McD Family Racing Winter 2014-2015 Thread

Pete:Team Penske said:
No just a country boy and that was the only way we could get TV. I had Cb hook ups in my home back in the mid 80's and when I found Nascar cup racing I went with the 10 foot dish and that's all she wrote.
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ah, thought you meant you had a VHF/UHF/HF/MF antenna up.

Did a quick "Christmas", had breakfast, then went out to the garage to get work done. Got the walls opened up for the electrical service to the shop, got the solvent tank out, and did some rearranging.

Now i'm waiting for a voice to come from New York. I'm getting in, just waiting for somebody to get on air.
 
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Magnethead said:
ah, thought you meant you had a VHF/UHF/HF/MF antenna up.

Did a quick "Christmas", had breakfast, then went out to the garage to get work done. Got the walls opened up for the electrical service to the shop, got the solvent tank out, and did some rearranging.

Now i'm waiting for a voice to come from New York. I'm getting in, just waiting for somebody to get on air.
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When I was a young fella just after WW11 my uncle brought home a radio from England. It had 5 rows of stations on it.
Real late most nights I could get a radio station from Wheeling West Virginia. That may not seem odd to many but I live just south of James Bay in Ontario Canada.
 
Pete:Team Penske said:
When I was a young fella just after WW11 my uncle brought home a radio from England. It had 5 rows of stations on it.
Real late most nights I could get a radio station from Wheeling West Virginia. That may not seem odd to many but I live just south of James Bay in Ontario Canada.
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Normal for shortwave. I was able to communicate with New York today.

I don't have a radio for these frequencies, but I already have the antenna that i got from a white elephant exchange. The scale is the possibility of RC communications based on the state of the ionosphere.

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Cleaned things up today. Need to get some barrels and make one more cable. Dad asked "What if I want to cover the patio?" My response was "We stop a couple feet short."

Going to run the conduits for the shop electrical this weekend. Won't run the cables, but since we have the walls open and some of the engine stuff isn't back yet, do the messy stuff first. Otherwise it will be next to impossible to make the garage be a clean room for engine assembly when doing drywall and electrical work and knocking holes in brick walls.

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Made progress. Was too cold this weekend to do anything.

Box is a 6x6x6 piece, have 1" BX coming down from the breaker box into the junction box behind the wall, then we'll run 1" conduit from the junction box to the other hole in the wall, and put a plastic box outside.

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Windows got spray painted black, then put the rest of the foam barrier up.

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Took the only warm day for the next while to clean the engine. The Loktite 567 pipe dope that dad uses apparently also doubles as red loktite, we had to heat the oil galley plugs for them to come out. In other news, we now know that said plugs will hold all 200 pounds of me on the end of a 12" ratchet without stripping out or the ratchet snapping, I was doing pull ups on that thing before we figured out what the problem was.

Also put the power conduit in for the shop.

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short block is together, shop is built and we got lights hooked up today. Running outlets tomorrow.
 
We thought it would be plenty big, started measuring things out....It's going to be very much a squeeze. 19 feet of work benches, 5 foot tool box, three 4 foot shelves, the air compressor on it's pallet, the drill press/bench grinder table, the solvent tank, a 39x9 trailer, and a 26x6 dragster. LOL
 
Magnethead said:
We thought it would be plenty big, started measuring things out....It's going to be very much a squeeze. 19 feet of work benches, 5 foot tool box, three 4 foot shelves, the air compressor on it's pallet, the drill press/bench grinder table, the solvent tank, a 39x9 trailer, and a 26x6 dragster. LOL
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Ain't never been a shop built that wasn't too small as soon as you moved in.
 
Wee bit of an update. Hoping to make noise tomorrow. Has all the fluid except fuel in it.

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Got air lines put in yesterday. Should have been out testing, but the group cancelled friday night due to weather that never showed up as forcasted (go figure).

Going to move the compressor in today and board up the working walls. Might get a bench moved if we're lucky.
 
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