Thursday mornings I catch up on paperwork at home. When I returned to the shop, just at tech time, Mark Kenworthy was welding repair sections into the frame of a 1967 MGB. Mark does our painting, too -- and took hinges and splash panels from the MGA to paint red.
Casey is cruising right along on the MGA!
Curt continued on CB's 1957 MGA today, but most of the repairs were underneath and I didn't have an opportunity to photograph him doing the work on that car today.
I finished a small job on a distributor, got that boxed up, and sent out to the customer in 49058.
During the course of working on the various MGs, we, the mechanics, end up with old coffee cans full of nuts, bolts, washers, odd bits, etc. Several years ago we purchased a tumbler -- so we pour most of a coffee can of fasteners into the tumbler and let it shake away for the better part of a week. Then we take the parts to our local zinc plater and within several days we get back a bucket of brightly plated fasteners. Not only do we send out nuts, bolts, and washers, but specific parts from the carbs and distributors, brakes, and some of our Goldstar units. Today I spent several hours sorting through a very large pile of nuts and bolts, washers, and "special things." My daughter asked me if this sorting wasn't better done by one of the younger guys. I quickly pulled a BSF bolt from the pile -- No one else in the shop can discriminate and sort these was quickly as I can!
Then, at 3:00pm we had a shop meeting! A Birthday Party! Trevor just turned 19 two days ago; and my wife, Caroline, has crossed over to 52. Plus, Casey made a big deal about crossing his two year employment date several days ago, too. And, Curt has just started his twelfth year at UML. All kinds of birthdays and anniversaries! Lisa purchased cards and ice cream, bananas and toppings, and we celebrated in style. I did ask everyone what they had been doing on THEIR 19th birthday, but four of the people present have not yet made it that far!
