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Nice ride Guido. I have been a Maser fan since the 60s. My absolute favorite is the Mexico. Next would bee the Ghibli Spyder. And then there is always the uniquely opulent early 70s Quatroport with the rare standard transmission. :biggthump:D:D

Been there done that for several customers who had raised ranches with overhangs like yours. Plus a few Alpine style ski houses with overhangs. After exposing the underside of the poorly or uninsulated overhang with pies for heat or water, I ripped some 2x4s in half and scabbed them on to the undserside of the floor joist extensions. Then put 6 mil plastic as a vapor barrier under the pipes but sloped to drain ends at the outside wall. the ledgers and splash boards were west marine epoxied before installation so any drainage would not cause rot. Then I installed four inch bats below that. To create a wind barrier I used "Tech 30" or "tech some thing that is recommended for waterproof and breathable under several if not most premade manufactured standing seam metal roofing. Even here in NH the stuff will last all on it's own for 7 months through a tough winter. Then I put stapping boards on so I could run the final new shiplap or tonge and groove boards on the bottom in the same direction as the floor joist extensions. Several I Wested the boards and a few I just used liberal coats of Cuprinol or equivalent from Darworth/Ensign Bickford (the inventors of blasting caps and Primacord) waterproofing. End result if a pipe bursts you can get at one bay at a time to fix it but even with water drainage no rot. On one Chalet house with FHA heat I put a dryer flex pipe connected to tone of the distribution troughs in and cut vents to each bay with pipes to heat above the vapor barrier as the Kitchen sink was up against the outside North wall of the overhang. LOL Fix it as if you were doing it professionally and had to give a 50 year warrantee on it. You won't regret it, as partial fixes fail and extend the damage path and cost with each failure. Good luck and You can call me on the phone for help if needed. EWD:biggthump

One of 100 produced world wide in 1999 as a presage to the 2000 VandenPlas Super. Has a boosted version of the XJR supercharged 370 hp with slightly higher final boost at 398 hp. On the long wheelbase with standard options/equipment and features not even available on the regular VDP or XJR till 2000 some till the aluminum 2004s. Has the "touring" selectable suspension, the predecessor and same as the following "CATS" but only two modes, normal and Sport. Rides just the same as XJR in mid mode normally and Sport mode may be tighter than the 2000 XJR in sport. (Neighbors Brother in law has one I've driven on many occasions) But that is compensated to some extent by the longer wheelbase. XJR 0 to 60 5.1 sec, the beast, 5.4, but it supposedly passes the XJR in the 1/4 mile with 4 more mph terminal speed. I love devouring BMWs and Corvettes at the intersection of I93 and I89 where two merge lanes convene and then again and one third time. LOL The price I paid for it is almost criminal stealing. Internet diligence and faith and cash in hand from my Soc Sec. Dissability back pay. It would have cost me more for a 2003 Ford Taurus with under 100k miles and all records from new. have talked with Original Owner and he misses it and is Ceo ;of a Non Profit providing homes for dissabled veterans. We plan on working on some new projects maybe for his org. Yep 235 17 50 Yokohama Z raters. The VDP wheels are unique to this one run of 100 cars. VDP style but one inch bigger and wider than stock VDP. 2000 VDP Super used the XJR wheels at one inch less width. Plus my buddy, independent Jag and Benz mechanic says the 155MPH limiter was never enabled ....... the connector block has a terminator plug in it from new. And real sheepskin removable floor mats over the carpet. Piping matches the carpeting as Hot milk chocolate on Ivory leataher. It's evengot an electrically heated windshield. all seats heated with individaul controls and four way independent sensored HVAC so all four passenger get it thier way. THe Friggin separate security system manual is over 30 pages. LOL Push the wrong button on the key fob accidentally and you have a fourth of jJuly parade with twenty fire engines and such all shoing thier stuff. I have never heard of let alone actually listened to such a loud sec system ever. Anyway good to drop in and say hi. hope my PT OT person can really get me back on the slopes this next winter even if only a couple hours at a time twice a week. to all my friends here take care and thanks for putting up with this old wackey NDN. EWD:eplus2:

from the book not the series or the "stupid" movie. We all know from scientific experiments and Theorys proven by Einstein and many others better, That observation of a thing distorts it's reality just by adding the observers presence. SO THE TRUE ANSWER TO THE UNIVERSE IS: 42 + THE OBSERVER (1) FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 43!!!!!!!!! Which of course is a prime number!!!!!! Voila!!!! Chase In the book the hitch hiker observes and never counts himself. We have had many Mensa discussions on this and conclude: the true answer is 43 counting the observer. LOL

