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He offered me to take it out and it was everything I had in me to say "no thank you". I couldn't risk bashing that thing on the screwy drive-on-the-wrong-side roads!

Old steel sitting in old steel. Happy birthday America!

That's Marky's bike, a mechanic on the T3 team this year.

From the IOM this year...

God Bless America

Dude! Welcome back!!

Yep, a 702 should live on there.

I'm wearing an anvil around my wrist this Fourth weekend.

Yeah we get some nice sunsets from up here. Here's a panorama and a closeup of the Big Rock.

I did the countersink thing when I put a new tube and crown on my old MBW 1665. I just used a drill bit big enough to approximate the cone angle, and did it handheld with my DeWalt drill. Easy peasy, but go slow. And you still want to use thread sealant and o-rings everywhere.

You inspired me! I'll see your old beater and raise you an old beater.

Thanks mate! It's from 1964, I got it for a song because the seller thought it had a fake dial. Turns out he'd never seen a "radial" dial and it was okay. My local AD called a few years ago with a tropical gilt dial for me, but I had to surrender a dial for him to send back. So I bit my lip and let him take my radial. Sure wish I'd had a week to source an alternate and keep that beauty. But the end results are nice. I'm getting tired of that small arrow hand with the incorrect triangle. I'd like to find a better one for less than a bazillion dollars, so I might put the big arrow back on.

Long summer days... and nights. [emoji41]

Unbelievable. People with more money than sense.

Good Lord, S! That appetizer bread?! Worth another trip just for that! Although you eating fishing bait for your opening course was mystifying...

A true Sourdough! You got out of here just before the big quake in '64. You should come visit again, Merrill field is more than a dirt strip and Spenard isn't its own town anymore. C'mon up, beers are on me!

This was my first attempt.

Yes, and when it touched down again several miles away it left behind fragments of the original failed springbar, left of center in this pic.

Here's where it left my wrist And here's where it returned to Earth. With only slight damage...

Pfffft. Try 1AM! And still light enough to take photos.

I was out with the dogs on yon fearsome mountain and threw a rock so the dogs would think there was a critter in the woods. Yes, I'm that kind of mischievous dog owner. I was wearing the mighty Ploprof 1200 and alas, its gargantuan momentum was too much for the wimpy springbar, which failed dramatically. The watch flew in a lovely, possibly mathematically perfect, parabolic arc out into thin air, and came down in a heap behind a tree. Fearing the worst, I scampered off to retrieve yon mighty fallen Ploprof and was pleased to find it tangled in a stainless heap in a mass of wild roses and Labrador Tea. A quick once-over revealed no damage, although the tree looked irritated at its close call. I just need to find some pins worthy of the Fearsome Beast that is the Ploprof, and I'm back in business again.

Doesn't everybody? Heyyyyyyy maybe that explains it!! In all seriousness I've used crema from espresso and painted it onto hands to get a very nice effect. Apply the foam and leave it to collapse and migrate to the edges.