Building Chopper from Ahsoka: 3D-Print to Primer & Prep

Welcome back to the workshop! Today I’m taking you through the key stages of my Chopper (from live-action Ahsoka) build: from the raw 3D prints, through orange primer, all the way to seam-filling and final detail paint and electronics. 1. 3D-Printed Hull Assembly After printing all the panels on my Elegoo OrangeStorm Giga and Bambu […]

Becoming a Bowyer

My recent adventure into creating things has been to start building primitive/self-bows. This has resulted in a a ton of time on primitivearcher.com and poorfolkbows.com, both of these sites have a ton of information on how to get started. So far I have only built board bows, but I have an Osage Orange stave waiting […]

300D Valve Adjustment

This has taken a while to get posted so sorry about that. This is hopefully a step by step walk through of how to do a valve adjustment on any OM617. A couple of things you will need for this: Two 14mm wrenches to be able to turn the adjustment nuts A valve cover gasket […]

Building a Percussion Rifle

For some reason I have gotten into the old black powder and antique guns lately. I found these kits from Traditions. It got fairly good reviews do I decided to give it a try. You can find the link below. I picked up the percussion version as the flintlock can be a little more finicky […]

Rust Repair in the Trunk of the 300D

It came to my attention there was some rust in the lower trunk area of the 300D so I called up a buddy of mine to help me do the repair. I ordered the patch panel from online somewhere and we took a chalk drawing of where we were going to cut and transferred that […]

300D Gauge Lights

So after some heavy reading over at Benz World, turns out the rheostat dimmer switch is the common failure on the old 300D’s. This switch is the one that resets the trip part of the odometer if you push it in. If you turn it left and right it controls the dimming of the gauge […]

No gauge lights in the 300D

Well it seems like there is no gauge lights in the 300D. After some quick googling it seems that the dimmer switch is the common failure and there is a way to bypass it and make them light. I will post an update when I have the bypass done.

Newest Project: 1985 Mercedes 300D Euro Model

Alright, this is probably one of the best cars I have found and bought to work on. After selling my beetle I was a little depressed and was browsing craigslist. I wanted a good daily driver what was not so new that I could not fix it or work on it. I really liked my […]

Masters Thesis: Drone Detection Using Machine Learning

I know in my “About Me” section I say I am a security researcher, but so far I have only posted about cars. I would like to take this chance to share my Masters Thesis. I completed my M.S. in Information Assurance in December of 2017. I wrote my thesis on kind of a way […]

Failed Beetle Project

Well this is one of those times where you just have to cut your losses and move on to the next project. I traded the 81 diesel Mercedes for a 73 Super Beetle. It seemed like a fun thing to drive around. It was a manual transmission and an Air-Cooled engine. Which is kind of […]