making the effort to come to the show and meet myself, Chris and Gus too!
Thomas
maxwedge
Active member
Very cool to see the Bonneville pics. I especially liked the cx500, since I also used have one a few years back. Did you happen to see these guys from our home state of IL out there?
They own 2 records from 2009 and have the worlds fastest Alfa at over 230MPH mot bad for a little aluminum 4cyl. I hadn't heard how they did this year yet.
They own 2 records from 2009 and have the worlds fastest Alfa at over 230MPH mot bad for a little aluminum 4cyl. I hadn't heard how they did this year yet.
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ZRX61
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Some guys near here have an Alfa that looks like that, but it's red with a 454 in it.
Very cool to see the Bonneville pics. I especially liked the cx500, since I also used have one a few years back. Did you happen to see these guys from our home state of IL out there?
They own 2 records from 2009 and have the worlds fastest Alfa at over 230MPH mot bad for a little aluminum 4cyl. I hadn't heard how they did this year yet.
Just wonderful Omphaloskeptic, well done indeed!
These two manuals contain the flight manual for our Boeing 757 and 767 fleet. We're trained on all versions of them that we operate; the 757-200, -300, 767-200, -400 and soon the -300.
Contained in them is how to operate those aircraft.
They even have line drawings of some of the equipment panels.
There are approximately 2,400 pages, double sided, thin paper, small print, chocked full of ....
...acronyms!, sometimes for as far as the eye can see!! This is just a random page and it uses acronyms about 80 times on this one page alone.
When I first started training on the aircraft over 12 years ago I started a note book and wrote down every acronym I came across while studying the flight manual. I gave up when I had filled over 20 sheets, 30 lines per page and I had barely started. I instead concentrated on the main ones that are in use on a regular basis and not some of the more obscure ones.
My use of acronyms here throughout the thread has been a private joke of mine (much like yours), a little poke at the engineers who thought reducing everything to capital letters would be just a swell idea. I know it's practical and all but still.....
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for a Wonderful Day Brightener- WDB. I will closely study the information it contains and see if any of it might be incorporated into the PDR.
Thankful Thomas
Ha, now this looks familiar!
I'm the lead for the ATCALS work center at Bagram AF, AFGH and we just got our VORTAC online in July.
I'm Radar by trade but familiar with the NAVAIDS and Radios as well.
It's interesting to see how the other end uses these systems.
Keep up the great thread!
Very cool to see the Bonneville pics. I especially liked the cx500, since I also used have one a few years back. Did you happen to see these guys from our home state of IL out there?
They own 2 records from 2009 and have the worlds fastest Alfa at over 230MPH mot bad for a little aluminum 4cyl. I hadn't heard how they did this year yet.
maxwedge as a matter of fact I not only saw those guys...
I managed to chat with them for a while...
...and do a mini photo shoot of them as well.
A very impressive car and team.
They exhibited an air of cool, calm professionalism with a superbly prepared car.
Lou and I were always at the starting line before 0700 when the air temps were cool and dense with minimal wind and all the record runs were being done. As of the time I talked with them they still hadn't bettered their record of what was about 236 MPH I believe. The boys from Illinois!
Thomas
Here you go.
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Thanks HOTFR8, I did not see the taxi.
Very cool none-the-less. I've always enjoyed the Australian attitude and sense of humor.Speaking of light hearted sense of humor and the 300MPH club all at the same time...
These two different cars are on the same team; Mariani Farm's and engaged in a very fun foot race to the starting line early one morning.
The streamliner won by a nose.
They managed over 307+ MPH last I heard in a flawlessly prepared car.
This is team Mariani's other car, the roadster...
...also flawlessly prepared.
Note the front suspension work with all the welds ground smooth and flush.
Wheel detail, super, super nice.
The roadster was seen in the record impound area after this run but I never heard if they were able to back the run up and set a record or not.
Thomas
BigAl62
Well-known member
Very cool to see the Bonneville pics. I especially liked the cx500, since I also used have one a few years back. Did you happen to see these guys from our home state of IL out there?
They own 2 records from 2009 and have the worlds fastest Alfa at over 230MPH mot bad for a little aluminum 4cyl. I hadn't heard how they did this year yet.
