I woke up a little before 8 and played games for quite a while. Then it was up to feed the cats and take Abby for a walk. We walked all around the course and she acted like a tired doggy when we got back.
After breakfast and some surfing I went out to the shed to work on the RC car. About the only thing I cold do until the servo comes is build shocks. Each shock had 14 or so parts, most of them plastic. It took a significant amount of time to cut them off the sprues and then file any rough spots.
The first part of the assembly went pretty easily. Assembling the shock internals required 3 C clips for each shock. It was a real pain in the ass. I lost 2 and broke one. Fortunately I had plenty of spares in my parts box. I filled them with oil and then went in for lunch.
When I came back out things went further south. The crappy instructions caused me to mis-install the sealing rings. I had two shocks done before I noticed. I had to take them apart and refill them with oil. By the time I got all of them filled up my hands and parts of the work table were an oily mess. After that installing the adjustment rings was a pain, too. I had to clamp the shock body HARD to tun the rings. When the shocks were finally done I packed everything up for another day.
That was pretty much it for the rest of the day. I spent some time surfing and a lot of time on videos. I did text Hooch. We'll go see him on Sunday.
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