Progress Thread HeHateMe gets bent
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I was going to go with Mike Hate Me....but he doesn't hate me, he hates Falcons.
Mucus Max...Sounds like a Covid treatment....or @Davedacarpainter Booger's twin.
Oh snap. If I title it, I already want a plate that says N050 or NOFIVO.
That's good but makes me think of Foxcon. This could turn into a big boondoggle like the one in Wisconsin.
Looking at the floor, I thought of Holy Roller. But I'm sure there are gajillions of cars named that.
Wow...I quoted the original message, but I guess you had edited it during the time I was writing. When I pasted the quotes..it quoted the new friendlier Mike.I vote “Project Amoeba“ if your looking for a catchy name that accurately portrays the overall vibe that a 62 Falcon gives off...
That,..or Mucus Max ..but between the two..I’m torn....
* Edit...wait...I forget that i’m on a new, strict no prick rule...in that case...How about Steel Talon?..
That’s it..definitely Steel Talon.
No wait...How about C-Raptor....
Too many choices...I give up...
Mucus Max...Sounds like a Covid treatment....or @Davedacarpainter Booger's twin.
Oh snap. If I title it, I already want a plate that says N050 or NOFIVO.
That's good but makes me think of Foxcon. This could turn into a big boondoggle like the one in Wisconsin.
Looking at the floor, I thought of Holy Roller. But I'm sure there are gajillions of cars named that.
I keep telling you guys that reply to something that i just posted, that i’m reading, and rereading it to make sure it’s right before i let it fly. Immediately quoting the sht I say is sometimes like quoting out of a ancient history book.
Was kind of a reference to Mike's hatred of that era of Falcon.
"He Hate Me" was the phrase on the back of the jersey of original XFL running back Rod Smart, when asked why he chose that, he explained it thusly:
"Basically, my opponent is going to hate me. After I win, he's gonna hate me. It is what it is. It's a saying I was saying when I'd feel something wasn't going my way. For example, (when) I was on the squad in Vegas and coach was putting other guys in, (if) I felt I'm better than them, you know, hey, 'he hate me.' See what I'm saying? Give me a chance. That's all I ask. It came from the heart. Within. The way I felt. I feel as if everyone hates me, from my mom to my dad and even my brothers and sisters everyone "Hates Me". My buddy Greg Kates always used to use it, so I took it from him."
He managed to turn his stint in the XFL into a chance to play in the CFL and return to the NFL, so getting the attention he got with it obviously worked!
That was the most god awful excuse of a football league to ever attempt to exist. I had gone to every CFL home game when Memphis had a CFL franchise, but didn't even catch a glimpse of the original XFL. Too bad the covid took this year's XFL out. I thought they had a good idea this time. Play football, don't even try to pretend to compete with the NFL. I think there's room for a spring summer pro minor league system for the NFL. Look at how many guys and coaches came out of NFL Europe. Not that I'd watch it either.
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It was bad, but it was still influential in surprising ways, including the number of "has been" and "never was" players that had careers rejuvenated or kick-started by that wacky league.
I'm thinking more this shade...
I'm a lazy fcker. I'm no paint and body man....although I can spray bomb with the best of em. I don't want that body work dust in my garage. And I've got better things to spend money on than paint...so it may just be red and rust. I wouldn't mind trying to put some rust converter on and then trying to get some paint matched and paint the big rust spots and try to age it back to patina.
But then I think, what if I do drive it on the street and the windshield channel is rusted out and it leaks everywhere. So I do believe both the front and back glass will come out and get new seals and whatever I find under there fixed. $$$$$$$ I keep coming up with more expensive ways to spend it.
I'm a lazy fcker. I'm no paint and body man....although I can spray bomb with the best of em. I don't want that body work dust in my garage. And I've got better things to spend money on than paint...so it may just be red and rust. I wouldn't mind trying to put some rust converter on and then trying to get some paint matched and paint the big rust spots and try to age it back to patina.
But then I think, what if I do drive it on the street and the windshield channel is rusted out and it leaks everywhere. So I do believe both the front and back glass will come out and get new seals and whatever I find under there fixed. $$$$$$$ I keep coming up with more expensive ways to spend it.
Ok Drew, follow my thinking here......
Your car was 21 when Booger was made, I was 21 when Booger was made. Ok?
Since your car is really a full generation behind Booger it should be called either Papa Booger (possibly Papooger),or possibly Uncle Booger.
I feel confident that Mike will approve of these choices.
You could put Mercury badges on it and call it “The Vomit Comet”....
That's awesome. I need to take this to the dump and get a comet! Hell, it may just get that anyway!
First off, no one can follow your thinking....Ok Drew, follow my thinking here......
Your car was 21 when Booger was made, I was 21 when Booger was made. Ok?
Since your car is really a full generation behind Booger it should be called either Papa Booger (possibly Papooger),or possibly Uncle Booger.
I feel confident that Mike will approve of these choices.
Mine will be a lovely shade of green, not snot green. Hence no boogers in here. Uncle Fester could work.