The August 2012 issue of Grassroots Motorsports had a great article about this car.
HOTFR8
Banned
What a great thing to get some 'inside' family history on you place.
So while I was waiting for the PDR to get powder coated I did a couple of other projects in the mean time.
This is a stand I've had for years that was scrap and I salvaged it. I've never had a use for it but it was heavy duty and well made so I just hung on to it. You guys have all done the same thing I'm sure so you know what I mean.
It didn't have that 3/16" steel top which I added, nor did it have the casters. That was done when I finally found a use for it as a stand for my small sand blasting cabinet which I'll keep in the barn.
Before the casters were installed 2" were removed from the lower legs and then 7 inches were removed...
... from the upper legs. Then nuts were welded...
...into the open ends of the legs...
...and the casters threaded into those. That made the stand 28" tall...
...the right height for the sand blasting cabinet. Next was a trip to Rick's for some...
...powder coating!
That really set it off I think and should be a very durable finish.
Here is the small sand blasting cabinet on the newly repurposed stand. It's a top load unit with a glass viewing panel in the top also. That's why the stand is a little low since I load and look into the top.
By keeping this unit in the barn if I'm doing a small part out there I don't have to go to the old shop and fire up the big blasting cabinet. I expect I'll also install a shelf on the bottom supports for some additional storage.
I also did a couple of other projects...
...one of which was to powder coat the support stands for the lift.
I figured as long as I was going to Ricks I might as well have these done also. I have another project done I'll post soon but I'm up early tomorrow at 0 dark thirty to pick up the PDR, it's done! Please check back.
Thomas
This is a stand I've had for years that was scrap and I salvaged it. I've never had a use for it but it was heavy duty and well made so I just hung on to it. You guys have all done the same thing I'm sure so you know what I mean.
It didn't have that 3/16" steel top which I added, nor did it have the casters. That was done when I finally found a use for it as a stand for my small sand blasting cabinet which I'll keep in the barn.
Before the casters were installed 2" were removed from the lower legs and then 7 inches were removed...
... from the upper legs. Then nuts were welded...
...into the open ends of the legs...
...and the casters threaded into those. That made the stand 28" tall...
...the right height for the sand blasting cabinet. Next was a trip to Rick's for some...
...powder coating!
That really set it off I think and should be a very durable finish.
Here is the small sand blasting cabinet on the newly repurposed stand. It's a top load unit with a glass viewing panel in the top also. That's why the stand is a little low since I load and look into the top.
By keeping this unit in the barn if I'm doing a small part out there I don't have to go to the old shop and fire up the big blasting cabinet. I expect I'll also install a shelf on the bottom supports for some additional storage.
I also did a couple of other projects...
...one of which was to powder coat the support stands for the lift.
I figured as long as I was going to Ricks I might as well have these done also. I have another project done I'll post soon but I'm up early tomorrow at 0 dark thirty to pick up the PDR, it's done!
Please check back.Thomas
Hello 69GSCAL and many thanks for the kind words. I thought I'd have wrapped this thread up long ago but I keep getting encouragement like yours so I'll still post away here. Are you familiar with the RNAV-RNP approaches we've been doing for the last few years? It's a much safer approach than using VOR or ADF NAVAIDS. I think it's finally time to phase those older systems out.
Thomas
Sneak peak...
Rick finished this while I was gone and stored it at his shop for me...
...so it's a little dusty, dirty right now in these pictures.
On the way out I snapped another picture of his oven. Those are the doors on one end. That's a fork lift on the left for size comparison and it's 30' (9.1 m) long. He can handle anything I'm ever likely to bring him.
I removed a set of shelves to make a little more room in the van for it but it's still a tight squeeze. It's home now, still in the van. I won't unload it until I get my pallet forks which FedEx told me are in so I'll pick them up tomorrow, assemble and install them on the John Deere. With any luck I'll finally get the PDR out, cleaned up and back on it's feet tomorrow!
Thomas
Rick finished this while I was gone and stored it at his shop for me...
...so it's a little dusty, dirty right now in these pictures.
