The following few pictures were taken via camera phone, so they are not high resolution, the rest after this are.

stainless_steel_providers.jpg (151339 bytes)

At the scrapyard, phase 1- metal reclamation. These are machines from Intel, ironically Shane had worked on these about a year ago, now they have been decommissioned. Coincidence? YOU decide!

mountain1.jpg (196733 bytes)

A big ass pile of steel wool, no shit. How big? Take a look at us in the next picture to see...

zac3.jpg (262208 bytes)

yard.jpg (197087 bytes)

A scrap pile. That is a cement truck drum on the left.

Gods.jpg (159460 bytes)

Huh, and here I thought Jesus saved EVERYTHING.

scrap.jpg (262142 bytes)

Nothing but metal shavings.

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More crap, including a discarded car.

gunkata.jpg (163603 bytes)

Gunkata

Shane.jpg (184102 bytes)

Shane1.jpg (219718 bytes)

stainless_steel_1.jpg (160692 bytes)

zac_2.jpg (165445 bytes)

zac_4.jpg (186840 bytes)

zac_5.jpg (186322 bytes)

whipped.bmp.jpg (76025 bytes)

Fucking tired at the end of the day.

 

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shane_roof.jpg (193556 bytes)

Bringing the metal home Saturday morning...

plan.jpg (192082 bytes)

Planning it all out.

zac_grind.jpg (190998 bytes)

Grinding. We spent a fuckload of time grinding.

grind_3.jpg (192355 bytes)

More...

james_grind_2.jpg (201965 bytes)

I like this picture...the sparks give you the sensation of flying through a starfield if you look at it just right, or maybe I am just fucking tired.

weld.jpg (226799 bytes)

Alignment of the top wing.

lift.jpg (206342 bytes)

Fitting for the final height and positioning.

lift2.jpg (196332 bytes)

roof_align2.jpg (236676 bytes)

stare.jpg (159881 bytes)

No clue what we are looking at here...

Thursday was the day for upper control arm repair.

inside_the_beast.jpg (194676 bytes)

Getting the parts...

parts_reclamation.jpg (184918 bytes)

Shane and Kevin

zac_flame.jpg (196025 bytes)

Yes, it really was necessary to break out the flamethrower for the repair. If you must know, it was to melt the old rubber out of the bushings.

flame_22.jpg (252820 bytes)

slmaes_2.jpg (188974 bytes)

repair2.jpg (186002 bytes)

a_arm_repair_2.jpg (115650 bytes)

flame_on.jpg (155697 bytes)

We also decided to burn some random stuff for good measure.

tired.jpg (172118 bytes)

Tired.

tool.jpg (184873 bytes)

The oddest tool anyone ever used to loosen a bolt. No shit, we used this...thing.

floor_grinding.jpg (186625 bytes)

Metal shavings started to become a problem as the night wore on.

hamburger.jpg (217238 bytes)

Hamburger Stand.

shane_align.jpg (197653 bytes)

Shane holds up the wings while I weld the substructure.

 

About this point in the project we had 9.5 hours logged on the previous day and about 13 this day. Kevin had already died on the couch and Shane was starting to talk crazy...ok, I should qualify that, Shane was starting to talk crazier. He is not really credited with always having the most grounded thought patterns, which is why he was a part of this job to begin with.

Shane- "Almost March 15...beware the ides of March"

Me- "Huh?"

Shane- "Julius Ceasar...he was walking down the street on like March 10th and some homeless guy screamed at him to beware the ides of March. Sure enough he got his ass dusted on March 15th...see, that's why you gotta tip those fuckers...some of them have SUPER POWERS"

Me- "I think we need to close this project off for the night."

 

There's more! PAGE II for Project Orbiting Terror