Show me your Junk.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:58 am

I bet, LeChat, you've got some nice stuff to post here..........

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:06 pm

Baby Grand piano, golf cart axle, Upright piano. Coming soon to a Playa near you.

Barn (shop) almost done!

Barn interior

Barn upstairs...

...In a few months, this pristine space will probably look like thisâ€¦

â€¦which the city made me clean up.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:13 pm

*drooling*

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:54 pm

What, Ygmir? Did you see your dream bicycle in that pile?!

As for the barn, I'm deep in debt and living on bread and water, trying to pay for that barn. And there is still all the electrical equipment to buy. And the upstairs floor and stairs. But I figure a nut has to do what a nut has to do.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:56 pm

don't sweat the details......

I see stuff.....lots of stuff........good and fun stuff.........

I love "stuff".

Thecatman · Post by **Thecatman** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:02 pm

the 60 something Caddy

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:11 pm

For an individual living in a studio apt. with a 5x8 foot patio populated by four bikes... it looks like heaven, Elliot.

Perhaps that's why I've been accumulating electronic stuff: so much smaller. hee hee hee.

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:18 pm

Fooled ya! No part of that â€œCadillacâ€

Thecatman · Post by **Thecatman** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:22 pm

Bet he got it

"One piece at a time"

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:33 pm

Actually, it is all hand made. He took a fiberglass mold off a real car, then made a wafer-thin fiberglass body from that mold. The chassis is all steel tubing and bicycle parts. It's so light I can pick one side up off the ground (with some effort). George builds movie props for a living, so it was kind'a "more doable" for him than it would have been for most of us. Some of his other KSR kreations are still on display in the Kinetic Museum in Ferndale, CA, and this one is hopefully going back there when I get done rebuilding it.

Oh... No Johnny Cash style about it -- it is a very accurate 1963.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:05 pm

[quote="Elliot"]

Fooled ya! No part of that â€œCadillacâ€

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:26 pm

Hmmmâ€¦. TMI.

But we do have fun.

Then, sometimes we have more fun than usualâ€¦

This is how it crossed the Finish Line after an axle broke. It went six miles on three wheels and a bicycle! I consider that repair a highlight of my Kinetic career.

The Blues Brothers theme came about simply because the car was already in the colors after a team of CHP officers raced it in 1995.

There is always room for more participants in the Kinetic races. Our "Daytona 500" is Memorial Weekend. 40 miles over three days.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:34 pm

Way cool!

I'd like to see that on the playa.
Interesting possibilities with a body that light too.

What's the red body on?

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:52 pm

Unfortunately, the Counterfeit Cadillac is not going to Burning Man. The body is just too fragile -- and it is not really mine to take risks with outside of KSR.

What red body? The "model T Ford" in my avatar was red for a while, and was on the Playa a couple of years. The dark red car in the piano picture is a real automobile.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:23 pm

ygmir wrote:I bet, LeChat, you've got some nice stuff to post here..........

Man, you mean you guys don't get enough of my hair-brained stuff in the other thread? Though I suppose those pics focus on the product and less on the junk behind it. I'll see what I can do.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:04 am

LeChatNoir wrote:
ygmir wrote:I bet, LeChat, you've got some nice stuff to post here..........
Man, you mean you guys don't get enough of my hair-brained stuff in the other thread? Though I suppose those pics focus on the product and less on the junk behind it. I'll see what I can do.

ergo, my statement........we love "the contraption".........but, I can only imagine the cool stuff from whence it sprang........

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:05 pm

Ok, hereâ€™s a start:

The goodie box that sits over by the short length steel assortment. Lots (but nowhere near enough) gears, sprockets, and pulleys.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:06 pm

Ok, hereâ€™s a start:

The goodie box that sits over by the short length steel assortment. Lots (but nowhere near enough) gears, sprockets, and pulleys.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:06 pm

Ok, hereâ€™s a start:

The goodie box that sits over by the short length steel assortment. Lots (but nowhere near enough) gears, sprockets, and pulleys.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:11 pm

see, I knew it LCN........

if you get out this way, you'll have to stop by.
I've got boxes of old gears and pulley, pillow blocks, stuff like that, mostly from old mining operations and equipment associated with same.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:02 pm

Man, that one posted three times it liked it so much. And now I'm getting some sort of error message when I try to delte the duplicate posts. sorry about all that.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:18 pm

yeah, somethings going on with the server, it seems.......

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:31 pm

I found it!!
I sure wish there was a good search feature.

well, anyway,

Here's my latest "junk" that has found it's way to my "yard".
well, it didn't just find it's way, I traded an army cargo truck and trailer and comm. shelter for it.

runs and works really well. At least, so far.
I shot a 2" stream of water from the "cannon" (on top, middle) about 100 feet, maybe a little more.
no nozzel, just the open end of the pipe ( i need to find nozzels and hoses and stuff)

oohh, lookee all the cool gauges, switches, and valves

water cannon pivots at each bend

JStep · Post by **JStep** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:37 pm

SWEET!

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:57 pm

double SWEET

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:08 pm

so fucking SWEET i need my insulin shot...

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:11 pm

looks like fun, ygmir.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:35 pm

yeah, thanks.........

Now, to find all the "goodies".......hoses and such.

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:16 pm

Good score Ygmir! Holy shit a fucking fire truck, ahhh the possibilities!

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:29 pm

I just watched a movie of 20.000 leagues under the sea, so I'm thinking whale -- blowing a fountain of water once in a while?