{"id":140,"date":"2009-03-01T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-06-26T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T19:33:19","slug":"parts-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2009\/03\/01\/parts-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts Haul."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Mr. Scout took me to the magical, mystical wonderland of cheap Chinese tools: the local Harbor Freight retail store. It&#8217;s amazing how much incredible stuff they can jam into one small location, and how cheap everything is. I wouldn&#8217;t buy sockets there and trust them to last more than a year, but to have a throwaway set handy the prices can&#8217;t be beat. I took a coupon with me and scored a 4&frac12;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binderplanet.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=79192\">angle grinder<\/a> for $20. Mr. Scout settled for a torque wrench and we both left before we could do any more damage. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr. Soundman made a journey to Virginia to pick up a donor Scout and a load of parts in a box truck. He graciously offered extra space to anybody who needed parts, so I took him up on the offer.<\/p>\n<p>He brought me back two doors with hinges, mounting brackets, full glass, metal inserts and hardware:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/3320675013\/\" title=\"spare door by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3652\/3320675013_bdb416c89e_o.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"spare door\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the doors were a traveltop in decent shape, minus the original liftgate and with some minor rust issues along the back lip area, a liftgate with good hinges, and a step bumper with some minor bending issues.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there was a plastic tray containing an assortment of hard-to-replace plastic lenses for marker and indicator lights, some door hardware, and miscellaneous other items:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/3320674871\/\" title=\"lighting spares by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3664\/3320674871_0d9d66ff7f_o.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"lighting spares\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the weather turned frigid on Saturday, and it started snowing Sunday evening, so any playtime I might have enjoyed this weekend was put on hold. I got everything besides the top indoors and hunkered down for the blizzard. Maybe next week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Mr. Scout took me to the magical, mystical wonderland of cheap Chinese tools: the local Harbor Freight retail store. It&#8217;s amazing how much incredible stuff they can jam into one small location, and how cheap everything is. I wouldn&#8217;t buy sockets there and trust them to last more than a year, but to [&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":[3,12],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-plans","category-purchasing","tag-parts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-2g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}