Month: November 2004
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what’s a dishwasher for ?
well, after the progress of the weekend i though i ought to carry on see what i can get done before lack of resolve sets in and i end up with another greasy pile of parts to deal with… so… on with the new protective gloves, clear off the draining board and get the cylinder…
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end it’s over…
well, the petolr head show closes tomorrow and i can scuttle back into the studio and clean down the walls, flush out the computers and archive everything ready for the next projects… there’s a whole load of emotion all tied up with this one but i think i’ll give myself a bit of time to…
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more bits by post!
although today is going to be busy I still had time to go to the parcel depot and pick up the parcel tha they couldn’t delver yesterday. More cheap parts off ebay.. it was a bargain and i couldn’t resist… shiny clean rocker covers.. delivered to your door. how good is that ? also had…
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well here it is….
the culmination of two years work, blood sweat and tears. permanent scarring, exhaust pipe burns and, at the eleventh hour, asphyxiation by spray fixative. completely fixative’d my head too… down to the gallery tomorrow to hang the pieces and get ready for fridays show.
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fed up with it….
just checked my spam… and found some email in it! also found that some?%^$@^% with a bot had been spammign the comments in the weblog again so i thought it ought to clean it up a bit and have a look… … well, i finally got round to starting the IP banning list as most…
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briefly!
it’s all a little busy this week as I have the show at centrespace gallery opening on friday so little time to post in the weblog. in brief sunday- louie and i actually got it in gear and unplugged the wasserboxer engine in the panel van (with the help of mr. anglegrinder) and dropped it…
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look what arrived today !
another ebay bargain, a low usage second hand baja merged header… although the port flanges are wrong for a wasserboxer head the plan is to swipe them off with a grinder, turn them round and bolt it up, take of the muffler and weld up some straight pipe ontop of the triangular flange and hey…
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more flame and thunder
a damp, rainy bleary start to the day. it’s been drizzling for several hours and the air is so cold it looks not too promising for racing today. It seems that the one meeting tha people thought would be dry is in danger of being a washout just like most of the others this year…
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flame and thunder
it’s the last meeting of the year and it’s a dry fine night on friday. The journey up to the pod across the country is long and gloomy. I feel empty and stressed. It’s been busy getting everything ready for the show at centrespacegallery and there’s too much else going on… i meet up with…
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dontcha just love it…
dontcha just love it when… well, trying to flog off the 84mm procomp crank from the old race engine in the samba. spun a bearing last november in the bus on the M4 being (barely) pursued by botch and joss in an SRi.. (see november 9th 2003 weblog entry) send the engine off to a…