Day 3710

 I woke up at 8, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  Then I went to work on the trailer hitch.

The first task was to put the ball hitch together.  That involve a chain and several small parts.  I couldn't figure out everything until I got on the web and found a picture.  It took a while to put it together.  Having two thumbs would have helped a lot.  The hitch is really clever.  It looks good and I think it will work well also.

With that done I went to the garage to install it.  I fabricated a front mount and pop-riveted it to the front of the trailer.  Then I screwed the hitch on.  The end result looks really good.   The hitch is now complete so I went on to laying out the parts I'll need to attach the axles.  I got part of that done before I ran out of desire to work on it.  Also it was time to take Abby on a run before it got too hot.

I went back to the house and collected Abby and Ellen.  Abby had her usual great time.  We went to the post office afterwards.  There were a couple of packages from China there.  After that it was back home for lunch.

After lunch I put away the stuff from China.  Then it was a little more investigation before placing my Amain order.  I saved over $28.  Next up was watching videos for a while.  I didn't feel like watching very much, so I went back to searching for RC parts.  This time it was brass for the TRX4.  I figure as long as I'm updating the electronics I should improve the performance too.  I won't spend any money on it right now.  I'd rather spend the money on the Arktos.

I now have the magnets that I need to upgrade the cars that use magnets.  I kind of want to work on the trailer, but if that gets boring I'll use that to fill in.

Dinner was leftovers.  After that was more internet.  I had such a problem with the ball hitch assembly that I got out the latches for the trailer.  They were difficult, too.  The big problem was that soe of the pieces are not the right size.  I did get them to go together though.

I finished the day with a little more video watching.