I woke up at 8, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast. After a little surfing I did some design work on the hitch part of the trailer. I didn't make a lot of progress. I'm just not sure how to connect the braces to the bed.
I decided to go out to the garage to work on the trailer. I wanted to pick something simple so I worked on the ramps. The concept was simple, but forming the ramps out of the scrap metal I had wasn't. I started modifying it with the Dremel with little success. Then I decided to use the metal shears. That worked a lot better.
I quit for lunch and then we took Abby to Circle C. We wanted to make sure she got to run. Tomorrow will be rainy. She had a good run. We put the collar on her even though we didn't have a controller. We didn't miss it. We stopped at the post office on the way home.
When we got home I opened the bag from China and put it away. Then I went back to the garage. I put anti-skid on the ramps. I won't attach them until later. Than I sat and tried to figure out how to attach the axles to the springs. I tried a couple of things that didn't work. Then I hit on one that did. It involves sandwiching the axle between two pieces of sheet metal and then screwing them together. It will take some work to fabricate, but I think it will work well.
I went back to the house for dinner. After dinner was videos for a while. That got boring. Amain sent me a 15% off coupon for Hobbywing. The Arktos 6x6 is sold out at Amain and a lot of other places including the manufacturer. I took time to order one and a lot of food from Amazon. Then I went back to Amain. The coupon got me planning to swap the cheapo motor in the Typhon into the Arktos. I did that until bedtime. I also continued looking at Amain instead of playing games in bed.
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