bought the lower anvils for the english wheel at eastwood, today.  $150.  it seems more and more skidmark members wanna try it out.  jt spends a fair amount of time watching a guy named lazze on youtube.  this dude is a madman.  it's really inspiring to watch this guy manipulate aluminum.  jt is super pumped about making a bunch of shit for his harley.

thomas is in at the moment.  the engine on his kz550 is apart, but the lower half is still in the frame.  he decided to refresh all his gaskets as he had some seepage all summer.  he removed all the gaskets with one of those sweet scotchbrite pads that go on the electric drill.  those things make such short work of stubborn gaskets.  but he did break a bolt when he was taking the cylinders off and spent the last few hours dealing with it.  it's been soaking in penetrating oil for a week.  he heated it, banged it, soaked it, banged it...  eventually he put the head on the drill press and slowly drilled it out.  now he's gonna tap it.  i think he'll have to helicoil it...but i dunno.

mark got his ohio license and plates for his truck today.  changing his california plates, he admitted, was surprisingly emotional.  i couldn't help but laugh...even though i totally understood what he was going through.

all the heaters that are hanging are running.  i hope to have two more heaters up above the lounge by monday.  we'll see.  putting enough rubles together these days is tough.  not sure how smart my english wheel anvils purchase was.

jt said he has friends that wanna come in and join.  man i hope that happens.  so need a few more members.

getting down to 2, tonight.  i think i'm gonna be ok as far as pipes go.  the air compressor that was squeaking like crazy was due to belts being...what?...too tight?  i sprayed some penetrating oil in there and it fixed it immediately.  crazy.  and lucky.

wheeler stopped in today for the first time in a week or two.  good to see him.  i love getting him on a roll about something.  he cracks me up.

fucking pj stopped in and worked on his savage, today!  couldn't believe it.  haven't seem him work in here in a while.  his job has kept him away.  we moved his bike from the bay by the shitter over to bay number 8.  as soon as we started rolling it over, he got the itch to start fucking with it.  it was really good to have him back.