Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Time to get this thread back to the top. I'll call this post "The Power of Aladdin". Seven Aladdin lamps all in working order. According to Aladdin one lamp will give 2000 btu's of heat so I have a total of 14,000 btu's of heat and light on my kitchen table. This will be nice for next winter. Look sharp and smell nice for the ladies.

An amazing part of history.
Still, a functional thing today!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

An amazing part of history.
Still, a functional thing today!

Just like our razors Tom........sometimes the "old way" is still the "best way".

My leather riding chaps weren't fitting as comfortably as they had so I decided to expand them a bit (about 2") while I could have just tied the ends together I decided to make a 'connection' out of leather.

Here's a few pics;

The piece cut out and the holes drilled (I don't have a leather punch)



The leather dyed, a bit of Neatsfoot Oil applied and ready to install



View of the piece installed from the outside



And the view from the inside



I don't anticipate any discomfort from the piece as I wear the chaps very loosely.

Thanks for looking

Good idea Roy. So are you saying your getting fatter and had to make them bigger? Lol. Hard to believe but its ok man. We still love ya!

Speaking from experience the leather tends to shrink with age.

Now is that the age of the leather or us?

Originally Posted by Gasman

Good idea Roy. So are you saying your getting fatter and had to make them bigger? Lol. Hard to believe but its ok man. We still love ya!

Getting larger as I age seems to be an hereditary trait from my father's side. (my mother never weighed more than 110 lbs) All of us start out pretty small (I weighed less than 90 lbs as a freshman in High School) and after graduation I entered Navy boot camp at 130 lbs and when I got out I weighed 160 lbs (I'd grown up and out). Both of my younger brothers wrestled at around 112 lbs. One never put on much weight as he grew older (took after mom) but my youngest and I weigh about the same now. (180+)

My father wasn't very big either when he entered the Navy. He too grew and put on muscle/when he was at about 220 he was freaking amazing! Just solid muscle and strong as an ox. However when he quit smoking and doing field work he put on quite a bit of weight.

I was there the day the Dr told dad that he had 4 weeks to live. Dad had a friend in the Navy and they exchanged Christmas cards every year after dad was discharged. Well once mom and dad got home from the Dr I called mom and asked for dad's buddies address. I used that to find a phone number for dad's buddy. I told him the circumstances and told him that if he wanted to talk to my father as the man he was he needed to call soon as we didn't know how this would progress.

I'd told dad's friend that I'd let him know when dad was gone and I did. While we were talking the friend said something to the effect of dad 'wasting away' due to the cancer and I told him that dad had lost quite a bit of weight but he weighed over 200 lbs when he died.

Dad's friend bellowed over the phone---HE WEIGHED WHAT?!!?!?!?!! Dad weighed about 130 lbs when the friend had known him.

I don't think that I qualify as a 'Lardass' at least not yet!!

Get yourself a pedal bike instead of that Harley and maybe the chaps will grow.

Originally Posted by 32t

Get yourself a pedal bike instead of that Harley and maybe the chaps will grow.

Living in hurricane territory, I have some of those Aladdins!!