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[muzzy1maniac]

Originally Posted by OverBoardProject

one of my other hobbies as well Muzzy
http://woodworkersworkshop.com/resou...ex.php?cat=232
http://www.am-wood.com/archive/archive.html
http://www.workbenchmagazine.com/mai...0-cutdiag.html
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/ic_pla...273826,00.html
http://www.freeww.com/
They're charging for this plan but it might be worth it
http://hometown.aol.com/luv2fly007/f...cnictable.html

I hope that some of those sites have what you want, and could you tell me about ny intresting sites that you find?
Thanks

Thanks OBP! The table looks great! The chairs are the tough one - I know what I want but haven't found it yet. I used to have the perfect plans(for me) and somewhere though the years they disappeared!

[s10blazerman4x4]

Yeh i saw that but then i would need a HAM license.

[muzzy1maniac]

Here's a nifty little car I saw while in Canada last weekend..




And some pics at the edge of the American Falls...

[wolfox]

Hey, isn't that one of those motorized bar stools? No, wait, I know what that is, it's a closed cab rider mower! No, no...wait, I know this, it's a squirrel scooper...

There's not enough sheet metal there to make a tin toilet seat, that cannot possibly be street legal in the U.S.

[s10blazerman4x4]

I believe its made by BMW. they are mainly used in Europe but they are suppose to be deciding this year if they can sell them in the US. Here is the link http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/06/07/...une/index.html

[muzzy1maniac]

I can't remember what the name of it was. It didn't have BMW tags anywhere. The car pics were on the Canadian side. All in all it was a very cool machine! Nicely styled and I be it kills on gas. Getting into an accident in it would suck but no more than being on a motorcycle.

[s10blazerman4x4]

? guys. Just bought the WinTV PVR 150 media center kit. Installed in PCI slot 1 followed directions installed software went into media center it does not recognize tuner. So i uninstalled the drives put it in PCI slot 2 re installed everything and same thing. I have the cable hooked up. Do i need to hook in audio controls or what?

WTF i can play tv via wintv32 and the audio is really low yet my computer audio is high as hell, yet media center will not recognize my tuner and it is made for it, i got the remote.

Also i think i mite get the 5.1 PCI card here and hook up my surround sound.

ok got an update on it. I got all my drivers up to date on this computer for the software, media center still will not recognize. Another thing is i ran a Windows decoder check and it said im using Intervideo as my main decoder. Then i downloaded this windows media decoder and nothing not working yet.

Another update here. According to the guy at HP my wintv pvr 150 media center kit is not compatible with HP's media center yet they sell you a remote to use for media center with the windows logo on it, they have COMPATIBLE WITH HP MEDIA CENTER all over the box, and all the drivers are for HP MEDIA CENTER, i am at a lost for what to do.

[OverBoardProject]

Originally Posted by s10blazerman4x4

I believe its made by BMW. they are mainly used in Europe but they are suppose to be deciding this year if they can sell them in the US. Here is the link http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/06/07/...une/index.html

It's actually made by Mercedes, and it's called the smart car.

They claim that they get 85 mpg, with what I believe is a 3 cylinder Diesel motor.

They were developed by both the creator of the Swatch watch (remember the 80's) and Mercedes.
The name actually came from
Swatch
Mercedes
A
R
T
as in an art piece.

Here's an artical on them
http://www.thesmart.ca/index.cfm?ID=4720

I kinda like them, but haven't driven any yet
There are more body styles in Europe

Oh, I don't have high speed at the moment, but try smart car on Google video (or smart car crash test)
They did remarkably good in a high speed crash test into a brick wall.
both doors still opened, and if I remember correctly they both closed as well

I just found them, but can't watch them
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...79&q=smart+car
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...36&q=smart+car
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...08&q=smart+car
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...27&q=smart+car

This one happened about 15 min from where I just moved from (I'll actually try downloading it)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...74&q=smart+car

[s10blazerman4x4]

Lol yeh your right OBP well the thing with that was i read it like a week or so a go and never looked at the article again just copied in the link.
oh what a weekend. Had to goto NY yesterday because the 01 Blazers ignition locked up and the key nor steering wheel would move. So i went up with my dad to get my mom and sister and thought was they would have that to drive home in. Well going up the temp started to rise it would peg then drop then peg then drop and were only going 55-60.We stopped put water in, let it cool and since the overflow was full thought somethings not right but we had to keep going. So we kept going but the temp light would come on and off. Got to this gas station decided were going to open the thermostat housin cap to see wtf the problem is. No coolant in there but full in overflow./ Yanked thermostat and filled with 2 gallons of cold water. No real problem till first rest stop in NY and we had to link up with my uncle because i wanted an escort in incase it blew. Well here we found out that the brand new radiator cap had blew and was spewing coolant but only when system was unpressurized. Got to there house and blazer no move. So i brought my mom home and sister and all the time its 130 inside because engine is throwin heat into vents. Well made a stop at wendys no problem. Then i heard the tick tick tick of death so i pulled over at the first rest stop i came to and checked overflow its full. So i go ill open the therm housing cap since its not under pressure and i wanted to see what was the issue. Made a half turn and she blew everywhere. Cap went up then down coolant/water everywhere. Coolant water was chocolate colored, when adding water it was fish tank bubbles, then for about 20 miles after that it was reading 100 instead of where it should have been then it got to 220 finally and i knew it had to have been more because heat had started inside again. Finally said to hell with this pretty much went 65-70 mph last 65 miles home so i could get home. This morning nothing in overflow but thermo housing neck is full, still shooting out excess coolant somehow. Between me, dad, mechanic were pretty sure its headgasket were gonna find out Wednesday.

