What did you do to your FB today?
03-21-13, 06:45 PM
#2476
I put on a new set of wheels and tires today and did a front end alignment in my basement. Went to town to the tire shop to get them to check my work, and had to leave when the front end man was unsure about what I meant by "negative camber"!!!!
Sesh, what has the world come to!!!!
Sesh, what has the world come to!!!!
She held many secrets under her black mask. literally. 
03-21-13, 07:46 PM
#2478
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Wow, Redliner, that looks like a very gratifying task. The difference will be profound, as you're certain to do it up (or you wouldn't be bragging). I'll be happy to hear when it works.
03-21-13, 09:59 PM
#2480
I want to get all the crap off (rust, gunk, and whatever else now call my carb home) so I think I'm going to have to soda blast it. Not sure if that's safe.
I will be buying more wire brushes thins weekend and have another go at it. She shall sparkle before her final colors.
I will be buying more wire brushes thins weekend and have another go at it. She shall sparkle before her final colors.
03-21-13, 10:18 PM
#2481
Installed a new brake booster in the SA. I finally have power brakes again! Then I tried to set my ride height and thought I had it spot on...until I realized they were sitting on the bump stops, fail. Now I need to pull it apart and cut the bump stops.
I also installed a new brake master cylinder on the widebody, and out in a sunroof I picked up locally. I am going to have to roll this outside of my garage so I can start working on a camper soon.
I also installed a new brake master cylinder on the widebody, and out in a sunroof I picked up locally. I am going to have to roll this outside of my garage so I can start working on a camper soon.
I should be picking up replacement strut housings for removing the coil overs soon. Once I do that, it's time to tear into the front end again and finally get it back on the road.
03-22-13, 12:49 AM
#2484
And are you practicing Japanese too? Writing the word shiyou, (use) over and over?
fm
03-22-13, 07:52 AM
#2485
Waffles - hmmm good
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I want to get all the crap off (rust, gunk, and whatever else now call my carb home) so I think I'm going to have to soda blast it. Not sure if that's safe.
I will be buying more wire brushes thins weekend and have another go at it. She shall sparkle before her final colors.
I will be buying more wire brushes thins weekend and have another go at it. She shall sparkle before her final colors.
problem if some gets in an orifice. I bought some 1/2 clear vinyl tubing, a big box
of baking soda, and used my compressor to drive it. Cheap and effective.
03-22-13, 10:33 AM
#2487
Ah, so you're reproducing the Mazda logo...are you also reproducing the directive "Use the Element specified in the owner's manual" too? If so, the 3rd character of the Japanese word "element" (エレナント) is incorrect...should be ”メ", not "ナ". Otherwise you're writing the word "elenant".
And are you practicing Japanese too? Writing the word shiyou, (use) over and over?
fm
And are you practicing Japanese too? Writing the word shiyou, (use) over and over?
fm
I'll post pix of the original snorkel imprint & my draft reproduction tonight when I'm home; The original print on OEM parts is a little blurry - - they were stencil-printed and are quite small, so some strokes of the more complex characters run together.
I had to seek help from a Japanese-speaking friend to ID the unicode values for some of the characters, especially the ones that are neither hiragana nor katakana, but are actually borrowed from Chinese - some of the variations are REALLY tiny. Those are his notes as he tried to dissect one particularly-blurry character from the original part.
I'm looking to reproduce the original, though, not to spell-check the possibly-"Engrified" original.
For all I know, it might actually spell out "bite the wax tadpole." I just plan to faithfully reproduce it.
The nice side benefit of doing the digital gruntwork of re-creating them instead of just going with a bitmap scan is that I'll end up with high-accuracy vector files of all three, which means reproducing them at any desired scale or in any medium (machine-cut vinyl, or machine-stitched embroidery, for example) will be a piece of cake.
03-22-13, 10:52 AM
#2488
Divin', great idea. My wife is a graphic designer who also happens to be Japanese. I've seen her recreate logos in Illustrator for people who only had a low-res bitmap scan of it. Vector files are awesome!
The Japanese words beneath the "USE THE ELEMENT SPECIFIED IN THE OWNER'S MANUAL" actually translate to "Use a genuine Mazda filter (element)". Odd that they translated differently (although the feeling is the same).
fm
The Japanese words beneath the "USE THE ELEMENT SPECIFIED IN THE OWNER'S MANUAL" actually translate to "Use a genuine Mazda filter (element)". Odd that they translated differently (although the feeling is the same).
fm
03-22-13, 02:23 PM
#2490
Divin', great idea. My wife is a graphic designer who also happens to be Japanese. I've seen her recreate logos in Illustrator for people who only had a low-res bitmap scan of it. Vector files are awesome!
The Japanese words beneath the "USE THE ELEMENT SPECIFIED IN THE OWNER'S MANUAL" actually translate to "Use a genuine Mazda filter (element)". Odd that they translated differently (although the feeling is the same).
fm
The Japanese words beneath the "USE THE ELEMENT SPECIFIED IN THE OWNER'S MANUAL" actually translate to "Use a genuine Mazda filter (element)". Odd that they translated differently (although the feeling is the same).
fm
I'm toying with the idea of making a t-shirt or hat with only the Japanese version on it, to wear at meets. Geeky inside jokes, I do love them so.
Originally Posted by Wiki-P
Coca-Cola: The name Coca-Cola rendered phonetically in Chinese can sound like the words for "bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax". Before marketing in China, the company found a close phonetic equivalent, kekou kele (pinyin romanization), which roughly means "let your mouth rejoice". It was never marketed by the company using the other phrases, though individual merchants may have made such signs.[12] In actuality, "bite the wax tadpole" in Mandarin Chinese is "Kēdǒu kěn là."
03-22-13, 09:24 PM
#2494
Inverted greyscale (for added contrast) bitmap of a scan of the original part:
My current interpretation:
The text font is not QUITE perfect yet (bit too wide) but it's very close at this point; at normal scale the trasparency overlays near-perfectly.
My current interpretation:
The text font is not QUITE perfect yet (bit too wide) but it's very close at this point; at normal scale the trasparency overlays near-perfectly.
03-23-13, 12:41 AM
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All new coolant lines through the engine bay. Wiring work, and alternator upgrade planning. Now all i need is a dual pully and new wiring to the starter.
03-23-13, 10:50 AM
#2499
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I'm getting started with the seats of my FB because de back has a lot of play on the hinges. My mate works in a machine shop and he wil make me a pair of new bushings and I have a couple of spare seats for some new rails. I wil post a picture when the bushings are ready
