Thanks, Bill. My tile company sold me split boxes with no penalty, but I bought a few spares of each anyway. I'm looking forward to January also.BT wrote:I just returned from the Maranello Madness trackday at PBIR. Only one vintage Ferrari there (a red 250 GTE). Last night on the way to a little car gathering I had a breakdown. It turned out to be OOF (Out of Fuel)... Sometimes I amaze myself with stupidity...
Nice garage Tom! I looked over the race deck web pages until I found an example of the floor pattern that I liked, then I spent about 20 hours goofing around with the various patterns until I came up with a good one that used just short of a multiple of 40 of each color tile. Having the parking spaces outlined is a classy and clean look to me. Thanks for the compliments, I'm looking forward to January.
BT
Mark, yesterday is the first time the Ferrari has been on the hoist. Since I installed the lift all by myself, my wife's car was the first one to go up on the lift. My mama didn't raise no dummies.
I took the Ferrari up SLOOOOOOWLY to test and verify my designed-in clearances and my homemade upper limit switch which cuts lift power one inch above the lock where the "upper car" will sit. When it cuts off, I just bleed the pressure to let it lower onto the lock. That carefully adjusted lock position provides 2 inches of clearance from the upper car to the ceiling and 2 inches from the lower car to the lift. The Ferrari and the Mercedes 230SL are almost exactly the same height. The Ferrari side window "tumble-home" clears the ceiling beam on the side by 2 inches as well. I would have tested the Mercedes on the lift but it's not running. I've been too busy on the garage and the Ferrari to fix it. When I finish with the Ferrary underbody, I'll winch the Mercedes on the lift and back the Ferrari under it with the nose sticking out between the lift and the garage door. I've still got a little underhood work I would like to do before leaving for Florida.
Things are working out well for the Cavallino trip planning. I've got a Club Cab 4x4 lined up to tow the trailer as far as Maryland. The Cavallino Snowball Run is going to be a fun trip.
Tom Kizer