{"id":154,"date":"2009-03-08T18:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=154"},"modified":"2009-05-27T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T18:19:59","slug":"weekend-tinkering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2009\/03\/08\/weekend-tinkering\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Tinkering."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was in the low 70&#8217;s, and between spending time with my daughter and doing a ton of overdue yardwork, I took some time to fool around in the garage. The first order of business was to clean out the space and organize everything better; the back half of the garage has been used for a no-man&#8217;s land for years, and thus was piled randomly with junk. I&#8217;m also storing a bunch of parts for Mr. Scout, which demanded better accommodations, so I swept, organized, and cleaned up the entire bay.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I wanted to pull the panels off my donor doors and see what shape they were in. It looks like they&#8217;re reasonably clean, although everything suffers from light surface rust and needs a good wash. The door pulls and window cranks are both clean, but one foam armrest is toast and the other is marginal. I also pulled what looks to be an original rearview off the driver&#8217;s door and took steel wool to the grime covering the chrome; it cleaned up better than I hoped it might.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/3339370057\/\" title=\"CAUTION by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3618\/3339370057_493f906d3f_o.jpg?resize=499%2C332\" width=\"499\" height=\"332\" alt=\"CAUTION\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the sad side, the liftgate is rusted out beyond economical repair; every time I moved it I left piles of rust in my wake, so I&#8217;ll just strip the parts off and ditch the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I got a strange urge to pull the dashpad off for examination. Someone paid a good deal of money to cover a cracked green foam pad with blue vinyl, ruining the foam with staples and glue. Hopefully the pad Mr. Soundman&#8217;s offered me is in better shape than this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was in the low 70&#8217;s, and between spending time with my daughter and doing a ton of overdue yardwork, I took some time to fool around in the garage. The first order of business was to clean out the space and organize everything better; the back half of the garage has been used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[10,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress","category-purchasing","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-2u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}