The smoke is no fun! Thankfully it has cleared. Cheers!

Thank you Carol! We love having you along for the ride. My biggest problem in that shop is a lack of organization. I am going to get it clean I swear! Cheers!

Our pleasure Carmen!  You are looking great!  I appreciate the offer - we are going to try and participate next year....more to follow.  We are working on Berwick too.  Thanks again for all the support!

Old school house call! Party at Holly's! I am going to be making several videos on this. The first one is going to be a removal video - step by step. The second is a T84 setup video. This is a simple little machine, but there a wild variations in the parts being manufactured so it is not simple at all. The whole key is getting the syncronizer setup to function properly. Too tight and you have problems, too loose is problematic too, but the one size fits all approach doesn't work because some of the components within the syncro are being manufactured differently so a tolerance that works with Vendor X's blocking rings, won't work with Y. Really a PITA! Anyway, my head is spinning - been into 3 transmissions in 2 weeks and about to get to the 4th. Uncle!!

Cheers Nick!

Greetings Robert! I agree - da bomb! I did not use it at the parade as I gather that may be kinda frowned upon (maybe local?) at the Memorial Day parade. That being said - it is installed and working. I ended up mounting the push button on the bottom flange of the dash...invisible, but easily accessible. I powered it up using the horn circuit breaker and the switch goes to a ground strap on the dash. Funny thing about motors - when I was a kid, I used put together these model airplanes with a little electric motor that you had to wind. They never worked. One of my parent's friends was an electrical engineer and came over for dinner. He and I tried to get one working and he could not do it either :-) Made me feel better! More next episode! Thanks as always for being so supportive!

Agreed Nick - great weekend! Look forward to doing it again!

Greetings Pierre. You have me thinking and doing some research. When I learned to gas weld, I was given a stack of coat hangars and learned to weld using them. They worked fine. Technically, R45/R60 are oxy/acetylene rods and ER70S variants for TIG - both mild steel applications. The TIG rod is common now and has more "cleaning" action and relatively different composition. That being said, it works fine to gas weld too. I have a mix....and often forget which I am using, although for a certified welding application, the RG rods should be used. I am going to do a comparison soon and will share if I can tell a difference. I am using a Smith Airline torch (acquired by Miller now...AW1A is model) with their smallest tip (201) for thin sheet metal. They are beautiful little torches and common in the aviation industry. The MFR pressures per their manual are 10/10 psi. I was taught to run it 5/5psi, but I think somewhere in between is best - 10 is a little high and will extinguish the flame with the small tip while 5/5psi feels like you have to run it a little too open to get good penetration and quick enough heat application. I am going to be experimenting with some filters to see if I can get a clear shot of the weld bead - hard to film welding. If I can, I will do a quick tutorial. Cheers!

You got that right! Thanks for fixing my siren Mat!

Thanks for joining Scott!  That is a great idea.  We do have a private Facebook group....but I would love to cultivate more interaction here....away from the drama.....