A little tailgate work last night.
23 April 2015
Newport News, Va. -
Good afternoon everyone!
First let me say THANK YOU to everyone for the kind words recently! Makes me feel good knowing that I'm doing ya' all right with my rebuild and as usual for answering my questions (IE- the foot starter switch this time).
Now with that out of the way, last night was fun. The Spring Crud laid me out flat out hard yesterday. I could hardly breathe. So Ed ( The Garage Elf ) and our friends Luke and Walt came over to play. They attacked the tailgate with gusto. A couple of more applications of their enthusiasm should give us a near brand new tailgate ready for paint. Major props to my next door old school style hot rod builder neighbor Bob for letting me "steal" his tool air off his commercial high volume compressor as mine would not keep up with the CFM required to run the high speed cut off wheel tool. I owe Bob a bottle of Eagle Rare bourbon now. :-)
Today, I finally got my bottle lease account with the local AIRGAS distributor approved so we went to pick up the needed "flame wrench" items to expedite the tailgate work. Amazing how in this day and age, unless you have a business, compressed gas dealers shun you (Homeland Security reasons maybe?).
Hope everyone is doing well! Best wishes and have fun!
Dave-
W4CPO
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