Work will continue tomorrow. I'm in the fetal position for now. For those of you saltwater anglers, this 47" Cobia was caught in San Antonio bay in 12" of water on a soft plastic. Insane.
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Work will continue tomorrow. I'm in the fetal position for now. For those of you saltwater anglers, this 47" Cobia was caught in San Antonio bay in 12" of water on a soft plastic. Insane.
THAT... is KRAZY!!!
In the bay??? Wtf, was he lost??? I've seen jackfish and sharks in the bay, but never a ling. I've heard rare occasions they catch them at the jetty when it's blue and flat in the heat of summer, but the bay in shallow water is just bizzare. Last one I saw was 12 miles offshore, lol.
What's even more impressive... Catching him on trout tackle!! Bad ass man!!
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Do a google search on ling or cobia. Different fish.. and very good eating!
http://www.makedinner.net/free-daily-recipe/recipe-256-barbecued-ling-cod-with-roasted-asparagus
A recipe popped up while googling ling fish. ^ and it sounds good lol
I'm envious. I've yet to do any saltwater fishing. On my bucket list and plan on going next winter/spring down in Florida.
Back on track as of last night. . . Well, sort of. Last night was one of those, "I learned a lot, but accomplished nothing." type of episodes. Case and point:
I decided to try and make a merge collector. Will it work? Yeah, sort of. It really doesn't look that bad in person (on the outside), the light is just hitting it funny. But, I'm going to cut it up and re-do most of it. Why?
1) It's hideous.
2) No way to seal between the two inputs before the merge.
3) There's not a whole lot of room to mount the waste gate plumbing the right way.
This is what happens when you attack something without a plan. I'll do it again the right way tonight.
I decided to try and make a merge collector. Will it work? Yeah, sort of. It really doesn't look that bad in person (on the outside), the light is just hitting it funny. But, I'm going to cut it up and re-do most of it. Why?
1) It's hideous.
2) No way to seal between the two inputs before the merge.
3) There's not a whole lot of room to mount the waste gate plumbing the right way.
This is what happens when you attack something without a plan. I'll do it again the right way tonight.
Cut the pipe down the middle and use sheet metal to form the oval.?Here's how we started out.
Yeah, something like that. Wait. Do you mean is that what I did, or what I'm going to do?
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Before you tack those pieces in place on the collector, weld the end of the pipes together to seal them, and cut some little triangles to fill in the holes between the pipes and seal weld all that to fill the gaps..
Yup, that's the plan for tonight. Version 2 is gonna be a master piece, LOL.
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Bingo. I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't think to do that last night after making a point to do it on my failed header project.
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...Aaaaaaaaand there's another week down the drain. Leaving tomorrow for another weekend trip. Next weekend is out, too. 
I think if I could have a solid 2 day weekend to go balls out on this thing, I could get it really close to running.
I think if I could have a solid 2 day weekend to go balls out on this thing, I could get it really close to running.
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...Aaaaaaaaand there's another week down the drain. Leaving tomorrow for another weekend trip. Next weekend is out, too.
I think if I could have a solid 2 day weekend to go balls out on this thing, I could get it really close to running.
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I have a metric sh*t ton of pics but my email is down right now. This will have to work until I can get back to the office later today.
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