Boooooring.

Slowly but surely DEATHped Mark 1 is coming together. I spent Saturday down at the Wizard's Lair working on DEATHped.

I brought Phil my fuel tank and he quickly set to work sandblasting it to prepare it for it's eventual deathly black appearance.


Naz was welding away on Hucker Steves pipe. Look at that crack!


I was busy boring away at my engine case so it would mate oh so perfectly with my monster gila kit.

I think it came out pretty nice. This case is my trusty polini matched case that I got from Seth many years ago. It's amazing that even though the polini cylinder is pretty dramatically different than the Gila, the port matching that I will have to do to match is pretty minimal. Neat!



In other news, I got a job about three months ago. An adult job. Currently I am the Marketing Coordinator for a company called OceanGate. We provide services to researchers that want to dive underwater to depths unavailable via scuba. In other words, we have a submarine and we take people deep. 936 ft. deep.
So right now I am at the USC research campus on Catalina Island. I'll be here on and off for the next month so I'm excited to visit the Latebirds at some point.
Here's the sub!

Here I am learning how to use an ROV in the Manhaus pool.

And here is a vista we saw as we 4x4'd to the campus yesterday.

Gila kits are crazy. and awesome.

The dual Kvernmo Pinto projects are coming along slowly but surely, every day a little closer.
Recently I bought a Gilardoni kit. These things really are beautiful. They have a HUGE reed cage and just really nice finishing all around.




And look at the difference between the gila reeds and the 4 petal polini:


I took these photos this morning with the intention that the crappy pictures on the moped army wiki of puch kits could be updated, do you have a puch kit and the ability to take pictures that aren't blurry? Help me, help the wiki.