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Wood Stove

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I rebuilt a wood stove I had in storage. The only textual items on the stove is "Made in West Germany". After puzzling about how to repair the broken leg (everything from welding with tungston rod to fabricating a splice), I found a similar replacement foot. It was similar, so I ended up buying two in order to make it look and set right. It was a fun "little" project. It cost me about $150 in materials and probably took me about 8 hours. I am looking forward to getting it fired up at some point. Since it is going back into storage I am wrapping it up with as much rust inhibitor as I can. I bought some VCI paper for the effort.
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Another week has gone by. I cancelled my November trip to Europe. The only real travel I have planned for this month is NY and Wichita Kansas. In December I will be getting down to Argentina and Brazil. I have about 4 cities to get to in South America. I joined a really fancy fitness club. It is probably more of a resort than a fitness club. Let's see how that goes. The answer on how I got though the broken key incident is: I went into a store and bought some super glue and I glued the key together. The glue worked perfectly on retrieving the broken bit of key. The torque on the key was handled by the shank. This morning I went out to LZU for a EAA pancake breakfast and hanger fly. I wasn't disappointed. I also looked at the plane that I might buy fractional ownership.
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I flew down to Jacksonville FL yesterday to visit my Mom. It was good and convenient to fly commercial down there for the day. Of course I get upgraded to first class since I travel for work so much. I overslept this morning and missed church. After I buy a plane it will take me 2.5 hours. On this commercial flight, after security and getting to the airports (both ends), taxi time, walking to the ground transportation was about 4 hours, even though it was only 45 minutes in the air. I am not saying that general aviation is more efficient. You start thinking like that and you have forgotten about risks. Do what you do to be safe. Stay home, don't get in the shower. Think. I am studying aviation communications. It is definitely my weakest spot. Back when I was flying around Greene NY the radio wasn't nearly as important as here in the Atlanta area. It is a matter of confidence in the new domain. I hold the highest level Amateur Radio license from the FCC (Amateur Extra), I h...
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