What are you doing today? Thread

[DAM shop]

Today what am I doing...trying to decide if I am going to fire a guy who had a stroke at work....i found out hes been running a side show at work with his old company. All emails deleted, all internet history deleted. not charing correcrt prices...giving complicated parts to his old customers at cost! The things you find out when somone just stops showing up for work. I hare firing people I had respect for...im 37 and hes 68....it feels horrible.

I hate being at the top!

When I was in a position of managing people I always thought of a situation like that as the person fired themselves. They knew what they were doing and knew the results if they got caught. It's a bit harder to let someone go that just can't perform the work, those are the hard ones..

[coolpool]

Today what am I doing...trying to decide if I am going to fire a guy who had a stroke at work....i found out hes been running a side show at work with his old company. All emails deleted, all internet history deleted. not charing correcrt prices...giving complicated parts to his old customers at cost! The things you find out when somone just stops showing up for work. I hare firing people I had respect for...im 37 and hes 68....it feels horrible.

I hate being at the top!

Yes I think we all feel your pain with this one, tough for sure. Kind of crappy when the guy is down. But think about this.......it's not personal, it's business. What would you have lost if this continued for another 5 years? And it may even cost you the company if profits drop off from this current shat show were living in today. I think you deserve to do right by yourself/family by letting him go. When you have the conversation, ask him what he would do in the exact situation....you might be surprised at his answer? What's the prognosis of him even returning to work, maybe the problem is solved already?

[Shep1970]

AJ (son) had 4 wisdom teeth pulled yesterday- I forgot how miserable that was....
So i'm home w/him, and watching the 2 inches of snow melt outside.
I found something to do with the axtra dash plastic.
Yup i'm making a mess but thats going good.
Tapatalk charges me .99 cents a month so i might as well use the larger pics-I wonder though if i stop paying tapatalk do my pics here vanish? hmm


shep


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[ironchop]

Got tired of looking for wheels for my sister-in-law's '84 200BR.

She bought new tires and asked me to put them on. They were "tubed" before I got started trying to break the bead. Bead Breaker was struggling with it so I cut the tire apart with a utility knife to see what was going on inside there. This was a few months ago. Wheel ended up being rusted to the point of trashed, so I started looking for new ones. Couldn't find any that were aftermarket in 9x9 and 4x150, and the only used ones were $75/ea and up plus shipping on the Bay.

Found these wheels on The Bay....9x9 6-3 offset with a 4x137 bolt pattern but they were $75 shipped FOR THE PAIR and they were new.

So I snatched them up and took over a mill center at work this morning for an hour, setup the wheels, indicated wheel center, and drilled the 4x150 pattern in them clocked 90° from the other holes. She's good to go now. Hubs fit good. The offset was nice because the old tire sometimes rubs the new DG pipe when you're going hard in a turn. The offset keeps the inside of the right rear tire out of the muffler.

I'll mount new valve stems and the tires tonight or tomorrow.



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[ATC King]

Couldn't find any that were aftermarket in 9x9 and 4x150...

They have some on EBay now. Just an FYI if you or anyone else is looking for more.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMS-0231-00...Cclp%3A2334524

For sure, the offset is nice. Thanks for that tidbit about the stock being too close to the aftermarket exhaust. It's a bummer to rub a hole through a new muffler and a dirt covered tire can do that pretty darn quickly.

[ironchop]

They have some on EBay now. Just an FYI if you or anyone else is looking for more.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMS-0231-00...Cclp%3A2334524

Exact same brand I got.

I can tell you that these AMS steel wheels are very good quality and thick steel. They felt a little heavier guage than the stock wheels. Welds were nice. Look to be powder coated, maybe... Nice silver color..... These are good solid wheels for the money

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[El Camexican]

Built a leveling bar this evening and took it for a quick lap, will put it to work tomorrow.





Attempting to make Grand Marnier tonight. Going to use three types of oranges we grew to see which tastes best.

[plastikosmd]

Belt and motor change in this ungodly mess




10 belts (4 wheel belts not shown)

[DAM shop]

What exactly is that Doc?

[DAM shop]

Pushing another one out the door.

[plastikosmd]

Quadractor

Blew the motor right when I was getting ready to change belts

Nice work dam, someday I want one

[DAM shop]

Quadractor

Blew the motor right when I was getting ready to change belts

Nice work dam, someday I want one

We flip a lot of trikes, this is the second one this month. They aren’t show quality but we make sure there reliable and good riders. We have a pretty good stockpile of parts so if something doesn’t need extensive top end work the. We can flip these fairly quickly. 90/110’s are our specialty.

[plastikosmd]

Ya I would like some cool little one to bomb around on someday

[ironchop]

Turning some rear rack bushings for this 84 BR out of some Delrin drops we had laying around the shop

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[knappyfeet]

Used some HD engine brightener for the first time today.

I told myself I never wanted to use anything like that and that it was useless..... but now I wish I would have tried the stuff earlier.... very nice.