Good god, what will they think of next!

Ok a few updates here, but first, my friend actually found plans for a conversion to steam power for a VW engine! Simply amazing! ...and no this was not the original idea, but hey, maybe one day...

I drove the STEAMBUG from were I live to Hicks & Son's VW Repair, which is about an hour, to get them to go over it and see how it is running and if it needs any major work after sitting for a few years. I really like them and honestly, I trust them too. There is a much fancier, posher, Foreign Accents in my town, but you walk in and the place is sparkling clean, with a nice counter and large glass picture windows looking out over a spotless repair garage. Although I am sure they do good work, Hicks & Son is not in the best part of town, in a big old corrugated tin building, with a clean area around four car jacks, but then the appropriate piles of old engine part kicking around. On one end of the warehouse there is a proper store front with all those odds and ends I always find hard to get, like a passenger side sun visor clip and new exterior trim we are going to try to paint bronze, all sprinkled in dust. And on the other side of the warehouse there is another room full for steel shelves, and old used parts stacked EVERYWHERE, including a trailer hitch or two (one of which hopefully fits the STEAMBUG - that I plan to purchase for pulling the sound trailer).

Over the weekend we had a Philosopherz Stone meeting and work day, making the kits to make the those little mini top hats and brass goggles for our Steampunk workshop at Transformus. Obviously, the roof rack and pole got lots of play, including two boys climbing the pole and doing dance move off of it, at the same time. There was no unexpected wavers and nothing looked concerning at all. To get the pole off though, we had to have have three big guys unscrew it, the threads tighten a bit with that much pressure on them. Three guys that weigh a combined total of 700 pound! And still the roof and rack are just as steady as can be.

Keeping it lit,
PyroCelt