Yes, I am still alive! It has been months since my last update but I am slowly recovering from my back surgery in April and have started doing a few things to get the project back on track….
First light duty project I undertook was to clean up the
sandblasting cabinet. The cabinet got flooded back when the sprinkler system
froze and we just never got around to bringing it back on line. Dumped the old
sand out and removed the LED lights so I could clean and remount them with
Velcro to make them easier service in the future.
With the cabinet reassembled, I pulled apart the cyclone dust separator and mini shop vac so they could be cleaned up as well. Got them cleaned, reassembled and remounted only to find the on/off switch of the shop vac was stuck in the on position, so I pulled the motor housing apart to access and remove the old switch. With the switch out, I tried blowing it out, tried toggling it to try and get it to click over to the off position, knocking it about to dislodge whatever might be keeping it from changing state but nothing worked so I bit the bullet and bought a new one. Tried it again a few hours later and the friggen thing started working!!! 😡
Another little project I worked on was to create a dash
radio opening repair plate. While my dash in fully intact, I know there have
been several guys who’s Torinos have had the dash hacked up to allow a modern
DIN style radio to be installed. I drew it up on the computer then printed out
and stapled it to a piece of cardboard so I could cut it out and dry fit it to
my dash to confirm it fit. I freehand trimmed it shape and dropped it onto my
dash and it fit pretty well, so I’ll post the pattern for the repair plate onto
the HOW-TO section for others to use as needed.
Sunday I went out to the garage to clean some stuff off the workbench and once I had most of the junk cleared away, I saw my Bernzomatic FirePoint torch kit on the shelf.
I bought this tourch and some alumiweld
solder to play around with to see how I can attach my reshaped aluminum fuel
tank burp tube to the OEM tube steel mounting bracket and then the burp tube
assembly into my new fuel tank. Initial test was sticking a couple pieces of
the aluminum tubing I used together and it did a fairly nice (and strong) job.
Will also try attaching the tube to a thin piece of sheetmetal. Fingers
crossed!
Well feels good to again be doing something project related
and hope things begin to move forward again!!!
MORE TO COME
ZEBRA 3 OUT
