Bockscar 3.0 Streamliner

[tauruck]

I had the most expensive Optrel helmet you can buy.
Lasted nearly 20 years. Battery died but a buddy had a solution.
His wife is a vet and used the animal X ray to locate where the hidden battery was.
He showed me where to cut and lo and behold the battery came out.
I bought a new one and replaced it. ABSOLUTE GENUIS!!!!.
Then I clamped the piece of plastic back to hold the battery and I crushed the front glass panel.🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Got a Lincoln and the latest Optrel with more switches than you'll find on a Boeing panel and I'm still
battling to get either one set to my liking. Painful.

[floydjer]

Speedglas.   End of rant.

[Stainless1]

New batteries... all's well...
While I was troubleshooting the flicker, I pulled the lens protector, it was clear to me that it wasn't any more... (Friday Jerry)  Since I had to go to the welding store for argon I also bought a pack of plastic lens protectors... It is amazing how ugly those can get in a half dozen years. 

[Peter Jack]

I use glass lens protectors. When they're dirty and spattered there's no question and no cleaning them so they get thrown away. With plastic a person keeps cleaning them and that's only somewhat successful. The result, I find, is that it's like slowly going blind and you don't realize it until you're trying to do something really fine and not being very successful at it. 

Pete

[Stainless1]

Pete, I didn't realize the 1/16 inch plastic lens protector was as scratched and fogged as it was until I pulled if off while troubleshooting the flicker.  It was kinda like my eyes getting older... but the new one was like putting on a pair of new glasses. 
Since they came as a 5 pack I now have spares, I need to keep an eye on that...
no pun intended... it's Saturday.   

[Stainless1]

OK everyone, we need a little more room in the rear.... I had not planned for the frame to pinch as much as it did when I welded it. Pork Pie didn't like the angle we had, it calculated at 9.8 degrees.... narrowed a little too quick for good aero. I knew it would move, just not as much as it did.  Sometimes the plan doesn't work... 
So I cut the frame off between two of the welds that narrow the frame and started looking at what is next to get it the length and angle I need.  I had some 1.25 square tube x .083 wall so I cut the piece in half and inserted it about 2 inches into the 1.5 tube... fit like a glove with a little help from El Kabong.  The rear is now longer, and a bit lighter and the transition angle now calculates to 7.4 degrees. My guess is the car is about 14 inches longer and at a better angle right now... I will add a couple of rosebuds and weld it up to ensure everything stays where I want it.  I will figure out a good final length after welding.
If all works I want the ends of the frame to be about as wide as the parachute tubes.

Enough for today 

[DallasV]

Yup, It's long enough when you butt up against the garage door.

[Speed Limit 1000]

Stainless has an awesome shop, there is about 10 feet in front of the car, it is pushed back to be close to the place where the welder is usually parked.

[Lemming Motors]

You can hear the house buying conversation can't you:

Realtor: what are you looking for in your next house.
Purchaser: a 30 foot garage.
Realtor: yes......
Purchaser: I guess a bathroom would be good too.
Realtor: and .....
Purchaser: no, that about covers it.

[kiwi belly tank]

Building a 40ft car in a 30ft shed is even tougher, but when a liner is 10lb's of $hit in a 5lb box it just seems normal. cromag
  Sid.

[manta22]

"10lb's of $hit in a 5lb box " is the definition of the word "blivet" 

[SPARKY]

Fast getting there with the data logging equipment  now building little detachable shelves for the o2 sensor boxes

[Stainless1]

Well you can never have too big of a shop and you have to build the car as big as you can.... cause you're going to fill it up...
So far I'm a 22ft car in a 30ft shop... just keep shifting the rolling boxes around to make things fit.  I get my steps in moving from one side of the car to the other.

[SPARKY]

After all as PP says  "It doesn't much matter how you open de hole,  what matters is how you close de hole!"   

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Garage, $-box & HP are all cubic functions! 
The volume of your wallet is inversely proportional to these three!