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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #225 on: December 01, 2011, 06:18:20 AM »
Sounds like fun, Sparky!

Gotta love Santa....
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #226 on: December 01, 2011, 08:20:15 AM »
actually Linda---the parts check signer in the most revered member of the household  :-)
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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #227 on: December 01, 2011, 08:54:05 AM »
Barb, in my household!

Hmmm, why is Santa always a man on TV? Lol!

Your project looks and sounds like it's coming along great! :cheers:
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

You can't make a race horse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. - Bob Akin

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #228 on: December 11, 2011, 03:07:13 PM »
Woody and I had a great visit this morning via phone---we agreed that there should not be any more needed changes to the major frame members.  The bay between the rear axle and the eng will not have any diagonals for a while as we are still exploring the exhaust placement. We are taking a Christmas break but we should have the frame off the jig by mid Jan and rolling around on the floor doing the final welding.

Then on to the most  "exciting"  :roll: part of LSR, bracket racing  :cry:  making bracket after bracket to mount everthing  but that is one of the joys of Special Construction "packaging".
Miss LIBERTY,  changing T.K.I.  to noise, dust, rust, BLUE HATS & hopefully not scrap!!

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."   Helen Keller

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #229 on: December 11, 2011, 03:36:09 PM »
Sparky, do you plan on having it on the salt in 2012?
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

You can't make a race horse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. - Bob Akin

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http://youtu.be/89rVb497_4c

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #230 on: December 12, 2011, 03:50:59 PM »
That is our goal---we have one advantage---we are not having to "bingeineer" as much this time---and that is a good thing  we are all OVERWEIGHT and will need to slim down---thank goodness not to SSS profile!  :cheers:
Miss LIBERTY,  changing T.K.I.  to noise, dust, rust, BLUE HATS & hopefully not scrap!!

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."   Helen Keller

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #231 on: December 12, 2011, 04:15:59 PM »
Yeah, yeah -- but just think how lousy it'd sound if I gained a bunch of weight.  They'd have to call me "Seldom Seen Lard-butt". :-o
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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #232 on: December 12, 2011, 09:23:34 PM »
38 flattie,

I'm a BIG fan of yours, especially after you whipped all the Road Runners @ the GoKart track, BUT . . .
dontcha know it's bad racing etiquette to ask a racer when it's gonna be done?

It took about five years and me spending some money with the late, great Jocko Johnson when I asked that when he was building the Allison streamliner before he'd speak to me.

Big Bucks, by the way - $250.00 for a porting job on my (later) Drag News 1320 record holding Dodge CF/MR heads. (I borrowed the money from my grandmother -true story).
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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #233 on: December 12, 2011, 09:55:15 PM »
Ooops!

No, Interested Bystander, I did not know it was bad racing etiquette!

Can I blame my trespass on being a noob- us roundy-rounders don't have have that etiquette rule!
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

You can't make a race horse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. - Bob Akin

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http://youtu.be/89rVb497_4c

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #234 on: December 12, 2011, 10:07:09 PM »
Ooops!

No, Interested Bystander, I did not know it was bad racing etiquette!

Can I blame my trespass on being a noob- us roundy-rounders don't have have that etiquette rule!

circle burners have ANY ettiquette? ha!

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #235 on: December 13, 2011, 12:21:06 AM »
Interested Bystander,

     A story went around back in the day that when Jocko was building the liner he got sick of people asking when so he put up a sign, "if you can't wait - donate".  Any truth to it?

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #236 on: December 13, 2011, 12:38:45 AM »
geeezz  :-o  I think i will try that---well if som body just picked up the beer tab I could probabaly get more done!!!!
Miss LIBERTY,  changing T.K.I.  to noise, dust, rust, BLUE HATS & hopefully not scrap!!

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #237 on: December 13, 2011, 12:47:11 AM »
Sparky, buy newer beer, the new cans dont have tabs so you won't have to spend all your build time picking them up...  :-D
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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL
« Reply #238 on: December 13, 2011, 09:58:01 AM »
lol  :cheers:
Miss LIBERTY,  changing T.K.I.  to noise, dust, rust, BLUE HATS & hopefully not scrap!!

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Re: Rat-a-Tack AA/GL>aka the>>>>> Texas Thud Spud
« Reply #239 on: December 18, 2011, 03:10:24 PM »
In Texas for Christmas with Grands and kids---

how inspiring Rich Fox and Blake S. are

can't wait to get back to AZ  buy some more of the new fangled beer cans SS#1 made reference to and get back to work.  I should have at least 20 hours per week for the TTS project we are almost finished with Andy's Manx buggy and then we are on to faster things!!
Miss LIBERTY,  changing T.K.I.  to noise, dust, rust, BLUE HATS & hopefully not scrap!!

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."   Helen Keller

We are going to explore the racing N words NITROUS & NITRO!