Day 2327

 I woke up about 8:30, played games for a while and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After I was done I did a little surfing.

Eventually I took the Ryft out for its maiden run.  It worked pretty good.  It's really fast though.  I had to keep it in low gear.  It also does a good job jumping rocks and the green lights look really neat.  I only had a small battery in it though, so the run lasted maybe 5 minutes.

I went inside and surfed while I waited for a large battery to charge.  When it did I hooked it up and went out to play.  The motor only spun.  The pinion gear was stripped.  Crap.

I took the body off the Ryft and opened up the gear box.  Inside was a lot of metal filings and a mangled pinion gear.  The spur gear appeared undamaged.  I cleaned everything up.  I was going to put in the 17T gear that came in the kit when I decided to look up both the pinion and spur gear on the Axial site.  The website said that the spur gear had a mod 1 pitch and the pinion gear had a 32p pitch.  The pinion gear isn't 32p, it's mod1.  Fucking Axial.

I spent maybe $40 or more on 32p pinion gears.  Of course none of them fit.  I spent a lot of time on Amazon finding quality mod1 gears.  I got 12, 13, and 14 tooth gears because the 14 that was in the Ryft was plenty fast enough.  That was another $25.  The gears won't be here until Wed at the earliest.  I put everything away in disgust.

While I was messing with the Ryft Ellen was painting the second TRX-4 body.  The paint has to dry out before the last coat is applied.

After that I surfed.  When Ellen came in we had a late lunch and then went to HEB and the post office.  The last stop was the restaurant at loop1 and Slaughter.  I felt a lot better after sitting out there and having a daiquiri.

When we got back I turned on the TV.  I watched a TV show and then 2 movies.