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Don’t Buy The thesuperkids Shaft Adapter

I’m working on putting together an electric bike using a surplus Kollmorgen “Hi-Kol” BLDC motor- more on that later. I’ve gone back and forth about ways to interface with that stubby short little stepped, D shaped shaft on the Hi-Kol- I had gotten fed up with imagining nasty little systems of bushings and decided it […]

Posted on March 12, 2010 at 12:00 pm by Henry · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Electric Poly-V Bike, Reviews

Impression: 2009 Mercury Grand Marquis

In Colorado over the weekend my Dad and I rented a car- since the rental car lot was out of subcompacts, they gave us an automatic “upgrade” to a “premium” level vehicle- a nearly brand new Grand Marquis. While providing useful transportation all weekend, the Marquis (pronunciation informally decided to be “mar-kees”) was also much […]

Posted on March 25, 2009 at 9:20 pm by Henry · Permalink · One Comment
In: Cars, Reviews