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Harumph. Kind of what I'm thinking. Might just go with a clearance something-or-other from Target. Any other opinions on standard batteries or camera specific? I like the idea of AA or AAA for its easy of replacement but can't help but think that one with its own battery would last longer. :dunno:

I've been rockin' a Samsung Digimax S500 for about eight years now: Overall, it does its job. It takes pictures and it saves them. The problem comes in that I like to take pictures... lots of them. All too often, I grab it with intentions of snapping some history and it decides against it. It's hungry... and it loves to eat batteries. Would its age have anything to do with that? Lately, I've been able to get a couple dozen pictures before it thinks that it has had enough. Anyhow, what's everyone else using for their picture needs? Obviously there's smart phones and whatnot, but I refuse to join that crowd... just too hard on phones. I'm looking for CAMERA cameras. Any opinions out there?

Changes to green-red-blue-purple... Things have gone vertical also. :D

YES!!! Thanks for going through and getting the pictures working again! Awesome build. :banana:

http://bemidji.craigslist.org/cto/4380220408.html 1998 Jeep Cherokee - $18500 (Angle Inlet, MN) 1998 Jeep Cherokee on American Track Truck tracks. 104,000 miles on Jeep. 8000lb winch, after market steel front and rear bumper, light bar, catchall floor mats, roof rack, spare tire carrier. Ready for a fishing adventure. Transmission temp. gauge. Excellent shape. What has two thumbs and would totally rock the hell out of this thing? This guy.

:yes: Sorry... had to. Truck looks good!

That makes two idiots here then because that's the way i do it. I don't think of it as being an idiot. I think of it as doing what's necessary when you work alone. I'm in that boat, so I suppose that'd make it three. :group beer:

Neat little units!... but I think they're just too good to be true. I think the idea is great that one can throw them just about anywhere as they don't take up all that much room. You can run them on 110 or 220V with just changing out the plug which is also kind of handy. The problem with them is that they're slow and take a ton of practice to get a quality product out of it. Think of it like a plasma cutter that uses an electric current to make the material molten and pressurized air to blow that puddle through. Now take away the air so you just have a puddle. Sounds like a oxy/fuel torch, right? Pretty much all it's doing is a chemical reaction to create an extremely hot tip that just melts stuff together. Sure, you can add filler to the weld and make it a little more predictable, but it's still more of a "spray and pray" type of machine. Stuck in a ruck in the middle of an open field with a generator and no other options? You bet I'd use one! Otherwise, I'll keep my more common processes. For the price of these machines, I think there are better options.

And a rear bumper on the list too? :D

Careful Austin, with all this trading around with vehicles lately you'll need to apply for a dealer's license soon! Geez!... going through them like Kleenex lately! :laughin:

Mmm... That's some good race truck material there. :drool:

Watch out, Don!

Good score, Jay. I like these builds that are based around the idea of "how cheap can I build this and still have a good time with it?"! :popcorn:

Before winter started, I promised myself that I wouldn't be working on any automotive projects that I didn't have to. So far I've been good about keeping that promise! With the way this winter has been, there's plenty of time to fill and I wanted something a little easier to tackle for a while. I just hope that it all sells this summer! :crossfingers:

I did. The fuel gauge still reads too. Good to know. Maybe I'll be on the lookout for a different cluster then.

Agreed. I think you might need to expand a little on your price range a bit. For the price, I really like the Thermal Arc 252i. What's really neat about them is that they're an inverter style welder so they're multi-process capable and they're extremely efficient to run. No other manufacturers have the options that Thermal Arc offers in its size. Think about it... if you're looking to gain skill as a welder, what better way to do that than being able to practice on MIG, stick, and TIG all in one machine? It also has a bunch of options like a hot start, preflow, and crater fill that other smaller machines just don't have. Another bonus to Thermal Arc is that they support education. If you're a student anywhere, you can get in on their educational discount... right around 30%, I think. Their whole line is an awesome bang for the buck. :thumbsup:

Not quite a band of them, but there's a few more. Figured I'd better have a clever way of displaying some business cards: Then things got real crazy with the addition of some bastardized LED solar lights: Then yesterday I started to get bored with little stuff and decided to explore other outdoor stuff. A little bigger than chachkies, but still folksy: Starting to have to walk around things in the basement. :shake:

Worth trying a different cluster all together? The truck has dummy lights and those work as far as I know. :hmm: Edit... Scratch that. Even if the speedometer wasn't working if there was something up in the cluster the cruise control would still work, correct?

