{"id":1153,"date":"2013-02-28T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2013-02-28T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:14:10","slug":"online-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2013\/02\/28\/online-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Mike, out in Colorado, <a href=\"\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf\u00ef\u00bb\u00bfhttps:\/\/mikejcarey.jux.com\/\">put together a site for his Scout project<\/a>. He&#8217;s a lot deeper into his project than I am into mine (by that I mean total restoration) and he&#8217;s got a ton of great pictures documenting how he&#8217;s doing things. <a href=\"https:\/\/mikejcarey.jux.com\/965281\">A recent post on his steering column rebuild<\/a> has me dreaming of a turn signal that cancels correctly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other news, one of the smaller things I picked up on Sunday was an incomplete set of rollbar pads. Due to their age and exposure to the elements, the zippers on both downtubes were frozen stiff, but the crossbar and rear arm pads came off with a little coaxing. The zippers are all pretty rough and some are missing teeth, but for $10 I figure I can have new zippers installed and buy some crash-rated foam to replace what they came with. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/8516713625\/\" title=\"IMG_4301 by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8383\/8516713625_30f3c14a1b.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_4301\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night I used an old trick for fixing the zippers: I rubbed them liberally with candle wax until I could get all three to catch and zip. I think I&#8217;m going to have Jesse cut the other two off for me and set them aside, so that I can have a full set to work with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/8517828160\/\" title=\"IMG_4303 by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8379\/8517828160_ac331f5d19.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_4303\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Mike, out in Colorado, put together a site for his Scout project. He&#8217;s a lot deeper into his project than I am into mine (by that I mean total restoration) and he&#8217;s got a ton of great pictures documenting how he&#8217;s doing things. A recent post on his steering column rebuild has me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-purchasing","category-repairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}