On the way out I snapped another picture of his oven. Those are the doors on one end. That's a fork lift on the left for size comparison and it's 30' (9.1 m) long. He can handle anything I'm ever likely to bring him.
I removed a set of shelves to make a little more room in the van for it but it's still a tight squeeze. It's home now, still in the van. I won't unload it until I get my pallet forks which FedEx told me are in so I'll pick them up tomorrow, assemble and install them on the John Deere. With any luck I'll finally get the PDR out, cleaned up and back on it's feet tomorrow!
Thomas
fergus
Well-known member
The Mariani's are from the same town I live in. They have some verrrrrry nice cars, and then some. They also had a car in Rodder's Journal a year ago or so.
ironnut
Member
A lurker revealed.
A few weeks ago I was searching google images for something shop related and I accidentally stepped into this vortex. Having spent an impressive amount of time at the "center of the universe" I was finally spit out at the current end of this epic thread. A fascinating and illuminating read on many levels. Kudos to Thomas and Chris. My own shop/garage is decorated more in line with a Virgil patina, though I am inspired to add a bit more paint in areas. However, it will never begin to approach the level of Thomas’s execution.
Virgil’s repair shop reminds me of the village blacksmith of my hometown in Nebraska, Hansen’s welding repair. The proprietor was Jim Hansen. Some of the locals were into nicknames and Jim became Jet Hansen. Jim was more of a subset incarnation of Virgil doing mostly welding repairs for the local farmers, and modern black smithing in the form of hard surfacing of plow shares and cultivator shovels. He too had a forge and a trip hammer the latter of which as a kid I, regarded with awe and some fear when it was in operation. The very modest and non-descript building still exists as shown in the picture of the Main Street of Bancroft, Nebraska. The building is on the immediate left side of the photo behind the fire plug. The only image of the interior is a stylized painting by another local from Bancroft, Myron Heise, who apparently is an artist of some repute residing in New York city. Reading this thread informed, inspired, and brought back memories. Thank-you Thomas and please keep posting, my wife and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your adventures.
I do have question Thomas. I noticed that in your barn and I believe in some areas of the shop, you have a tin interior. Did you also put tin on the ceiling? I am contemplating using ribbed tin on a ceiling in a 3 season porch under a deck. The acoustical reflectivity has given me pause on proceeding. I am curious as to how the tin interior in your barn has affected the acoustics of that space.
gordon
A few weeks ago I was searching google images for something shop related and I accidentally stepped into this vortex. Having spent an impressive amount of time at the "center of the universe" I was finally spit out at the current end of this epic thread. A fascinating and illuminating read on many levels. Kudos to Thomas and Chris. My own shop/garage is decorated more in line with a Virgil patina, though I am inspired to add a bit more paint in areas. However, it will never begin to approach the level of Thomas’s execution.
Virgil’s repair shop reminds me of the village blacksmith of my hometown in Nebraska, Hansen’s welding repair. The proprietor was Jim Hansen. Some of the locals were into nicknames and Jim became Jet Hansen. Jim was more of a subset incarnation of Virgil doing mostly welding repairs for the local farmers, and modern black smithing in the form of hard surfacing of plow shares and cultivator shovels. He too had a forge and a trip hammer the latter of which as a kid I, regarded with awe and some fear when it was in operation. The very modest and non-descript building still exists as shown in the picture of the Main Street of Bancroft, Nebraska. The building is on the immediate left side of the photo behind the fire plug. The only image of the interior is a stylized painting by another local from Bancroft, Myron Heise, who apparently is an artist of some repute residing in New York city. Reading this thread informed, inspired, and brought back memories. Thank-you Thomas and please keep posting, my wife and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your adventures.
I do have question Thomas. I noticed that in your barn and I believe in some areas of the shop, you have a tin interior. Did you also put tin on the ceiling? I am contemplating using ribbed tin on a ceiling in a 3 season porch under a deck. The acoustical reflectivity has given me pause on proceeding. I am curious as to how the tin interior in your barn has affected the acoustics of that space.
gordon
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fergus when you say they have nice cars I believe every word of that. What I saw at the Salt Flats was indicative of a professional operation of the very highest standards. And just as important the crew seemed to be enjoying themselves and having fun and isn't that the point....... to have fun, otherwise, what's the point?
