Month: April 2013

Well, I picked up all my parts from the machine shop that said “I won’t be able to get to your project for 3-4 weeks! ” I went driving around Dixie Hwy. and 44 Street (Fort Lauderdale) area and found a machine shop that is working out much better. I gave them one job of cutting a gear to fit the Shimano hub and it was ready for pick up in two days.  So, things should be moving along at a much faster pace now! They need the business and I need parts made in a timely fashion, so it is mutually beneficial.

I am really lucking out with PVC Tees and how inserts and end caps work and work well with perfect fits for my bearings and end caps with holes that are perfect for the top axle! This will save me a ton of money for the casings and also enable me to get the measurements down pat for future mold making out of aluminum.  The anodized top case will be sharp looking sitting on top of the dual crown front  forks. I am going to match the colors of the top case with that of the 7 speed Shimano front hub! Can’t wait!

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I actually enjoy the process of creating a movie….only with no computer crashing and no rendering problems…I’m probably in for a few days of hell! lol

So, its pretty much a nightmare adding an aftermarket wifi card to your desktop.  Don’t believe their plug and play lies!  I am some distance from my hard wire incoming set up for my other older slower dell desktop. It’s roughly 90 feet, a full length volley ball court and a half. My HP vista laptop works anywhere in the house….not the new Asus  desktop. I am now going to have to hard wire it because am tired of dealing with intermittent wifi network adapter plug ins.

The goal was to buy  the latest and greatest so I could render a freakin video or “movie” for a crowd=funding video for the dual drive bike project. Moral of the story don’t count on your in house wifi network to work.  Oh, and buy a desk from faith farm…..they are already put together!

The drift is south my friends.         http://www.dualdrivebike.com    ….  need a cad cam guy

I spent some time in the garage this morning and came up with some PVC tees that will assist in getting the shaft drive housing completed. Two, 2 inch tees with a 1.25 inch threaded reduction drop down will fit the dual crown forks nicely. Add the axle and a couple hand cranks and I’ll be in business.

I bit the bullet and bought an ASUS Dest top so I can get my damn movie “published” or rendered. My lab top keeps crashing with windows movie maker. Inside the ASUS….1.7 Pentium, 3.4 GGHRZ, and 12 gigs of DDR RAM with 2 gigs dedicated for the nvidia graphics board.  ooh la la

The drift is north my friends!

So, the past few days have been quite frustrating to say the least! Trying to render or publish a movie that I made in windows movie maker is pretty much impossible. Making the movie and adding clips, transitions and music was the fun part. My son then sends me his old G5 MAC desktop. The fun times began. The computer would not fire up at all. Not being familiar with apple I dropped the computer off at my wife’ s work-place. They are apple experts. It fired right up of course and while it was there the G5 worked perfectly. I took it home and got nothing again. After six hours into this mess I gave up. The water cooled area (what is it a car?) was found to be leaking for a long time and is and was causing intermittent electrical problems! Nice!

So I’m off to the store to purchase an Acer speedy desktop from Best buy! Wish me luck!

I am trying to get a “movie” published for the video needed for one of the crowd-funding platforms to raise money for my new crossfit bicycle. see http://www.dualdrivebike.com

The drift is north my friends…….