BUS DAY! 2/8/15

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

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We need to clean/organize the bus for the coming season to determine what we need to buy. The link above is to a poll. Check ALL dates that you would be available to help. Use this thread here to brainstorm ideas about what we need to accomplish. I'd like to come in with a plan. A couple of things to start with:

-Check all battery boxes and replace ones that no longer work.
-Check radios for function and battery inventory
-Check timing lights and cables for function
-Clean out trash from filing cabinet
-Discard dash plaques that are more than a year old
-Sweep/mop floor of bus
-Check all fluids on the bus, top off as necessary
-Check tire pressures and tread of bus tires
-Sort through cones and discard those that are too hardened over time
-Check loaner helmets for spider eggs. . .
-Organize waivers, see if we need more

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:27 pm

BriceJohnson wrote:

-Check all battery boxes and replace ones that no longer work.

I think that would be "all of them". I'm not 100% sure the solar system is charging them, or they just don't hold a charge anymore. I left two UPS batteries on that shelf with them. (frozen and likely dead too now.)

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-Check radios for function and battery inventory

Functional is hard to test without moving them 1/4mi apart.

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-Check timing lights and cables for function

I've been meaning to get all of that mess out to test, repair, and re-roll (on this)

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-Check all fluids on the bus, top off as necessary
-Check tire pressures and tread of bus tires

There's a much longer mechanical checklist for the bus and trailer. (fluids, battery charge, bearings, brakes, fix the fenders that are falling off the trailer, etc.) We the keepers get back from Barber, we'll have more time to deal with the club bus. (right now, we have our own to prep.)

Chad Culbertson · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:29 pm

If it needs bearings and brakes we should probably have a list so parts can get ordered before the day. I think it would be pretty easy to knock all of that stuff out provided the parts are on-site and we have tools.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:53 pm

I'm not saying they need replacing, just that they need to be inspected to see if they need to be replaced.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:00 am

BTW, none of those are really good days for me. 1/24-25 will be Team Duff prep day for Barber. And 2/7-8 is lemons at Barber.

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

Five people? FIVE PEOPLE?

Come on guys, this is a volunteer organization, and we need your help to keep it running smoothly.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:04 pm

you guys decide on a day and I'll go from there. Have a bunch of house stuff I'm trying to catch up on, so no day is really good right now.

Chad Culbertson · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:27 pm

BriceJohnson wrote:

Five people? FIVE PEOPLE?

Come on guys, this is a volunteer organization, and we need your help to keep it running smoothly.

More beer and food for me! lol

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

Ok, it's decided. 2/8 wins. Please consider coming to help out, we need all the help we can get.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:40 pm

That's the LeMons @ Barber weekend. At least our parking lot will be mostly empty. :-)

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:32 pm

RickyBeam wrote:

That's the LeMons @ Barber weekend. At least our parking lot will be mostly empty. :-)

Since you guys will be gone, I assume that's no access to the building, bathrooms or misc stuff we might need. We'd need to bring everything in regard to tools, air compressors and other stuff needed to address the bus. Does someone at least have access to the gate so we can get to the bus?

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

Yes, its a combo, and I know it.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:17 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

I assume that's no access to the building, bathrooms or misc stuff we might need.

I can put a key to the building across the street (2808) in the bus so you'll have access to a bathroom. (Little building in front of the storage lot)

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

That'd be awesome Ricky, if you can just PM me the details that'd be sweet.

RickyBeam · **Post subject:** Re: BUS DAY! 2/8/15

PM'd Brice and Rodney the final building access details. (I rented 2808 today, so you'll have to make do at Duff World Headquarters.)

We'll likely be in a race car not carrying phones, so don't set the alarm off.

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