What to do during idle time.

[retiredmechanic74]

I saw a post about doing things to pass the time while waiting for warmer weather. At over 1200 pages I thought it would be quicker to open a new thread. SOoooo I thought I might toot my horn a little bit and show you guys how I spend my time ( very little down time here in the South ) by showing the pictures of the cars I made out of sheets of cardboard. The only things not made of cardboard are the wheels.

[TerryB]

That is really neat!  It's amazing what can be done when you have the vision to see what can be crafted from simple materials. Great job.

[retiredmechanic74]

1 hour ago, TerryB said:

That is really neat!  It's amazing what can be done when you have the vision to see what can be crafted from simple materials. Great job.

Thank you, I often set around thinking if there is something to keep me away from TV. I just took 45 beer cans (What a hang-over) and made a sun window heater for the bathroom works pretty good.  

[old car fan]

Great job,they look nice,i just wish I knew what downtime was?

[C Carl]

I guess I have a lot of self-imposed downtime. I enjoy spending it here with you great guys and gals !    - Carl

[victorialynn2]

Um... wow... speechless. Nice work!

[Gunsmoke]

I started this model of the famous fishing/racing schooner "Bluenose" in 2006, a couple of years before my first old car purchase, a 1931 Deluxe Chevrolet Coach. While I started with a Billings Boats kit, very quickly I realized that a good build really meant abandoning the kit stuff (such as that awful cheap stand) and scratch building all except the basic timbered hull, which has dozens of nailed planks. 12 years later, using it as a stress reliever from the old car hobby every so often,  it is ready for rigging/sails and launching. I  built a stylized ramp for it and interestingly, shortly after I started the build, the real Bluenose went in drydocks for a full $25M rebuild. It is now back in the water as Nova Scotia's "Sailing Ambassador".   

[zipdang]

Too cold to work outside here in Ohio - for me anyway. So I finally decided to do my workshop bench top with some salvaged maple flooring I scrounged from the demolition of an old school. It ended up being very labor intensive to get the unevenly worn flooring down to a smooth surface but it looks great. The first dings and scratches will be tough, but I plan on USING this bench.

 

 

[retiredmechanic74]

1 hour ago, Gunsmoke said:

I started this model of the famous fishing/racing schooner "Bluenose" in 2006, a couple of years before my first old car purchase, a 1931 Deluxe Chevrolet Coach. While I started with a Billings Boats kit, very quickly I realized that a good build really meant abandoning the kit stuff (such as that awful cheap stand) and scratch building all except the basic timbered hull, which has dozens of nailed planks. 12 years later, using it as a stress reliever from the old car hobby every so often,  it is ready for rigging/sails and launching. I  built a stylized ramp for it and interestingly, shortly after I started the build, the real Bluenose went in drydocks for a full $25M rebuild. It is now back in the water as Nova Scotia's "Sailing Ambassador".   

Very Nice. I made a couple of boats out of cardboard, one is the sister ship of the Edmond Fitzgerald it's called the Buckeye and the other boat is a schooner with 5 sails and a mermaid on the bow. I'll post a couple of pics of them tomorrow and I would like to know what you think.  

[retiredmechanic74]

1 hour ago, zipdang said:

Too cold to work outside here in Ohio - for me anyway. So I finally decided to do my workshop bench top with some salvaged maple flooring I scrounged from the demolition of an old school. It ended up being very labor intensive to get the unevenly worn flooring down to a smooth surface but it looks great. The first dings and scratches will be tough, but I plan on USING this bench.

 

 

Beautiful job, That would make a great regulation shuffleboard. I did most of my house with 4" wide tongue and groove knotty pine. I find myself just setting there looking at it.

[retiredmechanic74]

1 hour ago, victorialynn2 said:

Um... wow... speechless. Nice work!

I'm sorry to hear that about your Dad.

[1937hd45]

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I'd like to get the basement organized enough to be able to reach out and touch the walls. Bob 

[Friartuck]

My down time is on the computer digitally remastering the owners manual.

 

 

[retiredmechanic74]

11 hours ago, retiredmechanic74 said:

Very Nice. I made a couple of boats out of cardboard, one is the sister ship of the Edmond Fitzgerald it's called the Buckeye and the other boat is a schooner with 5 sails and a mermaid on the bow. I'll post a couple of pics of them tomorrow and I would like to know what you think.  

These are the pics of the boats,

[Gunsmoke]

Gordon Lightfoot has a great song about the Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald, I never knew what it looked like. Sank in Lake Superior maybe? Anyway, good work. I figure I have about 400 hours in the Bluenose, perhaps 50 or so to go. At a modest $20/hr, not counting material, I figure about $10,000 at cost for the Bluenose, maybe a bit more if I add overhead! Cheers

[Brass is Best]

Here is some information about the Edmund Fitzgerald:

 

SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. Wikipedia

Length: 728′

Crew: 29

Depth of hold: 33 ft 4 in

Depth: 39 ft

Place built: River Rouge, MI

 

Nicknamed the "Big Fitz" she could haul 26,000 tons of iron ore.

Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald": 

 

A story about the wreck: 

 

 

 

[retiredmechanic74]

I spent a lot of time trying to find pictures of the Edmond but all I could find was the sister ship, it moor's in Toledo Ohio  but seeing those pics. and the boat I built, I'm happy that I built it. It looks almost the same. Thanks for the pic's.