I hardboot , soft boot and ski. teach extreme craving ( and thusly extreme carving) on both board and skis. find a used set (bindings and skis are a package designed to work together) Dynastar Ome Carve 10's. Reason: your technique on hard boot boards will work almost exactly the same on the skis you will only need a couple of runs to dial the skis in to carve almost as hard as your carving board. Push Pull with the start of the turn up hill from you works really well on these buggers even on blue ice. BlueB chime in if you are around. The Elans have a similar ski. Neither sold really well as a $1300 package that was too much even for most full time instructors. But they are ideal for an experienced hard boot carver. Trust me!!! Ask BluB. Chase

Ask a violin maker ............... I'll take a Del Jesu Guanerius any day. and for a cello I'd really like a Guadagnini

It seems so long ago we watched him every week to see what new sh####t was going to happen. Big thing, have you ever heard his singing and the albums he made. His has to be the best XMas one ever made , it blows all of the XMas ones Elvis did into the weeds. Especially on my four speaker one year only Radio Shack ( to compete with crown and some of the other TOTL systems it did not work RS Just did not get the super high end buyers) 125 watt per channel times four plus surround with four 34" X 18" x 16" cabs ( on castered base plates as I can not lift one of them alone) with 15" woofers with monster mags, and deep dish 6"x 6" mid range plus piezio 4" x 4 " horn tweeters. If this unit ever croaks I will have to get my old books out and repair it. It was the replacement for my Heathkit AR 1500 custom built by Yours truly with all parts upgraded to NASA level mil spec( can't tell how I did that). Still have the Oscilloscope / signal generator that mathches the AR too. you play stuff like for example Madonna's classics and you get to hear her off color remarks/comments in the studio session that are off mic ......?....... in the background. pretty weird. even most good CD's although digital depending on whether cheapo (rip offs) or decent (authorized) copy, sampling quality, has all kinds of interesting stuff most folks have never heard. the sound track of City of Angels with meg ryan is off the charts on the sessions of the "goo goo dolls" . Daughter Theresa found that one on the VHS of the movie and saved it to the PC. Even my 18 year old Monster super foam pads TOTL Koss studio engineer Head Phones do not catch as much going on in the background. CHase:biggthump

Wow I hope those are not the SIS rossi/osin/emory boots and bindings. By the Way Boris if I have not already thanked you Thank you so much for the parts kit. LOL Now if I can just finish designing my new back brace and get DR approval I'll be set to go on hard and softies. The SIS system is one of the hard pin out the side of the boots systems. the other two were shorter lived and had all kinds of failures like the K2 and even worse the P(B)Utron (intentional miss spelling of Jakie's marketing company) step ins with tyheir plastic load bearing parts. Putron literally ruined the step in market world wide. Even in Europe were they had a 40% market share. the SIS system can be set up wrong but you actually have to be trained to set it up wrong as the way things fit together naturally always somjes out right. and the ball of the foot and the heel are toatally locked down on the borad with less lift than any stap binding can accomplish. Thats why I use them and collect spare boots and parts. With the Euro style (Non park) Highbacks you have the equivalent of and old three strap racing setup. Your boot is actually locked down on the board harder than with a set of Putron plate bindings and hard boots. The stiffer non park version of the Rossi and osin boots look like soft boots but are as stiff after ten years as my 2 year old Technica ski boots. Stiff enough that my surgeon allowed me to use one of them instead of a walking cast when I learned how to walk again after shttering my heel (11 screws and a metal plate). Chase

