Listen to what you say . . .

Dropped in to see what my neighbour (Art) was up to. Thought he would be out on his new boat but he was over the road from me in his workshop! He was only making a bracket to fix the new stereo into the boat so all was well with the world.

Couldn't resist his invitation to go out the next day for a spin around. He was taking some friends out for a "spot of fishing" and a run down to Mindarie. Sounded OK to me!!

So on the boat at 8:00am. Nice group of people (I hadn't met them before) and it turns out that this guy is an electronics specialist and was checking out what was needed to hook up the CAT3208's to a computer management system that Art was having fitted. He was also a source of all the radio and electronic equipment I was going to need for the truck. Neat!!

It seems this boat was sold by the old measurements so it's a 43' er.


















It's more of a "party boat" than anything else but that will probably suit Art who is a really nice friendly guy.
























Plenty of space for people. There were 6 of us and the boat seemed empty.


















Nice lunch at Mindarie and back in the pen before the sea breeze got too strong.
Sit around chatting for a couple of hours and OOPS forgot I had to go and get ready for a New Year's Eve Ball at the dance studio in which I teach.

A good night had by all.

2009

Late start to the day, lunch with some friends and the afternoon chatting and there goes the first day of the year.

Now where were we??

Fixing the mistake I made because I didn't take the time to draw the mechanism out properly. Well that's OK. It was only one of them. So instead of adding the missing 5mm I have to subtract it so that's 10mm back the other way. Right?

Weld up the previous hole, back in the mill, slot it out again, back onto the truck and "Hey Presto" it's WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! again.

DRAW IT PROPERLY !!!!

Damn. I forgot I changed the lower part from 75mm x 5mm flat bar to 100mm x 5mm flat bar and then drilled the hole in the middle of it. What I thought was the original error wasn't the only problem. There was another 12.5mm to be moved.

Back to the grinder | welder | milling machine.

NOW it works properly. Left rear side:























Right rear side:























At this time I only have two air bags as this idea didn't get started until into the Xmas period so now I have to wait 'til Monday before I can get the other two and all the tubing and valving necessary.

Yep. You guessed it. Back to Couplers.
No. The girls are like children -20 years old or something.
It's the fittings I want.