NW WA Meet / BS Thread

If i had A long gun I’d say save me a seat. But i don’t...yet

 

sounds like Tinkham!

I'm going to start exploring this weekend. And grouse is open. What's the CB channel?

 

It's usually marked. I just put mine on scan, and then pay attention to which channel gets hit a lot. When trucks are calling out a road the channel gets pretty busy, so it's hard to miss.

 

I'll check on with y'all when my hangers come in. Might have to take you up on the offer. Do you take $ or alchohol for your services?

 

Each main spur road off the mainline has its own designated channel which is usually posted at the beginning and repeated periodically and also mile markers in 1/2mile increments. Mainline is 14, if you go in the gate on the left side of the county road, and spur 10, the gate on the right side is channel 20. IMO they need to fix their cb channel assigned to spur 10 as just after the 1 mile the road forks 3 ways, one to Black Creek, one to lake Hancock and the other to lake caligan/back up to the county road at Wagner bridge. They have those 3 forks all running channel 20 which gets confusing when you have trucks inbound and outbound loaded and unloaded on this road or that road. Any further rds that spur off from main spurs don't have a channel change as they don't go anywhere, except for an old landing or other use when it was logged. The mainline is ~28ish miles from gate 1 to the proctor Creek gate.

Along with th cb channel sign there's usually a road number sign that has the number shown on the map they should have included with your permit packet. We have a map of the tree farm in GPS PDF format so even when you don't have service, you can see where you are or where you need to go. I need to get a copy of it. When I do I'll let you know.

The paper map, or at least the one I received with my permit, was outdated and somewhat incorrect. It still showed roads as continuing through where now some have been abandoned and dug up just shy of where you wanted to go or loop around. Lots of bypasses and cuttoffs we used to run around on have been eliminated but are still shown as complete roads on the map.

 

I prefer both.

 

fuck ya that's a ton of good info thanks! I did get a nice glossy large map in the packet. GPS file would be great.

 

Oh yeah.... @Usethe2nd

It may not win a beauty contest, but it's air tight and round. It ain't a grand piano, it's just gotta get the air into the intake.

I might try another revision now that I know a thing or 2 and try it a bit differently than what I did with this one.

 

Hey buddy, I’m scheduled to help @White lightning boosted with his front differential on Sunday. But I just bought a 10x20 cover (f the rain) so you are more than welcome to drop by. How many seats are you covering? I don’t have any tools (for seat upholstery) but happy to help!

 

Doesn't look too bad to me. Out of curiosity, what is the length of that Bob? Is it 13 inches or less?

 

It's looking like 13-13&1/4 depending on where I hold the tape.

 

This would be awesome.

 

Ah. If everything goes to plan, I should have a 3D printer by February that will do 13x13x13.
Looking for ideas at the moment.

 

I'm in Woodinville and have put a few sets of these on. It's easiest to take the seats out and turn the covers inside out and pull them on. I don't have a big enough covered space though but am willing to help out if the rain holds off.

 

By the way @JimSnell, I am convinced that whisky is the devil'S drink.....After a hiatus, I may have broken into the bottle I purchased for you (cmc bribery). I may actually be imbibing as I
type.
I have to 'work' tomorrow as well!

 

Probably take a day to print that thing (in ABS of course) but sounds like a challenge!

 

Shit, I might need a better headlight mold by then if my current plan isn't successful. Or can you 3d print clear materials with those things? I haven't really looked at them close to see what you can and can't do. I'm looking at ways to mold either polycarbonate or just regular acrylic headlight lenses to replace the glass lenses on my ls400. I can't find a single manufacturer that makes a whole replacement housing with poly lens for it. Depo makes a replacement but still glass lens. Plan A is to make a reverse mold of my current glass, fill the ripples in the mold from the fluting with bondo etc.. and then use heated sheets of acrylic in a jig pressed over the reverse mold. Or plan B is to make a inside and outside 2 piece silicone mold and use clear epoxy/acrylic resin to pour into the mold.

All just to do a projector retro on it as fluted glass is terrible for projectors.

 

I know of no clear, high heat filaments so far but the tech seems to be changing fast. There is carbon fiber impregnated filament now.

 

I gots to get some sleep. Duty calls at 4ish am. Have a great night all.