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Hey, my daughter just called (I'm away from the house
for awhile) and
said a Rowdy Mouse T-shirt came! She really, really
likes it!! She's
very thankful to have it, so thanks, dude!

The mouse says "whatever..."

So she asked if you owned a race car, told her it was MX
racing. Now,
here she is with both arms in casts up to her pits, and
her
response
was, "can we go to Conn. to go MXing?!!! That's my girl!

Tell here, anytime.! But tell here I require full pads, even
a
96
degrees like sunday afternoon.. It's not reaally that bad,
unless you
slow down And of course there are two websites she can
visit
in the
meantime.

RowdyMouseRacing.com is where we have a couple of vids

Some pics here
http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/t...s.php?album=10

and this is one of the tracks we ride is

ctmotocross.com

Have fun, hurry up before we tear up all the equipment

She's got a lot of her dad in her, she loves speed. I've done
my
share
of MXing, I had a Suzuki TM250 among others. Of course my
first
was a
Honda Super 90, made for street but we used them in the
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Well, hurry up, the new brake hub will be here thursday.. man,
If
it
ain't gas in the boat, it's parts on the bikes... yikes!
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I like wrenching on them as much as running them. Same with cars.
When
we had old beater bikes for the woods, man did we cobble some
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Wrenching on these is the easy part. Finding parts that can be
modified to fit is another. We don't ride red, yellow, blue, green,
or
$$orange$$, so parts require some r+d Actually the only new skill
I
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Stick welding is pretty easy to learn, but if you are going to weld
aluminum and such, things get harder! I grew up in the country on a
farm, so when things broke down you didn't take it to a shop, you
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I would just like to be able to lay on metal, re-enforce frames, stick
steel to steel, etc... Aluminum and other alloy work I knew was a
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No, arc welding. I like AC myself:

http://tinyurl.com/43pe42

Now my uncle the aviation machinist, was a gas welding god! He could
do anything with an acetylene torch set!

For great arc welding you need a DC machine. Much nicer welds. Better
selection of rods. Most AC machines use 6013 low hydrogen rod. I grew up
in a machine shop, so learned to arc weld before I was 10 years old. As
well as using milling machines, lathes, etc. So the people who taught me
to
weld were extremely good welders. Most had learned the trade building
Liberty and Victory ships at the Richmond, CA Kaiser yards. Later in my
teenage years I met the inventor of Heliarc, Russell Meredith. He lived
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There's almost as much variety in rod for AC as there is for DC. I
learned to weld at about the same age as you!

AC welding is better at removing impurities and also deep penetration.

Then why are all the good commercial welders DC?