Bobdea, Bob you may be the only other person I have"met" in 10 years who actually knows about aspergers syndrome. I have a mild form of it my self along with a massive case of AADD. I have read some of the extensive studies done by fellow Mensans on our fellow members. It seems that you have a likely hood of AADD just by being in the 2% gang. As you go down to in the 1.0% and further into the 0.2 percentile occurrences become more likely and forms from mild to severe Aspergers start to show up with regularity. When you get down to 0.02 percentiles you probably have significant cases of both but most folks do not notice and even many professionals would miss it as your so called IQ has helped you to develop many coping mechanisms. Coping however is not being in control and or even living with with it successfully. you are always in danger of your single application mechanism not fitting the actual situation. This usually leads to an equally not easily noticed (because of way above normal coping mechs) situation of significant Bi-polar status. Ain't life a beach, sooner or later you are bound to get sand in your crack.I have worked with many finish carpenters and engineers with severe aspergers. The upper management could never understAND how i got so much productivity out of them. Well i spent a whole lit of time studying it on the internet. So I guess that means i have a set of more complex coping mechs than average. LOL Recognition of Aspergers has been limited and only since 81 in this country till just in the last four years or so as you stated. However in France and Switzerland as well as IIRC Austria and Italy it has been well recognized since the early 50s. Chase H. Kenyon, CMfgE,M

I rode asyms for so long and would bend the boards with my knees at the end of each arc and make button hook turns just to psssss off my two planker buddies in the ski school. 'then I got my first Rossi Ex racer pool custom build GS........ First three times out scared the psssssss out of me.Out of control, lay it over and hope you can stay on the board 'cause it is taking you for a real ride here. then I had a good snow day nice packed iced frozen courderoy. the conditions and open trail as no one else wanted to be on Exhibition under the six pack....... Push pull turns with full cross through keeping shoulders at almost one single low height above the snow......... Wow Wow Wow what a ride.......... By moving the start of the turn up the hill to a point straight above me as I was perpendicular to the falll line...... I was creating the turn sooner....... Now the trail was wide enough. What a gas like riding somthing controlled form one of those etch a scketch like things with all the gears to make circles. Big thigh burn from pumping both legs over and over like a member of a rowing crew. Ice huh? What's that ? we do have some blue snow! by noon it had been scraped down to blue. Got challenged by ski school director and took it up at 3:00. Lots of blue snow below as we rode the six pack up. It did not make any difference to the Rossi...... Just made endless linked 3/4 circles (not half circles) all the way down, even on blue ice. Try it before you sell it. chase:biggthump

Back in the 90's all the instructors (well 80%, usually the best skiers and PSIA had to decree not everyone could use them so some of the demo team did any way and painted their boots to look like the competition) were using the dayglow TCR Technicas. This was the race boot but in a softer flex with even more foot bed and cant adjustment. They litterally did glow in the dark or at least in the fog and or a severe snowstorm. Your muscle development is typical of the mid range instructors who were fascinated by the switch inside the boot above the big toe used to turn the "Glow" on and off. Most of us just left them on. But then the whole ski school can see how good your technique is or is not all the time. Hence the junior instructors turning them on and off all day long.

Now don't go crazy on on me here. I miss it because of it's unique ability to do one type of turn no other board has ever done for me with total not even thinking about it sucess turn after turn after turn. THE FULL BUTTON HOOK CARVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 You could take the PJ and carve a nice rut down the trail and wind it back up to the side and then towards back up the fall line. If you literally fell down the mountain at that point below your feet and board, you could drive it hard with both knees and push back up the hill against the edge. this would bend the ever loving cr**p out of the board and tighten the turn radius up to about ten feet. When the board came through the top and caught up with you in the fall line paralell to your fall line path you could keep the pressure on and it was like a jet assist back across the fall line to the next turn. Endless trail wide decreasing radius turns with a ten ft. radius finish to over the top to the next jet takeoff for the start of the next one. Even on crowded days you could make a game out of how long it took you to descend a trail and how many turns you could make full trial width on the way down. FULL BUTTON HOOK TURNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ENDLESSLY EFFORTLESSLY!!!!!!! JUST KEEP FALLING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN way past your feet EACH TIME YOU START TO REALLY SLOW DOWN AND LOOSE MOMENTUM. Gutsy to learn but oh so much fun!!!!!! Miss my old PJ:( Chase P.S. I learned how to make these turns trying to coach a group of ski instructors while on the PJ on how to go for it and acheive full crossover before the fall line and then to do cross-under turns pushing the skis up hill from them selves to initiate the turn with leg extension. they had seen me do it on skis but during the week at the MT I could not put the twin planks on for even one run during the day as the only senior level and private snowboard instructor. I actually used a skier's poles to do a slow mo demo the first time, then I realized what could be done. the second time was slow with one pole by the fourth one i could do it slow mo with out poles.

