EV Hot Rod

January 24, 2013

Nothing says fun like a hot-rod, and nothing says clean and high-torque like and electric, so it makes sense to put the two together. I met Mark a while back, who runs a powder-coating company in western Wisconsin, and invited him and his car out to an electric vehicles meeting we were hosting. It was […]

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SuperTruck: Drive-Train planning diagram

January 21, 2013

POWER-TRAIN: I’ve talked a bit about the powertrain, but so far, haven’t been very good at visualizing it, other than with chicken-scratchings and bad pencil-sketches.So, I took an outline image of the truck, and started drawing in where the Hybrid components will go. It’s still rough (and not quite to scale) but gives an idea […]

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Learning about Cars the Old-School way!

January 16, 2013

I don’t know about you, but I’m actually NOT much of a car guy. I believe that internal combustion engines run on some sort of dark magic that is impossible for the common man to comprehend. That’s why I LOVE when somebody has a nice, simple way to explain an automotive concept. And since cars […]

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SuperTruck: Bringing home the Flat Foam Cover

January 13, 2013

A few weeks back, I took the foam flat cover over to my parent’s house, as my Dad has a workshop on the back of the garage with some insulation and  heat to it. It’s nearly impossible for fiberglass epoxy to set in my garage at sub-zero temperatures, so I asked if I could work […]

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SuperTruck: Frozen Bed Removal

January 7, 2013

( For an overview of the “SuperTruck” project, please click here. ) I had a bit of time this afternoon that I could work on the truck. It was a balmy 30 degrees and a little sunny, so I was able to get out the snow-shovel and start to dig out my S10 to get […]

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Pot Lid Window Knob

December 30, 2012

My youngest brother, Andrew, who is college age, is back from school for winter break. Seeing as how his college is about a five-hour drive away, he doesn’t exactly make it home every weekend, especially since he doesn’t have his own car. And since he’s a college student, every dime goes to books and classes […]

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Holding it all together when it’s all falling apart.

December 14, 2012

I’m pretty sure the only thing really holding together my old pickup truck is willpower. Of the many reasons that I want to complete the SuperTruck project is simply that my existing long-range vehicle is starting to feel like it’s on its last legs. The list of little things wrong with it is long, but […]

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SuperTruck: This is getting fun!

December 8, 2012

A while back, I was getting down on myself. I really wanted to make this hybrid truck project work, but had been getting bogged down in the typical stuff in life ya just gotta do, instead of making my truck happen. So, I started working on a flat foam cover for the truck, just to […]

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Scavenger Hunt: Magnets and More

December 4, 2012

  Yesterday, I had a chance to run some errands, including picking up some components for my fiberglass over foam tonneau cover. The first stop was swinging over to visit Tom, to get some hard-drive magnets. I stopped by the computer recyclery and got a fist-full of the finger pinchers. Thankfully, most of them were […]

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SuperTruck: Four-Way Foam Cover

December 2, 2012

  I did a little more work today on my experimental flat foam pickup truck cover. I had originally left the front (the cab end) a little long. I used my hand-saw to cut that end flush with the end of the bed. I pointed the saw right down the slot between the bed and […]

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