Thread: What are you working on?

That's why I left them unclamped this morning.
A definite possibility it could happen. Hopefully not.

Hey guys, I haven't had much time to do anything lately. My best friend isn't doing too well & I'm the only person he can trust. He's diabetic & I keep telling him he needs to change his diet. He has still been eating some things & cut back but not enough. I will have to go over there in a little while as long as he is okay for now. I have been reading up on it & people with high glucose levels are very prone to having a stroke & they don't act like they normally do. He has gotten angry at me for no reason lately, calling me names & that's not the real him. It isn't a good thing at all plus I have my own health issues & my mother with Alzheimers. Enough of this though. That's life.

Everyone, congrats on all the great work I have seen. Tom, I think I posted it awhile back but I have that same smiling Ran-Tan-Ka-Rus that I was planning on unpinning, clean, sand, polish & replace the cracked scales. It is too nice looking of a razor not to.



Tom, Machine Gun Mike, Phil, B52, xiaotuzi all great work.
Phil, that came out beautiful & the scales are really nice.
Andrew, great to try new things out.

I have honed a few razors & I did build a razor with a Torrey blade & some scales used by a few US makers.......

Looking good, Steve. Indeed, life has some great challenges these days.

Hang in. That's all we can do!

Thanks and like sharptonn said hang in there.

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Oh yeah, I may have mentioned that my battery in my Harley took a dump. I knew it was coming but I have a Batter Tender hooked to it 24/7 365 days a year except when on the road. I did fix that also. I had to drill a hole in my frame for now & I have a lot of hardware from when I worked on them for a living. I found a butonhead tore head screw for it since it is directly under the seat & where I sit. It worked out really good for now. I was hoping my ground cable was long enough to fit to the back side of that part of the frame. The original ground stud was in a spot that if I tried to drill a new hole. I would have damaged the main wiring harness which runs up the backbone of the frame. The paint is thick so I had to scrape quite a bit with a sharp screwdriver to clean the new location for my ground cable & two other ground wires coming from the wiring harness.

Before showing broken ground stud


New ground location (for now)


I don't know why it is doing this, maybe reboot. The pics are sideways & it never has done that before.
NOTE: I don't know what is going on. This isn't even from my iPhone. The pics are from left to right. (with the fuel tank being to the left & rear wheel to right. I have rebooted & it won't fix.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Looking good, Steve. Indeed, life has some great challenges these days.

Hang in. That's all we can do!

Yeah Tom, I'm okay though. I'm just ready to get back to doing what I like doing.

Love the scales on the Torrey.

[QUOTE=engine46;1658021]...snip... high glucose levels are very prone to having a stroke & they don't act like they normally do. He has gotten angry at me for no reason lately, calling me names & that's not the real him. It isn't a good thing at all plus I have my own health issues & my mother with Alzheimers. Enough of this though. That's life.

I lived for 14 years with a brittle diabetic. What we found was...when the blood sugar drops below a certain level, the body goes into "fight or flight" panic reaction. Usually anger is the mode but fight also happens. That means a great amount of adrenaline which burns body mass to give enough sugar/glucose to survive. And, almost no amount of talk or help will get them through the period till they are totally worn out. Just set a glass of juice or similar sweet drink by them and get out of the picture till they stabilize.
Good luck!
~Richard

So Geezer is a proper name for ya then!

[QUOTE=Geezer;1658095]

Originally Posted by engine46

...snip... high glucose levels are very prone to having a stroke & they don't act like they normally do. He has gotten angry at me for no reason lately, calling me names & that's not the real him. It isn't a good thing at all plus I have my own health issues & my mother with Alzheimers. Enough of this though. That's life.

I lived for 14 years with a brittle diabetic. What we found was...when the blood sugar drops below a certain level, the body goes into "fight or flight" panic reaction. Usually anger is the mode but fight also happens. That means a great amount of adrenaline which burns body mass to give enough sugar/glucose to survive. And, almost no amount of talk or help will get them through the period till they are totally worn out. Just set a glass of juice or similar sweet drink by them and get out of the picture till they stabilize.
Good luck!
~Richard

Thank you Richard. I just spoke to him & he is acting normal now. I understand when people are ill & say things they really don't mean. I'm on my way to his place now. I'll do whatever I can for him. He's got a heart of gold. Sorry everyone for going off topic a little.