Sorry to hear that Bob, We lost power here ten miles from Mt Sunapee Thursday evening and finally got it back at about 7 PM this evening. the two houses across the street had power back on Sunday eve. We are on a major trunk line that runs down the back of our house dead end street then jumps RT 103 to supply about 1300 people. the crew that came to close the breaker on our pole behind the house were surprised by the arc and said wow that's a big load! they were from Michigan and had been here for six days. hope you get your power back soon too. Chase:freak3:

Just reminded by the wife I have some perfect colored bright gold yellow material that was for a flag that would work perfectly. Chase:)

Love it Recon!!!!! I have made iron on transfers both just colors and opaque ones on my cannon bubble jet with special transfer papers. They have lasted for several years of weekly washings on golf type shirts and T shirts before they started to fade. I or anyone else could probably do your design up that way for ten bucks a pop in full size for back of coat. I would then put it on some nice sailcloth type dacron, edge darn the border and sew it on the back of a coat with the sewing machine. Chase:biggthump

Last year which had had to stop part way through due to an old navy back injury was my 42 year teaching skiing and snowboarding as a professional. "downhill energy must be spilled" this sounds like techno talk from someone whose drunk brother in law taught them to ski. Hope you don't ski or ride on any of the mountains we frequent. Since I was first trained as a Professional Ski Instructor in 1964 controlling your speed has always been best accomplished by finishing your turns back across the fall line, maybe even back up into the fall line. This, since then, has always been a teaching constant in PSIA CSIA, AASI, and CASI. If you don't know about them then you have not done even minor due diligence for your engineering. I am not going to do it for you. Boris, Myself, And many of the others on this list have devoted a lifetime to understanding the physics and forces and body joint/muscle capabilities of any kind of snow covered down hill travel. For one thing in my mind, as a ex-robotics (you can Google Chase H. Kenyon for some of my stuff) and Certified Manufacturing Engineer, I can not see any valid design relationship with the control of edge bend/effective sidecut radius and the distribution of the centripital forces of the turn. Your concept of skid to bleed off speed is not how proficient skiers snowBoarders or adaptive skiers and riders control a turn and their speed. This concept/lack of understanding has led to a design I believe would actually prevent someone from doing a push pull type turn on skis or snowboard which is how most advanced skier and riders distribute the centripital and gravitational forces out through the length of the entire turn. The point is, the most control over speed and turn shape occurs when the side load and pressure on the edge of the ski or board is constant throughout the turn. Same as a race car, same as a plane in the air, or a boat on the water, in a turn at speed. Says who? If you can not carve you can not pass level 1 CASI or AASI so that you can teach beginners on the magic carpet area. Even if I am out teaching soft boot snowboard lessons and get a chance for a quick run I still have my standards. In my 12 year old SIS softies and on my 12 year old Arbor Woodie if my turns on the hard pack groomed last night, then froze up "courderoy" left carving tracks wider than two inches let alone a "bleed off skid" I'd of quit for the day. I don't see your product's value as a skier as a snowboarder or as an engineer. But I do agree with some of the others that with more work it may have adaptive potential. Sincerely, Chase