The blazer apparently the ignition switch broke. Never read on here of 01s having that problem it was under warranty which expired Sunday so he was lucky.

Only good news was i got an email from Hauppage and i had to re-install Windows Net Framework 1.1 again even though it was installed, then the update to Media Center which was roll up number 2, then restart, then another update, then restart. Now it works but the quality is pretty poor, i prefer to watch in WinTV2000 actually.

352 miles on a tank of gas in cutlass up to NY and back home. 7hrs of driving plus 2hrs of stops plus 2 hours up ther.I got home at 1AM.

[OverBoardProject]

That is a rough weekend Shawn.
Glad that you got through it.

I am now the proud owner of a 85 Chevy Diesel parts truck, that runs great but needs some transmission work

Here's the rough draft of the page that I'm starting on it
http://www.kvsbt.com/stu's/Chevy%204x4%20conversion/Diesel%20Conversion.html

And I entered a true story on another forum hoping that I'll win a boat for a friend of mine.
My story is the top contender, and I'm really hoping that I'll win her this cute little pram

Here's the story that I entered

This story is 100% true, and happened to me.

If it's the winning story I'll give the boat to my 1 friend mentioned whom I'm hoping will be moving to the Okanagan soon.

I was living in peachland at the time, and met up with a friend of mine. She was meeting 4 other friends (whom I had never met before) and joining them on their boat.

She of course asked me to join them, and we had a good time floating around and going for the odd swim. However it wasn't enough, 1 of the women asked the owner if we could go into Kelowna and go dancing in a water front pub. We had a good time in there, and left shortly after dark. I chose to sit on the passanger seat instead of riding in the bow this time.

Well that's pretty well the end of my memories for the night. I only remember being intrested in the owner, and understand that she was as intrested in me.

Apparantly 2 people on the boat did a head count partly through the trip and counted 7 people on the boat. However only 6 of us ever left the dock that night. They both claim that the seventh person was standing in between us all. (Could it have been an Angel?)

The next puzzling thing is the boat apparantly suddenly hit 3 hard objects, slowing it down a little and throwing the nose skywards.
Well you can imagine that we flew into the shore on the wrong side of the Okanagan Lake. Close to Rattlesnake Island.
Everyone figures that if we didn't hit those 3 hard objects we'd all be dead, and you'll understand why when you read the newspaper artical that I'll post. (I'm told that the picture they have is the least scary as well)

I woke up in pain, and unable to really breath after (I'm told) breaking the dash on a SeaRay.
From what I understand someone had somehow managed to find a cell phone in all the wreakage, and phoned 911.

The rescue boats had nothing but open water approaching the boat, and never did find those 3 hard objects that we had hit.

When we got to KGH 4 of the passangers got released (2 of them got released because there were no beds, and 2 weren't hurt)

The owner broke her Sturnem, and had to spend 2 days in there.
I fractured 2 vertibrates (which is where my bad back comes from) broke more ribs than they could count, plus my Sturnem as well, and badly bruised my lungs. Which also got punctured.

Anyways I had a good friend of mine from Canmore coming up for a visit the next day. I got my mom to phone her (I could hardly speak) and tell her what happened. My mom told her that she didn't have to come, but I would still love to see her.
So I'm really gratefull that she did come up, and she really helped me more than the hospital ever could.
She even smuggled me in a natural pain killer when the Morphine wasn't helping. The natural pain killer did help.

I am so gratefull that this friend of mine drove 5 or so hours to see me, when she was tired after work, and yet my friends that were living in the Okanagan couldn't make it.

She is the person that I'll give the boat to if I have the opertunity to win it.

Thanks for letting me share my story

[s10blazerman4x4]

Wow. Yeh for now OBP im through it i know im not going to drop another 2.5 in it just going to see how bad see if i can maybe go for another 2 months so i can get some coin together to get another one. What really sucks is im now working 37-39 (40 this week) and had figured out that i could pay the credit cards and my dad off by end of year. What sucked was though getting up at 630 for work missed alarm got woke up at 640 so lol you will have that. Enough ramblings though. I see the guidelines got modified blazee did you have a hand in that haha.

[OverBoardProject]

I took some pic's yesterday while fishing with a friend

[BlazerBoyLT98]

Great pics OBP!!!

[blazee]

Where's the pictures of all the fish?

[OverBoardProject]

Thanks Blazerboy

We got skunked, so no fish.

Doesn't mater to me though, I only fish catch and release so i didn't miss much