[mk e]

Originally Posted by Pizzaman

What about the basketball court and the hockey ring? Did you get around those with any problem.

Chris, are you posting from your ipad again?

Let me ask this, is there anything at all about a pool and volleyball that you can think of that REALLY makes the 2 go together?




nothing?





I'll give you hint, it involves girls, bikinis and jumping

[Verell]

Originally Posted by mk e

No no. There was a dtudy at MIT that showed the tin foil acts like an anttena and extended the range the mind prodes can reach you from...they're probably probing your mind right now, you need to remove the hat while there is still time!

Close, it was at Berkeley:
http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/
And only aluminum foil hats were studied, but then that makes your comment more relevant to incogneato's post.

Hmm, maybe the original tin foil hats worked better, and ground was lost when aluminum foil was substituted. Could the switch to alumnium foil have ben a government plot all along?

[mk e]

Originally Posted by Verell

Close, it was at Berkeley:
http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/
And only aluminum foil hats were studied, but then that makes your comment more relevant to incogneato's post.

Hmm, maybe the original tin foil hats worked better, and ground was lost when aluminum foil was substituted. Could the switch to alumnium foil have ben a government plot all along?

Good find! It does say they used equipment borrowed from MITto make the measurements, maybe that why MIT was in my head....

Anyway, I'm going to try to get back into the shop now and get going fixing the head stud holes that broke out of the block and I had to weld.

[mk e]

I finally got back on the car and fixed the 2 head stud holes last night. When I welded the paper thin matal on ther outside, it sunk on the inside, but only on the one side I was welding on....so just sending a drill into the hole would just wipe out the thread on the opposite side becasue a drill bit alway self centers. What I did so make a drill bushing to support the drill bit in the true center and it seemed to work out then re-tap and everything looks right......time to get back to installing the head studs.

[montreal328]

haaaaaaaaaaaa naked metal..........

[KKRace]

Did you go in with the tap drill into the bushing or just use a smaller drill first to get the center and then go in with the tap drill afterwards?

[mk e]

Originally Posted by KKRace

Did you go in with the tap drill into the bushing or just use a smaller drill first to get the center and then go in with the tap drill afterwards?

Ii went straight to the tap drill

[mk e]

A really unproductive night.....I got 3 of 18 head studs installed. Hopefully the pace will pick up a bit tomorrow.

[bretm]

Originally Posted by mk e

A really unproductive night.....I got 3 of 18 head studs installed. Hopefully the pace will pick up a bit tomorrow.

It could always be worse... all I did tonight was go to the dentist.

[Pizzaman]

Originally Posted by bretm

It could always be worse... all I did tonight was go to the dentist.

Did you at least get a tooth brush out that?

[mk e]

The studs are in...now on to something more interesting (hopefully).

[Pizzaman]

Looking good.

Is Grandpa still there to give you a hand or are they gone?

[mk e]

Originally Posted by Pizzaman

Looking good.

Is Grandpa still there to give you a hand or are they gone?

Grandpa is still here for a little longer. I think he’s back to grinding/sanding the block today.

[bretm]

Man, the studs are really well aligned. Did you make a tap fixture to square it to the block each time when you tapped the holes?

[mk e]

Originally Posted by bretm

Man, the studs are really well aligned. Did you make a tap fixture to square it to the block each time when you tapped the holes?

I didn't have to because the threads start a couple inches down the hole which is nearly a size on size fit to the tap, so the block itself becomes the tap block. 1 of the end stud is short and the thread star at the top of the hole, that one I tapped in mill.

[mk e]

Pretty busy weekend but I got a little work done.

I finished the rough milling on the 1st cam cover and I’m liking it…now there are holes to be filled, flanges to add and a second cover to do.

I also decided to open up the head stud holes a bit because I HATE stuck heads.

[tajaro]

Looks GREAT Mark- glad you're back on the job!

BTW- that was ~20 of us from FC roaring past your place on Saturday morning ~10:15am on the "Frosty Balls Rally" organized by JoeZaff. Great fun and we should have stopped in to give you a cheer!

[mk e]

Originally Posted by tajaro

Looks GREAT Mark- glad you're back on the job!

BTW- that was ~20 of us from FC roaring past your place on Saturday morning ~10:15am on the "Frosty Balls Rally" organized by JoeZaff. Great fun and we should have stopped in to give you a cheer!

I didn’t hear anything? I guess I was milling on the cam cover about then….maybe next year………now if I could just talk you guys into stopping over and making parts for my broken car instead of wasting time enjoying your working cars

[Pizzaman]

Aaah the sound of a running Ferrari.

[ramosel]

Originally Posted by mk e

I didn’t hear anything? I guess I was milling on the cam cover about then….maybe next year………now if I could just talk you guys into stopping over and making parts for my broken car instead of wasting time enjoying your working cars

I'm shocked he didn't email or text you from his iPad as he drove by...

Glad to see you "back in the saddle" as it were. Hopefully with your new and improved heating/cooling system you can weld incessantly without having to incur the wrath of the upstairs denizens...


Rick