Last year which had had to stop part way through due to an old navy back injury was my 42 year teaching skiing and snowboarding as a professional. "downhill energy must be spilled" this sounds like techno talk from someone whose drunk brother in law taught them to ski. Hope you don't ski or ride on any of the mountains we frequent. Since I was first trained as a Professional Ski Instructor in 1964 controlling your speed has always been best accomplished by finishing your turns back across the fall line, maybe even back up into the fall line. This, since then, has always been a teaching constant in PSIA CSIA, AASI, and CASI. If you don't know about them then you have not done even minor due diligence for your engineering. I am not going to do it for you. Boris, Myself, And many of the others on this list have devoted a lifetime to understanding the physics and forces and body joint/muscle capabilities of any kind of snow covered down hill travel. For one thing in my mind, as a ex-robotics (you can Google Chase H. Kenyon for some of my stuff) and Certified Manufacturing Engineer, I can not see any valid design relationship with the control of edge bend/effective sidecut radius and the distribution of the centripital forces of the turn. Your concept of skid to bleed off speed is not how proficient skiers snowBoarders or adaptive skiers and riders control a turn and their speed. This concept/lack of understanding has led to a design I believe would actually prevent someone from doing a push pull type turn on skis or snowboard which is how most advanced skier and riders distribute the centripital and gravitational forces out through the length of the entire turn. The point is, the most control over speed and turn shape occurs when the side load and pressure on the edge of the ski or board is constant throughout the turn. Same as a race car, same as a plane in the air, or a boat on the water, in a turn at speed. Says who? If you can not carve you can not pass level 1 CASI or AASI so that you can teach beginners on the magic carpet area. Even if I am out teaching soft boot snowboard lessons and get a chance for a quick run I still have my standards. In my 12 year old SIS softies and on my 12 year old Arbor Woodie if my turns on the hard pack groomed last night, then froze up "courderoy" left carving tracks wider than two inches let alone a "bleed off skid" I'd of quit for the day. I don't see your product's value as a skier as a snowboarder or as an engineer. But I do agree with some of the others that with more work it may have adaptive potential. Sincerely, Chase

Do not use West epoxy on your board it is too brittle. System 3 used to have a test kit to compare their epoxy with others. System 3 is much less brittle than MAS or west and will stand repeated flexing. Plus it it much less toxic than most. Many restorers used to use west and developed sensitivity problems from it and now use System 3. all of them can be had wholesale from http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/main.do good luck! Chase:biggthump

Miss Colo Went to FT. Collins With my back bad may not make it on the slopes this years so Make a couple of Christmas Ribbon Candy runs for the old guy. Patrol usually freaks when they see you coming back up the hill at them. LOL Anyway good to have you back. Chase:biggthump

This last link to wiki is one of the lamest things i have ever read. Now at 57 with a bad degenerative arthritic spine i am not a park rat. On the other hand I was a pretty good freestyle skier in bumps terrain and ballet in my day. so i can coach the park pretty well. this thing on wiki will be read only 1/2 way through by most of the wannabees. Thank our tanked education system for that(Not enough students passing well do what the SATs did lower the passing grades or ease up on the scoring system.) when riding and teaching on soft boots, hard boots or even my skis I have found that the ones who muth off about my gear are the posers and the ones who ask about it are those who can really ride in the park. The latter group will ask about my converted modified rossi GS board I use for Carving "wow did you redo that your self? Is it for racing? Oh, carving like layed over on the snow? OK Way cool dude. How hard is it to learn? So figure the more who read this crap the more idiots we will have to contend with who think they can read the table of contents and teach them selves to the danger of al the rest of us. And worse to the detriment of our image. GWS SCARY!!!!!!!

Sean after talking with you and re-reading this whole thread, From my background in marketing of new engineering i have come to a conclusion. The Rust Bucket is so unique a concept and has such visual impact even to the snowboard mags and ski mags that only recognize park boarding will be entranced and have to cover it. The free media coverage of the board and it's relationship to carving folks is something that could not be bought at any price. All the bums will have pictures and blurbs in all the mags and online stuff just so they are not left behind on showing it. lots of free publicity for Donek and for our sport. Chase;)

I vote twenty times for the rusted multi metal with the hand hammered rivets. Sean you just gotta do that one. Reminds me of some of the 150 year old mash vats at the Glenfiddich Distilery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! add a Gard goose or geese logo on it somewhere and it home to the highlands. Aye Laddie, GWS (clan Home) :)

Rich can I talk to you on PM or telephone my nickel about your back brace and back troubles. I am incapacitated by degenerative spondylosis of the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine as a result of injuries sustained back in '73 overseas. I have been an instructor trainer/clinician for over 30 years. Maybe you can help me with my back and I can help you with the mechanics and dynamic forces as to technique on the snow. I would really appreciate your help and advice vis a vis the back stuff. Chase

make three and four top and bottom of the same board. GWS even after all these years the Tree man on the bottom of my Arbor Woodie still gets lots and lots of attention at line up or on the lift

make three and four top and bottom of the same board. GWS