It doesn't seem like a did a lot today, but I put a solid 5 hours in. 3 words. Spot weld cutter. They are a blessing and a curse. They do their job, unless they break. At least I thought ahead and bought 3 at HF and the cutters are reversible so 6. Good thing too, because I was down to my last one after only doing about 12 spot welds on the bottom of the shock tower and the motor mount/lower control arm mount. I wanted to get that off, because then it's just a matter of deciding where/how much of the shock tower to cut out. I can get the K member mounted and mock everything up to make sure I can get the alignment in spec. I've seen online some guys using this k member on Falcons have to move the top mount up and out a hair. It's based on a Mustang and if you look at the shock towers in a 65 Mustang and a 62 Falcon, the top mount on the Falcon is a couple of inches lower.
With a cut off wheel, a grinder wheel, and a sawsall, I managed to get that part off and I don't believe I mangled the frame rail much. I took a bunch of crap to work and threw in the scrap metal trailer.
It's amazing how much chit falls out of the rest of the car when I am hammering on the front!
With a cut off wheel, a grinder wheel, and a sawsall, I managed to get that part off and I don't believe I mangled the frame rail much. I took a bunch of crap to work and threw in the scrap metal trailer.
It's amazing how much chit falls out of the rest of the car when I am hammering on the front!
The fckn internet is amazing. I learned all sorts of chit on the AJE Colt 65 FB Group yesterday and spent some time messaging a dude doing the same thing on a 64 Falcon.
So I have all week to sit and plan and plan and sit to turn this:
Into this
Or this:
Or even this:
I measured the top of the shock tower and it's 12 gauge so I ordered a 2'x2' piece of 12 gauge to make the fillers. I might also take a piece of it and weld to the top of the shock mount to help reinforce it.
I am looking at cheap plasma cutters on Amazon. Anyone have any experience with these sub $300 beauties?
So I have all week to sit and plan and plan and sit to turn this:
Into this
Or this:
Or even this:
I measured the top of the shock tower and it's 12 gauge so I ordered a 2'x2' piece of 12 gauge to make the fillers. I might also take a piece of it and weld to the top of the shock mount to help reinforce it.
I am looking at cheap plasma cutters on Amazon. Anyone have any experience with these sub $300 beauties?
A light saber works better if you can find a kyber crystal.
Actually, I am following. I would have told you a cutoff wherl in an angle grinder or recirc saw were better until a HFT cut off wheel blew chunks and the dang angle grinder hit me in the face.
Actually, I am following. I would have told you a cutoff wherl in an angle grinder or recirc saw were better until a HFT cut off wheel blew chunks and the dang angle grinder hit me in the face.
I put the HF cutoff wheels in my Makita. I put the decent grinding disc in the HF grinder and a HF Flap disc in the black and decker grinder.
I put quality with quality.
The cut off wheel makes decently quick work, but I end up covered in metal saw dust and the HF wheels wear down fast. I guess that's why a 10 pack is like $4.99.
I put quality with quality.
The cut off wheel makes decently quick work, but I end up covered in metal saw dust and the HF wheels wear down fast. I guess that's why a 10 pack is like $4.99.
Remember....I have first person experience with cut off wheels that explodeI put the HF cutoff wheels in my Makita. I put the decent grinding disc in the HF grinder and a HF Flap disc in the black and decker grinder.
I put quality with quality.
The cut off wheel makes decently quick work, but I end up covered in metal saw dust and the HF wheels wear down fast. I guess that's why a 10 pack is like $4.99.
I would highly recommend the Blair spot weld cutter kit. Comes with three cutters and is substantially better built than the HF cutters. It'll run you about $40 on Amazon.
Somewhere in the deleted 660 pages of deleted Monster build, I chronicled the day that a fractured cutoff wheel exploded, and blew into my eye.
That knocked me to the floor, and sent my glasses flying somewhere. I naturally covered my eye with my hand, and as soon as I regained my wits,..pulled my hand away from that eye only to see nothing but white. The other eye saw nothing but blood.
In a mad dash, I ran upstairs, grabbed a bag of frozen peas, and got in my van and drove myself to the American Family Care. Once at the check in window, the woman asked what I was there for today. I removed the bag of peas, and showed her my eye..and she just about shrieked, then jumped up, opened the door and said follow me, you need to go to triage 1 right Now!
When the doc got there a few minutes later, and as he’s flipping through his chart and trying to pronounce my last name to ask what I had done to my eye,..I again removed the bag of bloody frozen peas...
He says “ Oh Dude! This isn’t something you come to a clinic for..You need to get yourself to the eye foundation emergency room, and you CANT drive yourself.”
Perfect..
I call Kate, she comes and gets me, I go to the emergency room, and the triage nurse is checking me over..He holds up his hand in front of my eye, and says “ How many fingers?”
Couldn’t see them.
He waves his whole arm and again asks..” What am I doing now?”
“ Uhhh it looks like you’re waving your arm up and down?”
“ Good..you still have light coming into your retina”
That began at 3:30 pm, and after emergency surgery that was cancelled and rescheduled, I got out of there at 8:30 pm.
legally blind in one eye.
The next day I go in for a post surgery eye exam....20/85.
One week later...20/45
One week later..20/25..
Doc says you’re lucky, I say I know. He says wear safety glasses from now on...I tell him I will...
Until the next time I needed to see something up close while grinding.
Hmm, I don't remember that story. I could have slept since then. But I have bifocal safety glasses. I thought about getting some 1.25 or 1.5 'reader' type magnifier safety glasses, but I am climbing up and over the radiator support and would probably bust my ass and break a wrist or something. I can read a business card from a mile away but not less than 3 feet!
