Fixes

Mad River Canoe Logo

By Ben Nitkin on

B&W version

I'm working on restoring a Mad River Canoe Adventurer and wanted to reproduce the original logo. It's hard to find online, and the new logo drops the Waitsfield, VT lettering. This fellow on Reddit had some good restoration pics, and I cleaned up a monochrome logo from that.

This should be suitable for printing at any old vinyl sticker company, and it should be easy to invert or colorize to suit. I've uploaded a transparent and a B&W version of the same thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/canoeing/comments/12qn0io/mad_river_restoration/

Colorado!

By Ben Nitkin on

I just returned to school last week after spending 3 weeks in Colorado. Helen's grandmother has a ranch out there. The ranch is aging a bit; the house hasn't seen much maintainance recently. Helen and I made a habit of recording the things we fixed. Although it's incomplete and terse compared to my usual writeups, the list is reproduced below, for archival sake.

  • Removed broken window by the chicken coop
  • Repaired coop latch so the door closes easily
  • Replaced broken F350 taillight cover and bulbs
  • Partially pushed out a dent in the truck
  • Slightly improved on the hay hoist we built last year
  • Installed an electric winch to supplement the manual hoist

Radiheater

By Ben Nitkin on

Yesterday, I went for a walk. Getting outside is always relaxing, and the town was beautiful in the dark, decked out for Christmas.

I also saw a broken electric radiator curbside. At least I hoped it was broken. On the way back home, I found the house again, hefted the thing onto my shoulder, and carried it a mile home. (I set it down too hard when I arrived and broke two of the casters. Now it was definitely broken.)

Hopeful, I plugged it into the wall, turned it on, and... nothing! Hooray! I had an excuse to take it apart. (The heater, by the way, is supposed to retail for $80. It's also got bad reviews, but hey. Free.)