tech

Boat Engine lift using C303

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

The small “Viking” crane mounted on C303 came to use when the Ford 351″ V8 engine was lifted out of the American Skier skiboat for maintenance.

DSC00019

DSC00023

DSC00027 

DSC00029

Click here to go to the gallery

Offroad computersystem

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

I made this just for fun, to see if it would work. It’s of course not practical as the server-class computer wants to much power (watts).

Polish scratched Plexiglas

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

A scratched Plexiglas window is not only ugly but gives poor visibility, especially in sunlight as the sunlight is reflected in strange ways making it rather hard to see thru the window. A very simple and cheap solution is to polish the Plexiglas with rubbing to grind down the sharp edges of the scratches so that light isn’t reflected in all possible directions.

IMG_0001

 

rubbing.gif

+

buffyball10.gif

I polished the Plexiglas with Autosol rubbing and an ordinary power drill. Low speed and low pressure is the key. After about 15 minutes on each side I was happy with the result. The Plexiglas still has a few deep scratches but it is a great improvement.  

IMG_0003

The principle is the same with scratched CD/DVDs but use toothpaste and a small cloth when removing scratches.