Hey Tom : You are being too hard on yourself. Those of us that know you, have faith in your abilities and comptency.
Last week my thinking was that there may be complete Dakotas at low price with suitable frames that could be dismantled and use their frame.
Perhaps when you could not draw a straight line was prior to you discovering BEER :-)
Jim : 91 Dak
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> From: silvereightynine@aol.com
> Subject: Re: DML: Resurrecting Christine.... again...
> Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 10:58:46 -0500
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> I appreciate the vote of confidence Barry and Mike... the fact of the
> matter is I know my level of skill with fabrication. I can do decent
> with small stuff but I would not trust myself to do well on a big
> project like a frame. Not to mention I'd probably never finish it. I
> failed high school drafting, twice. I can't draw a straight line, I
> can't cut a hunk of plywood straight... I think I may be too much a
> perfectionist perhaps... but I would rather drive and get a frame that I
> can bolt together, vs cutting, welding, measuring, swearing at etc etc...
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> Not to mention - think of the geocaching possibilities of a road trip to
> CA! At least 6 states to cache in! And you guys know I live for road
> trips :)
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> Barry Oliver wrote:
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>> Uhm, Tom, I am with Mike here. Fabricating a frame from scratch might
>> be a bit much, but you still have Christine's frame to use as a model.
>> You can do a decent welding job with a comparatively cheap welder.
>> Actually you can pick up a welderator for under a grand and you don't
>> even need to re-wire the swamp. The second component is skill, and that
>> can be learned. Mike and I are decent welders [Mike is probably better
>> than me] and Josh is better than both of us. Heck, you can't swing a
>> dead cat on this list without hittin at least two people that can weld.
>> Even if you have never done it before, if you are smart enough to swap
>> a motor, you can teach yourself to weld...
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