'88 K5 - Running Down A Dream

[jimmyleetn]

Almost got it all tacked in. All I lack is the cross bar. My stainless bolt spacers came in for the rear plates, you'll see those pictures too.

I needed a break from the cage so I took the windshield out and of course found rust. I think the driver side will not need any work. However, the passenger side will need a patch. Fortunately, I kept a piece @kennyw sent me 3yrs ago and I have the patch.

 

[kennyw]

I recognized the patch in the photo before I read the text, but I don't remember selling it to you.

 

[joshuak]

Almost got it all tacked in. All I lack is the cross bar. My stainless bolt spacers came in for the rear plates, you'll see those pictures too.

I needed a break from the cage so I took the windshield out and of course found rust. I think the driver side will not need any work. However, the passenger side will need a patch. Fortunately, I kept a piece @kennyw sent me 3yrs ago and I have the patch.

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Rust sucks, nice Pintails though!

 

[jimmyleetn]

Rust sucks, nice Pintails though!

Thanks! A friend of mine in Wisconsin got those and some other G&H super Magnums. Everybody keeps going with new stuff on the public land where we hunt and I decided to go with fewer decoys but go with those giant super mags. We used to run about 300 or 400 decoys, now we can get away with 150 or so and still have the same amount of visibility. So far I've been impressed with the spread I've amassed. The fun part is I get to paint and foam fill with marine foam some of them myself. I'm pretty much convinced that new decoys are all marketing because ducks are not that smart. I painted this one in the picture using mostly spray paint in a little bit brush on paint. All Rust-Oleum.

 

[joshuak]

Gotta watch them green heads, they may be savy to the decoy game and trying different forms of camouflage themselves.

 

[jimmyleetn]

The cage is done for now. There are some more things I will do to it and obviously I'll officially weld it in once top is on it after the convertible conversion, but I'm glad to take a break from. There are some things I would do differently and I'll probably use some legitimate padding for that family bar in the back, but overall it looks good and should be plenty functional. Heaven forbid I ever actually need it.

I finally decided to use spot weld cutters. I should have picked those up a long time ago. I had always heard they were gimmicky and didn't last long which is kind of true, but they do make the job much quicker and in some ways cleaner if you're going to reuse a panel.