Sounds like a perfect weekend.. I have a lincoln precision tig 275 a bunch
or rods and supplies because i always wanted to know how to tig weld.. you
got a meeting with a master at metal working and a problem solved!!
----- Original Message -----
From: <sparky.2211@cox.net>
To: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@popmotorsports.com>; "landspeed"
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Cc: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@att.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Streamliner nose
> LOL
> ---- Doug Odom <dlodom@att.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I have been cutting patterens and making bucks for the new
>> streamliner body. I really wanted to make the body out of aluminum but I
>> was not sure my skill level was good enought. Most of the panels will not
>> be to compound but the nose is. I could make the whole body out of
>> fiberglass but that stuff is so much mess and you have to make the damn
>> part 3 times. The plug, the mould and then the part. I figured I would
>> start with the easiest panels in the back and work my way to the nose.
>> Then I could alway make the nose out of composite materal.
>>
>> Last weekend there was a metal meet up in Santa Cruz. Now I have read
>> about them and seen pictures so I thought I might go. Went with my son in
>> law and a friend that does street rod work. We took the buck and some
>> aluminum and hoped someone could give us some help. Well I got lucky and
>> fell into a gold mine of information and help. Lazze and Ron Covell were
>> there and Ron took a real interest in my project and stayed late, after
>> 6pm Sunday to finish it up for me. There were 5 diffenent English wheels
>> you could use andI learned things that I will use to tune mine up.
>> Planishing hammers, shrinker/streicher, bead rollers, etc.If you ever
>> have a chance to go to one of these by all means do it.
>>
>> So on the drive home we were talking about how we all got lucky and I had
>> to start to laugh. Getting lucky sure has a different meaning when your
>> 69 years old and coming back from a weekend than it used to.
>>
>> Doug Odom in big ditch
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