I have two. The last time I went to the scrap buyers a couple years ago, they offered me $5 apiece. Prior to that, about eight years ago, I took four in and got about $100 each, if I recall correctly. At that time I had to sell two, and my wife had to sell the other two, and they took our name and address down for each sale. That was back when there'd been another spike in their value and therefore, thefts. White: you might want to call the scrappers and see if they have any limitations.

 

I think the hobbyists are going to start feeling the "shortages". Just went to order a Ford Racing D/S for my 88 and they are out of stock everywhere. Might be a long summer of waiting on stock.

I might just go get this Aerostar D/S worked on instead of waiting.

 

What's wrong with the Aerostar shaft, White? Mine went in fine with the right U-joints, it just needed balanced.

 

Good morning thinkers!- its a clear blue day in the valley this morning!- beautiful, even from a papermill view!-
Yea, Brew, pretty much- except..., huhumm...,
the open bay has become an entertainment area for the grandkids and the dog!! It all happened so innocently... the Mrs. wanted to play with the dog, so, being wintertime, she took him out to the garage to play.( it has a nice little electric ceiling mount heater, after all)
Soooo... the grandson found my short seat on wheels and the open bay became a racetrack too!- ( with the dog tugging on a rag, pulling him,no less!) Then it was the scooters, then all of the grandkids discovered they could dribble and pretend to play basket ball, soooo...
Grams found a small version of the arcade basketball game complete with two hoops and electronic score keeper. ( but it folds up out of the way, so its not too bad) but the kids and grandkids just LOVE it!! Then, with Gabe (the oldest grandson) playing soccer, Grams found a fold up goal so he could practice his footwork in comfort too!
I can move it all out of the way when i need the bay, and the laughter that echos from the walls makes it ALL worth the little inconveniences.
So, yea, its the way i like it!!

 

It is slightly damaged where one of the circlips seats. I'd also like to put Neapco joints in it... right now it has Precision joints in it that my Buddy gave me, and they were not the highest quality.

 

Good morning Bear! How's things going in your salt mine? Still having issues? I hope not.... lol. It affects me too.

 

Still very short handed in the maintenance departments- so we do as much as we can do and leave the ball in their court... (shrug) Our company bought several large contracts for carbonless from a company that wants to get away from it.- good for us, itll keep our machines full for a long time!!

 

By carbonless, do you mean the "receipt" type stuff?

 

Yea, sorta, remember the three, four, five part forms like at loan cos. or banks where they wrote on the top and it copied down through all the rest?- thats carbonless- its a dying market and we are just about the last manufacturer of it in large quantities.
Most of the store reciepts now are laser jet or heat transfer stuff- thats not our wheelhouse, so much.

 

In the last several years I can only think of two places I've seen that paper.
Checkbooks and work orders.
I've had my checkbook for at least 12 years now and have written all of 24 checks.
At work, we replaced paper work orders with tablets and software ~ 5 years ago.

What else is that stuff used for?