John gets this question a lot. From what he's told me in the past, they get calls from time to time on this stuff. I think it's great that the mold still exists! The problem comes in trying to orchestrate everything. You might get your name on a list with hopes of others asking for one too. Time goes by, you wonder what's happening with everything, you get jumpy and call up there again, and you start the whole process over again. When I got mine, I was in contact with the Archers for a little better than a year. Fast forward a year and a half since I was up there the first time and I still don't have all the parts that I paid for yet. I got a full set of side skirts too. Well, almost a full set. Been after them ever since. I keep getting the same response from John that he knows where my last piece of the puzzle is but just hasn't gotten over to that storage space yet. Sigh... Seems like they like focusing on present projects rather than remembering the good old days of Jeep Motorsports.

To the top!... but still not working. :wall: Jim was nice enough to send me a spare sensor and I found some time this afternoon to take a look at this again. Yup... been flying blind all winter long and I think it's about time to take care of this. Anyhow, I've been having a rough week already and all winter long I've been nursing a torn rotator cuff . Sounds like a perfect combination for everything just falling into place, right? So, I get the truck up in the air, crawl under it (getting dripped on, of course), and I get stuck with my arm between the floor pan the the t-case. I mean... REALLY stuck. Not even sure how I got where I did! I get out, get the retaining bolt out of the trans for the sensor and run into my next situation... getting the sensor out. I'm pulling and turning in this tiny, little space that I only have room for one hand (which leads me to getting my arm stuck again) and then it just pops. Great!.. or not. MOST of the sensor comes out, or rather is removed from the truck. It broke. The little friggin plastic piece cracks so that half of it is still in the trans... and it's cracked off INSIDE the trans. Long story short (already getting to be a long story?), I got the remainder of the sensor out with the help of a lag screw and the new sensor went in just fine... once I got my arm out anyway. :rant: Did it work? @#$% no! Why would it, right?! That'd just be too easy! Then I think back to the last time that I actually saw the speedometer move and the driveshaft wasn't in at that time. Why not? I pull the driveshaft and put it in gear with high hopes of seeing the speedometer spin... somehow. So now I think I'm back to square one. I put it all back together just wanting to go inside with my tail between my legs. The kind of week that its been I was really hoping for at least one small win. I gotta say it was a real journey trying to get that dumb thing changed out... but I digress. *POP!*... "Wait, what was that?" ... my trouble light that I forgot under the truck. :headpop: Any new suggestions? Can I bench test the gauge itself?

Or, I like using digging through the Monroe Mounting & Length Specifications catalog also. :thumbsup:

Surfing around the interwebs led me to this beautiful example of what is capable of being produced from a passionate builder... with all the right tools, anyhow. Definitely worth a read if you're into that sort of thing: http://www.driftworks.com/forum/drift-car-projects-builds/140023-stupid-american-truck-skidder.html

If you have access to a welder, I usually just go to the local muffler shop, ask for about 10' of tubing, and have them put three 90* bends as close as they can to each other at one end. For a long box, it's just about right to get you where you need to go... at least past the axle anyhow. Most places have a bin of reject or oops bends that I like to pick through. Between that and either a Cherry Bomb turbo muffler (cheap and still pretty quiet) or an off the shelf performance thing from the muffler shop, I've put together a few manifold back exhausts for under $100. $60 for the latest under my '91. Up here in MN, I just don't see spending a whole lot on a consumable product. Yup... It's going to corrode. :fs2: '88: '91:

I don't think so. But here's this: http://comancheclub.com/topic/32128-mj-xj-right-hand-hook/?hl=right+hand+hook