As cliché as it is for a blog to comment on how often it doesn’t post, I actually have an excuse! Almost everything I’ve been working on for the past four months have either taken much, MUCH longer than I’ve hoped to finish, or have been failures, or has been interrupted by me traveling to …
Author Archives: Bryan
Failures and the Truck’s Bumper
Time to try something new! I just put a new bumper on my truck. And, since it was made out of steel instead of plastic and aluminum, I was obligated by natural law to put a winch on it. What started this project was an “altercation” offroading around the Tennessee/Alabama border in which my truck …
Tornadoes are Everywhere!
Back on the east coast a tornado was pretty rare. There was one water spout outside Sullivan’s Island when I was living there, and I worked a 22-hour shift in Beaufort repairing tornado damage to power lines once, but in Tennessee there’s a tornado within 50 miles of me probably once a week. On a …
I am Known for my Environmental Streak.
My TV was mentioned in a previous post for being very awesome. To the best of my knowledge it’s at least five years older than me, making it around 30 years old. It has two knobs (VHF and UHF) and a button that pulls out to turn the TV on and pushes back in to …
$5 Radio… RETURNS!
Everyone remembers my $5 radio! If not, rather than adding on to that entry from almost two years ago: EPIC RADIO Any way, I have been thinking almost since I built that power supply that it is too bulky. At first it was kind of neat to show off, it looked original and unique, but …
Suspension explosion!
So I tested my suspension lift about a month ago on a little patch of mud in Manchester, TN. It was rainy, and I drove off the road and the first bump I hit I hear what sounds like a shotgun going off under my truck, followed by the truck rapidly sagging towards the front …
Stereo [Audio] Amplifier (from scratch)
I have this old set of speakers that are in an older post, where I rigged them up to an old head unit from a car. This setup works fine but I think I can do better by constructing my own amplifier specially built for those speakers. My goal has been to get 30 watts …
Fridge Speakers update
I thought I might fix my iPod (the one that only works when it’s cold) so I can sell it for some extra pocket change, and also have the challenge of how to get music back in the fridge some other more interesting way (such as through the power lines). I thought the problem was …
NEW HAMMERS YEAHH
Actually this post is about me FINALLY finishing the lift on my truck that’s been going on for about a year and some. The suspension isn’t 100% finished, but the ride height will finally be the way I want it. Two inches taller in the back, three inches taller in the front. I already lifted …
This Doesn’t Help Me One Bit…
[This post is linked from ClubFrontier.org here.] I’ve recently developed some bad habits since my turn signal on my truck stopped working… a year and a half ago. I think I’ve put 20,000 miles on it since it went out. But I decided my turn signal doesn’t help ME at all so it wasn’t real …