Thank you Mark - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Marsha and your family!  Hope to see you this year - Finlay...Sussex?....

WAIT - you don't think Elon is going to take the ShopTime™ crew seriously in our rocket building efforts?  We can scratch seven nickels together...and...we are hard working...and well...we don't know too much about space flight, but "how hard could it be?"😂We do have Ermine manuals....err...Stoat as our friend over the pond refer to them....careful as those Red Coats like to turn our Ermine into House of Lord ceremonial coats.  Ring the Bell, Hear our Rallying Cry: "Save the Ermine's! "  😂Thank you for the Christmas blessings - belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your crew and thank you for being here. 🙏

Appreciate it!  We were chatting about the Year in Review (posted after you made this comment) and just how much got accomplished in spite of the directional chaos....😜. They are amazing journeys - whether relationships, marriage, business....twists and turns and somehow, trying to stick to your guns and your morality....wading through the morass and coming out on the other end a warrior, but still standing, a little proud....ready to get back after it....and grateful to the core that you have such a wonderful group of friends and supporters to accompany you on the journey.  Thank you for being a part of all of this!

...been working for me for years!  My skin is a little ashen, but what price vanity?😂

Back atcha Nick!  Here's to making Weasel Canvas GREAT in 2025😀😍

Happy New Year Jay!  Thank you for all of your support here and with the MVPA efforts.  Love the Ben quote!  Here's to a wonderful 2025!

Great suggestion Adam.  We have a leak down tester - a useful tool for sure.  In this case, we would have learned a bunch if we had done that but quite frankly forgot!  One thing to note - when engines have been sitting for a long time, sometimes the rings stick and you have low compression until you run the engine long enough to heat up the pistons.  You can get low compression or a bad leak down test but it is premature to conclude you need to rebuild the engine.  Next week's episode will have more diagnostics - we have a little work to do on the engine, but I am thinking at this point that we will get away with some version of a "shop" rebuild rather than any expensive machine shop work.Thank you for your comment!

Indeed!  My wife should know after 27 years that leaving me alone totally unsupervised is a questionable action!  As for more parts - indeed - working on it.

We just applied for the Drone Lottery...hoping for a tag!

Dana Smith That is interested Dana - this is on your TUG I am assuming?  6v or 12v?