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13-10-09, 16:37
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New Digs
Holiday Monday. The weather was not too good in the morning as winters icy grip has started to sink its claws into this region. It took a few minutes to scrape the ice off the car windshield early Monday morning:
 The sun slowly warmed the temp to about 6oC and it was quite pleasant at the barn. With Bob back from visiting the in-laws and Acton, I took advantage of his presence to remove a few more stumps with the tractor, and to move the Prototype to its winter home. After leveling the ground, Bob and I nailed up some boards on which we will mount our shelters. These heavy creosote soaked timbers are ideal for weighing down the shelters. After the boards were made up, we hauled the HUP Prototype to the new site. In the meanwhile, she was swaddled with tarps and the cover off of my Quebec garage. That should hold her for the rain coming on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...  Bob spent some time playing "le Cowboy". He got good at stump wrangling:  Failing to pull any stumps with his rope, he headed off to the wood pile to do some more splitting. I ran out of time for the day, so we will move the shelter over the Prototype later this week.
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RHC Why is it that when you have the $$, you don't have the time, and when you have the time you don't have the $$? 
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14-10-09, 03:49
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Roll up the rim to win....
Sorry for the delay in posting Rob funny looking rim....
... in addition all the rim studs have been broken off at the weld in the back except for the two longer studs..... the mushroom caps weld are clean broken.... no grinding evident...... rim was held together by nuts and bolts. The markings were not visible until the tire removed and sandblasted.... Enjoy..... Boob
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Bob Carriere....B.T.B C15a Cab 11 Hammond, Ontario Canada
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20-10-09, 04:11
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Moving Day
Done! The Prototype's winter shelter has been moved and now sits next to Ted's truck. Thanks to Bob for the help making up the foundation boxes and for the space.
 Today was an extremely pleasant day. The mercury hit 12oC - perfect for painting various bits and pieces. Eight 1 gallon POW can holders and half a HUP rim got the treatment today.  I am looking forward to this weekend as another road trip is planned for the retrieval of yet more HUP parts. I figure I have will have enough parts to help restore the Prototype, build most of a 44 HUP version and finish the 45. That being said, I am still interested in other HUP bits and pieces that may be for sale in Ontario/West Quebec...Yeah. I got it bad.
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RHC Why is it that when you have the $$, you don't have the time, and when you have the time you don't have the $$?
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22-10-09, 13:19
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Hi Guys,
great work again and always a pleasure to see pics of your achievements of the week. The POW can holders look the business! I wanted to ask you about the black primer you use. It might have been mentioned in one of the posts before, but I haven't been able to find it. Is the black stuff, just a basic primer? Or does it have anything fancy to it....an etchprimer? Or a zinc-primer? The reason I ask is because I want to use a black primer for my C8 as well. I am rather fond of a zinc-primer supplied by Motip here in Holland, but that only comes in grey. Alex
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22-10-09, 14:11
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