Colchester Quarry This Weekend
Posted by Dave Lennie in Announcements, Trips on March 10th, 2010
A few announcements… Our first outing to Colchester Quarry in Macomb is this Saturday, thanks to connections from MIJC member John Gage. Check out this thread in the forum for more information… you need to let John know if you’re planning on coming. Looks like most of us are meeting at 7:00am at the intersection of US 24 and Illinois 9 at the gas station.
More photos are now up from inspections, courtesy of Jeff Hopwood. There are also some other photos from Jeff added to the Washita trip (May ‘09) and Duke’s Halloween Run (October ‘09). Jeff was able to transfer a large number of photos using the new FTP method, so if you have any pics for me, let me know and I’ll send the directions.
Inspection Success!
Posted by Dave Lennie in Announcements on March 7th, 2010
Inspections went well this past Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came plus our hosts, Jill Stearnes and family, and our cook, Jan Brown. The food was delicious and the company was great. We would also like to welcome our new members that came as well. As always, minutes from the meeting can be found in the forum.
Photos are up so far from the Bardings. If you’ve got photos to give me, let me know. We now have the ability for you to upload these directly to a holding tank on the website via FTP. FTP is not subject to the file size limitations that e-mail is, so you can upload large-sized and/or large quantities of photos or even video files. This should hopefully make it easier for you guys to submit your media for the website and the video.
Dan Barding test-piloted the FTP procedure today and it works great. It’s really quite simple… no special software is required, and I have step-by-step instructions in a PDF. For security reasons I can’t post these on the site for the world to see, but e-mail me and I’ll send them to you.
One last thing, while I have your attention: check your member page and see if anything’s missing. If you have information or photos you’d like to add, let me know and I’ll stick ‘em up there.
2009 Production Log Entry 8: More Painting
Posted by Dave Lennie in Production Log on March 7th, 2010
September 25, 2009 (3 hours)
Rain in the morning turned out to be a sunny afternoon, and Jon and I were coincidentally both off work early. After extensive research looking at photos of Bluesmobiles online (including the original model used when the car has to flip end over end), I got the star stencils for the doors printed out on the large-format printer at work. Read the rest of this entry »
Inspections Saturday 3/6/2010
Posted by Dave Lennie in Announcements on March 5th, 2010
Inspect
ions will be held at the Stearnes’ house this coming Saturday, March 6th at 12:00. Food and drinks will be provided by the club. For any newbies out there who have not done it before, this isn’t a pass-fail thing (as much as we like to poke fun that it is). It’s just a chance to have someone else take a look at your ride and perhaps catch a problem that you might have missed, as well as checking to make sure you’ve got all the safety equipment we recommend for trail rides. The checklist we use can be downloaded from the Info page.
NEW INFO: Since it’s going to be relatively warm, Jill’s thinking we’ll line up in the driveway and bring the Jeeps in through the old barn and into the new barn. If you need to unload your Jeep from a trailer, continue past Jill’s driveway around to the softball diamond parking lot and unload there, then drive your Jeep back to the house. Click here for a Google maps link if you don’t know how to get there. See you Saturday!
