Ahh the sweet smell of steel

Stronger than sight, more visceral than sound, smell stands out as one of the strongest of our senses when it comes to evoking a memory. 
Who can deny the feeling you get when you smell a pie or fresh bread baking in the oven?
Or the smell of your first girlfriends perfume?
Well add the pungent smell of freshly cut iron with a cutting disk......ahhhhhh now we're talkin'.

Saturday brought Randy out to Fillmore again. Dawning his brand spankin' new Flxible coveralls he was set to get dirty. First order of business was to reinstall the Rad. With the two of us that happened pretty quick.















Next on the agenda was cutting and welding angle braces for the ram air chute frame.

While Randy was busy at that I started to figure out a new mounting bracket for the expansion tank. The cardboard is the angle formed with the skin.

Once Randy had finished cutting the brackets, I started to weld them into place.  The next job of cutting the 16G steel sheets for the ram chute was Randy's next task.

By the end of the day,
Rad in?-check
Angle braces cut&and welded?-check
Expansion Tank welded and mounted?-check
Air chute steel cut?-check
Not a bad day at all I might say!!