I'm eagerly anticipating tomorrow. For several months, I've been wanting to replace my knarly, rotten coolant piping with copper. Tony has told me he's pretty good at sweating copper, so I bought 1.25" copper pipe, 45 deg. elbows, flux, solder, MAPP gas for the torch, and other items. I've just been waiting for a convenient day for both of us.
Shortly before the Xmas holidays, Bob Brown sent me a PM saying Tony wanted to replace his gas tank, but needed some physical help. I responded to Bob that if this meant someone with a strong back and weak mind, I had a bad back and weak mind and asked if I still qualified because it would be an honor to give Tony some help for a change. Bob said "sold" and shipped me the tank, which arrived Wednesday. I cleaned up the tank an hit it with a couple coats of Duplicolor gloss black. Since Tony is a major stockholder in Duplicolor, I knew he would accept nothing less. He recommends Duplicolor for constipation, sore joints, sinus infections, and just about any other condition that may come up.
So, I've got the tank and all the copper pipe and other stuff loaded up in Big Bird. I also have my usual 1.75 liter bottle of Canadian Club for Tony to show my appreciation and to toast a job well done at the end of the day.
Tony, suspecting we needed additional help, asked Tommy Mastracchio who is also part of the SoCal "Family" and drives an old 124 to lend a hand. At first, Tommy was on the fence. Then Tony offered homemade peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. Being a good Italian "Goomba" from Brooklyn who considers everything to be about food, at the mention of peanut butter sandwiches Tommy's eyes lit up, his jaw dropped drooling, and immediately said "I'm in".
So, that describes the 3 Stooges who will attempt the 2 jobs described above tomorrow. Since nothing is real without pix, I will try to post pix tomorrow night or Sunday.
In spite of the 25 degree overnight low forecast for Santa Clarita tonight, I expect tomorrow to be an excellent day with 3 stooges and 3 good friends hanging out and getting some good work done on our X's. Damn, it doesn't get much better than this!!!!!!
Mike
Shortly before the Xmas holidays, Bob Brown sent me a PM saying Tony wanted to replace his gas tank, but needed some physical help. I responded to Bob that if this meant someone with a strong back and weak mind, I had a bad back and weak mind and asked if I still qualified because it would be an honor to give Tony some help for a change. Bob said "sold" and shipped me the tank, which arrived Wednesday. I cleaned up the tank an hit it with a couple coats of Duplicolor gloss black. Since Tony is a major stockholder in Duplicolor, I knew he would accept nothing less. He recommends Duplicolor for constipation, sore joints, sinus infections, and just about any other condition that may come up.
So, I've got the tank and all the copper pipe and other stuff loaded up in Big Bird. I also have my usual 1.75 liter bottle of Canadian Club for Tony to show my appreciation and to toast a job well done at the end of the day.
Tony, suspecting we needed additional help, asked Tommy Mastracchio who is also part of the SoCal "Family" and drives an old 124 to lend a hand. At first, Tommy was on the fence. Then Tony offered homemade peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. Being a good Italian "Goomba" from Brooklyn who considers everything to be about food, at the mention of peanut butter sandwiches Tommy's eyes lit up, his jaw dropped drooling, and immediately said "I'm in".
So, that describes the 3 Stooges who will attempt the 2 jobs described above tomorrow. Since nothing is real without pix, I will try to post pix tomorrow night or Sunday.
In spite of the 25 degree overnight low forecast for Santa Clarita tonight, I expect tomorrow to be an excellent day with 3 stooges and 3 good friends hanging out and getting some good work done on our X's. Damn, it doesn't get much better than this!!!!!!
Mike
