An unfiltered chronicle of the Steelbak journey. Expect personal insights, project updates, and raw reflections on the DIY process. It’s the gritty reality of building, creating, and innovating.
I’m all set up to do ATV builds and maintenance. I spent the entire fall and winter investing in the proper tools to take apart machines and rebuild them. I have all the bearing puller/ installers, case splitters, wrenches and… Read More »I’m Considering a Transition Into Custom Fabrication.
My goals in life these days is to become a more competent maker and open source, decentralized, voluntaryist shill. I want to be a producer and catalyst of good and I believe these things to be the way. To do… Read More »01-20-21: Starting to learn electricity, math and more.
Something is clearly about to happen in this nation. None of it makes complete sense yet, but we have never seen this build up before. This isn’t mob control, that’s for fucking sure. There isn’t anything we can do about… Read More »01-17-21: Waiting to see what happens now.
Things started out bad. I was just sitting at my computer and drinking my coffee as I always do early in the morning. My daughter had already left to go to work and before long, she called. Her car broke… Read More »01-11-21: Sucky Day
We had been planning on it for a few weeks. Finally, @liljespy and @honeybadger6070 made it up to our place for what we could probably all agree is an odd time for fire. It was fun though, for sure. It… Read More »01-06-21: A Fire With The Peeps.
For several years now, I have been just feeling like shit. I got a bit heavy and lazy, which added to the problem and finally, this summer, I had enough. Back in August, I decided I was going to try… Read More »01-06-21: Back to Keto
It might be a strange time to mess around outside in the terrible mess that is out there this time of year, but sitting inside for the whole winter isn’t exactly that cool either. It’s kind of hard to win… Read More »01-03-20: Sunday. Getting some wood for Wednesday’s fire.
I pretty much always find myself getting my act together and producing fairly well for a week or two or even a month or two an then falling apart. It happens every single time. It just happened again. There has… Read More »11/19/20: More About Goals and Stuff.
Today, I finally got all the stuff (well, almost all) I needed to replace the seat foam for the ’95 Yamaha Blaster we are working on. I didn’t really need all the things, but I have them all now for… Read More »11/02/20: New seat cover for project bike.
The girls went off to an early morning mass, so I was able to kick back and have my coffee and computer time. Lately, the thing that has mostly been on my mind is finishing our property so that we… Read More »10/31/20: Starting to think about a future shop.