{"id":12192,"date":"2016-10-21T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12192"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T16:55:51","slug":"mama-said-thered-be-days-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/mama-said-thered-be-days-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama said there’d be days like this"},"content":{"rendered":"

I succeeded in finishing the Weedhopper’s prop last night and I’m delighted with the way that it eventually turned out. I managed to rectify all of the ‘bubbling paint’ problems and if anything, it’s better than I’d originally hoped it would be. So I couldn’t wait to get stuck into fabricating the new doors ASAP today.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a painful little cut on the little finger of my right hand so thought that I’d stick a plaster on it before having my final mug of tea and getting started, so having put the plaster on, I picked up the mug – and dropped it. Tea went flying everywhere – all over the front of the microwave and worktop, down the fronts of the fridge and kitchen unit and also down the side of the latter in the gap between it and the fridge.<\/p>\n

So nothing else for it but to start mopping all the mess up, which involved moving the microwave, coffee maker and everything else off the kitchen worktop, opening cupboard doors and drawers to mop up tea that had managed to enter inside them and pulling both the fridge and freezer out to clean around and under them. I have to say, what a great start to the day – NOT!<\/p>\n

So all my thoughts of starting on the Weedhopper’s doors were banished for a good hour while I put Operation Big Clean-up into action. But eventually it was all finished and by this time it had gone mid-day, so time for a quick snack lunch before getting cracking on the more important stuff. Something quick and easy, hmmm. I know, a pot noodle!<\/p>\n

I opened the cupboard door to get one out and a small bottle of Chinese sauce flew out all by itself and smashed, depositing glass and its contents all over the floor… \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

And the day continued in very much the same vein. When I eventually got myself sorted out and was all ready to start assembling the first door, I found that my cordless drill was almost out of charge and didn’t even have enough power to drill through the door plastic. Evidently I’d forgotten to charge it after I last used it, so had to go to all the hassle of digging out my corded drill and running an extension lead to power it.<\/p>\n

I’d drilled the plastic ready to pop rivet the top tube of the first door and had all of the rivets in place when I thought that I’d better count them to make sure that I had enough to do both doors. Naturally, I didn’t quite, so I had to abandon the job and go driving off to les Briconautes in Montignac to pick up some more 4mm diameter rivets to make sure that both doors looked the same.<\/p>\n

I found what I wanted and had to join the end of an uncharacteristically (for les Briconautes) long queue. While I and those in front of me were waiting, two, yes two, old chaps decided to pay for their goods by cheque. The French habit, mainly by older people, of paying by cheque could make you scream as it takes easily five times as long as using a debit card. But still they insist and still we all have to wait in the queue behind them while they laboriously make their cheques out after checking the total at least two or three times and slowly adding their signature.<\/p>\n

So by the time I got back home it was pushing 5.00 pm and the words of the old song came floating into my head. ‘You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em…’ and it was pretty obvious that today was a ‘folding’ kind of day. So even though there was still a bit of sunshine and warmth in the day, I packed everything away. But not before I’d taken a few shots of the Weedhopper’s finished propeller. Here’s one of the blades.<\/p>\n

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And here are shots of each of its faces at the tip.<\/p>\n

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So I at least had the satisfaction of knowing that it’s ready now to go on. And in the immortal words of Scarlett O’Hara, ‘After all, tomorrow is another day’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I succeeded in finishing the Weedhopper’s prop last night and I’m delighted with the way that it eventually turned out. I managed to rectify all of the ‘bubbling paint’ problems and if anything, it’s better than I’d originally hoped it would be. So I couldn’t wait to get stuck into fabricating the new doors ASAP … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12192"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12203,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions\/12203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}