Thanks fergus for the information.
Thomas
A hearty welcome to you gordon. I see you accepted your fate once you stepped into the vortex and embraced it, a very sensible thing to do. You have created wonderful mental images of Mr Hansen and his shop to go along with a great downtown photograph that could be of any small town in this country. Yup, we're "flyover country" around here and don't mind that one bit.
The painting is a treasure. I'd love to have something like that done of Mr Johnson's shop back when he was operating it. You just know there were, and still are, lots of shops like that, but they're most likely in obscure locations. You and I are privileged to have experienced them first hand.Now to your question of interior materials and the associated acoustics of each. In the old shop, 100% of the ceiling in there is FRP, Fiberglass Reinforced Panel, the very same material that was used on the walls there.
That shop enjoys great acoustics even with all the hard surfaces everywhere but then look at all the odd shapes and angles on the ceiling and I suspect that goes a long way to help deaden sound.
But in the main room of the barn, I used steel ribbed panels, not tin.
I also installed 6 speakers on the ceiling...
... for my sound system out there and I find the acoustics are excellent. The main room dimensions are 72' long by 48' wide with 16' high ceilings and a concrete floor. Surprisingly it doesn't echo. Perhaps all the ribbing on the walls and ceiling reflect or deflect sound or the fact that the ceiling is slightly pitched in the center and not flat, I don't know. I might be a bit of an aeronautical engineer but an acoustical one..........well, not so much.
Don't know if that helped or not but that's been my experience. Perhaps you should just come for a visit and see or rather hear for yourself.
Thanks for checking in, I've got more in store.
Thomas
You are welcome Scott I was happy to do so. I know many of you can't make it out there but are highly interested in what's going on so perhaps this is the next best thing. If you check back here I've got several more (I took over 400 pictures this year but I promise I won't post that many
) I'll be posting more when I get a little caught up with shop "stuff". Thomas
HOTFR8
Banned
Can you start a post (please) in Free Parking on Bonneville and show us some of the photos.
Oh sure I can do that HOTFR8. I have to admit I don't get around to many other forums (Chris does that for me
) due to time constraints. If that's a good spot, then for my Australian friends, no problem. Thomas
ZRX61
Well-known member
On the topic of dry lakes...
My former B-i-L runs this.....
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/431151_4018016061566_852899240_n.jpg
& to prove how fast it is, the silly ******* just got himself a 2 point Performance Award
My former B-i-L runs this.....
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/431151_4018016061566_852899240_n.jpg
& to prove how fast it is, the silly ******* just got himself a 2 point Performance Award
HOTFR8
Banned
Oh sure I can do that HOTFR8. I have to admit I don't get around to many other forums (Chris does that for me
Thomas
No wonder I do not see you posting on many other topics here. Really you do not know what you are missing. :rollseyes: You could see and get plenty of ideas here form other parts of the GJ.
Yes Free Parking is a good spot to post it and then this topic can get back on topic. Oh do not post just for me as others here I am sure will also enjoy what you photographed at Bonneville. I get my usual Dry Lake Salt fix from the DLRA forum
but have not seen much on that forum about the event at Bonneville this year with the exception of the Aussies that attended the event.No wonder I do not see you posting on many other topics here. Really you do not know what you are missing. :rollseyes: You could see and get plenty of ideas here form other parts of the GJ.
Yes Free Parking is a good spot to post it and then this topic can get back on topic. Oh do not post just for me as others here I am sure will also enjoy what you photographed at Bonneville. I get my usual Dry Lake Salt fix from the DLRA forum
The threads I've seen here on the Journal are outstanding, no question. There's a pretty talented group out there and I enjoy reading it when I can. Chris brings material to my attention that I might otherwise miss. (Is that a great wife or what?!
)My day at the shop today wrapped up at 2145 for a 14+ hour day. Among other things I got the pallet forks installed and the PDR is unloaded and it's safe and sound in the shop all 700 lbs of it, upright on the Blickle casters.....without damaging the new powder coat! That was a major accomplishment.
Thomas