March 16, 2000

More great photos and a note from Bob Jorgensen.

He commented on my concerns about a potential anatomical catastrophe should the boiler explode.

"You and Gingersnap [Dave Gingery] can keep those get-well cards you were going to send. Never even got warm. Ha!

Wore out D.J.G.'s Working Sheet Metal book on the water tank. All three of them! Need any scrap copper?"

I have to be honest.

If you only knew of the aggravating, bizarre problems I have to solve in keeping this business running, you'd know why I sometimes want to jump off a bridge.

But when I see what Bob Jorgensen and scores of my other interesting customers are doing with the crazy material I reprint, I know it's all worth it.

I hope you find this half as amazing as I do...

–Lindsay

Bob writes...

"The test run went ok. Feed pumps had to go back to the drawing board. Working fine now. Used charcoal for fuel. The stuff they sell now is junk. No heat – am going to go propane.

Thanks to you and Mr. Roper for a fun project.

Bob"

Fun project? I don't dare send this guy blueprints of the space shuttle. He'd build one in his garage!

VIDEO! About 25 seconds of video and audio in Quicktime format. Highly compressed, but almost one megabyte download