Hey hey - my semi-industrial strength sewing machine arrived a few days ago. I'll shortly be stitching up a storm. Thing can't zig-zag or make buttonholes, but it will stitch through 1/4'' of leather. The downside is that the women in the house are making fun of me now like I'm some kind of nancy boy: making bread, sewing. I point out that none of them know how to do that -- hoping to insult their very womanhooditude, but they are unfazed. So I'm gonna hook a leafblower engine to the sewing machine. That'll shut 'em up. I hope. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR
Ellen in Oregon typed: > Mike > > "Can't weld, can't sew; what are we going to do with you?" > > Ellen > Lola, '85 Vanagon ASI > > > > Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow > into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own > freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away > from you like the leaves of autumn. > --John Muir > > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> > Reply-To: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: re. Gary Lee curtain rod? > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:03:34 -0700 > > DANG! Another "I just welded them on" answer. I can't weld, I don't own > welding gear. I know that any man that can't weld isn't really a man, > but I work with what I got. > > -- > > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano > KG6RCR > > On 7/23/2007 11:12 AM Gary Lee www.vwrack.com wrote: > >>> Anyone know how the curtain rod (bottommost mod) on Gary Lee's page was >>> made? >> >> http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/rack/westy/westymods.htm >> >> I just took a piece of 1/4" round rod, bent it to shape then welded >> tabs on >> the ends. >> The tabs are bolted to the van. >> >> Gary Lee >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://liveearth.msn.com > |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.