Northern Virginia Roll Call

This popped up on FB today. I planted that for our five year anniversary. This was six years ago at the house in MI, and my last full winter. Which set a snow fall record for the second year in a row. Getting the Xmas lights on was a bit more challenging that year.

 

I'm going to be away that weekend, but will be sure to catch you at the next one.

 

I saw that and appreciated the heads up! That guy was in a terrible spot.

 

Thank you! All is much better! New job location(still teaching, but on the western end of the county. So much closer to home).
And baby #2 is due in March! And just confirmation it's a boy.

 

Congrats on the expanding family and new job! Good friend of mine has a new boy as well, about 6 months.

 

Nice dude! My baby boy will be 4 months this weekend. Super fun.

 

Thanks Adam!
Im really digging the progress with 1floorbelow!
How are you liking the Heavy Chevy?! And trailer?
My wife is at the point that she wants a tow camper too.

 

Thanks bud. The brewery is almost complete so that's exciting. I love having the full size truck but of course, it already had transmission problems. It was under warranty but still. The camper is great. We haven't used it alot yet but that will pick up soon. The wife loves having a real bed and AC/heat.

 

My plans have been foiled by the flu, how fun. Woke up feeling like trash, but I'm doing better so might get back at it this afternoon or tomorrow

 

Ooof, yikes. Good luck on the recovery.

 

welcome back man! It's good to see the OGs here

 

The flu kicked my ass a few years ago, best of luck!


Is there a recommended place to go to get shocks filled with nitrogen? Called a few places and most either don't have it or want you to buy the whole get up ($300ish for tank/regulators/tax/hoses/ect.).

 

I would think a place like Roberts Oxygen would be able to provide that service, or maybe a shop that specializes in offroad or performance vehicles.

 

I’ve been thinking about getting a nitrogen setup as well. I can’t find anyone local to me that fills shocks. You will need a shock gauge if you can get a tire shop to fill them.

 

Do you have a tank of argon? I wanna say you have a tig setup.

 

Dent and shock filling wizard.

 

My shocks have a schrader valve, wasn’t aware of a shock gauge… figured a regular gauge would work?

 

The volume of gas a shock needs is so small that you need special tooling. A very accurate gauge and a no-loss schrader valve filled thingy. You can’t just put a normal filler on it.

 

Yea I do! I didn’t think about that, is it ok to use argon?

 

Yep! Any inert gas will do, it’s just less favorable to nitrogen simply due to cost. I had @Arcticelf charge my old king smoothies with argon because he has a tig welding setup. So all you’d need is the appropriate filler for your shocks.